Video Transfer

Whether you have a VHS to DVD order or another type of video transfer, we have the best technology and know-how to transfer all your video to DVD. Take advantage of our industry-first, compatibility guarantee to never worry about DVDs playing in your home DVD player.

Supported Formats

Video to DVD VHS to DVD BetaMax Transfer Hi8 / Digital8 / Video8 / 8mm to DVD VHS-C to DVD MiniDV to DVD MicroMV to DVD MiniDVD to DVD
Professional Video to DVD U-Matic Transfer Betacam SP Transfer Betacam SPs Transfer

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Pricing and Basic Info

Video Transfer to DVD

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

Length (minutes) 1-5 Tapes

6-19 Tapes
(5% Off)

20+ Tapes
(10% Off)

1-30 $15 Each

$14.25 Each

$13.50 Each
31-64 $20 Each

$19.00 Each

$18.00 Each

65-90 $25 Each

$23.75 Each

$22.50 Each

91-124 $30 Each $28.50 Each

$27.00 Each

Additional Hours $10 Each $9.50 Each

$9.00 Each

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

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

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

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

(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 Each
31-64 $40 Each
65-90 $60 Each
91-124 $80 Each


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. If you are bringing in your own flash/hard drive with data on it to store these files, there is a $15 setup fee. There is no fee if your drive does not have data on it or if we?ve provided the drive for you.

3/4" U-Matic, Betacam / Betacam SP, Betacam SP-s

Cost per tape: $60

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.

Extra copies are available for just $10 each.

Tape Repair Service is only $30 per tape. Only re-splicing the tape is included in this service.

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!

Geek Corner

Video Tape Transfer

Transferring to Hard Drive Option

Transferring your video 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 video 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 hard 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 hour video tape transfers. 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 video from a finalized DVD for certain projects where no other media is available. Please just call us if you have further questions about this. Check below for information regarding our other video tape transfer services.

Additional Information

DVD Your Memories curently serving San Diego & Orange Counties

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