Professional Video to Digital

Professional video tapes, like BetaMax, Umatic, DVCPro, and BetaSP, were never designed to last. Over time, environmental elements deteriorate the tape inside the cassette, causing a loss of quality. Within decades, your cherished memories will be permanently damaged. Using a professional video to digital service not only preserves the content, but also makes it easy to share these moments with anyone in the world.

Video Tape to Digital

Converting video tape to digital allows you to watch the content on any device, including computers, mobile phones, and smart TVs. Saving the digital files to a USB flash drive is a stable solution. Even better, keep your digital files on the cloud, so you can share the streaming memories with anyone in the world.

Video to DVD: A Fool's Errand

Video to DVD conversion will disappoint. A cumbersome DVD is almost as faulty as your original video cassette tape! Heirloom transfers content from professional grade video tapes directly to cloud storage. This means your digital video is backed up at multiple data centers, ensuring you'll never lose a file.

Video Tape Conversion

Heirloom converts professional grade video tapes to MP4 files at 720p, or High Definition (HD). This 1280x720 popular resolution is used by YouTube, Netflix, and other streaming services. As original video tape resolution is limited, it’s a waste of resources to convert your tapes to a higher resolution.

Digitize Video Tape

Our digitizing experts label each of your video tape with a unique tracking number. This number becomes the name of your digital video file. These files are immediately uploaded to your online Heirloom account, so you can monitor our exceptional quality at any time. This means no waiting to receive a returned DVD or flash drive before starting to add searchable descriptions to your files.

NTSC, PAL, and SECAM

Heirloom understands that your video tape may have originated elsewhere. That's why why we convert tapes from all standards, not just the National Television Standards Committee (NTSC) format popular in North America. Your Phase Alternate Line (PAL) and Sequential Color and Memory (SECAM) formats are welcome at Heirloom.

Video Tape Repair

Modest tape repair is free at Heirloom. We fix broken tapes hiding within your cassettes. Our experts also don’t charge for replacing faulty cassette cartridges in order to play your video tape. These “surgeries” are often successful, but we can make no guarantee to save every faulty tape, especialy those with "Sticky Shed" syndrome.

Transfer Video to Digital

Our experts transfer video to digital in real time, making a high quality “1-to-1” capture. This could take hours for each cassette, even if there's only a few minutes of video on the tape. Heirloom removes the blue "dead" space that's before and after that video signal. Because each customer has unique preferences for post-capture production, Heirloom’s video tape to digital service performs no other editing of your video. 

Credit for Blank Video Tapes

Heirloom charges a unit price for each video tape received in your order. After hours of playing your cassettes, we may discover that some of your tapes are completely blank! It's Heirloom policy to issue you a transferable credit, that never expires, for each blank video tape we encounter. Convert your professional grade video tape to digital today!