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We can convert Video and Audio material on any media such as Video Tape, Computer Disks ,DVD, Audio Tapes, and Digital Formats and make it ready for Web streaming from our server into your web site.

Below is a list of all the formats that we can easily convert so that they are ready to stream.

This list was very complete last time we revised it but new (and old) formats crop up all the time so if you don’t see the format you have please give us a call or email us and we can let you know about the conversion.

Video Tape Formats

Video Tape can also be converted from the various reigions in the world. For example, NTSC in the United States, PAL in UK and Europe, Secam in Central Europe.

Betacam Betacam SP (Beta SP) Digital Betacam Betacam SX DVCam
DV DVCPRO DVCPRO 50 DVCPRO 100 Digital 8
Hi-8 DVC MPEG IMX VHS S-VHS
Betamax U-matic D1 digital D2 digital D3
D5 HD D9 (Digital S) W-VHS HDCAM Ampex DCT
1/2 inch EIAJ Video 2000 M II    

Digital ‘On Disk’ Formats

The file extension on some of these formats may not exactly match the type given here. For example some windows files are limited to 3 character extensions but we can still convert and digitise them.

3GPP 3GPP2 AMC AMR Animated GIF
AU AVI BMP CAF (Mac OS X) Cubic VR
DLS DV FlashPix FLC GIF
GSM JPEG 2000 JPEG/JFIF Karaoke Macromedia Flash
MPEG-1 MP3 (MPEG-1, Layer 3) M3U MPEG-2 MPEG-4
MQV M4A, M4B, M4P (iTunes 4 audio) PDF PICS PICT
PLS Photoshop (Image Sequence) PNG SMIL QuickTime Movie
SD2 Quartz Composer Composition SDV Targa TIFF Fax
SDP QuickTime Image File SGI Text Wave
TIFF SF2 (SoundFont 2) WMV (Windows Movie Formats) VDU (Sony Video Disk Unit) Virtual Reality (VR)

 

Digital Video Formats

Animation Apple BMP Apple Pixlet Apple Video Cinepak
Component video DV and DVC Pro NTSC DV PAL DVC Pro PAL Graphics
H.261 H.263 H.264 JPEG 2000 Microsoft OLE
Microsoft Video (wmv) Motion JPEG A Motion JPEG B MPEG-4 (Part 2) Photo JPEG
Planar RGB PNG Sorenson Video 2 Sorenson Video 3 TGA
TIFF        

 

Digital Audio Formats

24-bit integer 32-bit floating point 32-bit integer 64-bit floating point AAC (MPEG-4 Audio)
ALaw 2:1 AMR Narrowband AIFF Apple Lossless Encoder IMA 4:1
MACE 3:1 MACE 6:1 MP3 (MPEG-1, Layer 3) MS ADPCM QDesign Music 2
Qualcomm PureVoice (QCELP) ULaw 2:1      

Film Formats

We can convert all type of film for ‘web ready’ playback and also offer film restoration and cleaning services via the use of digital intermediates as part of a package – for example if you are looking to master the film back into digital format, for example, we are happy to arrange a conversion, digitisation and restoration process. Conversly we can also take digitally sourced content and make it look like film through various post production techniques.

35mm Super 4 perf 35mm Academy 4 perf 35mm 3 perf 35mm Vista 8 perf 35mm Slide Super
16mm Std 16mm Super 9.5 mm silent film 8mm  

Please call for information on 70mm and 65 mm conversions.