AEC Film Preservation Workshop

Photograph by Rachael Stoeltje

The AEC Film Preservation Workshop, co-organised by FIAF and the Thai Film Archive, took place from the 19^th to the 23^rd of June 2017 at the Thai Film Archive in Salaya, Thailand.

Lectures

• On Audio-Visual File Formats, PDF, 1.8 MB
• Audio, Television and Video #1: A Brief History of Technology, PDF, 2.0 MB
• Audio, Television and Video #2: Digitisation for Preservation, PDF, 2.8 MB
• Potpourri, PDF, 4.2 MB

Practical Sessions

• Digital Tools #1, PDF, 55 KB
• Used FFmpeg Commands
• FFmpeg Cookbook for Archivists
• Digital Tools #2, PDF, 57 KB

Exercise Files

• Dufaycolor 2K TIFF, ZIP, 1.06 GB, MD5 = c2fdc0fc9290ebaa4757d69fadf3f38c
• Quality Control, ZIP, 1.38 GB, MD5 = d933ed0d2079fa5cfec0009bb2e6c032

Resources

Media Handling

• The Film Preservation Guide. The Basics for Archives, Libraries, and Museums. National Film Preservation Foundation, San Francisco CA 2004
• John W. C. Van Bogart: Magnetic Tape Storage and Handling. A Guide for Libraries and Archives. Commission on Preservation and Access, Washington DC; National Media Laboratory, St. Paul MN June 1995
• Fred R. Byers: Care and Handling of CDs and DVDs. A Guide for Librarians and Archivists. National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg MD 2003

Film Identification

• Brian R. Pritchard: Identifying 16 mm Films. Staffs 2013
• Brian R. Pritchard: Identifying 35 mm Films. Staffs 2011
• Kodak Edge Codes by Code, PDF, 327 KB
• Kodak and Dupont Edge Codes by Year, PDF, 97 KB
• Kodak Edge Codes for 8 mm and 16 mm, PDF, 33 KB
• 16 mm and 8 mm Camera Identification, PDF, 319 KB

Video Identification

• Videotape Identification and Assessment Guide. Texas Commission on the Arts, Austin TX 2004
• AV Artifact Atlas – A resource for identifying errors and anomalies in analog and digital video.

Media Storage

• Peter Z. Adelstein: IPI Media Storage Quick Reference. 2nd Edition. Image Permanence Institute, Rochester NY 2009 (PDF, 2.0 MB)
• Dew Point Calculator. Image Permanence Institute, Rochester NY [2008]
• Environmental Quick Reference. Image Permanence Institute, Rochester NY 2014 (PDF, 488 KB)

AMIA Open Source

• ffmprovisr – Repository of useful FFmpeg command lines for archivists.
• Analog Inspection – List of analog media inspection templates/forms.
• Open Workflows – List of open workflows and resources for audio-visual archiving.
• Time-based media art resources – Resources on the care and preservation of software-based art and media art.
• vrecord – An open-source video capture tool for archivists.
• audiorecorder – A free tool for the calibration and recording of analog audio signals.
• The Cable Bible – A guide to cables and connectors used for audiovisual technicians.
• LTOpers – Scripts for doing stuff with LTFS.

Open-Source Software

• FFmpeg
• MediaInfo (GUI and CLI)
• MediaConch (GUI and CLI)
• QCTools (GUI) and qcli (CLI)
• VLC Media Player

A Proposal

• Reto Kromer: Matroska and FFV1: One File Format for Film and Video Archiving?. In Journal of Film Preservation, n. 96 (April 2017), FIAF, Brussels, Belgium, p. 41–45

Additional Bibliography

• Diana Weynand and Vance Piccin with Marcus Weise: How Video Works. From Broadcast to the Cloud. Third Edition. Focal Press, New York NY and Oxon 2016
• Blain Brown: The Filmmaker’s Guide to Digital Imaging. For Cinematographers, Digital Imaging Technicians and Camera Assistants. Focal Press, New York NY and Oxon 2015

2023-05-26