Current Training Courses

We have a particular commitment to the dissemination of audiovisual conservation and restoration techniques among friends, colleagues, scholars, students and any interested person.

We also invest a large amount of time and money in open-source projects, which we believe are beneficial for the archival community.

That said, we are very unhappy that our generosity is often betrayed, as many of our materials are distributed without naming their origin. Increasingly, others are even shamelessly claiming authorship of our work, which is just disgusting behaviour. And that’s the very reason why some resources are no longer freely available, but have been moved to a password-protected area.

Tutorials

Beginner Level

• COBOL Essentials, a two half-day course in Autumn 2026 [en]

Advanced Level

• Advanced FFmpeg Workshop, possibly at Lichtspiel in Bern, probably in Autumn 2026 [en]

Seminars

• Moving Beyond Inertia: Manufacturing of Archive Film Scanners from 3 to 7 August 2026 [en]
• Beyond Reason: Chemical Treatments and Alchemy of Last Resort from 16 to 20 November 2026 [en]

Lectures

• No More Time to Waste, mid-October 2026 [en]
• The Path from Analogue to Digital, for the SEAPAVAA Fellows Lecture Series AV Archiving: Do We Still Need Vaults?, online in 2026 [en]
• Blurriness Was Photogenic: A Personal and Technical Memoir, on 27 June 2027 [en]

Reports from the Field

• From a CPU-based render farm to a GPU-based render farm, on 5 June 2026 [en]
• “Bash on [Ubuntu on] Windows”, on 2 August 2026 [en]
• Apple’s past and present hardware ProRes encoding, on 30 October 2026 [en]

2026-06-02