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]