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

• audio-visual files and data transformation
• data migration with file format maintenance
• digital archiving service
• film digitisation for both preservation and access purposes
• moving image restoration
• 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
• SEAPAVAA, the SouthEast Asia-Pacific AudioVisual Archive Association
• 11^th Orphan Film Symposium, 10–14 April 2018, Astoria, New York, United States of America
• Restoration Asia V, 6 April 2018, Bangkok, Thailand
• Film Preservation and Restoration Workshop India 2017, 7–14 October 2017, Chennai, India
• AEC Film Preservation Workshop, 19–23 June 2017, Salaya, Thailand
• RAWcooked, encode and decode bit-by-bit audio-visual raw data with Matroska, FFV1 and FLAC

Publication

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

Training

• Laboratorio di restauro e archiviazione digitale del film e del video, Università degli Studi di Udine, 7–11 May 2018 in Gorizia, Italy [it]
• Deterioration and conservation of photochemical material at the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola in San Sebastián, Spain, 21–25 January 2019 [en]

Tweets

2018–04–12