Digitizing videotapes and film, restoring old photos
Digitizing videotapes, movie film and negatives turns a family archive into files you can watch on a phone, and cracked or creased old photos can be restored. List the tapes, film or photos and their condition in an order, and specialists will respond. Or choose a specialist by their work samples.
Digitization and restoration specialists
How much videotape digitization costs
What affects the price
Tape or film format
A VHS tape plays on an ordinary VCR, while Hi8, MiniDV or 8 mm film need rare camcorders, projectors or scanners.
Size of the archive
Videotapes are often priced per tape or per hour of recording, movie film by the meter or minute, and photos and negatives per frame.
Condition of the media
A moldy or broken tape is cleaned and repaired first, and brittle film that smells of vinegar is scanned with extra care — all of it extra work.
Scan quality and processing
High scan resolution, removing dust and scratches, color correction and splitting a recording into separate scenes add to the work.
How much restoration a photo needs
Removing dust and small scratches is simpler than rebuilding a torn-off corner or a face on a crease. Colorizing a black-and-white photo is a separate job.
Prices come from specialists' profiles on Nexperity and update automatically. You agree the final price with the specialist directly.
How to find a digitization specialist
Two ways — pick the one that suits you
Pick a specialist yourself
- 1Open specialists' profiles and their work
- 2Send a request that describes the task
- 3Once accepted — contact the specialist directly
Post an order
- 1Describe the task, payment and the timing you want
- 2Receive responses from specialists
- 3Pick the best specialist and agree directly
- Free for clients
- Orders can be posted anonymously
- Your contacts open only after acceptance
- No commission on the deal
How to choose a digitization specialist
- 1
Equipment for your format
Find out whether the specialist has working equipment for your tapes and how they digitize movie film: frame-by-frame scanning is sharper than filming a projection on a screen.
- 2
A trial tape
Before handing over the whole archive, ask for one tape or reel to be digitized as a trial: you will see the picture quality, colors and sound.
- 3
Before and after restoration
Ask to see pairs of photos before and after. Check whether the specialist works by hand: automatic AI “enhancement” can change people's facial features.
- 4
What you will get
Ask about the file format and resolution, whether the recording will be split into clips, and how the result will be delivered: on a flash drive or as a link to cloud storage.
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Care of the originals
Agree on how the specialist will store your tapes and photos, when they will return the originals and whether they will delete their copies of the files afterwards.
What to put in the order
What to digitize: videotapes, movie film, negatives, slides, photos or audio cassettes — and how many
The format, if you know it: VHS, VHS-C, Hi8, MiniDV, 8 mm or Super 8 film
Condition: mold, broken tape, faded colors, cracks or creases on photos
What result you need: files on a flash drive or in the cloud, cleaning, color correction, restoration
Whether you already have scans of the photos, or the originals need to be handed over in person or by mail
Payment and the preferred deadline — for example, if the recordings are needed for a family celebration
Questions about Nexperity
How Nexperity works — separately for clients and for specialists
For clients
Nothing. Searching for specialists, sending requests, posting orders and receiving responses are free.
No. You agree the price and the payment method with the specialist and pay them directly. Nexperity does not take payments and is not a party to your deal.
A request goes to one specialist — from their profile. An order is posted for everyone: specialists send you responses, and you choose which one to accept.
How the specialist will do the task, a price — fixed, a range, hourly or “on request” — and, optionally, an estimated timeline.
30 days from publication: all that time it is visible in the feed and specialists can send responses. The exact end date and time are shown on the order in your account. From that moment the order is closed and a response can no longer be accepted. You can cancel it earlier, and if no specialist turned up, post a new one.
Yes: you can hide your name and photo in an order. The anonymity lasts until acceptance — the specialist whose response you accept sees your name and photo. The task description is public: anyone visiting the site can read it.
Only after acceptance — when you accept their response or they accept your request. And only the contacts you chose to show.
After acceptance you see the contacts the specialist chose to show, and they see the ones you chose. You can also message on Nexperity when the chat is on: on an order you decide that, on a direct request the specialist does.
Once the work is done, mark the order or the collaboration completed in your account — then you can say whether you recommend the specialist. A review can only be left for a collaboration that happened through Nexperity: one per specialist, which you can change or delete at any time.
For specialists
Nothing for now: this is the free period, and no subscription is needed yet. Nexperity takes no commission on deals — you settle with the client directly.
Sign up, fill in your specialist profile and add your services — each with a category, a description and a price. Once the profile is complete, it appears in search and on the category pages.
Two ways: clients send you requests from your profile, which you can accept or decline; and you see public orders in your categories in your account and can respond to them.
You describe how you will do the task and give a price and, optionally, a timeline. The client compares responses and accepts one.
Contacts set to “Public” are visible to everyone on your profile. A client sees contacts set to “After connection” once you accept their request or they accept your response. “Hidden” ones are not revealed in new connections: a contact already revealed to a client stays visible to them.
Each service has a fixed price, a range, an hourly rate or “on request”. Prices show on your profile and in search results, and you agree the final price with the client.
Through search and the category pages of your services. The order depends on your clients' reviews — how many of them recommend you — and in search also on how well your services match the query.
A photo, a description, your region and way of working — online or in person — your contacts and a portfolio: photos of your work, each with a short caption if you like.
A client leaves a review after completed work, and only for a collaboration through Nexperity: they say whether they recommend you and may add a few words. Each client counts once, however many times you work together.
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Do you digitize tapes or restore photos?
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