Convert MiniDV to DVD Services
ERIC, JENNIFER, & WINSTON
“Our ultimate goal is to make your best memories EverPresent in your life. Digitizing degrading photos and home movies is a necessary first step. Once your memories are safely digital, a world of searchable family archives and storytelling keepsakes are suddenly possible! We look forward to working with you.”
Why Families & Institutions Nationwide Choose EverPresent
- Value: The size of our company allows us to provide more for less. Our digitizing is 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: 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.
- 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 assure you pick the right options at the right price to suit your needs.
Pricing
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 and there’s no upfront payment.
- We only charge for the work we do, not for a preset numbers 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 assure 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: $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: $36.99/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$39.99 / tapeBulk discounts may be available upon request |
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Chosen by under 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 work with us:
HOME PICKUPS
Home pickups are offered throughout the Northeast.
MAIL ORDERS
We accept mail-in orders from all across the US. Easy ship kits are available.
DROP OFFS
50+ satellite locations are available for convenient drop-off in ME, RI, CT, NH, VT, MA, NJ, NY, PA .
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.
Read more about miniDV tapes…
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
Read more tape repairs…
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 DV 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. We believe about 5% of MiniDV tapes were recorded in HD. The problem is that most companies do not transfer MiniDV tapes 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.
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 transfer your MiniDV tapes to 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!
Get an estimate on your miniDV to DVD conversion project!
Fill out our form or call to speak to a consultant
- Digitize Photos
- Video Transfer Services
- Slides to Digital
- Album & Scrapbook Scanning
- Film to Digital
- Audio Conversion
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.
Visit one of our Northeast locations:
Massachusetts
56 Main Street (Rt 12) Ashburnham, MA 01430
At Creative Connections Gallery
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411 Marlborough Street Boston, MA 02115
At Stanhope Framers
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637 Tremont Street Boston, MA 02118
At Around the Corner Framing
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684 Main St Great Barrington MA 01230
At Lauren Clark Fine Art
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99 Rockingham Park Blvd. Salem, NH 03079
At Portrait Simple
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31 N. Washington St North Attleborough, MA 02760
At Preservation Framer
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Connecticut
1500 New Britain Avenue West Hartford, CT 06110
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899 Whalley Avenue New Haven, CT 06515
At The Frame Shop in New Haven
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576 Boston Post Road Darien, CT 06820
At Accent Picture Framing / Geary Gallery
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140 Bank Street New London, CT 06320
At Studio 33 Art & Frame Gallery
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Rhode Island
1350 Mineral Spring Avenue, North Providence, RI 02904
At Providence Picture Frame & Dryden Gallery
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18 Pier Market Pl, Narragansett, RI 02882
At Pier Picture Fine Art and Framing
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31 N. Washington St North Attleboro, MA 02760
At Preservation Framer
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Maine
New Hampshire
69 Hanover Street, Lebanon, NH 03766
At The Gilded Edge Frame Shop & Gallery
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99 Rockingham Park Blvd., Salem, NH 03079
At Portrait Simple in The Mall at Rockingham Park
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Vermont
We have five secure locations for Vermont families - one in Brattleboro and four just across the border in neighboring states.
10 Green St, Brattleboro, VT 05301
At The Vermont Center For Photography
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69 Hanover Street, Lebanon, NH 03766
At The Gilded Edge Frame Shop & Gallery
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119 Bay St, Glens Falls, NY 12801
At Saunders Gallery of Fine Art
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New York
Our original NY location 201 Broadway, Troy, NY 12180
At Clement Frame Shop & Art Gallery
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4780 Sunrise Highway, Massapequa Park, NY 11762
At Long Island Picture Frame & Art Gallery
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4 Audrey Avenue, Oyster Bay, NY 11771
At Long Island Picture Frame & Art Gallery
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119 Bay St, Glens Falls, NY 12801
At Saunders Gallery of Fine Art
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696 Dutchess Turnpike, Suite D, Poughkeepsie, NY 12603
At The Village Frame Shop of Poughkeepsie
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New Jersey
736 Speedwell Avenue Morris Plains, New Jersey 07950
At AlphaGraphics
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574 Newark Pompton Turnpike, Pompton Plains, NJ 07444
At Framed Image
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6 N 2nd Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904
At B. Beamesderfer Gallery
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33 Watchung Plaza, Montclair, NJ 07042
At MSC Custom Picture Framing
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Pennsylvania
537 Germantown Pike, Lafayette Hill, PA 19444
At The Frame Shop
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735 Bethlehem Pike, Montgomeryville, PA 18936
At Frugal Frames
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