The “Reports from the Field” Series

Over the years we have held forty-two one-hour technical meetings on various audio-visual conservation and restoration topics.

1. Mould fungus removal and re-plasticising of a water damaged 16 mm film on 9 May 2011
2. Re-plasticising of cellulose diacetate film base on 30 May 2011
3. Ethical issues and quality control in the digital era on 11 July 2011
4. Practical approaches to born-digital video archiving on 21 May 2013
5. Digitisation of heavy vinegar syndrome affected film reels on 5 March 2014
6. Managing and running a 5.7 PB digital archive on 7 April 2014
7. The monochromatic separations by Éclair: History and preservation on 6 February 2015
8. The 32 mm format (double 16 mm): History and preservation on 6 March 2015
9. The Electronic Video Recording (EVR) system developed by CBS: History and preservation on 22 May 2015
10. A first glimpse of RAWcooked on 9 February 2018 [de fr]
11. A walk through ProRes flavours on 3 May 2018
12. A second glimpse of RAWcooked on 8 June 2018
13. Y′C_OC_G for fun and profit on 22 June 2018
14. Working with multispectral moving images on 28 September 2018
15. What is QuickTime? And what does the post-QuickTime era mean for the archive? on 18 January 2019
16. From the past to the future of moving images conservation and restoration on 13 April 2019
17. Using Bayer-filter sensors to digitise films at full RGB 24 May 2019
18. Working beyond RGB on 14 June 2019
19. A third glimpse of RAWcooked on 21 February 2020 [de fr]
20. Restoring films as if they were videos. For example: Dufaycolor on 6 March 2020
21. Emulating Soviet and Bulgarian Apple II clones on 11 September 2020
22. Running CP/M and Pascal on Apple II, II Plus and IIe on 18 September 2020
23. Running A/UX on the Macintosh II family on 25 September 2020
24. A fourth glimpse of RAWcooked on 18 December 2020
25. Preparing the migration from LTO-6 to LTO-8 on 22 January 2021
26. Why not open-source hardware? A do-it-yourself LTO cartridge library on 5 March 2021
27. How to keep running Flash after 2020-12-31 on 19 March 2021
28. The MovIm video codec on 20 August 2021
29. File and data restoration on 20 January 2023
30. Mass digitisation of 1-inch Type C videotape on 3 March 2023
31. Can we still call it restoration? on 24 March 2023
32. RAWcooked in action on 21 April 2023
33. Mass digitisation of Quadruplex videotape on 16 February 2024
34. Working with multispectral moving images: Lessons learned over seven years on 1 March 2024
35. Deep machine learning applied to moving image restoration: Lessons learned over seven years on 15 March 2024
36. Video conversion and transcoding nightmares on 5 April 2024
37. Once again on the ProRes flavours on 19 April 2024
38. Bayer or not Bayer, that is not the question on 6 September 2024
39. Ten years of film scanner design and manufacturing on 6 December 2024
40. HyperCard integration into QuickTime on 31 January 2025
41. Playing with FFmpeg, OpenVINO and TensorFlow on 28 March 2025
42. Running GS/OS and GNO/ME on Apple IIgs. For example: Pascal, Рапира and HyperCard in Autumn 2025

2024-11-28