Preserve Your Precious Memories: Transfer Old Video Tapes to Digital

 

Do you have old VHS tapes, camcorder recordings, or other video formats gathering dust in a drawer or attic? These tapes hold precious memories—family holidays, weddings, birthdays, and milestones—that deserve to be preserved for generations to come. Unfortunately, old video formats degrade over time, with tapes becoming brittle, discolored, or even unplayable as the years go by.

 

At Struie Media Productions, we specialize in transferring your old video tapes to modern digital formats, ensuring your treasured moments are safe, accessible, and easy to share. By converting your footage to digital, you can:

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• Protect Against Loss or Damage: Tapes are fragile and can easily deteriorate or get damaged. Digital files are more durable and can be backed up for extra security.

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• Futureproof Your Memories: VHS players and camcorders are becoming harder to find. Digitizing your tapes ensures your memories remain playable on modern devices.

• Enhance Accessibility: Share your memories with family and friends quickly and easily through USB drives, cloud storage, or email.

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• Improve Quality: Our transfer process minimizes degradation and ensures your footage looks as good as possible.

 

Don’t let your priceless memories fade away. Let us help you preserve them today

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Vintage VIDEO TAPE to DIGITAL transfer service from following formats;

 

VIDEO 8  /  MINI DV  /  VHS-C  /  VHS / DVD

 

Transfers are made to MP4 video files which is a standard format for playing in most modern devices

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Files will be supplied on a USB memory stick which can either be supplied by us at £12.50 for a 32GB drive, unless you’d prefer to provide your own and send with your tape/s. If requested.

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PLEASE! note the following;

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Some older tapes that may not have been stored in a damp free environment or kept in a particularly dusty environment may not be salvageable due to deterioration. The best way to check this if you, like most households, don't have a camcorder or vhs player to test it on, It could be sent to me to try out before commencing.

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SCALE

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Consider that the comparison of a modern widescreen TV screen ie. 55” screen. Any image upscaled to play on a much larger screen than originally made for will not look great.  The following diagram illustrates how small the DVD (PAL DV) format was in comparison to todays TV’s: Your new digital version will look better on smaller devices eg. Laptop.

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Although transferring your tape won’t improve the original quality as it is what it is, but it will preserve it from further deterioration or possibility of ever seeing again. Once Digitised  ie. once it is saved to a modern mp4  video  file, I can run it through an AI processor that can upscale and enhance old footage but this is a time hungry process and can work out expensive due to this. this technology is quite magical  what it can do                                                but if your footage is precious and you want to preserve it at it's best quality, this option might be right for you. if interested please contact me for details on this.

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Some tapes suffer from bad tracking (lines through the screen) which can also affect the sound.

This can often be tuned into but not always successful.

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Agreed cost is required to be paid before dispatching your USB stick and tapes back to you.

The return post will be based on 2nd class signed for small parcel and packaging which is on average

£3.50  for sending eg. a couple of VHS tapes and USB stick

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Or if local, pick can be arranged (I live in Ardross and also work in Alness High Street)

 

Each 1 hour of tape transfer is £20.00 which is unedited direct transfer footage converted to .MP4 format or also known as H264. This is a widely recognised format used on many devices and the format that youtube uses once converted from uploads.

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STRAIGHT FROM THE CAMERA TO DIGITAL FILE   -    OR     -   WITH SOME MINOR EDITING

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On camcorder and VHS tapes it was common to have a lot of footage where eg.  the camera was pointing at the ground or left on record by accident creating a lot of dead footage. Also VHS can aften leave an uneven edge to the video. Also colour can be quite washed out looking.

If preferred I can do some editing to remove and clean up a bit to make it a better viewing experience.

I recommend getting your transfer done and once received and watched, let me know what you’d like removed or adjusted in the footage as I can keep a master copy to do further editing with. This would make it easier and quicker to get back to work on it. Unless you ask for the tidying up to be done at the time of transfer and preparation before returning to you.

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This is a sample of video from an old VHS tape of my family to compare direct transfer to one with minor editing   (insert link to vimeo clip)   Any editing requested will be quoted before proceeding.