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Video tape 

transfer service

London Camera Hire

Professional Video tape transfer and encoding service
Machine hire and extra memory & storage rent

Looking to transfer your video tapes to digital files? At DV Camera Hire, we specialise in video tape transfer services for all formats, providing everything you need to copy tapes to digital files seamlessly. We offer DV machines for hire that can digitise footage directly in and out of an editing system or serve as simple playback devices. From compact office players to advanced facility decks, we have a range of DV, HDV, and Digital Betacam machines available for hire, perfect for playback, dubbing, or encoding your footage.
We also provide FireWire cables for easy connection to Mac or PC. Need extra memory cards? We offer SD cards, CF cards, P2 cards, and SxS cards for daily or long-term rental, along with adapters for added convenience. Additionally, you can hire external drives (1TB, 2TB, or 3TB) for on-set transfers or in-house edits, ensuring smooth storage and transfer for your projects.
Contact us today to discuss your video transfer, machine, or memory hire needs, and check out the formats we support below.

Old Sony 1" & 2" Video tapes transfer service

1inch video tape transfer service
Transfer Old formats such as Sony 1" video tape, Betacam transfers
We can transfer your entire library to any file format

If you have a library of old video tape such as 1", 2" D3 tapes we can encode them to any file format.  Digitising all of your video tapes will not only preserve them, but save you so much space and in turn money on rent. We have all old and vintage tape machines that allow us to transcode any tape format to any file format. 

We also have online online storage facilities too - so we can store your files online on our servers allowing for quick and easy retrieval.  Plus the safety of storing your files of-site.  

1 inch tape transfer service
1" Video tape transfer service

From £69 per tape

Video tape transfer to any file format

Transfer video tapes to file format. Video tape transfer service. Encode all video tape formats to a
Transfer professional Tapes to Digital Files
We can copy all your old video tapes, professional and domestic to any file format. 

We can transfer just one tape or your entire library of old format video tapes. Our tape archiving service is fast and very cost effective. We can encode your video tapes and then upload them to the cloud or to hard drives. 

Contact us for a price

Hire extra storage for your project
Rent Hard drives and SSD drives

External hard drives and memory cards to hire

Hard drive hire

We offer all types of hard drives to support your production.  If its a small sized hard drive for a few days or terabytes of storage for a long term project. 

Our drives to hire are mostly G-Tech and Lacie drives.  Call us to discuss your external hard drive requirements. 

1 Day Hire • from £35 per day plus 20% VAT

We hire Memory cards for Cameras.  QXD, SD, CF cards for rent
Hire CF and SD cards - Rent all Memory cards for Camera storage

SxS cards, CF cards, QXD cards,

SD cards

Extra storage hire

If your shoot requires more memory we stock all types of camera memory cards.  SD, CF, SxS, QXD cards. 

We can you one card for one day or 10 cards for 6 weeks - let us know how we can help you with your memory card hire.

1 Day Hire • from £15 per day plus 20% VAT

Sony portable DSR 11 machine hire

Hire Mini DV machine to playback all your DV tapes
Mini DV machine hire

The Sony DSR 11 is a great portable office machine that plays back both PAL and NTSC.  With Firewire in and out, this machine is perfect for transferring mini DV tapes to a file format or playback and logging. 

1 Day Hire • from £70 per day plus 20% VAT

Sony portable HVMR 15 machine hire

Hire HDV deck for playback
Mini HDV machine hire

The Sony HVMR is a great portable office machine that plays back both PAL and NTSC.  With Firewire in and out, this machine is perfect for transferring mini HDV tapes to a file format or playback and logging. 

1 Day Hire • from £70 per day plus 20% VAT

Sony DSR 2000 machine hire

Hire Sony Digi Betacam Machine
Sony Digi Beta machine hire

Hire a Digi beta for archiving or digitising in to Avid, FCP or Premiere. Accepts Betacam SP and Digital Betacam tapes.  

1 Day Hire • from £90 per day plus 20% VAT

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