Transfer HDV Tapes in South Bay

HDV tapes capture brilliant high-definition footage, but accessing those memories gets harder every year as compatible camcorders and tape decks vanish. At DVD Your Memories, we provide professional HDV tape transfer services right here in Torrance, CA. We help South Bay families preserve their irreplaceable home movies before the aging playback equipment is gone for good.

Professional HDV to Digital Conversion

Converting HDV to digital is the safest way to future-proof your high-definition family milestones, vacations, and school events. By transferring your magnetic tapes to modern video files, we ensure the stunning quality of your original recordings is maintained.

Best of all, digital formats make it incredibly easy to watch, share, and back up your footage across your current devices.

Flexible Output Options: Digital, Blu-ray, or DVD

We understand that every family has a preferred way to enjoy their home movies. That is why our Torrance studio offers multiple output options for your HDV media. You can choose to receive your restored footage as a digital file on a USB thumb drive, a convenient download link, a high-definition Blu-ray disc, or a standard DVD.

Trusted Local Video Transfer in Torrance, CA

When you choose our South Bay video transfer services, you get the peace of mind knowing your media stays entirely local. We process your tapes in-house at our Torrance location, meaning your priceless memories are never boxed up and shipped off to a third-party facility.

Using state-of-the-art professional equipment, our technicians ensure your HDV tapes are handled with the utmost care from drop-off to pickup. Visit our Geek Corner to learn more or get started today!

Pricing and Info Get Started

Supported Formats

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Consumer Series

Hi8, Video 8, Digital 8

MicroMV

MiniDV

MiniDVD

VHS

VHS-C

Professional Series

Betacam

Betacam SP-S

U-Matic

HDV

Rare Series

Betamax

PAL / SECAM

Other Services

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Celebration
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Professional Videotape Format Pricing

Betacam, Betacam SP, Betacam SP-s, 3/4" U-Matic, HDV Tape, High Definition Video File*

	Transfer to Digital File or DVD	Transfer to Digital File and DVD
Pricing (per tape)*	$49.99	$59.99

For video tapes less than 10 minutes in length, transfer cost is only $44.99.
Thumbdrives and external hard drives are priced separately and start at $12.00. For information and pricing for thumbdrives and external hard drives, please visit the Hard Drive Information page.
Tape Repair Service is only $30 per tape. Re-splicing the tape and replacing the cassette shell when necessary are included in this service. Repaired tapes must go through our tape transfer service after the repair has finished. Visit our Video Tape Repair page for more information. Got a simple fix? Check out our Video Tape Repair Guide.
All video to DVD transfers are recorded onto our Taiyo Yuden 100 year archival DVDs. Extra DVD copies are available for just $10 each, and Blu-ray copies just $20 each

HDV transfer

HDV transfers

HDV to digital Files: High definition video tapes will be transferred to a HD Mp4 file, and can be loaded onto an external hard drive, flash drive, or uploaded.

HDV to DVD: Videos will be down-converted to standard definition DVD.

HDV to Blu-ray: Discs are BD-R, a BD-R compatible player is required for playback. For more information about our Blu-ray services, please visit our Blu-ray transfer page.

DVD copies are available for $10 each.

Blu-ray copies are available for just $20 each.

* Digital video file must be on accessible flash memory device or External (USB) Hard Disk Drive, price valid for files up to 2 hours in length.

Video Tape Repair

Tape Repair Service

Tape Repair Service is only $30 per tape. Re-splicing the tape and replacing the cassette shell when necessary are included in this service. Repaired tapes must go through our tape transfer service after the repair has finished. Got a simple fix? Check out our Video Tape Repair Guide.
$30 per CD / DVD

Extra Copies

Sharing your memories with others? We provide extra CD/DVD copies packaged and ready for only $10 each, and Blu-ray copies for $20 each.

$10 per CD / DVD
$20 per Blu-ray disc

Click here for Optional Add Ons

DVD to Plu-ray

Upgrade to Blu-ray

Upgrade to Blu-ray and experience the future of family media! For more information about transferring your video tapes to Blu-ray, please visit our Blu-ray transfer page.

