How to Preserve

It will be hard to forget how analog film sound technologies and techniques influenced our modern sound postproduction workflow after reading another whitepaper from Endpoint Audio Labs founder Nicholas Bergh. This dive into on-set sound recording and finishing workflows recounts the origins of both the technology and the methods of the analog era and how…

By Alejandra Espasande Bouza Dedicated to the unsung heroes of audio preservation and restoration Film preparation work bench with brittle and warped “Clear Edge” 35mm magnetic film Chace Audio  My first job after graduating from the UCLA Moving Image Archive Studies program was at Chace Audio, a world-renowned post-production house that serviced Hollywood studios and…

Featured image taken from The Miracle of Todd-AO, 1958 Why do well-transferred magnetic sound recording masters still sometimes sound “wrong” or fail to match a reference release print? In a new white paper on the subject, sound expert and Endpoint Audio Labs founder Nicholas Bergh takes a deep dive into the “secret world” of Hollywood…

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

IMF is a standardized structure and file format for the interchange, storage, and delivery of audiovisual masters.