Business Need a paid Video person to capture old DV Mini tapes to drive

[wasteland]

We have about 50 DV mini tapes shot on a JVC GR-HD1U Mini DV HD Digital Camcorder that we need to recapture to create up-rezed masters of older high end feature films for re-release.

Anyone have a person that can take this on as a paid project?
Probably best if that person is in the USA to avoid shipping porn tapes over international borders through x-ray machines and nosey customs agents.

The danger in using a local "Mister Video" sort of place is that it is all hardcore porn and most local places specialized in "wedding videos". No way we can take a chance with original tape masters with some guy that says porn is okay, but then his wife sees what he is doing and throws them all in the dumpster before she stabs him..

Need someone behind the Porn velvet rope for this job.

Let me know?
Colin

[Grapesoda]

Colin it's pretty simple to jump into a computer straight from the camera. You still have the camera you're set to go it's just time consuming.

Or just search digitized Mini DV tapes. It's not complex


Do you intend to crop the tapes when you upsize to recreate 16 by 9?

How is the audio?

[NatalieK]

the downloading onto the pc isn´t the time consuming part, obviously you have to be around in the office, every hour tape, you need to reset another tape in the camera.

The tapes should be 16x9 hd anyway, so no stress there, just the point you only have 14 hrs in a day and the rest, you sleep, so it´s going to take a week for 50 hr of video...

maybe set up a couple of pc´s or laptops with a couple of old hd digital dv cameras?

if you send them in transport, by post etc, they could go through postal scans or testing anyway. I´d suggest doing it in house like Grapesoda said