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The “Reports from the Field” Series

Over the years we have held forty-eight one-hour technical meetings on various audio-visual conservation and restoration topics.

2026

  1. Apple’s past and present hardware ProRes encoding, on 30 October 2026
  2. “Bash on [Ubuntu on] Windows”, on 2 August 2026
  3. From a CPU-based render farm to a GPU-based render farm, on 5 June 2026
  4. Soviet 1-inch SECAM video variants on 15 May 2026

2025

  1. Apple and FireWire: What does the post-FireWire era mean for the archive? on 9 October 2025
  2. Running GS/OS and GNO/ME on Apple IIgs. For example: Pascal, Рапира and HyperCard on 12 September 2025
  3. “Me at the zoo” on 23 April 2025
  4. Playing with FFmpeg, OpenVINO and TensorFlow on 28 March 2025
  5. HyperCard integration into QuickTime on 21 Febrary 2025

2024

  1. Ten years of film scanner design and manufacturing on 6 December 2024
  2. Bayer or not Bayer, that is not the question on 6 September 2024
  3. Once again on the ProRes flavours on 19 April 2024
  4. Video conversion and transcoding nightmares on 5 April 2024
  5. Deep machine learning applied to moving image restoration: Lessons learned over seven years on 15 March 2024
  6. Working with multispectral moving images: Lessons learned over seven years on 1 March 2024
  7. Mass digitisation of 2-inch Quadruplex videotape on 16 February 2024

2023

  1. RAWcooked in action on 21 April 2023
  2. Can we still call it restoration? on 24 March 2023
  3. Mass digitisation of 1-inch Type C videotape on 3 March 2023
  4. File and data restoration on 20 January 2023

2022

We were unable to organize a meeting.

2021

  1. The MovIm video codec on 20 August 2021
  2. How to keep running Flash after 2020-12-31 on 19 March 2021
  3. Why not open-source hardware? A do-it-yourself LTO cartridge library on 5 March 2021
  4. Preparing the migration from LTO-6 to LTO-8 on 22 January 2021

2020

  1. A fourth glimpse of RAWcooked on 18 December 2020
  2. Running A/UX on the Macintosh II family on 25 September 2020
  3. Running CP/M and Pascal on Apple II, II Plus and IIe on 18 September 2020
  4. Emulating Soviet and Bulgarian Apple II clones on 11 September 2020
  5. Restoring films as if they were videos. For example: Dufaycolor on 6 March 2020
  6. A third glimpse of RAWcooked on 21 February 2020 [de fr]

2019

  1. Working beyond RGB on 14 June 2019
  2. Using Bayer-filter sensors to digitise films at full RGB 24 May 2019
  3. From the past to the future of moving images conservation and restoration on 13 April 2019
  4. What is QuickTime? And what does the post-QuickTime era mean for the archive? on 18 January 2019

2018

  1. Working with multispectral moving images on 28 September 2018
  2. Y′COCG for fun and profit on 22 June 2018
  3. A second glimpse of RAWcooked on 8 June 2018
  4. A walk through ProRes flavours on 3 May 2018
  5. A first glimpse of RAWcooked on 9 February 2018 [de fr]

2017

We were unable to organize a meeting.

2016

We were unable to organize a meeting.

2015

  1. The Electronic Video Recording (EVR) system developed by CBS: History and preservation on 22 May 2015
  2. The 32 mm format (double 16 mm): History and preservation on 6 March 2015
  3. The monochromatic separations by Éclair: History and preservation on 6 February 2015

2014

  1. Managing and running a 5.7 PB digital archive on 7 April 2014
  2. Digitisation of heavy vinegar syndrome affected film reels on 5 March 2014

2013

  1. Practical approaches to born-digital video archiving on 21 May 2013

2012

We were unable to organize a meeting.

2011

  1. Ethical issues and quality control in the digital era on 11 July 2011
  2. Re-plasticising of cellulose diacetate film base on 30 May 2011
  3. Mould fungus removal and re-plasticising of a water damaged 16 mm film on 9 May 2011

2026-05-21