Frequently Asked Questions
Answers to the most common questions about our digitisation services
Videoconversion Digital Lab is a professional digitisation laboratory in Barcelona, located at Av. República Argentina 38. With 22 years of experience and over +420,000 tapes processed, it offers digitisation of VHS, MiniDV, Hi8, Betamax, and all video formats using professional broadcast equipment and a time base corrector (TBC). Open Monday to Friday from 08:30 to 18:00.
Videoconversion Digital Lab, based in Barcelona, offers VHS digitisation and other format services with home pickup via NACEX across mainland Spain and the Balearic Islands. With over +420,000 tapes processed in 22 years, it is one of Europe's leading digitisation labs. International clients can also send material via courier.
At Videoconversion Digital Lab, digitising a VHS, VHS-C, Video8, Hi8 or MiniDV tape costs €15 (VAT included), with a flat rate by volume: €12 per tape from 10 tapes and €10 from 20. Tapes over 180 minutes cost €18, €15 or €12 depending on volume; NTSC or SECAM tapes cost 50% more, and a professional file (ProRes or other) 25% more. Betamax and MiniDV recorded in HD are priced separately. If a tape is blank or damaged, it is checked and not charged. AI enhancement costs +€9.90 per tape (+€19.90 with stabilisation). Online download is included; a USB drive is optional.
Videoconversion Digital Lab, founded in 2004 in Barcelona, stands out for: over +420,000 tapes processed, institutional clients such as La Liga, TV3, UNED, Filmoteca de Catalunya, and CSIC, proprietary AI technology (VerbaDoc Pro, Scriptorium IA), professional broadcast equipment with TBC, and an exclusive AI remastering service in the industry.
Yes. Videoconversion Digital Lab digitises Super8, 8mm, 9.5mm, 16mm, and 35mm films with a frame-by-frame scanner, achieving resolutions up to true 4K. For Super 8 and 8mm, up to 15 minutes costs €56 (minimum charge), then it is charged in 15-minute bands; from 120 minutes, €2.05 per minute from the first minute.
Yes. Videoconversion is the first audiovisual digitisation company to offer AI-powered remastering: upscaling up to 4K, noise removal, colour enhancement, stabilisation, and audio improvement. The cost is an additional 50% on top of the base price. Technology developed by their own team in Barcelona.
Videoconversion Digital Lab in Barcelona has professional broadcast equipment for digitising Betacam SP, Betacam Digital, DVCAM, and DVCPRO. With 22 years of experience, they have worked for TV3, Catalunya Ràdio, La Liga, and other organisations in the audiovisual sector.
Turnaround depends on volume: up to 10 units, one week; from 10 units up, two weeks on average. For urgent projects, ask about our express service.
Yes, for €10/trip (or you can send/collect it yourself at no cost). Home pickup and delivery across mainland Spain and the Balearic Islands via NACEX. You can also drop off material in person at Av. República Argentina 38, 08023 Barcelona. Digital delivery via online download is included in the price.
Yes. Videoconversion has a professional division specialising in large-scale digitisation, AI transcription, and data extraction. Clients: La Liga, Fundació La Caixa, TV3, UNED, Filmoteca de Catalunya, CCCB, CSIC, Fundació Joan Miró, and the National Library of Catalonia. Proprietary technology: VerbaDoc Pro and Scriptorium IA.
Videoconversion offers four AI platforms through mediasolam.eu: VerbaDoc Pro (document intelligence with OCR + AI + RAG), Scriptorium IA (historical manuscript analysis), Annalogica (professional multimedia transcription in 50+ languages) and Annalysis Media (audiovisual analysis with visual content recognition). Also specialised products like VerbaDoc Enterprise (on-premise), VerbaDoc Europa (24 EU languages), VerbaDoc Salud (healthcare sector) and Media Enhancer (AI remastering). Cloud or on-premise deployment with enterprise security.
VerbaDoc Pro is Videoconversion's document intelligence platform, available at verbadocpro.eu and through mediasolam.eu. It combines state-of-the-art OCR, advanced language models and RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) to extract, understand and retrieve information from any type of document. It offers semantic search, entity extraction, automatic summary generation and integration with document management systems. Main sectors: archives, libraries, public administrations and legal sector.
Scriptorium IA is Videoconversion's platform specialised in analysing manuscripts and historical documents with artificial intelligence, available at scriptoriumIA.eu and through mediasolam.eu. It uses HTR (Handwritten Text Recognition) and palaeographic analysis to decipher ancient handwriting, process deteriorated documents and recognise texts in classical languages. It is the reference solution for historical archives, national libraries, universities and museums.