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
• SEAPAVAA, the SouthEast Asia-Pacific AudioVisual Archive Association
• Rough Consensus and Running Archives (= «No Time to Wait 3») on 25–26 October 2018 at BFI Southbank in London, United Kingdom
• 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

• 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 «Toute la Mémoire du Monde 2019», Cinémathèque française in Paris, France, on 13–17 March 2019 [fr]
• FFmpeg et autres logiciels libres pour les archives de l’audiovisuel at Cinémathèque des Pays de Savoie et de l’Ain in Veyrier-du-Lac, France, on 4–5 April 2019 [fr]
• Migration de fichiers audiovisuels, Memoriav Workshop at Médiathèque Valais, Martigny on 8 May 2019 [fr]

Publications

• On the Bright Side of Data Migrations [en]
• Matroska and FFV1: One File Format for Film and Video Archiving? [en]

Tweets

2019–02–19