Multi-award-winning professional digitisation and preservation of broadcast audio and video tape collections, from a single tape to thousands of items.
Oxford Duplication Centre provides professional broadcast audio and video tape digitisation for archives, museums, universities, businesses and private collections. Our experienced engineers and technicians work with both analogue and digital magnetic media, carefully converting valuable recordings into high-quality digital files.
We work with collections ranging from individual recordings to large-scale archives containing thousands of tapes. Each project is approached with care, with the appropriate playback equipment, conversion systems and digital outputs selected for the original media.
Specialist broadcast playback and conversion equipment is maintained to support a wide range of analogue and digital magnetic formats.
Digital files can be produced to professional preservation requirements, including high-quality broadcast and production formats.
Our technicians have extensive experience handling fragile, historic and valuable magnetic media.
From individual tapes through to substantial institutional archives, we can manage projects at scale.
Our audio department has an extensive collection of professional audio equipment to support the transfer of fragile and historic magnetic audio tape.
Recordings can be digitised to high-quality professional audio files, suitable for preservation, archive access, production, listening and online delivery.
Professional transfer of open-reel audio recordings.
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View Guide →Our video department maintains a comprehensive collection of professional video playback equipment to support the transfer of fragile broadcast and professional video tapes.
Video recordings can be converted into professional preservation and production formats, together with convenient MPEG4 files for everyday access and online viewing.
We support a wide range of broadcast and professional video formats and can advise on the appropriate playback and output requirements for your collection.
Our digitisation workflows are designed to produce high-quality digital masters and access files appropriate for archive, preservation, production and online viewing requirements.
Whether you have one historic recording or a substantial broadcast archive, our experienced team can advise on the appropriate playback, digitisation and delivery options.
Working with clients across the UK, we digitise corporate, consumer and heritage document, book and map archives into suitable digital files for online use.
Our Bookeye A1 Book Scanner offers high-resolution planetary scanning for fragile books, rare maps, parchment and materials up to DIN A1+.
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Our archive department is equipped with leading photographic film and photograph machinery, ensuring consistent, high-quality digitisation across film formats from 110mm through to glass plate negatives.
Adhering to The National Archives specifications, our services provide leading-quality digitisation with complete confidence.
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Working with leading AWS and Blackmagic conversion processors, our services incorporate audio, video, vinyl and reel formats in both open-spool and closed-tape formats.
Digital files can be supplied in formats including ProRes HQ, 10-bit AVI, MPEG-4, AIFF, WAV and MP3, with most other options available upon request.
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We were thrilled to be recognised as a winner at the Cherwell Small Business Awards 2024. The standard of entries was exceptionally high, making this recognition particularly meaningful to our team.
We were also winners of the Cherwell Micro Business Awards 2022 and finalists in the Cherwell Small Business Awards 2023.
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