Video Tape to Digital - who does a great job?

[CameraQuest]

Have a bunch of Hi8, some VHS to transfer

Who does a great job in the US?

Thanks!

Stephen

 

[Phil_F_NM]

Color Services up the road in Santa Barbara probably does a decent job. Surely there's a motion picture place in LA that does it by the million feet for cheap.

Phil Forrest

 

[Pál_K]

I am going through this process as well. However, I am considering using this digitizer at home:

https://www.amazon.com/ClearClick-Converter-2-0-Second-Generation/dp/B07V9JNRZY

 

[joe bosak]

Video Tape to Digital - who does a great job?

When I did my 8mm tapes I went through a few conversion devices due to transfer problems. With the first couple of (cheap) devices I tried, the tapes played back fine in the camcorder viewfinder but the conversion device output signal to the PC would frequently become blank or static during transfer. With very limited user control, nothing could be done but try another device to see if that did better. I eventually bought a Canopus ADVC, quite expensive but it did the conversion without issue, WinDV simply noted some dropped frames at the problematic points.

 

[BWF]

The folks at the Film Photography Project are big into video and they do it. I don’t shoot film, but I’d give them a shot for sure.

https://filmphotographystore.com/collections/fpp-scanning-services

 

[aizan]

DVD Your Memories in the Culver City-ish area can do anything.

 

[wjlapier]

I use an Elgato RCA>USB converter. I plug the RCA end into my old Sony Hi-8 recorder and basically hit play on recorder and record on my laptop. I did this for a bunch of home videos of my kids from mid 90's. As for VHS, same deal with the RCA plugs.

https://www.elgato.com/en/video-capture