Digital Transfer and Archiving services available.
Biscardi Creative Media has always offered digital transfer services, format conversion and archiving, but as technology keeps propelling us towards a tapeless future, we thought it would be a good time to remind everyone of what we can do for you.
First off if you’re working on a project with the need to ingest tape formats but don’t have the machines, we’ll gladly capture the footage to your format of choice and deliver the files and tapes back to you.
If you have a library or even just a couple of tapes sitting around, you’ll want to get them transferred to digital formats in the near future. Sure the tapes themselves might be stable and will be able to sit on your shelf for many more years to come, but the machines won’t last forever. These are precision made machines and depending on the formats, the parts and engineers are becoming fewer and further between. So it’s a good idea to get these tapes transferred over to a digital format as soon as possible.
When we do a digital transfer, we also include a reduced size file (proxy) with timecode window burn to allow you to review the materials on practically any computer. We can also provide copies on DVD or BluRay disc.
In addition, we can convert your footage to HD during the transfer. Since we’re transferring it anyway, we can convert the footage, in realtime, to 720p or 1080 HD during the process. It’s a minimal charge to convert the footage during the transfer.
BCM also offers full archive services including the maintaining of your footage in our library, full cataloging of the footage and retrieval / distribution of your footage to third parties as needed.
Here at BCM we have the machines in house to transfer:
DV
DVCAM
DV50
HDV
DVCPro HD
Beta
BetaSP
DigiBeta
BetaSX
Beta IMX
We can bring in the machines to transfer 3/4″, HDCAM and D5 or other formats on an as need basis. Rental rates will apply.
Rates are set by the time length of each tape captured, not by the format. So a 60 minute DV transfer is the same price as a 60 minute HDCAM transfer. It’s all digital files to us so the format is irrelevant. As noted above, rental rates will apply to those formats we do not already have in house.
In addition, rates depend on whether you require the footage to be fully logged prior to capture or just capturing entire tapes, head to tail, as one file.
Feel free to contact Randy to discuss your project and we’ll be happy to walk you through the process. randy at biscardicreative dot com or call us at 770 271 3427.