Video Preservation ⁽¹⁰⁾

This is a guest post written by Jeff Lauber, based on his paper originally written for a course on “Video Preservation” in NYU’s M.A. program in Moving Image Archiving and Preservation. Jeff is a media archivist based in New York City. He currently works as…

I've always been amused by the way a certain professional field frequently goes out of its way to shout "we don't understand audio" to the world. (Association of Moving Image Archivists, Moving Image Archiving and Preservation, Moving Image Archive Studies, Museum of the Moving Image,…

I know, I hate to break it to you. I'm not thrilled about it either - one of my favorite memories from high school is walking straight up to my Statistics teacher on the last day of senior year and proudly announcing that it was…

In case it's ever unclear, writing these blog posts is as much for me as it is for you, dear reader. Technical audiovisual and digital concepts are hard to wrap your head around, and for a myriad of reasons technical writing is frequently no help.

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…