The Academy Digital Preservation Forum

Welcome to a new online community dedicated to advancing the art and science of motion picture digital preservation! We invite you to explore original content, curated resources from preservation-minded organizations, and a brand-new, moderated discussion forum that we hope will inform, inspire, and lead to collaborative advancements in digital preservation of motion pictures.

Filmmaker Perspective: Debra Granik

Director Debra Granik and cinematographer Michael McDonough discuss the evolution of digital filmmaking reflected in their twenty-year collaboration.
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Why Well-Transferred Magnetic Masters Still Sound Wrong

Sound expert and Endpoint Audio Labs founder Nicholas Bergh takes a deep dive into the "secret world" of Hollywood frequency standards prior to the 1980s.

Practical Cloud Archive

The ETC’s Archive Working Group has released a new white paper, Practical Cloud Archive, an exploration of digital asset preservation challenges.

Digital Preservation and the Consumer

A number of questions arise out of the need for digital preservation to maintain its relevance in today’s file-based, fast-paced environment as the entertainment industry seeks to continue supporting the delivery of digital content to clients and customers.

Our Preservation Pillars

Our mission is to be a forum for exchanging information, exploring innovative ideas, and developing best practices and tools. We see these as largely falling within three underlying areas of importance, which we refer to as our preservation pillars.

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Featured Discussion Topics

Linda Tadic

Data Storage Media and Digital Preservation: Today and The Future

Andrea Kalas sits down with Digital Bedrock CEO Linda Tadic to discuss potential solutions to a looming digital preservation calamity.

Moving Images as Supertexts

Sam Gustman, Chief Technology Officer of USC’s Shoah Foundation, discusses the many lessons he has learned in the digital preservation space.

Andrea Kalas

Total Cost of Ownership

Andrea Kalas, SVP of Asset Management at Paramount Pictures, shares lessons she has learned implementing new archival preservation standards.

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Introduction to the Genetic Archive

This essay presents a proposal for a new approach to motion picture archiving, saving only the minimal original elements and recipes for their reconstruction.

Events

DAM Los Angeles 2023

Community Events

DAM Los Angeles 2023

Conference devoted to The Art and Practice of Managing Digital Media: Real-world case studies, interactive panels, workshops, roundtables and tutorials.

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Community Events

2023 FIAF Congress

The next FIAF Congress will be hosted by the Filmoteca UNAM and will take place in Mexico City from 16-21 April 2023. The provisional title of the symposium is "Mujeres en la modernización de los archivos cinematográficos / Women in the Modernization of Film Archives."