Prices for digitalisation of video tapes and film rolls

Video tapes and film rolls 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 and film rolls 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 and film rolls often even can not be watched anymore, because DVD and hard disk recorders squeezed the over decades approved VCR out of the market, and modern camcorders and beamers have replaced old film cameras and projectors.

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 or film rolls together with an order for digitalisation, and you will retrieve your precious recordings on DVD or external hard drive. Please, check the data and make an additional backup immediately after receiving the DVDs/hard drives; we delete your data after approx. 3 weeks.

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.

The tapes may be recorded eather in the european PAL-format or in the american NTSC-format, however, not in the french SECAM-format.

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 with your DVD player just like a normal bought DVD, so that you can watch the Video-DVD on your television screen. With optimised quality we also offer MPEG2 and AVI formats. If you want to edit or cut your videos after our digitalization we recommend the AVI-format. Videos in the AVI-format are slightly compressed and therefore in best quality. One hour of video in the AVI-format takes about 13 GB hard disk space; on a DVD there is space for about 15 minutes film. If you want to watch your videos on your PC we recommend the MPEG2-format. Videos in the MPEG2-format are compressed, so that 90 minutes film can be stored on a DVD. The image quality in the AVI-format is, however, much better than in the MPEG2-format.

By default we save videos on DVD+R. Almost all DVD players can handle these discs. Alternatively we also offer saving the videos on DVD-R. We store maximally 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, Digital8 tapes

We digitise your Hi8 tapes, Video8 or Digital8 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.

The tapes may be recorded eather in the european PAL-format or in the american NTSC-format, however, not in the french SECAM-format.

We treat Hi8-, Video8 and Digital8-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

We offer 3 different video formats: Video-DVD, MPEG2 and AVI. A Video-DVD can be played with your DVD player just like a normal bought DVD, so that you can watch the Video-DVD on your television screen. With optimised quality we also offer MPEG2 and AVI formats. If you want to edit or cut your videos after our digitalization we recommend the AVI-format. Videos in the AVI-format are slightly compressed and therefore in best quality. One hour of video in the AVI-format takes about 13 GB hard disk space; on a DVD there is space for about 15 minutes film. If you want to watch your videos on your PC we recommend the MPEG2-format. Videos in the MPEG2-format are compressed, so that 90 minutes film can be stored on a DVD. The image quality in the AVI-format is, however, much better than in the MPEG2-format.

By default we save videos on DVD+R. Almost all DVD players can handle these discs. Alternatively we also offer saving the videos on DVD-R. We store maximally 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 tapes

We digitze your MiniDV-tapes of any length. Normal Mini-DV tapes have a length of 60 or 80 minutes in the standard play mode (corresponding 90 or 120 minutes in the long play mode). MiniDV-tapes are usually stored in a plastic case of the size 70 x 50 x 15 mm and have a label MiniDV on it.

The tapes may be recorded eather in the european PAL-format or in the american NTSC-format, however, not in the french SECAM-format.

MiniDV tapes are a modification of DV-tapes, which have approximately double dimensions. The digital video format (DV-format) was introduced in the year 1994 and displaced the standard video format. As one can derive from the name, it is a digital storage format, where the singular pictures are compressed similar to the JPEG-procedure. The data stream of the digital MiniDV-format is 25 mega bit per seconds, i.e. 187.5 mega bytes per minute. This yields a file size of approx. 11 giga byte for a 60 minute tape, and about 15 GB for a 80 minute tape.

We offer 3 different video formats: Video-DVD, MPEG2 and AVI. A Video-DVD can be played with your DVD player just like a normal bought DVD, so that you can watch the Video-DVD on your television screen. With optimised quality we also offer MPEG2 and AVI formats. If you want to edit or cut your videos after our digitalization we recommend the AVI-format. Videos in the AVI-format are slightly compressed and therefore in best quality. One hour of video in the AVI-format takes about 13 GB hard disk space; on a DVD there is space for about 15 minutes film. If you want to watch your videos on your PC we recommend the MPEG2-format. Videos in the MPEG2-format are compressed, so that 90 minutes film can be stored on a DVD. The image quality in the AVI-format is, however, much better than in the MPEG2-format.

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

Super-8 film rolls

Please, visit our German page in order to see the prices for Super-8 digitalization.

Normal-8 film rolls

Please, visit our German page in order to see the prices for Normal-8 digitalization.

16mm film rolls

Please, visit our German page in order to see the prices for 16mm film digitalization.

9,5mm Pathe film rolls

Please, visit our German page in order to see the prices for 9,5mm Pathe digitalization.

Shipment costs Germany/International

We send burned data CDs and DVDs as normal letters to you; film- and video material we send only as insured DPD-parcels.

Naturally the scan 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 films to us, so that we can inform you about the customs modalities.