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The domestic formats that we can re-master are MiniDV, Hi8, Digital 8 etc.

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Videotape to DVD re-mastering.
There are two options to transfer videotape to DVD. Basic or Enhanced as follows:

A. £25 BASIC TAPE TRANSFER CHARGE to transfer up to 90 minutes of home video to a “First Play” DVD. Tape transfer Involves Time-base correction and dropout correction to improve picture stability from damaged tapes. First play means that the DVD starts to play automatically and plays right through to the end. Random chapter points are placed at approximately five minute intervals to skip forward.

B. £50 ENHANCED DVD OPTION. Titles are placed before each tape, black sections are removed, colour and brightness are corrected and background music can be added. Chapter points are placed at each title and a Hollywood movie style chapter selection menu enables each movie to be selected using your remote control. See below for details of Enhancements.

Enhanced DVD option.
When we create an enhanced DVD from domestic videotape our editors will carefully view and edit the pictures; add titles and a chapter selection menu that will make your precious movies easier to select and more enjoyable to watch.

Editing.
Manual removal of blanks and other unwanted sections as well as correcting brightness, contrast and restoring natural colours.

Titles
Each reel can have your own choice of title up to 30 characters long. For example: “Our Devon holiday August 1970” Please number your tapes and make a list of your titles. If you’re not sure what is on your tapes you can order a Preview DVD to view your footage and decide titles. See below.

Chapter menu
If you have several videotapes on your DVD we can add “chapter points” at the title of each tape so that can select them from a personalised Hollywood style chapter selection menu using your DVD player remote control. A short clip taken from each of your movies will play in the picture frame chapter selection menu as shown opposite.

DVD capacity
We could cram up to two hours of movie on a DVD but that would mean lowering the quality below what we have achieved by digital re-mastering. To maintain the best possible picture quality, unless you instruct us otherwise, we encode no more than about 90 minutes of your movie to a DVD.

Preview DVD
£25 per hour of video. If you’re not sure what is on the tapes and would like to view all them to decide the running order, titles and what sections to leave off your finished DVD, you can order a DVD preview copy with in-vision time code to identify every frame.

Creating your own DVD

For those customers wishing to edit their raw footage and create a DVD on their own computer. This provides a robust high quality long-term archive solution preserving you precious movies for future generations.

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