8MM TAPES TO DIGITAL SERVICES
WE CONVERT Hi8 TO DIGITAL
“By making the hard work of digitizing and sharing easy for our clients, we will preserve our world’s history before old formats fade and family stories are lost to time. Our ultimate goal is to make your best memories EverPresent in your life.”
WHY USE EVERPRESENT’S 8MM TAPE TO DIGITAL SERVICE
- Value: The size of our company allows us to provide more for less. When we convert hi8 to digital, the results are higher quality and better organized – and we offer an array of advanced services you won’t find anywhere else. Our pricing is transparent and always includes 60 days of free digital downloads and sharing.
- Convenience: Digitizing 8mm tapes should be fun and never feel like a chore. For your convenience, we offer home and office pickups, over 50 local stores and easy shipping options. And unlike other companies, we embrace tedious work like transcribing written labels into your USB filenames and DVD labels so you don’t have to.
- Trust: Over 50 million memories preserved, 30+ years experience, 80+ expert technicians. Alarmed, sprinklered, camera-monitored, US-based, high-tech lab. Advanced barcode tracking and email technology to keep you updated. You can trust us with your 8mm tape-to-DVD project.
- Respect: No upfront payments and no rushed decisions. Deciding whether to proceed with broken tapes, or upgrade to ProResHQ archival files or restorative tape incubation can have a real budget impact. That’s why we include a free consultation after we’ve reviewed your materials to ensure you pick the right options at the right price to suit your needs.
VIDEO TAPE DIGITIZING PRICING & PACKAGES
PRICING & PACKAGES TO DIGITIZE 8MM TAPES
- Our team will walk you through the technical options in advance before you commit to converting your 8mm tapes to digital. It’s free to get your materials to us for an estimate and there’s no upfront payment.
- We only charge for the work we do, not for a preset number of items. We don’t promote flashy discounts or expiring coupons. We offer volume discounts because it’s fair, and we apply them automatically.
- We offer the widest range of options and capabilities to ensure your project gets what it needs, but out of respect for your budget, never more than it needs. In our business, one size rarely fits all (or fits in a box).
Ultimately, what we care about is helping families do this important 8mm tape-to-digital project ONCE – and do it right the first time.
Digital PackageFirst 10 Tapes: $19.99/tape$15.99 for tapes 11+This 20% bulk discount will be applied automatically! |
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Great value for clients ready to download their files and back up on their own before sharing with friends and family online. Enjoy 60 days of app access for unlimited downloading and sharing.
Signature PackageMost Popular!First 10 Tapes: $27.99/tape$22.99 for tapes 11+This 20% bulk discount will be applied automatically! |
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Most popular. Simple, flat-rate pricing to have everything done, including labeling & cloud backup. Zero work and zero worries for you after we finish. Easy to share cloud access and included USB or DVDs.
Family BundleFirst 10 Tapes: $39.99/tape$29.99 for Tapes 11+This 20% bulk discount will be applied automatically! |
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Best value if you are doing this for the family and would benefit from extended time with your private cloud archive. If you need more than three copies it's easy and affordable to add them.
Professional Package$45.99 / tapeBulk discounts may be available upon request |
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Chosen by fewer than 10% of our clients, but popular with certain institutions and professionals. Unless you already know you want this service, you likely don’t need it.
3 EASY WAYS TO DIGITIZE 8MM TAPES WITH US
HOME PICKUPS
Too many boxes to move on your own? Complimentary home and office pickups are offered throughout the Northeast for projects over $300.
LOCAL DROP OFFS - 60+ LOCATIONS
All readily available for convenient drop-off. See which store is closest to you. Our drivers personally transport projects to our local lab for digitizing.
FREE SHIPPING
We accept mail-in orders from across the U.S. We’ll email a pre-paid UPS label or apply a shipping credit if you ship on your own.
Everything you need to know
about 8mm tapes to Digital
Understanding 8mm tapes
Didn’t get enough info about Hi8, Digital8 or Video8 tapes above? We have more history and technical information about 8mm tapes to DVD here.
