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
• FIAF, the International Federation of Film Archives
• IASA, the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives
• 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
• AEC Film Preservation Workshop, 19–23 June 2017, Salaya, Thailand
• Film Preservation and Restoration Workshop India 2017, 7–14 October 2017, Chennai, India

Publication

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

Training

• 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]
• Data Migration, Our Fremeny, «The Reel Thing XLII» at the AMIA Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, on 29 November – 2 December 2017 [en]
• Chimica nel restauro. Conservazione e trattamento di film e nastri magnetici and Laboratorio digitale, L’Immagine Ritrovata, 15–19 January 2018 in Bologna, Italy [it]
• Data Migration, Our Fremeny, «Restoration Asia V» at the SEAPAVAA Conference in Bangkok, Thailand, on 7–12 April 2018 [en]
• Open Source for Archivists, a two-day workshop at «AV Archiving Beyond Boundaries», the SEAPAVAA Conference in Bangkok, Thailand, on 7–12 April 2018 [en]
• Programming of Colour Look-up Tables, workshop at «Sharing», the FIAF Conference in Prague, Czech Republic, on 22–27 April 2018 [en]
• Laboratorio di restauro e archiviazione digitale del film e del video, Università degli Studi di Udine, 7–11 May 2018 in Gorizia, Italy [it]

Tweets

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