VHS Hi8 8mm Tape and Film Transfers Baltimore Maryland

Baltimore County Maryland Video Tape, Super 8mm Film and Photo to Digital Transfer Archive Services

Call or send a text message to 410-303-7438

Preserve your family's history with the help of Baltimore Digital. There are no upfront costs! You may ship or drop off your tapes in-person.
NEW FOR 2024! We now offer Digital8 video tape transfers plus audio cassettes and microcassettes.

If you have a boxes of video tapes or Super8 and 8mm film canisters that you would like to put on Blu-ray disc or DVD, we can help! How about cell phone videos and photos that you are afraid to lose? We can put them on disc or flash drives too!

We'll save your memories now, before they are lost forever. Established in the year 2007, Baltimore Digital is a multimedia company that is based out of Baltimore County, Maryland. You won't have to risk shipping your priceless tapes across the country if you live locally.

We take pride in our preservation quality over run-of-the-mill big box stores. All transfers are done discreetly without judgment on broadcast grade equipment.

Accepted Tape Formats: MiniDV, Digital8, VHS, S-VHS, VHS-C, S-VHS-C, 8mm (also known as Video8), Hi8 and Hi8 XR for video. 4:3 or 16:9 (widescreen) aspect ratios are supported.
We can also transfer mini DVD discs.

Accepted Film Formats: 8mm and Super 8.

If you still have your video camera with working batteries or a power supply then we can transfer using that as well.

Sample Video Transfer Downloads (best viewed with the VLC or Splash media players)

Our tape transfer prices start at $20.00 per tape for the first hour. You DO NOT have to pay upfront! Short previews will be privately uploaded before payment as proof of transfer. If you have any questions feel free to call or text 410-303-7438. If no one answers, please leave a voice mail or send a text message.

Analog Video Transfer to Digital Files - Starting at $20.00 per tape (paid after transfer)

Your tapes (up to 60 minutes per tape*) are professionally transferred (using our Museum Quality Archiving Process) to a digital format (H.264 video/AAC audio, other formats available upon request) that you can download and watch on your computers/tablets/smart phones. After the first 60 minutes of usable footage, the cost is $5.00 per half-hour. For example, a standard two hour long VHS tape would cost $30.00 (plus applicable tax). You will have 30 days to download your files.

We will capture your entire video tape, but you only pay for the usable footage. Blank footage (no audio or video) will be edited out to save on data space and download times.

8mm or Super 8 Film Transfer to Digital Files

A basic digitization (no film grain reduction and no dust/scratch/hair/etc. cleanup) to files than can be played on most computers, smartphones and/or tablets. Film will be cropped to full frame. 16:9 widescreen framing with sprocket hole is available upon request. Price depends on the film reel/canister size.

3 inch, 50 feet reel - $20.00
4 inch, 100 feet reel - $30.00
5 inch, 200 feet reel - $40.00
6 inch, 300 feet reel - $45.00
7 inch, 400 feet reel - $50.00

If film reels are not full, the price will equal the diameter of the actual size, rounded down.
Sound tracks unfortunately cannot be captured with our scanning equipment.

Transfer to DVD or Bluray Disc - $25.00 to author the first disc, $5.00 for each extra copy.

Your tapes or films will be transferred and authored onto either a Bluray Recordable Disc (BD-R) or DVD-R. We recommend no more than six hours per BD-R or 60 minutes per DVD-R to preserve the highest quality footage. See technical specs below.

USB Flash Drive or Memory Card Transfer - $15.00 per Project

You may also have your encoded videos (H.254 video, AAC audio, .mp4 format) delivered on a flash drive (or a few flash drives/memory cards if necessary) that is either provided by you or by us. The cost is a $15 flat service charge if you provide the drives and it varies if we do. As of May 2024, prices for flash media are very low.

Raw Files Transfer - $25.00 per Project

We can provide the original, high quality (10-bit 4:2:2 intra-frame video codecs with 16-bit, 48 kHz LPCM audio) .avi files that are captured. The same files that we create the H.264 or DVD/Bluray files from. Every 30 minutes is approximately 10 GB worth of data, so just provide us with enough flash drives or an external hard drive when you drop your video tapes off and we can give you those as well.

Technical Specifications

Digital .mp4 File (compatible with the vast majority of computers, smart phones and tablets):
720x480p60 NTSC resolution
7 Mbps constant bitrate H.264 video codec
2-channel (Stereo) 48 kHz, 320 kbps Fraunhofer FDK AAC-LC audio codec

Bluray Disc (BD-R, BDMV):
Up to 6 hours per single layer disc*
720x480i60 NTSC resolution
7 Mbps average, 14 Mbps maximum variable bitrate H.264 video codec
2-channel (Stereo) 16-bit 48 kHz Linear PCM Audio (uncompressed)

DVD-R:
Up to 120 minutes per single layer disc (90 minutes maximum recommended, for best quality)
720x480i60 NTSC resolution
6.3 Mbps constant bit rate MPEG-2 video codec
192 or 224 kbps Dolby Digital 2.0 (Stereo) audio codec

8mm transfers are scanned at 1440x1080p resolution, sprockets in view, with no audio track. They are then cropped and resized down to 720p files for 8mm or black masked out at 1080p for Super 8.
We can black matte mask 8mm transfers at 1080p quality at your request, but we feel it is a waste of file space to do so. 8mm's resolution doesn't justify it.

*More video footage can fit on discs but at the cost of visual quality.

We can also transfer your smart device videos and photos to Bluray Video Disc or as DVD data. Prices vary depending on the amount of material that needs to be preserved.