2016 Training Courses

Master Courses

Option «Archives»

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

Tutorials

Intermediate Level

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

Advanced Level

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

Lectures

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

2019-05-16