VIDEO DUPLICATION

Video Duplication at Video Labs

Video Labs' geeks and sharp service staff fuse sound and image to make your video experience all it can be. Day in and day out, we produce high quality video duplication - powerful images - through a combination of person, talent and machine. Technology merging with skill.

Our expertise allows us to dub powerfully arresting images. Images with slick color and picture perfect detail that dominates your vision. From order processing, dubbing, QCing, labeling, packaging and shipping, we do it all in-house.

VHS Duplication
To assure that you receive the best quality VHS duplicates possible, we utilize 1000 JVC top of the line auto loading duplicators and only the finest cassette materials. Video Labs can accommodate any number of VHS copies, be it one or 1,000,000+.

Master Formats
At Video Labs, our mission is to continually learn about, evaluate, and invest in progressive technology. We aggressively maintain our capabilities to offer all forms of conventional audio and visual recording and transfer. As a result, we are extremely flexible about working in various formats.

We offer conversion, duplication, and encoding from essentially every video format and standard in the world. We are unique in the industry because we never have to outsource. This means that when you give us a job to do you can rest assured that we will be the ones doing it.

Videotape Duplication Formats:
High Definition
D1
D2
D3
D5
D9
Digital Betacam
DVCPRO
Mini DV
DV
DV CAM
Digital S
Digital 8
Betacam
M II
1"
3/4"
S-VHS
W-VHS
VHS
Hi-8
8mm
IMX
HDCAM
DVCPRO HD EX
HDV
ProHD
Beta SX


Digital Duplication
Video Labs has made hardcore investments in digital technology that are unparalleled in the Mid-Atlantic area. We can handle virtually any digital duplication need including D1, D2, D3, D5, D9, Digital Betacam, DVC Pro, DVC PRO 50, DVC Pro HD, Mini DV, DV, DV CAM, Digital S, DVC-Pro PAL, DV-Cam PAL, D1 PAL, Digital Betacam PAL, HDCAM, HD 24, Betacam SX, Betacam IMX and Digital 8 formats.

We routinely monitor technological advancements and client usage to help identify desirable additions to our digital collection.

Macrovision
Video Labs can help prevent unauthorized copying of your program. For security and peace of mind, we offer Macrovision - the most effective way to stop illegal copying. Macrovision encodes electronic impulses onto your recorded program.

These impulses remain dormant until an attempt to copy is made. The activated pulses then confuse the recording machine. The result is generally a weak, distorted copy that is essentially unwatchable. Use Macrovision to ensure that your duplicate tapes are always only one generation away from your master.

Master Tape Library
All master tapes are entered into a fully relational library database, stored in our temperature-controlled library, and are monitored by a 24 hour electronic security system. Rest assured that Video Labs' librarians will take good care of your masters.
 

Closed Captioning
For the more than 28 million Americans with hearing impairments, closed captioning provides a welcome service. With the aid of a closed captioning decoder - now a standard on most TV's.

Program dialogue appears as captions at the bottom of your television screen. With our many years of captioning experience, Video Labs will assure that your advertisements and programs reach the entire viewing audience.

High Definition
High definition (HD) production and recording formats can enhance video images by providing a higher resolution screen and enhanced depth-of-field. All High Definition formats are "wide-screen", a 16:9 ratio is default on all high-definition formats.

There are two choices in vertical "resolution" (how many lines are scanned on the monitor): either 720 or 1080. Both of these resolutions allow either 'progressive' (each line is scanned followed by the next line, like a computer monitor) or else they can be 'interlaced' (every other line is scanned, like conventional TV's do). The frame rate can also be important.

All interlaced video in HD is between 24 and 30 frames per second (fps). Progressive scan is recorded between 50 and 60 fps. The Panasonic DVC-PRO HD can record either interlaced (720 lines) or progressive (1080 lines) and at frame rates between 24 and 60 fps. The Sony HDCAM can also record between 24 and 60 fps, at either the 720 line resolution, or the 1080 resolution.

In summary, High Definition can make your program look better than amazing.