AV Preservation by reto.ch

If it’s not awesome, we don’t do it.

A stencil-coloured print of
Création de la Serpentine by Segundo de Chomón,
Pathé Frères, France 1908
(Courtesy by Österreichisches Filmmuseum, the Austrian Film Museum)

We are a highly skilled moving image conservation and restoration company, partly operating at the Lichtspiel in Bern, Switzerland. Our team provides worldwide comprehensive services that encompass the whole range of audio-visual preservation, offering Swiss quality at a competitive price. We have a particular commitment to the dissemination of low-technology and low-energy audio-visual conservation and restoration techniques. We support open-source projects which we believe are beneficial for the archival community.

Our Services Include

research, training and consultancy on audio-visual preservation
film digitisation for both preservation and access purposes
digital moving image and sound restoration
files and data transformation
migration and maintenance of digital archives

Training

Einführung in FFmpeg, one-day Memoriav workshop in Bern, lead by Kamilla Ødegård and Reto Kromer, on 3 February 2025 [de]
Initiation à FFmpeg, one-day Memoriav workshop in Bern, lead by Éléonore Bernard and Reto Kromer, on 7 February 2025 [fr]
Keynote speech at Università degli Studi della Tuscia in Viterbo, Italy, on 27–28 February 2025 [en]
FFmpeg-Aufbaukurs, one-day Memoriav workshop in Bern, lead by Kamilla Ødegård and Reto Kromer, on 13 March 2025 [de]
Cours avancé de FFmpeg, one-day Memoriav workshop in Bern, lead by Éléonore Bernard and Reto Kromer, on 14 March 2025 [fr]
FFmpeg-Workshop at Hochschule der Künste Bern on 3 April 2025 [de]

Patronage of the Arts and the Sciences

AMIA, the Association of Moving Image Archivists
FIAF, the International Federation of Film Archives
IASA, the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives
No Time to Wait 8 at the Zentrum für Kunst und Medien in Karlsruhe, Germany, from 11 to 13 of September 2024

2024-11-30