Video Transfer - San Diego

We can convert your VHS to DVD or onto an external hard drive locally here in San Diego. In fact, we transfer all types of Video to DVD in San Diego. Our Video Transfer service includes color correction, so don't worry if your old VHS, VHS-C, Hi8 or MiniDV tapes have faded over the years, we will get the colors back.

Supported Formats

VHS To DVD BetaMax to DVD Hi8 / Digital8 / Video8 / 8mm to DVD VHS-C to DVD MiniDV to DVD MicroMV to DVD MiniDVD to DVD

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Pricing and Basic Info

Video Transfer to DVD - San Diego

VHS, VHS-C, Hi8, 8mm, Video8, Digital8, MiniDV, MicroMV, MiniDVD

Length (minutes) 1-5 6-19 20+
1-30 $15 5% Off 10% Off
31-64 $20 5% Off 10% Off
65-90 $25 5% Off 10% Off
91-124 $30 5% Off 10% Off
Additional Hours $10 5% Off 10% Off

You are only charged for the actual video time per tape. If you have a two hour tape, but there is only one hour recorded you would pay for one hour.

This service is for straight transfers only. We use a color correcting unit to ensure the best quality transfer. All video is recorded onto our Taiyo Yuden 100 year archival DVDs.

Extra copies are available for just $10 each. Free 100 year archival DVD upgrade for all copies.

Tape Repair Service is only $30 per tape. Re-splicing the tape and replacing the cassette shell when necessary are included in this service.


Betamax & PAL/SECAM to DVD - San Diego

(BetaMax I, II and III format, PAL/SECAM VHS & VHS-C)

Length (minutes) Cost per Tape
1-30 $15
31-64 $30
65-90 $45
91-124 $60

You are only charged for the actual video time per tape. If you have a two hour tape, but there is only one hour recorded you would pay for one hour.

This service is for straight transfers only. We use a color correcting unit to ensure the best quality transfer. All video is recorded onto our Taiyo Yuden 100 year archival DVDs.

Extra copies are available for just $10 each. Free 100 year archival DVD upgrade for all copies.

Tape Repair Service is only $30 per tape. Re-splicing the tape and replacing the cassette shell is included in this service.

Video to External Hard Drive - San Diego

(Any format listed above is supported) - Transfer to Mini DV also available at the same cost.

Seagate Hard Drive
Length (minutes) Cost per Tape
1-30 $20
31-64 $40
65-90 $60
91-124 $80


There is a minimum of $40 per order, but not per tape. After two hours the pricing structure continues. For each 30 minute segment the price increases by $20.

For information and pricing for hard drives, please visit the Hard Drive Information page.

User-Recommended Upgrades

Edit your old home movies!

Do your old home videos have footage you would like to take out? Or maybe you want to make a highlight video of your daughter's dance performances? Work with one of our professional editors one-on-one to make the perfect custom movie. It’s quick and less expensive than you think!

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Tape Department Video

Video Tape Transfer - San Diego

Transferring to Hard Drive Option

Transferring to hard drive is recommended if you are going to edit your footage. The file type is NTSC DV AVI, the most standard format across all editing platforms. Hard drives can be PC or Mac formatted and the file format is AVI DV with each hour of video taking up 13 gigabytes.

.If you are going to purchase a drive through DVD Your Memories, we will recommend a certain size based on the total length of your footage. If you are going to bring in a drive, please understand the space requirements and plan accordingly. Also we recommend bringing in a new drive, but if you would like to bring in a drive that has data on, we will ask that you sign a data-loss waiver. We've never lost data on a hard drive, but the possibility always exists.

"Tape-Smart" Pricing Structure

Notice that the pricing structure gives you an extra four minutes on one hour and two hours tapes. This has been changed because most Mini DV, VHS, and Hi8 tapes run a few minutes past the one hour or two hour marks.

Editing From DVDs?

Many customers ask us if they can edit the video footage if we make them DVD movies. The simple answer is no. The complete answer is yes, almost anything is possible if you are an advanced computer user, but for many reasons it is not advisable to do so. The main reason is that you would be working with highly compressed video.

If you transfer the data from the DVD to the computer for editing, the quality is not the same as that of the originally uncompressed video used to create the DVD. It also takes a lot of processing power to edit the compressed video, and although you can fix this problem by converting it to a less compressed video format (such as AVI), you will still see a quality loss. Also when you re-render that video that has previously been on a DVD it will recompress again and you will notice more than a little loss of detail.

**At DVD Your Memories we can and have edited from a finalized DVD for certain projects where no other media is available. Please just call us if you have further questions about this.

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