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 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 also have a particular commitment to the dissemination of audio-visual conservation and restoration techniques, and we are actively engaged in a number of relevant national and international professional bodies.

Our Services Include

film digitisation for both preservation and access purposes
moving image restoration
audio-visual files and data transformation
data migration with file format maintenance
digital archiving service
consultancy, training and research on audio-visual preservation issues

News

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
Rough Consensus and Running Archives (= «No Time to Wait 3») on 25–26 October 2018 at BFI Southbank in London, United Kingdom
11^th Orphan Film Symposium on 10–14 April 2018 in Astoria, New York, United States of America
Restoration Asia V on 6 April 2018 in Bangkok, Thailand
RAWcooked, encode and decode bit-by-bit audio-visual raw data with Matroska, FFV1 and FLAC
DCP-o-matic, the powerful open-source tool for creating digital cinema packages

Training

Deterioration and conservation of photochemical material at the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola in Donostia (San Sebastián), Spain, on 21–25 January 2019 [en]
Working Beyond RGB: A Report from the Field at «Colour in Film», British Film Institute in London, United Kingdom, on 25–27 February 2019 [en]
Archivage de l’audiovisuel: Dans la jungle des formats de fichiers at the Cinémathèque française in Paris, France, on 13 March 2019 [fr]
two-day workshop at Cinémathèque des Pays de Savoie et de l’Ain in Veyrier-du-Lac, France, on 4–5 April 2019 [fr]

Publications

Tweets

2019–01–20