AV Preservation by reto.ch

If it’s not awesome, we don’t do it.

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 (using the latest Kinetta Archival Scanner which we contributed to develop)
• 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
• Implementation of RGB 16-bit handling in FFV1
• AEC Film Preservation Workshop, 19–23 June 2017, Salaya, Thailand
• FIAF, the International Federation of Film Archives
• IASA, the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives
• SEAPAVAA, the SouthEast Asia-Pacific AudioVisual Archive Association

Training

• Before the Restoration, Il Cinema Ritrovato, «Focus on Restoration», 24 June – 2 July 2017 in Bologna, Italy [en]
• Archivierung audiovisueller Dateien, Bern, 2 November 2017 [de]

Publication

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

Tweets

2017–06–28