Many of us have a lot of great home movies of important family memories. It is unfortunate that many of these home movies are wasting away as I write you this sentence because of the limitations of the various magnetic tape formats. VHS, Super-VHS, VHS-C, Hi-8, 8mm video, Digital 8, and other magnetic tape formats lose fidelity over time. To save these important memories you need to transfer your home movies to a more stable format before it is too late. In other words, you need to transfer the analog video to digital video.
Although you could conduct the digital transfer yourself using a variety of software and hardware and external devices that you could purchase, I would strongly recommend a professional transfer service instead. These companies have invested enormous amounts of money on state-of-the-art equipment to provide their customers with the best quality possible. They digitize a great deal of material on a weekly basis and, as a result, they get really very good at it.
These digital transfer houses utilize much better equipment than the equipment that you or I could afford to purchase. And these professionals also can afford more than your local hobbyist who uses amateur methods that are not always even satisfactory. This amateur quality is only multiplied when film is the original format that is being transferred to digital video.
That said there are some really great digital transfer companies that offer fantastic results and competitive prices. If you want your material transferred directly to DVD, then one of the more economical services is probably for you. Home Movie Depot and Yes Video are two of the best of the economical transfer houses. They can provide you with a DVD copy of your home movies. This includes a menu and chapter headings.
However, if you want to edit your home movies after they are digitized, you will need your analog video converted to high-quality uncompressed files on a hard drive or data DVD. The methods and equipment used by these high-end companies surpass those of the other guys. In some cases the equipment is the same kind used on Hollywood movies that you see on your local movie theater screen. As with almost any product or service, the better the digital transfer service, the higher the price. Paying more could be what it takes to preserve your family’s home movies for another generation. Good luck!
For a decade Marty Holthaus coordinated on Hollywood visual effects films and now enjoys blogging about VHS to DVD transfers. To read more about the topic of this article – – Professional Transfer Houses, click on this post from his site DVD VHS Transfer. There you will find more information on how to preserve old movies and videos, convert them to DVD and hard drive, and edit them on your computer.
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