The UK's most affordable and flexible microMV to DVD transfers.
A personal service by an engineer with 20 years of video experience. Transfers to DVD, computer and more.
Costs from just £12 per DVD, extra copies £3.50 or less. Discounts for quantity. Lowest prices in the UK but the highest quality.
The smallest video ever invented is the microMV from Sony (occasionally misspelled to microDV). Micro MV is capable of very good results despite its diminutive size. However it has not proven to be very popular and getting tapes transferred to DVD can be a challenge. The UK models are DCR-IP1E, DCR-IP220E, DCR-IP55E, DCR-IP5E and DCR-IP7E (pictured below). MicroMV to DVD transfers are now available here of course, with excellent quality.
If you have tried to transfer microMV material to a PC yourself, you may have found supplied Movieshaker software can be unreliable and few other software packages support microMV import. For this reason I usually run microMV to computer or DVD using a high quality s-video analogue capture, which provides consistently reliable results with no "dropped frames" (shudders in motion) and no lip-sync issues.
MicroMV camcorders use the smallest video tapes in the world and can give very
good results. For scale, the coin is 1p, whereas the cute baby is Alex.
Basic Menu, £12 per tape: The menus are limited to just a title, but you get a chapter point every 5 minutes so it is easy to move around the DVD. Extra copies of these DVDs cost just £3.50 each and are recommended.
Deluxe Menu £18 per tape: Nice menu icons showing what is on that part of the recording, and if you email me with titles I will put them on the DVD for you too. I place the chapter breaks at points of interest or new recordings. These menus look like professionally recorded DVD films. Extra copies are very cheap, just £2.50 each, and well worth taking.
DVD-ROM £15: Up to 1:30 hours on one DVD-Rom in top quality MPEG2 video files. If you have a lot of tapes, microMV to hard disk files
Many customers complain that it is hard to properly capture micromv video files from their camcorders for editing, and if you have this problem I can help by providing DV-AVI files which are easy to edit with any modern computer. For quantities of 5 or more tapes, I will do this to hard disk for you at £10 per hour plus postage costs.
Options include transfer to MPEG2 files, DV AVI format files on hard disk for larger quantities of tapes (5 or more), or even copy to miniDV. Just email me for details. If you have a lot of tapes, microMV to hard disk files start from just £8 per hour in MPEG2 or DV-AVI formats for 10 tapes or more.
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If you have a micromv camcorder, click here to join the micromv Yahoo group, it's free.
We have a new and easy order page, just select what kind of tapes you have and supply your details.
If you prefer, you can instead fill out this form (a Word document). It should answer all of your questions and provides me with all the important details I need, so complete as much of the form as you can and email it back to me. I will then confirm the price, or best guess at the price, and let you know the address to send the tapes. Digital recordings sometimes require particular personal attention, just let me know of any particular requirements. Usually I transfer to video-DVD but options include transfer to computer file, miniDV tape and more.
If for any reason you get stuck filling out the form, just email me and I'll help you personally. It's a personal service I offer, not like some of the big video editing houses. I understand that in many cases you will not be able to tell how much material is on the original recordings.
If recorded on equipment from another country, see the Television systems explained.
Not everyone
needs their tapes returned once they have the DVDs, but if you do, please remember to include postage costs. For a single video tape in the UK, this is just
£1. For larger quantities, and tapes from outside the UK, I will let you know.
Ideally can you ensure you send the tapes in a package which is sufficiently large and robust for me to use to send back your original tapes. Usually I will send the DVDs to you ahead of returning your tapes, then when you've confirmed you are happy with the
DVDs, I will return your tapes. This way I can help you further if necessary - for example you can now see you want a different part of a tape transferred on its own or you want extra copies.
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