The Transfer Lab - Audio Video Film Data Conversion

09/17/2024

If you're looking for a reliable, ultra high-quality videotape transfer, The Transfer Lab works with old legacy broadcast and corporate videotape, and professionally restores, digitizes, and scales up to 4K. Our clients include broadcasters, filmmakers, streaming services, corporate archivists, government agencies, U.S. military, hospitals, insurance companies, museums, law enforcement, and Individuals.

08/26/2024

Our new BVH-3100 1-Inch Type C broadcast videotape deck with air threading is now installed in our ProRes Broadcast Videotape Archiving Lab. Here is a short video of this amazing circa 1980's vintage Videocorder. We've also modernized and retrofitted this system with digital 12G SDI patching and monitoring.

01/26/2024

Unfortunately, the manufacturer of our 4K scanner filed chapter 7 before we took delivery. We are now seeking a new 4K scanner and dealing with the loss. Rest assured we will find another system to meet our needs.

Original post: "It's official! The Transfer Lab® Motion Picture Preservation Room is going 4K UHD. Our new 4K film scanner is expected to be installed In March. We're excited to offer 4K film scanning in all film gauges".

08/22/2023

CVC - Perhaps One Of The Rarest Video Formats On Earth

COMPACT VIDEO CASSETTE (CVC) and Airborne (CAVR) Technicolor, Funai, (NTSC Only) Transfer Services
We digitally transfer ALL NTSC (CVC) Compact Video Cassette tape types including, but not limited to TEAC KV60, TEAC KV45, TEAC KV30, FUNAI V60, FUNAI V45, FUNAI V30, Technicolor V30 Model, 730 CVC, and all TEAC Airborne (CAVR) Compact Videocassette Recorder recordings, mission and data recordings made in the TEAC V-250AB-FN CAVR ( TEAC V-250AB-F/N).

If you are a retired pilot or airman, and have mission recordings you need transferred and digitized, we're here to help. We have the actual ( extremely rare) CAVR armored ruggedized ground playback systems to achieve correct playback of your tapes, all in pristeen, perfect working order.

ABOUT CVC

CVC, a consumer videotape format that ultimately did not succeed, stands as arguably one of the rarest videotape formats globally. Its existence as a consumer videotape format spanned approximately 3 1/2 years, from 1980 to 1984.

ABOUT Airborne (CAVRs) The Armored Black Box Recorder

The TEAC Compact Airborne Videocassette Recorder was so incredibly compact for the time (Early 1980s), that the U.S. Government commissioned its' development as an airborne mission recorder. The ruggedize armored unit was so small for the time, it was the perfect choice for installation into aircraft cockpits to record audio communications, video and E.O. data. The system was utilized by the U.S. Military, NASA, and other aerospace contractors and law enforcement as well.

Within the realm of digital archiving facilities, The Transfer Lab® stands out as one of the select few that specializes in digitizing the Compact Video Cassette format. Notably, we might be the sole facility in the United States that exclusively employs high-end, professional military grade CVC systems. It's worth noting that these systems are exceptionally scarce and were never made available to the general public.

In stark contrast, the vast majority of other transfer services either do not provide CVC digitizing services at all, or can only offer transfers using lower-quality, frequently unreliable consumer-grade CVC VCRs. While these CVC models are capable of functioning, they tend to yield only average results and have gained a reputation for causing damage to tapes during playback due to an inferior tape transport design.

You can get them transferred starting here:
https://www.thetransferlab.com/products/cvc-technicolor-compact-video-cassette?_pos=1&_sid=9cfd68b82&_ss=r

#1 professional media archiving service in Nashville - We convert videos and all your aging media.

08/09/2023

Here's a shot of one of our Professional / Broadcast videotape archiving labs. Legacy cartridge machines of all types (Left) 1-Inch Type-C Open Reel VTR (right). We archive nearly every videotape format in existence.

Here are just some of the legacy videotape formats we digitally archive.  We'll create a ProRes HQ or file format of your choice.  We can also scale your standard definition video up to 4K UHD.

VHS (NTSC USA FORMAT)
VHSC (NTSC USA FORMAT)
S-VHS (Super VHS)(NTSC USA FORMAT)
VHS (PAL EUROPEAN FORMAT)*
VHSC (PAL EUROPEAN FORMAT)*
S-VHS (PAL EUROPEAN FORMAT)*
BetaMax I,II,III (NTSC USA FORMAT)*
Betacam (NTSC USA FORMAT)
Betacam SP (NTSC USA FORMAT)
Digital Betacam (DigiBeta) (NTSC USA FORMAT)
Betacam SX
Video 8 (8mm Video) (NTSC USA FORMAT)
HI8 (8mm Video) (NTSC USA FORMAT)
Hi8 (8mm Video) (PAL FORMAT)
DIGITAL 8 (8mm Video) (NTSC USA FORMAT)
VIDEO 8 (PAL 8mm Video)*
DVCAM (NTSC USA FORMAT)
XD-CAM (NTSC USA FORMAT)
HD XD-CAM (NTSC USA FORMAT)
DVCPro (NTSC USA FORMAT)
D2 (NTSC)
1-Inch Type-C Open Reel Videotape (NTSC Only)
2-Inch Quad Open Reel Videotape (Through our Quadraplex Partner)
MiniDV (Standard Definition) (NTSC USA FORMAT)
HDV (High Definition with your camcorder) (NTSC USA FORMAT)
We also transfer other consumer and professional broadcast formats. Call for quote.

08/09/2023

Thanks so much for voting The Transfer Lab® your Nextdoor Favorite for 2023. We really appreciate all the support and kind words.

08/07/2023

Here's one of our 3 motion picture open reel video machines. This is a Sony BVH-2000 1-inch, Type-C Videotape machine paired with an external BVT-2000 time base corrector. It works using a helical scanning drum, along with stationary playback heads for audio. This system is used for digitally archiving old TV show masters and other broadcast grade 1-inch videotape reels.

09/23/2022

Restoring thousands of feet of legacy motion picture film and video every day, we often get asked, as a client hands us a reel of old film "Do you think it's still possible to get anything off it?"..."It's so old". It's a fair question and one that we love to answer. "Yes", we tell them. "Some of the motion film we've worked with looks absolutely amazing".

It's true... and so we thought we would post a great example of some Super 8 film we just digitized that is more than 50years old. It looks better than any VHS tape we've ever digitized, and a lot older too. In fact, it looks like it could have been filmed yesterday. So you be the judge.

If you've got some old film reels hanging around, gather them together and find a place near you where you can talk with the archivist about how they treat, prepare, restore and digitize motion film, or bring them by for us to take a look. We're happy to assess them for you at no charge. Maybe you'll discover that your film reels contain family treasures just waiting to be viewed again, or for the very first time.

08/23/2022

So excited and humbled to hear the news that The Transfer Lab® has been voted Brentwood, Tennessee's favorite business on NextDoor. We're so proud to be a part of the Brentwood, Nashville Metro community and looking forward to serving the needs of consumers and professionals with the best digital archiving capabilities in the business. Thank you so much for your support. Ron Royer, Owner

05/05/2022

We were honored this week to digitize archival footage of Naomi Judd for CMT's tribute "CMT Remembers Naomi Judd"

CMT pays tribute to Naomi Judd with a special weaving together archival interviews, performance highlights and appearances from other recording artists influenced by the iconic country music matriarch.