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SimplyDV: Your Digital Video Solution!

Milton Keynes-based SimplyDV is proud to serve local, national and international clients. We provide not only tape-to-DVD transfers for home users but also analogue videotape digitising and encoding to a range of industry-standard professional digital video file formats for editing and archiving. We specialise in larger video library archive transfers.

Image of Sony AV3670E half-inch EIAJ videotape recorder in our state-of-the-art video digitising facility

One of our Sony AV-3670ACE half-inch helical scan VTRs used to digitally archive very rare tape recordings.

£18.00 (£15.00 + VAT) HOME VIDEO to DVD
or, if you prefer to have computer files instead:
£24.00 (£20.00 + VAT) HOME VIDEO to HARD DRIVE OR USB STICK

Our standard price for VHS, S-VHS, VHS-C and other home video format transfers direct to a regular DVD Video disc (for set-top players and computers). Any tape up to 180 mins duration is £18.00 per tape.

Note that for durations exceeding 180 mins we have to split them to a second DVD disc at an additional cost of £6.00 (£5.00 + VAT) per hour of extended playback.

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And now professional-quality Standard Definition to HD upscaling thanks to our new Blackmagic Design Teranex 2D digital video processor!

One of the things we’re being asked to do by some professional video library archive owners is the ability to take regular standard definition (SD) video clips and upscale them to either 1080p or 720p specification files. The Teranex is widely regarded as being the best in its class for video format conversion – and that’s why it’s now specified by broadcasters, production companies and video/film libraries the world over.

We hope to post actual examples of converted video sequences soon, but as a taster here’s a graphic we’ve created to give you an idea of how good the Teranex is when converting, in real time, a standard definition PAL Digital Betacam master tape to a Quicktime ProRes422 [HQ] file at 1080p/50 spec for editing in Apple Final Cut Pro.

Image showing Blackmagic Design's Teranex 2D output comparison test

Comparing Blackmagic Design’s Teranex 2D output when upscaling SD 4:3 clip

Need to know more? Ask Colin via the Contact page.

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Need digitised files for video editing instead? Prices start at £20.00 plus VAT.

We can digitise your recordings into a computer (using a separate process to the direct-to-DVD transfer service) and export clip files as either Apple Quicktime MOV (Uncompressed or Compressed) (for Apple Mac), Quicktime DV-MOV, Microsoft DV-AVI, etc, using a wide variety of codecs (including Apple ProRes422 for editing in Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro, Avid Media Composer, (etc). We’re equipped to capture analogue video sources as 8-bit or 10-bit Uncompressed YUV or RGB Quicktime MOV files, 10-bit AVI or even sequenced DPX if you need them for editing. Captures are made on Apple Mac systems and can be written to your Thunderbolt, FireWire 800 or USB 2.0 drive as required. Using our industry-standard Blackmagic Design Teranex 2D converter/processor, we can also upscale your SD footage to 720p, 1080i or 1080p files, too.

Cost: Prices for digitised tape transfer (minimum one hour) can be found here. Cost of additional storage media (Eg: HDD, Memory Card) subject to quotation. We can, if you require it, produce lower resolution preview files as MPEG-4 which we’ll upload via a file transfer service like WeTransfer or YouSendIt free of charge.

Whether you want a simple one-off video to DVD transfer or a large corporate video collection transferred and archived digitally, we can do it.

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Much more than just VHS video to DVD conversion and transfer!

We can handle the following analogue and digital videotape formats:

  • VHS, VHS-C and S-VHS video cassettes, large and small cassettes
  • Betamax (PAL European Standard) video-cassettes
  • U-Matic 3/4″ Low Band, High Band (BVU) and High Band SP (BVU-SP)
  • Video-8, Hi-8 and Digital-8mm video-cassettes
  • DV, MiniDV, DVCAM and DVCPRO
  • Betacam and Betacam-SP (Beta-SP) in PAL and NTSC
  • Digital Betacam (DigiBeta), Betacam-SX (Beta-SX) and MPEG-IMX in PAL and NTSC
  • NTSC and SECAM Lowband U-Matic Standards Conversion and Digitisation
  • NTSC VHS Standards Conversion and Digitisation (VHS-C, VHS Full Size cassettes)

Interested? Order your copies right now – download, print and post our Order Form. Any questions? Contact us for a friendly no-pressure chat. Yes – really!