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5 Possible Tape Issues
Your 8mm tapes are probably in great shape to convert to DVD, but there a number of common problems with 8mm tapes that we find when digitizing.
Read more about 8mm tape repairs…
Can you save moldy tapes?
Minor mold is still ok for 8mm to DVD! Serious mold requires chemical treatments & can severely damage the audio/video quality of your 8mm tape to dvd transfer.
Read about preserving moldy tapes…
All 8mm tapes, whether they are Hi8 or Digital8 hold up to two hours of footage. So when you’re converting your 8mm tapes to DVD, at least one full tape always fits onto a single DVD, but it’s possible to fit more if they are not all full or dual layer DVDs are used. If you choose to transfer to a USB or external hard drive, all your 8mm tapes can fit onto a single drive!
Hi8 and Digital8 tapes look almost identical to the average user, but they will say on them which format they are. Some cameras also only took Digital8 tapes, so don’t assume digitizing is impossible if you view a tape at home in your camera and it seems blank or garbled. The camera device may not be compatible.
You’d need to still have your 8mm camcorder to watch an 8mm tape these days. Unlike VCRs, which use VHS tapes, there are not cost-effective 8mm decks to buy, but you can either watch directly on your camera using the playback options, or use cables to connect it to a TV and watch from there. Trust us though, it’s much easier to convert 8mm tapes to digital and watch your collection on your computer or a new DVD!
This is an important question because if you are buying a player to preview tapes at home or an 8mm tape converter digitize them at home, you want to make sure you buy the correct equipment. The simplest way is to measure the tape. If it’s roughly 2.4″ by 3.7″, then it’s an 8mm tape. That said, the 8mm video tape is very, very similar in dimensions to standard audio tapes. Our clients get this confused all the time. Therefore, do check your tapes for the label “Hi8” or “Digital8” or “8mm”. If you see any of those monikers, it means you are looking to digitize 8mm tapes and can proceed accordingly on the 8mm tape converter and other equipment front.
There’s a certain quality control aspect that you’ll get with a proper Hi8 to digital service, but in theory, you can replicate that care at home with an 8mm tape converter. The biggest difference is the equipment. Our machines for 8mm tape to DVD all-in cost over $5,000 and benefit from over $100,000 of adjacent supporting equipment and software. Part of it manifests in stable transfer connections that are superior to the USB-based at-home transfer solutions. If you are looking for the best possible files, a professional service may be able to offer you not just .mp4 h264 files, but potentially larger files like ProRes or AVI that allow for professional-level editing. People can absolutely get solid digital conversions at home, but if you hire the right service, you will get what you pay for.
You have two choices here. You can look into a proper 8mm video tape player, basically a cousin to a VCR. But they are very expensive – you’re looking at $1,000 minimum for a decent one. If you are looking to digitize over 100 tapes at home, this might be worthwhile. But for previewing files, your best bet is to actually find an old handheld 8mm camera. The 8mm cameras are much cheaper, likely under $300, and they all had preview screens and the ability to plug RCA cables into a TV to export the pictures. This is the way to go.
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You’re in good hands! Our team has decades of experience turning millions of photos and videos into beautiful digital memories that you can share with others.
Hi8 tapes’ major competition for home movies came from VHS-c tapes. VHS-c were the small tapes that fit into full-size VHS adapters, which was convenient for use in the VCRs most people already owned and 8mm tapes did not. But the higher quality and 120-minute+ capacity of the Hi8 tapes (vs. the 45 minute capacity of the VHS-c tape), helped 8mm tapes become successful. However, 8mm tapes were not relevantly more durable than their VHS counterparts in terms of longevity, which means it’s time to convert your 8mm tapes to DVD or digital so they are preserved before it’s too late. They only have a shelf life of 15 years! While you prepare for this project, we recommend storing your 8mm tapes vertically, away from sunlight to keep deterioration from accelerating. We have cutting-edge 8mm tape converter solutions and can help guide you through the entire process and convert 8mm video cassettes to digital in the safest and most effective way possible.