Hi Dominic, If you have time and a number of tapes I'd encourage you to look into BAVC's Preservation Access Program. They accept applications twice yearly and the spring cycle is open until 21 April. I was accepted into the program a year ago and they were able to recover a variety of work for me on MiniDV and Hi8. It is expensive even with ~70% of the cost covered by the Mellon Foundation and the backlog is such that it might be 9-12 months before you get your hard drive back. But they seem to have equipment for every format known to humankind and super skilled & passionate people working there who'll do a great job for you.
Info at https://bavc.org/preserve-media/preservation-access-program They're also set up to do one-offs outside of PAP but you'll face the same backlog. At the time I was looking to recover that MiniDV work this other place was suggested to me: Express Media 2225 Palou Avenue San Francisco, CA 94124 PHONE: 415-255-9883 https://expressmedia.tv/post-production/duplication-and-graphics/ Others may wish to chime in here but I'm under the impression that Digibeta, while good for the time, is an inferior format if you have film elements and are able get a contemporary scan. Related to contemporary scans I'll toot my own horn and say that I was fortunate to be a recipient of one of those Interbay Cinema Society Lightpress Grants that Jon Behrens posts about. Previously, the only scan I had of my cameraless film, Hojas de Maíz, made in the days when previewing was via snail-mailed VHS tapes, was Digibeta and that pretty much left the film in limbo. But now that there's a lovely scan available ( https://erictheise.com/films/hojas-de-maiz/) it's got a new lease on life, and I was gratified when Stefano Miraglia almost immediately curated into it the Moving Image Catalog project. Eric On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 6:18 AM Dominic Angerame <[email protected]> wrote: > Does anyone know of a great lab here in San Francisco who can digitize > Digibeta HP tapes. > > Thanks > > Dominic > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks >
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