MediaArea presents at AMIA Ashley Blewer and Dave Rice represented MediaConch at the 2015 Association of Moving Image Archivists in Portland, together with Erwin Verbruggen from the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. The group spoke on Friday afternoon during the session "Validate Your Digital Assets: PREFORMA, MediaConch and File Compliance." Erwin introduced the European Commission-supported… [continue]
MediaArea presents at FIAT/IFTA On October 8, Tessa Fallon presented on FFV1 as a representative of the PREFORMA/MediaArea team at the Fédération Internationale des Archives de Télévision / The International Federation of Television Archives (FIAT/IFTA) World Conference in Vienna. The theme of the conference was "Audiovisual Culture, a bridge to the future"--what better illustration of future… [continue]
MediaConch Newsletter No. 2 (2 Nov 2015) Hello! Welcome to the MediaConch Newsletter. Here we’ll be providing regular updates on all aspects of MediaConch. MediaConch is part of the PREFORMA (PREServation FORMAts for culture information/e-archives) project, co-funded by the European Commission under the FP7-ICT programme. Learn more about MediaConch here. MediaConch Release Notes October’s release… [continue]
The MediaConch Presentation at IASA In late September, Herman Lewetz of the Österreichische Mediathek presented a paper on behalf of the MediaArea team at the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) 46th Annual Conference in Paris. The presentation focused on ongoing standardization efforts and archival adoption of Matroska and FFV1 and detailed the components of the MediaConch… [continue]
MediaConch Newsletter No. 1 (9 Oct 2015) Hello! Welcome to the MediaConch Newsletter. Here we’ll be providing regular updates on all aspects of the MediaConch project. MediaConch is part of the PREFORMA (PREServation FORMAts for culture information/e-archives) project, co-funded by the European Commission under the FP7-ICT programme. Learn more about MediaConch here. MediaConch Release Notes September’s… [continue]
Announcing MediaTrace: A Comprehensive Architecture Report for AudioVisual Data MediaInfo is pleased to announce the first public release of MediaTrace, a new reporting feature for documenting the structure and contents of digital files with a particular concentration on audiovisual data. A complementary tool of MediaInfo that summarizes a file's significant characteristics, MediaTrace offers comprehensive… [continue]
Interview with Christopher Kummer Date: 12/23/2014 Interviewers: Dave, Jerome, Tessa D: Why does NOA recommend FFV11 for a few large scale projects? C: We were one of the first companies asking for 96khz and 24-bit linear PCM. And that was regarded as crazy. We were quite alone on the market, and now it's become standard. At that time, the BWF extension of the specification was in the hands of a few… [continue]
Interview with Ian Henderson Date: 12/23/2014 Interviewers: Dave, Jerome, Tessa D: Describe your background research into FFV1 and Matroska? I: Collection of HDCam and HDCam SR tapes for one particular job. It was open at the time as to how we were going to transfer these to digital files. Looked at lossy compressions, various other formats, but it seemed if we're going to try and capture as much information… [continue]
Interview with Hermann Lewetz and Peter Bubestinger Date: 12/16/2014 Interviewers: Dave, Erik, Tessa Dave: why did you decide to use FFV1 and not Matroska? Hermann: We started with MXF and jpeg2000, and then we realized we couldn't use these without having machine to write to the format. We didn't want to use a format that was dependent on a vendor. We wanted to use something where we we had access… [continue]
Interview with George Blood Date: 12/16/2014 Interviewers: Dave, Erik E: How is LPCM currently used at your facility? G: We encounter LPCM in a variety of different ways. The most obvious example is when we perform the migration of analog audio recordings. Ninety-nine percent of the time, the analog materials we encounter are migrated to 96kHz/24-bit digital files with LPCM encoded data. In these files… [continue]