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

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Tape Transfer Guy

Don't Let Your Family's History Turn Into Static


Every single year those old VHS tapes and Super 8 film canisters sit in a box, they physically degrade.
The magnetic tape rots. The film gets brittle. The voices and faces of the people you love are actively fading away.

Baltimore Digital stops the clock.
We rescue your priceless home movies and upgrade them to brilliant digital formats so you can actually watch them on your modern screens today.

Zero Risk. Zero Upfront Costs. 100% Local.


Big box stores demand upfront payment and force you to risk shipping your irreplaceable
family history across the country to a faceless warehouse. We operate directly out of Baltimore, Maryland.
We process your memories discreetly right here at home using broadcast-grade equipment.

Best of all, you don't pay a single dime until we prove the transfer worked.
We provide a private short preview of your digitized footage.
Once you see the quality, you simply pay for the final files.

Our Core Rescue Services:

Ready to save your memories before they are lost forever?

Call or text 410-303-7438 to start your risk-free preservation project.
If we are busy in the studio, please leave a voicemail or text message and we will get back to you within one business day.



Tapes and Films

The Technical Weeds (For the Professionals)

We know some of our clients require exact specifications. Here is the raw data on our transfer capabilities.
Since 2007, we have prioritized preservation quality over run-of-the-mill standards.

Accepted Tape Formats: MiniDV, Digital8, VHS, S-VHS, VHS-C, S-VHS-C,
8mm (Video8), Hi8 and Hi8 XR. We support 4:3 or 16:9 (widescreen) aspect ratios.
We also transfer mini DVD discs, standard audio cassettes and micro cassettes.
(If you still have your video camera with working batteries or a power supply, bring it in -- we can transfer using that as well).

Accepted Film Formats: 8mm and Super 8.

Digital Delivery Specs:








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

VHS8mm TapeHi8 XR




Analog Video Transfer to Digital Files - Starting at $25.00 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 $35.00 (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 - $50.00 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 to 15 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.




*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.
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