Current Training Courses

We have a particular commitment to the dissemination of audio-visual conservation and restoration techniques among friends, colleagues, scholars, students and any interested person.

We also invest a large amount of time and money in open-source projects, which we believe are beneficial for the archival community.

That said, we are very unhappy that our generosity is often betrayed, as many of our materials are distributed without naming their origin. Increasingly, others are even shamelessly claiming authorship of our work, which is just disgusting behaviour. And that’s the very reason why some resources are no longer freely available, but have been moved to a password-protected area.

Tutorials

Intermediate Level

• FFmpeg-Aufbaukurs, one-day Memoriav workshop in Bern on 16 March 2026 [de]
• Cours avancé de FFmpeg, one-day Memoriav workshop in Bern on 20 March 2026 [fr]

Advanced Level

• Descendants of ALGOL, a two half-day course on 28 and 30 October 2025 [en]
• Analoge und digitale Filmkonservierung und -restaurierung at Hochschule der Künste Bern on 12 November 2025 [de]
• FFmpeg-Workshop at Hochschule der Künste Bern on 7 May 2026 [de]

Lectures

• “File Size and Checksums” and “From Analogue to Digital #314159”, two lightning talks for No Time to Wait 9 at the National Library of Ireland in Dublin from 15 to 17 October 2025 [en]
• Analoge und digitale Filmkonservierung und -restaurierung at Hochschule der Künste Bern on 23 October 2025 [de]
• The Path from Analogue to Digital, for the SEAPAVAA Fellows Lecture Series AV Archiving: Do We Still Need Vaults? in Autumn or Winter 2025–2026 [en]
• On the Environmental Impact of Audio-Visual Files, submitted to the Joint Technical Symposium (JTS) at the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia in Canberra on 3 and 4 March 2026 [en]

Reports from the Field

• Apple and FireWire: What does the post-FireWire era mean for the archive? on 9 October 2025 [en]

2025-09-25