Re: Long term archiving of VMS stuff

JF Mezei wrote:
While watching a documentary on the antics of a certain famous british
secret agent, there was an extra portion on the DVD that described the
restoration efforts to take the 1960s celluoids and restore them to
modern picture quality standards.

BTW, it may have been Ursula Andress' body, but they dubbed her voice
with an english actress due to Ursula's accent not being right. Same
with many of the movies about that secret agent. (The actor playing
Goldfinger could barely speak english).


They scanned each frame at 4000*3000 pixel resolution. The raw scanned
footage was then stored in a very large disk far with lots of Mac
servers doing the image processing to restore colour, remove scratches
etc etc.

What they do is then store the results on disk. Takes the disks in a
special padded suitcase, stored in a vault. Then they mention that
every few years they have to go back and copy the data from the older
disk to newer ones to ensure data integrity. In essence, disk drives
are now being used in lieu of 9track tapes, TK50s DLT, 8mm, DAT and
whatever other tape media exists.

And everty few years, they copy it onto a newer generation drive. So
if there is to be new disk interfaces, they then switch at a time
where both old and noew interfaces co-exist.

One of my best friends does restorations for a profession here in Europe -
his most recent project film is a famous Segrio L. film.

All the frames are exposed back onto a positive image using a rather special
laser camera device thingy and rather special film.
All restorations are also stored on digital tape - every last bit.

Apparently one of the big problems is scanning the old films, because they
are literally hand spliced, and every splice has 4 frames of sellotape, and
this causes the scanner to "bump" during scanning and also ruin the focus
and color - screwing the frame scans.

I am not too sure about JFs quoted resolution - that is somewhat higher than
the number I seem to recall. But if you really want to know, I can find out.

Oh, these guys (who are well known in the industry) do not have a Mac in the
place - everything is some breed of *ix with proprietary software.

Dr. Dweeb


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