2016 Training Courses

Master Courses

• Archéologie et archivage de l’audiovisuel at Université de Lausanne from 4 to 8 January 2016 [fr]
• Conservation et restauration de l’audiovisuel at Université de Lausanne from 20 to 24 June and on 16 July 2016 [fr]

Tutorials

Intermediate Level

• Digitisation of the Film Collection #3 at Sinematek Indonesia in Jakarta, Indonesia, from 12 to 14 March 2016 [en]
• Ein Beitrag zur Identifizierung von Schmalfilmen. Gängige, exotische und kuriose Bild- und Tonverfahren on 27 April 2016 [de]
• Mastering AV Files with FFmpeg at BAVC in San Francisco, California, United States of America, on 1 June 2016 [en]
• Archives in Motion in Tirana, Albania, from 17 to 28 October 2016 [en]
• Playing with FFmpeg’s CLI at the workshop DigiPres102: Programming Basics and Preservation Tools at the AMIA Conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, from 9 to 12 November 2016 [en]

Advanced Level

• Mastering AV Files with Matroska, FFV1 and FFmpeg on 7 October 2016 [en]

Lectures

• Let’s emulate the sound of colours!, keynote speech at Sustainable Audiovisual Collections Through Collaboration (= Joint Technical Symposium (JTS)) in Singapore from 7 to 9 March 2016 [en]
• Kieran O’Leary (Irish Film Archive) and Reto Kromer: FFV1 […] DPX at Standardizing FFV1 and Matroska for Preservation (= No Time to Wait 1) in Berlin, Germany, from 18 to 20 July 2016 [en]
• Kieran O’Leary (Irish Film Archive) and Reto Kromer: Using Матрёшка and FFV1 for DPX Preservation at The Reel Thing XXXVIII in Hollywood, California, United States of America, from 18 to 20 August 2016 [en]
• Sustainable and renewable vault designs, panel Adapt/Survive: Outside the Box. Energy & Conservation Policies, Practices and Methods at the AMIA Conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, from 9 to 12 November 2016 [en]
• MKV/FFV1, ein Archivformat für Video und Film? for Kompetenznetzwerk Video of Memoriav in Bern on 22 November 2016 [de]

Internships

We were pleased to welcome six colleagues and scholars, and one student.

Publications

• Let’s emulate the sound of colours! [en]

Patronage of the Arts and the Sciences

• AMIA, the Association of Moving Image Archivists
• FIAF, the International Federation of Film Archives
• SEAPAVAA, the SouthEast Asia-Pacific AudioVisual Archive Association
• Supported the Albanian Cinema Project (ACP), especially the two-week workshop Archives in Motion (AIM), and the Albanian National Film Archive.
• Implementation of RGB 16-bit handling in FFV1 for both the planar “gbrp16le” and the packed “rgb48” storage patterns by Michael Niedermayer.
• Travel grant for Peter Bubestinger-Steindl, presenter at the Joint Technical Symposium (JTS) in Singapore.

2024-06-17