Video Edit

Edit Your Old Home Movies!

Do your old home videos have footage you would like to take out? Or maybe you want to make a highlight video of your daughter's dance performances? Work with one of our professional editors one-on-one to make the perfect custom movie. It's quick and less expensive than you think!

$40 per half hour

Geek Corner

Transfer HDV Tapes

HDV

HDV (High Definition Video) is a format introduced in 2003 by Sony, Canon, JVC, and Sharp that recorded high-definition video onto standard MiniDV cassette tape, the same tape shell used for consumer MiniDV camcorders, but with a different recording method. Rather than storing video as uncompressed data, HDV uses MPEG-2 compression to fit HD-resolution footage (1080i or 720p) onto tape that was originally designed for standard-definition recording.

Combining Multiple Video Tapes to DVD

When bringing us multiple tapes, you also have the option of combining your HDV tapes onto one or multiple DVDs, at no extra cost. Combining several shorter tapes onto one DVD will save you the hassle of having several short-duration DVDs laying around. This can also be useful for combining multiple tapes of similar subject manner, such as transferring all of your children’s birthday party videos onto a birthday DVD compilation. The only limitation is that our 100-year archival DVDs will hold up to 2 hours of video, so each combined video must have an average run time of one hour or less.

DVD Compatibility

At DVD Your Memories, we use only the highest quality 100-year archival DVDs for transferring your HDV tapes to DVD. We are so confident that our video to DVDs will work for you that we offer compatibility guarantee on all of our video to DVD transfers! Never again worry about your old DVD player, or a disc read error! All of our discs are guaranteed to work for your television and your home DVD player.

Transferring to Hard Drive Option

Transferring your HDV tapes to an external hard drive is recommended if you are going to edit your footage. The file type is NTSC DV AVI, the most standard format across all video editing platforms. Hard drives can be PC or Mac formatted and the file format is AVI DV with each hour of video taking up 13 gigabytes.

If you are going to purchase a hard drive through DVD Your Memories, we will recommend a certain size based on the total length of your video transfer footage. If you are going to bring in a drive, please understand the space requirements and plan accordingly. Also we recommend bringing in a new drive, but if you would like to bring in a drive that has data on, we will ask that you sign a data-loss waiver. We’ve never lost data on a hard drive, but the possibility always exists.

Editing

With every order, we will crop out any blank footage found at the beginning and end of your tapes. We also provide additional basic editing services available to all of our video to DVD transfer services. Add an extra touch to your finished DVD by taking advantage of some simple basic edits.

With basic editing you can crop out as much unwanted footage from your tapes as you wish. This is especially helpful if you have long running tapes with only a few sections you’d like transferred. With basic editing you can crop out all of the unwanted material, which leaves you with only the stuff you want on your final DVD.
If you have several tapes with short clips on each, you can now combine all of the clips you need onto one DVD movie. Our editing service will allow you to pull any amount of footage from your tapes and consolidate them onto a DVD for easy viewing.
Remove commercials from your recorded television programs. Remove those annoying old commerical breaks from your video tapes, and watch your old programs seamlessly on your new DVD. This is great for special television specials such as sports entertainment, politics, and news footage.
Have you ever wanted to combine your tapes with other media? We can actually take your video tapes and combine them with photos, slides, negatives, and film to give a much more professional look to your DVD.

Editing From DVDs?

Many customers ask us if they can edit the video footage if we make them DVD movies. The simple answer is no. The complete answer is yes, almost anything is possible if you are an advanced computer user, but for many reasons it is not advisable to do so. The main reason is that you would be working with highly compressed video.

If you transfer the data from the DVD to the computer for editing, the quality is not the same as that of the originally uncompressed video used to create the DVD. It also takes a lot of processing power to edit the compressed video, and although you can fix this problem by converting it to a less compressed video format (such as AVI), you will still see a quality loss. Also when you re-render that video that has previously been on a DVD it will recompress again and you will notice more than a little loss of detail.

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