Digital Media Restoration (Audio-Visual only)

New dates to be confirmed. Please contact us to express an interest in future dates.

Aim

Analogue media deteriorates at an alarming rate and few digitisation projects can hope to retrieve great signals from aged collections. In order to archive maximum usefulness some basic digital remastering is often required. Fortunately, today's digital tools mean we can easily remove unwanted 'defects' whether hisses and scratches from shellac discs or the distorted colours of old videotapes

N.B. This course covers digital restoration of audio-visual resources only. It does not cover restoration of still images

Audience

This course is aimed at digitisation departments and specially funded digitisation projects. It is expected that attendees will have collection management or technical backgrounds although the content has many other potential applications.

Content

• Introduction to digital restoration
• The anatomy of analogue media
• Examples of common analogue 'defects'
• Practical restoration tasks
• To restore or not to restore?
• Remastering in the digitisation workflow

Dates and locations

• New dates to be confirmed. Please contact us to express an interest in future dates.

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Tags: analogue collections | digitisation | restoration | sound recordings | video |

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