Software ⁽¹³⁾

One of the particular challenges of video preservation is how to handle and preserve the content on digital tape formats from the latter days of magnetic A/V media: Digital Betacam, DVCam, DVCPro, etc. Caught in the nebulous time of transition between analog and digital signals…

Take two! In December, I hastily wrote an update to an old post about BagIt, the Library of Congress' open-source specification for hierarchical packaging of files to support safe data storage and transfer. The primary motivation for the update was some issues that the Video…

Normally my focus as MIAP Technician is on classroom support for courses in the MIAP M.A. curriculum - but, as a staff member of the wider NYU Cinema Studies department, there are occasionally cases where I can assist non-MIAP Cinema Studies courses with a need…

Early this summer, the department learned a development proposal we had submitted to improve MIAP's computer hardware was successfully funded. This was excellent news - our video digitization stations were not the only piece of equipment that had started lagging a bit and creating choke…

In the primary MIAP lab we have four Mac Pro stations set up mainly for video digitization and capture. They get most heavily used during our two Video Preservation courses: Video Preservation I, which focuses on technical principles and practice of digitization from analog video…