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).

We are a small, highly skilled moving image conservation and restoration facility based in Switzerland. Our team provides worldwide comprehensive services that encompass the whole range of audio-visual preservation and offers you Swiss quality at a competitive price. We are also actively engaged in a number of relevant national and international professional bodies.

Our Services Include

• moving image restoration
• film digitisation for both preservation and access purposes
• audio-visual files and data transformations
• consultancy, training and research on audio-visual preservation issues
• digital archiving service

News

Patronage of the Arts and the Sciences

• AMIA, the Association of Moving Image Archivists
• ACP, the Albanian Cinema Project
• AEC Film Preservation Workshop, 19–23 June 2017, Salaya, Thailand
• SEAPAVAA, the SouthEast Asia-Pacific AudioVisual Archive Association
• Implementation of RGB 16-bit handling in FFV1 for both the planar bgrp16 and the packed rgb48 storage patterns
• FIAF, the International Federation of Film Archives
• IASA, the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives

Publication

• Reto Kromer: «Matroska and FFV1: One File Format for Film and Video Archiving?», in Journal of Film Preservation, n. 96 (April 2017)

Training

• FIAF «Film Preservation and Restoration Workshop India 2017» at Prasad Studios in Chennai, India, on 7–14 October 2017 [en]
• Dateiformate für Film und Video, MAS/CAS ALIS, Universität Bern, 21 October 2017 in Berne [de]
• Préserver le cinéma sur formats réduits, a two-day workshop at Cinémathèque des Pays de Savoie et de l’Ain in Veyrier-du-Lac, France, on 6–7 November 2017 [fr]
• Data Migration, Our Fremeny, «No Time to Wait! Open Media, Open Formats, Open Archives» at Österreichisches Filmmuseum in Vienna, Austria, on 9–10 November 2017 [en]
• Open Source for Archivists, a two-day workshop at the SEAPAVAA Conference at the Thai Film Archive in Salaya (near Bangkok), Thailand, on 7–12 April 2018 [en]
• Programming of Colour Look-up Tables, workshop at the FIAF Conference in Prague, Czechia, on 22–27 April 2018 [en]

Tweets

2017–09–21