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. Come check out our new office in Culver City for all your VHS to DVD Los Angeles needs!

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 direct transfer to DVD or hard drive only. 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. Repaired tapes must go through our tape transfer service after the repair has finished. Got a simple fix? Check out our Video Tape Repair Guide.

Betamax & PAL/SECAM To DVD

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

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.

We are also capable of copying PAL or NTSC video to PAL DVD or NTSC DVD for the cost above. You are only charged for the actual video time on the DVD you wish to convert.

This service is for direct transfer to DVD or hard drive only. 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.

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

Cost per tape: $60

This service is for direct transfer to DVD or hard drive only. 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

HDV to DVD: All videos will be down-converted to standard definition DVD. Transfer to Blu-Ray coming soon.

HDV to Hard Drive: videos can be either transfered into standard definition or high definition video files and put onto an external hard drive or large flash drive.

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

Combining Multiple Tapes to DVD

When bringing us multiple tapes, you also have the option of combining your video tapes onto one or multiple DVDs, at no extra cost. Combining several shorter tapes onto one DVD will save you the hassle of having several short-duration DVDs laying around. This can also be useful for combining multiple tapes of similar subject manner, such as transferring all of your children's birthday party videos onto a birthday DVD compilation. The only limitation is that our 100-year archival DVDs will hold up to 2 hours of video, so each combined video must have an average run time of one hour or less.

Chapter Markers

Add chapter markers to your video to DVD transfers! When transferring your video tapes to DVD, you have the option of including chapter markers on your DVD. Chapter markers make your viewing experience even more convenient. By hitting the Next and Previous buttons on your DVD player's remote control, you can easily jump to the next chapter or to return to the beginning of a chapter and watch it again. We can also add chapter markers in a set sequence such as a new chapter marker every 10 minutes. Chapter marker placements are fully customizable, meaning that they can be placed in any scene or order of your choosing!

DVD Compatibility

At DVD Your Memories, we use only the highest quality 100-year archival DVDs for transferring your precious videos to DVD. We are so confident that our video to DVDs will work for you that we offer compatibility guarantee on all of our video to DVD transfers! Never again worry about your old DVD player, or a disc read error! All of our discs are guaranteed to work for your television and your home DVD player.

"Tape-Smart" Pricing Structure

Notice that the pricing structure gives you an extra four minutes on one hour and two hour video tape to DVD 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.

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 video transfer 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.

Video Conversion Service

If you need your video converted to a format other than AVI, we can take care of that for you as well. We will first perform a video to hard drive transfer of the highest quality available for your particular tape. After the transfer has completed we will convert your video to the exact file type and bitrate of your choice. We can convert your video files to .MOV or any other format you'd like to work with. Please our video technicians for a full range of formats available.

Video Editing Services

With every order, we will crop out any blank footage found at the beginning and end your tapes. In addition, we will also ask if you'd like us to crop out any television footage if it appears at the end of your tape.

We can also provide additional basic editing services available to all of our video to DVD transfer services. Add an extra touch to your finished DVD by taking advantage of some simple basic edits. We have a few different options depending on the nature of the editing that needs to be performed.

Our basic editing services include small video edits such as pulling out a specific clip in your video, or removing commercials from a recorded TV program of 60 minutes or less. For most basic editing tasks, your video does not need to be transferred to hard drive prior to going to DVD. This is especially helpful if you have long running tapes with only a small section you'd like transferred. With basic editing you can crop out all of the unwanted material, which leaves you with only the clip you want on your final DVD.

For anything more advanced than our basic editing, it will fall under our hourly editing service. To take full advantage of your editing experience, we recommend sitting in with our in-house editor. Prior to editing, your video must first be transferred to hard drive.

Here are some common video editing projects people do:

  • If you have several tapes with short clips on each, you can now combine all of the clips you need onto one DVD movie. Our editing service will allow you to pull any amount of footage from your tapes and consolidate them onto a DVD for easy viewing.
  • Remove extensive commercials from your recorded television programs. Remove those annoying old commerical breaks from your video tapes, and watch your old programs seamlessly on your new DVD. This is great for special television specials such as sports entertainment, politics, and news footage.
  • Combine your video tapes with other media such as film, photos and audio. We can actually take your video tapes and combine them with other types of media to give a much more professional look to your DVD.

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

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