The UK's most affordable and flexible DVCPRO transfers.
A personal service by an engineer with 20 years of video experience. Transfers to video files on USB stick or hard disk.
Costs from just £25 per tape, for this rare format which is not well supported. Lowest prices in the UK but the highest quality.
Panasonic introduced the DVCPRO format in 1995 and
it
became popular with Electronic News Gathering in particular.
Never one to
shy away from a format battle, Sony then introduced the DVCAM format
which is
very similar, and generally the DVCAM format took most of semi-pro
market,
leaving DVCPRO as a fairly hard format to find someone to run tapes
for. There are DVCPRO50 (high
performance standard definition), DVCPRO Progressive (not often seen
today) and
DVCPRO HD variants, which will only tend to be used when the tape is
going to be
edited in-house. Therefore it is usually the DVCPRO-25 variant
which people
tend to have a need to transfer for viewing. We now also have
DVCPRO 50 and DVCPRO-HD capability though since they do appear, they
are a little
more expensive at £35.
There are two popular sizes of tape for the DVCPRO format, Large which is the same size as a large DV or DVCAM tape, and Medium which is roughly the same size as a Video8/Hi8/Digital8 tape. A much less popular size is DVCPRO-XL (Extra Large) which we also support. Most tapes have a yellow lid and grey body, can be marked AJ-P12MP, AJ-P24MP, AJ-P33MP, AJ-P66LP, AJ-P9126LP, DP121, AJ-HP126EXG etc. and are usually Panasonic, Maxell or Fuji branded.
Two tape sizes are common, Large on the left and Medium on the right.
A less common
tape size which we also support is XL, Extra Large.
Being a studio format, we don't recommend DVDs for the DVCPRO
format,
but they can be provided if that's really what you need.
Most customers take video files on a USB stick or hard disk.. DV-AVI files at 13GB per hour are ideal for the original DVCPRO format, lower compression formats can be provided for the DVCPRO 50 and DVCPRO-HD formats. Both NTSC and PAL are now supported. The cost depends on running time and variant, but is usually around £25 - £35, or around £20 - £30 in quantities of 10 or more. Just email me for details.
| PAL | NTSC | |
| YES | YES | |
We have a new
and
easy order page, just select what kind of tapes you have and supply
your
details. 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.
See our Youtube video about the DVCPRO format.
Not
everyone
needs their tapes returned once they have the transfers, but I do
recommend it and the cost is small. 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.
Thank you very much for the work you’ve done for the Museum. We’ve been delighted with the speed of turnaround, your attention to detail, and your ability to deal with the wide range of formats we sent you, including the recent DVPRO tapes. Curator - The Royal Anglian Regiment Museum" Various formats including DVCPRO transferred to DV-AVI files on hard disk. 06.07.11
"I can’t recommend Video99 enough. Colin has done numerous conversions for us in different formats – the latest DVCPRO. We have always been delighted with every aspect of the service provided. Efficiency, price and speed have all been great. Cindy" DVCPRO and Hi8 to DVD, 09/08/10 The DVCPRO material was from a television news production.
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