Prices for digitalisation of video tapes

Video tapes are subject to natural wearout just like any other analog picture or sound material (slides, negatives, records, music cassettes). Over the years the image and sound quality considerably decreases even without playing it only once. You can find numerous video tapes with partly precious private memories like the first holidays together, the wedding, the child's or grandchild's first attempts at walking, the long ago company anniversary or a funny christmas party from the last century lingering in lots of archives. These old video tapes often even can not be watched anymore, because DVD and hard disk recorders squeezed the over decades approved VCR out of the market.

We offer you inexpensive and professional digitalisation of your video tapes. Videos which once are available in digital form do not age any longer, can be digitally archived and converted into future media. Just send us your video tapes together with an order for digitalisation, and you will retrieve your precious recordings on DVD.

Important note on privacy and discretion

We, the company ScanDig, are a renowned company in the range of photo and video digitalisation. Since the year 2000 our team digitised precious image material for tens of thousands of customers (see our reference list). The protection of your privacy and your data is a matter of course to us, i.e. your videos are not given to third parties. Videos saved on hard disk are being irrevocably deleted few weeks after payment of the invoice.

We employ only qualified personnel, for example photographers, digital media designers, illustrators who have detailed knowledge in the range of digitalisation and handling of film material of any kind, and are bound to careful and discrete handling of our customer's material as well as nondisclosure of cusomer's data by contract.

Important note on copyright

By signing the order form you assure us of you being the owner of the sent in videos and you do not breach any copyright. We do not digitise video tapes with pornographic contents or contents gloryfying violence.

VHS, S-VHS, VHS-C, S-VHS-C tapes

We digitise your VHS tapes, S-VHS tapes, VHS-C tapes and S-VHS-C tapes of any length. Just send us your video tapes together with a completed order form. We make a separate DVD of each video tape. If you desire one or more backup copies please inscribe into the field amount duplicates.

We offer two different qualities for the digitalisation of your video tapes - standard and optimised. Standard quality means that we create a 1:1 copy of your video tape on DVD. The resulting image and sound quality resembles the original material. For optimised quality we use professional studio equipment and perform extensive optimising procedures by means of a professional analog-digital converter and professional video editing software, so that the resulting image and sound quality is better than the original video tape. The quality enhancement is achieved by the following techniques:

• Application of a professional, high-quality A/D converter
• Application of professional video editing software
• Digital image noise reduction
• Digital correction of horizontal jitter effects
• Automatic level adjustment of the video signal for clear images
• Perfect image synchronisation by LTBC functions
• Filtering and stabilisation of the analog video signal before A/D conversion
• Digitale noise reduction and optimisation of the sound track

With standard quality we always generate Video-DVDs. A Video-DVD can be played just like a normal bought DVD with your DVD player. With optimised quality we also offer mpg, avi, and DivX formats. If you want to subsequently edit your videos we recommend mpg format. This format can be edited for example with the in Windows XP included MovieMaker software. The avi format is uncompressed - one hour of video needs about 13 GB hard disk space. The DivX format is even more compressed than mpg and can only be watched and edited with special DivX software.

By default we save videos on DVD+R. Virtually all DVD players can handle these discs. Alternatively we also offer saving the videos on DVD-R. We save 2 hours video on one DVD.

By default we digitise every video tape completely, i.e. from the beginning of tape to end of tape and assign general titles, for example Film_01. If you would like to specify ending time or title individually, please additionally complete the form Title list or write the according information on each video tape.

Please note that we can not process defective video tapes. We exclusively use high-quality video players for our video digitalisation. Anyhow we assume no liability for damages for example by tape jam or defective video tape cassettes.

Please inform us if you have added a soundtrack to your video tapes later so that we can find the additional soundtrack.

Hi8, Video8 tapes

We digitise your Hi8 tapes and Video8 tapes of any length. Just send us your tapes together with a completed order form. We make a separate DVD of each video tape. If you desire one or more backup copies please inscribe into the field amount duplicates.

We treat Hi8- and Video8-tapes only in the quality level optimised. Therefore we use professional studio equipment and perform extensive optimising procedures by means of a professional analog-digital converter and professional video editing software, so that the resulting image and sound quality is better than the original video tape. The quality enhancement is achieved by the following techniques:

• Application of a professional, high-quality A/D converter
• Application of professional video editing software
• Digital image noise reduction
• Digital correction of horizontal jitter effects
• Automatic level adjustment of the video signal for clear images
• Perfect image synchronisation by LTBC functions
• Filtering and stabilisation of the analog video signal before A/D conversion
• Digitale noise reduction and optimisation of the sound track

Normally we make Video-DVDs. Optionally we offer offer mpg, avi, and DivX formats. If you want to subsequently edit your videos we recommend mpg format. This format can be edited for example with the in Windows XP included MovieMaker software. The avi format is uncompressed - one hour of video needs about 13 GB hard disk space. The DivX format is even more compressed than mpg and can only be watched and edited with special DivX software.

By default we save videos on DVD+R. Virtually all DVD players can handle these discs. Alternatively we also offer saving the videos on DVD-R. We save 2 hours video on one DVD.

By default we digitise every video tape completely, i.e. from the beginning of tape to end of tape and assign general titles, for example Film_01. If you would like to specify ending time or title individually, please additionally complete the form Title list or write the according information on each video tape.

Please note that we can not process defective video tapes. We exclusively use high-quality video players for our video digitalisation. Anyhow we assume no liability for damages for example by tape jam or defective video tape cassettes.

MiniDV Kassetten

Wir digitalisieren Ihre MiniDV-Kassetten beliebiger Länge. Normale Mini-DV Kassetten haben eine Spieldauer von 60 oder 80 Minuten im Standard Play Modus (entspricht 90 Minuten bzw. 120 Minuten im Longplay Modus). MiniDV-Kassetten sind üblicherweise in einem Kunststoffetui der Größe 70 x 50 x 15 mm aufbewahrt und tragen die Aufschrift MiniDV.

MiniDV-Kassetten sind eine Abwandlung von DV-Kassetten, die ungefähr die doppelte Größe haben. Das Digital Video Format (DV-Format) wurde im Jahre 1994 eingeführt und löste das Standard Video Format ab. Wie der Name schon sagt handelt es sich um ein digitales Speicherformat, bei dem die Einzelbilder ähnlich wie beim JPEG-Verfahren komprimiert werden. Der Datenstrom des digitalen MiniDV-Formates beträgt 25 Megabit pro Sekunde, also 187,5 Megabyte pro Minute. Daraus ergibt sich für eine 60 Minuten Kassette eine unkomprimierte Dateigröße von ca. 11 Gigabyte, für eine 80 Minuten Kassette 15 Gigabyte.

Shipment costs within Germany

International shipment costs

Naturally the prices are the same for national or international customers, however the shipment costs are different from country to country. If you live in Austria or in Switzerland it might be cheaper for you to make a trip to Munich and deliver your film material personally.

We politely ask customers from Non European Community countries to get in touch with us before sending material to us.