Old family videos to DVD or editable video files

[kalamos]

Hi all!

I wonder if anyone can help? I'm looking to transfer some old family videos to DVD or preferably video files (on a memory stick MPEG4 format) that I can edit down on an Apple Mac. Can anyone recommend somewhere that offers this service? I don't want to post the videos off as I'd be worried they might get lost or damaged in the post. I know that snappy snaps in Peckham offer the DVD service but I have several tapes to do and the price they charge would mean paying a hefty fee for 5 tapes.

I would really appreciate any suggestions.

Thank you!

[johnie]

There used to be a place on Atlantic Road in Brixton at the Brixton Road end. I'm not sure if it's still there.

[DJKillaQueen]

I don't think you'd find anywhere cheap enough to be honest. If your tapes are 3 hours long for example, then that's 15 hours of footage which has to be coverted in real time (because video can't be played any other way).

A DIY option would be to hook up a vhs machine to a DVD recorder and do it yourself. And then rip the DVD's in your mac. The file encoding on the DVD will probably be Mpeg2 but you can rip to any file format you want.

[Loz]

For ?40 you could get this from your nearest Maplins

http://www.maplin.co.uk/video-2-go-conversion-for-mac-and-pc-506680

[kalamos]

Thank you all for your quick and helpful replies!

Loz, I had no idea such a thing existed!! Sounds brilliant :)