MINIDV TO DIGITAL SERVICES
WE CONVERT MINIDV TO DIGITAL
MiniDV tapes were the first portable digital solutions for most of us, and they did a great job. Thankfully, they’ve held up well and the transfers to digital come out very nicely. Our 80+ technicians digitize MiniDV tapes regularly and stand at the ready to provide you with an organized, labeled archive on USB, DVD, or private cloud archive. For the advanced users out there, we also offer a professional-grade service to ProResHQ files if you’d like. We look forward to hearing from you about your MiniDV to DVD needs!
“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 CONVERT MINIDV TO DIGITAL WITH EVERPRESENT
- Value: The size of our company allows us to provide more for less. Not only is our pricing transparent but it always includes 60 days of free digital downloads and sharing. We also offer an array of advanced services you won’t find anywhere else. Trust us, when we convert a MiniDV to digital, the results are higher quality and better organized than our competitors.
- Convenience: 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: With over 50 million memories preserved and 80+ expert technicians, we’ve been digitizing MiniDV tapes for 30+ years. Alarmed, sprinklered, camera-monitored, US-based, high-tech lab. Advanced barcode tracking and email technology to keep you updated.
- Respect: No upfront payments and no rushed decisions. Deciding whether to proceed with broken MiniDV 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.
Pricing for MiniDV Tape to Digital Transfers
EverPresent’s unique approach to pricing:
- Our team will walk you through the technical options in advance before you commit to anything. It’s free to get your materials to us for an estimate for your MiniDV to DVD project and there’s no upfront payment.
- 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 project ONCE – and do it right the first time.
Digital PackageFirst 10 Tapes: $21.99/tapeTapes 11-20: $19.99/tape $16.99 for tapes 21+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: $29.99/tapeTapes 11-20: $25.99/tape $22.99 for tapes 21+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 MINIDVs WITH US
HOME PICKUPS
Too many boxes to move on your own? Complimentary home and office pickups are offered throughout the East Coast for projects over $500.
LOCAL DROP OFFS - 75+ 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.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Understanding MiniDV tapes
Didn’t get enough info about all the old MiniDV tapes you have around? We have more to share with you.
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5 Possible Tape Issues
When you’re ready to convert MiniDV to DVD they are probably in great shape, but we’ll let you know for sure and fix what we can
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How to store your tapes
Whether you digitize MiniDV tapes or haven’t gotten to them yet, we have best practices for how to store all your MiniDV tapes.
Read more keeping tapes safe…
Common MiniDV transfer questions
This is confusing. On previous types of video cassettes, the footage was captured frame-by-frame on magnetic tape. With miniDV tapes, it’s captured in ones and zeros, and hence digital. BUT, the information is still stuck on magnetic tape. The digitizing process gets the digital information off the tape and into your computer. It can’t be avoided unfortunately.
You certainly can. MiniDV video cameras are the best bet for your transfers, along with one of many converters available online. However, using a USB connector like most of these tools suggest is a bit of a missed opportunity. The digital files can be transferred off of MiniDV with great integrity using IEEE 1394 firewire cables – the native transfer mechanism for DV files. That’s how we do things at EverPresent, but it’s the difference between a rig that costs thousands of dollars vs. hundreds of dollars. As you compare a digitizing service vs. DIY options, the more modern the tapes get, the more quality you lose with a lower end technology solution.
The first step is to make sure you know what format you have. A reasonably high percentage of digitizing companies can handle a standard MiniDV transfer, although at varying degrees of quality. That said, there are lots of other small video tapes that have “DV” written all over them that are NOT MiniDV tapes. For example, there are DVCam tapes and DVCPro tapes. Very few digitizing services can handle these tapes. So you want to be absolutely sure you have a MiniDV tape if you are asking about MiniDV transfer services. The other issue to be aware of is that a small percentage of MiniDV tapes were actually recorded in HD – around 5%. The problem is that most companies do not convert MiniDV tapes to digital in HD. Most don’t have the capability, and those like us that do will not transfer in HD unless asked because it’s a more costly process. So if you are 100% sure that your MiniDV tapes were natively recorded in HD, make sure to let your digitizing company know so they can confirm they can and will create the digital file you want.
At Everpresent, we’re always transparent on costs. Our MiniDV transfer service starts at $15.99/tape for 11+ tapes or from $19.99/tape for 10 or less. You can explore our full range of services above.
Unfortunately, MiniDV tapes are uniquely susceptible to digital corruption. When this occurs, it is either from an error during the recording process or the magnetic tape on the inside has already begun to deteriorate and cause audio loss and periods of moderate to severe pixelation. We will provide the best capture possible for your MiniDV to DVD project, but repairing digital corruption is not possible. The best thing you can do for is to to convert your MiniDV to digital (DVD or USB!) as soon as possible.
Plus, who wants all those tapes cluttering up closet and shelf space?
If your tapes aren’t this small or you think you have a different format, visit this page!
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