Your tapes are digitized.
Now make them watchable.
The transfer service did the first half. TapeSave turns each long MP4 or MOV into individual moments your family can actually find.
Upload a file from Legacybox, iMemories, Capture, Costco, a local transfer shop, or your own hard drive. We detect likely scene boundaries, recover visible camcorder dates, and return reviewable clips ready for Google Photos or Apple Photos.
Up to 3 clips from your own file · no card · one sample per household
Only have physical tapes? TapeSave does not perform the transfer. Compare digitizing options first →
Try TapeSave on your own video
Already have an MP4, MOV, AVI, or MKV? Choose one file and, if your household is eligible, we'll process the first 10 minutes into up to 3 clips free. No card. Paid processing supports up to 5 hours per file.
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Got tapes in a closet?
Here's your plan to rescue them
Three simple steps. No tech skills needed. You can start this afternoon.
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Digitize the physical tapes
Don't have digital files yet? Get the tapes onto a thumb drive first — drop them at Costco, Walgreens, or CVS, or mail them in and they'll do it for you. Always ask for MP4 files, not DVDs.
See the digitizing guide →Mail it in — Legacybox does the rest → - 2
Upload the MP4s to TapeSave
Drop the files on this page. TapeSave finds likely scenes and visible camcorder dates, then gives you reviewable clips. Processing is typically about 10 minutes per hour of footage, but long files and busy queues can take longer. $9.99 per video.
Start with your first video → - 3
Watch, share, save forever
Dated clips you can play at family reunions, send to siblings, push into Google Photos or iCloud, or keep for a memorial tribute someday.
See what clips look like →
Tapes are out being digitized?
Lock in your TapeSave step now — redeem it the day your files come back
Mail-in digitizing takes 3–6 weeks. Grab a TapeSave gift card today, keep it for yourself, and use it the moment your MP4s land in your inbox. From $9.99 — it never expires.
past the design life of magnetic tape
“disc rot” starts erasing frames
burned into the frame — and find that Christmas
How Home Video Organization Works
From one long digitized video to a library-ready collection of dated, labeled clips.
Upload your video
Drop the digitized file from any transfer service — MP4, MOV, AVI, or MKV, up to 5 hours per file.
AI finds each moment
Likely scene boundaries and dead space are detected automatically using multiple-frame checks. Your uploaded master is never overwritten, and you can review the clips.
Dates are recovered
When a camcorder date is visible, AI attempts to read it frame by frame. Dates are editable because faded or damaged footage can be uncertain.
Ready for your library
Download dated, described clips sorted by year, with a footage report showing every second of your tape accounted for. Drop them into Google Photos, Apple Photos, iCloud, or any library.
See what you get
One long digitized file goes in. Organized, dated clips come out — without an afternoon of manual scrubbing.
family_tapes_VHS.mp4
2 hours, 4.2 GB — one long file
Before
Jun 14, 1992
Kids opening birthday presents in living room
Dec 25, 1992
Christmas morning — tree and gift unwrapping
Jul 4, 1993
Family barbecue in the backyard
+ 12 more clips, sorted by year…
After
Dates and descriptions are generated by AI and may not be 100% accurate. You can always download and organize clips manually.
One family archive. One unforgettable gift.
Feedback from the first 20-tape family beta that helped shape TapeSave.
Early family beta
“I secretly had all of my dad's old films digitized and then used TapeSave to get them on his iPad. Best gift he has ever been given. He cried!”
Abby L.
Family beta · gift for her dad
Shared with permission. Last name shortened for privacy. Beta feedback is not presented as an independent paid-customer review.
Simple pricing
Pay per video — one time, no subscriptions ever.
One file = one video, up to 5 hours long.
Buy now, upload whenever you're ready — credits never expire.
One Video
Perfect for trying it out
1 video • $9.99 / video
Family Pack
Most popular — save 20%
5 videos • $8.00 / video
The Whole Box
Best value — save 40%
15 videos • $6.00 / video
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Want us to handle everything?
Up to 15 videos, done to the nines — priority processing, every clip restored & enhanced, a hand-checked highlight reel, and every clip on a USB drive mailed to your door.
$162.99 value — save $13.99
one-time · up to 15 videos · everything included · no subscription
- ✓Up to 15 videos turned into dated, labeled clips
- ✓Restore & Enhance on every single video
- ✓A hand-checked 60-second highlight reel
- ✓Every clip on a USB drive, mailed to your door
- ✓Priority processing & a real human checking the result
Have more than 15 videos? Email us for a custom quote.
Learn how to preserve your memories
Free guides to help you digitize, organize, and protect your family's home movies.
I've Digitized My Home Movies — Now What?
The 9-step post-digitization playbook. Organize, back up, watch, and share the tapes you finally got off the shelf.
How to Preserve Old Home Movies
The complete guide to saving your family's VHS, 8mm, Hi8, and MiniDV tapes before they deteriorate.
Best Tape Transfer Services Compared
Costco, Legacybox, iMemories, Walgreens & more — honest comparison of price, speed, and quality.
Where to Store Your Digitized Home Videos
Google Photos vs Apple Photos vs Amazon Photos vs OneDrive — which cloud is best for you?
How to Watch Old Home Movies on TV
Apple TV, Roku, Fire TV, Chromecast, USB stick, Plex. Every working path from your digitized files to the family room.
How to Back Up Digitized Home Movies
The 3-2-1 rule, scaled to a family budget. One hour, around $100/year, archive-grade redundancy.
Secure & private
Your videos are encrypted in transit and scheduled for deletion after 30 days. We do not sell your videos or use them in advertising.
Safe payments
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Satisfaction guaranteed
Not happy? We'll reprocess your tape for free — or refund your credit within 14 days of purchase.
Common questions
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[email protected]Why I built this
I'm a physician by training and a builder by hobby. A few years ago I sat down with a box of my parents' old camcorder tapes after paying a service to digitize them — and discovered the actual problem wasn't the transfer. It was the four-hour MP4 files nobody would ever scrub through to find a 90-second moment. The tapes were “saved” but the memories on them were still functionally lost.
I built TapeSave so the file that comes back from Legacybox, Costco, iMemories, or any other digitization service can be turned into individually dated, watchable clips — a birthday, a recital, a Christmas morning — that drop straight into Google Photos or Apple Photos. The clinical eye for “what was actually happening here?” turns out to be exactly what scene detection plus camcorder-date OCR needs.
I write the guides on this site from my own archive, a 20-tape family beta, and published preservation guidance: the formats that survive, the backup mistakes that lose footage, and the work it takes to make an archive watchable. If you have a question I haven't covered, my email is [email protected].
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