Guys,

I know this group is all about DIY, but I've been intending to take 20-30 VHS / Hi8 home video / Tapes for years and still these tapes sit in a bin.

I'm looking for recommendations on folks I can go to that will do a VERY high quality job of converting and where possible improving the quality of my tapes (video and audio noise, color and sound filtering / reduction where appropriate) and then convert (using high quality codecs) to an MPEG-4 file. I would like these stored to a portable hard drive that I can then use to do my own editing and streaming, etc.

I see lots of cautions in here about interlacing, capture, playback, conversion,etc. I'm looking for someone who knows how to do this RIGHT and is trustworthy and careful.

Thanks for any tips / advice on who to seek out.

Regards,

-brad