Quickly Digitise    DVC Tapes to MP4 Digital and Preserve Your Family's Memories

By digitising your DVC tapes, you can protect your precious memories from unexpected events like wildfires, burglaries, and floods.

With digital video capture of your DVC tapes, you can organise by renaming, archiving, and adding additional information to the home movie files.

When you digitise DVC tapes into MP4 digital copies, you can store the files on a hard drive, Mac or Windows computer, USB flash drive, or in the cloud (iCloud, Google Photos, Dropbox).

By digitising DVC tapes to digital formats, your loved ones won’t have to fight over physical copies. Plus, you will be able to share with loved ones anywhere in the world online, on social media, or by email.

By digitising DVC tapes to MP4 digital formats, your loved ones won’t have to fight over physical copies. Plus, you will be able to share with loved ones anywhere in the world online, on social media, or by email.

​When you digitise DVC Tapes, you can immediately take advantage of advanced features on platforms like Google Photos, including search, archive, and reminder functions.

With digital files, you can use video editing software to enhance the original media to HD video quality or create new memories by combining old home movies with new footage.

This option allows you to record your home movies using a digital camera, camcorder, or smartphone. Then, you can upload the footage to a hard drive or another device. However, the results are low quality because of movement, outside noise, and other factors. It still may be worth trying as an easy, fast way to preserve your video 8 tapes before they degrade.

Pros

• Easy
• Affordable (if you already have a digital camera)

Cons

• Low-quality results
• Shows glares, sounds, and other imperfections
• Time-consuming with real-time recording

Capture will digitise videotapes to MP4 digital with professional quality so that your home movies can be preserved forever. As the fastest service, we will digitise your videotapes to MP4 digital file in less than 14 days while tracking your precious memories every step of the way for peace of mind. Plus, if you aren’t satisfied, we will even reprocess your videotapes for free!

Pros

• Professional quality results, guaranteed
• Digitise videotapes to MP4 digital file in 14 days or less
• Produces your choice of digital download, or USB flash drive

Cons

• Doesn’t offer video editing services or enhanced colour or resolution (but you can use your own video editing software to improve the quality of high-definition digital videos)

There may be local stores in your area that offer digitisation services. 

Pros

• Fulfilled by Capture at many retailers for professional quality service and results
• Good customer support and guaranteed satisfaction
• Efficient compared to the industry standard

Cons

• Pricing depends on the specific retailer’s fees
• Not every retail location offers DVC to digital services

While both DVD and DVC store digital video, a DVC tape does so with a cassette box and magnetic tape, while DVD uses an optical disc. They were both developed and released in the mid-90s, but MiniDV tapes were more likely to be used for home movies at that time.

1. Once we receive your DVC video tapes, we will carefully clean the tape, check for damage, and scan through the video.

2. Then, we use professional-grade digitising equipment to digitise your home movies by hand into the highest quality digital format.

3. Before sending the original and digital versions back to you, we will check the colour, inspect the quality, and save a backup to ensure your memories are never lost and always exactly as you remembered them.

4. You will receive your original DVC tapes and digital copies in less than 14 days so you can cherish your memories forever.

There are 4 primary grades of Mini DV tape: Standard consumer Mini DV, Premium Series (PR), Videographers Grade (VG), and High Definition (HD or HDV).

Videotapes will start to degrade after approximately 10 years, which can reduce video quality. When exposed to heat and humidity, they may degrade even faster. To avoid losing your home videos forever, it’s a good idea to digitise videotapes to MP4 digital as soon as possible.