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The “Reports from the Field” Series

Over the years we have held thirty-seven 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′COCG 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 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

2024-02-09