Our audio-visual engineering studio offer a full service audio and tape video digitising service, supporting families, collections and archives of valuable magnetic tape recordings. Based just outside the beautiful City of Oxford, and with an impressive client base, we are one of the leading experts in digital conversions within the UK.
Working inline with The National Archives Standards, which is recognised for long-term preservation, video files must be created and maintain files in these preservation-quality formats as follows:
By employing sustainable, preservation-quality formats, video tape digitisation will greatly increase the likelihood that content will remain accessible and fully functional into the foreseeable future.
Our company will prepare a preservation copy to be stored for the long-term and for an access copy to make your content readily accessible.
Video preservation copies generally have the following characteristics:
Video access copies generally have the following characteristics:
Files may be delivered on hard drive, digital transfer or flash drive; whichever method you select you should be prepared to make a second, or backup, copy to help ensure the safety of your records.
Acceptable Formats
Acceptable Formats | Format Versions | Codecs | Format Specifications |
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Audio Video Interleaved Format (AVI) |
Uncompressed 4:2:2 | Multimedia Programming Interface and Data Specifications 1.0: ( http://www.kk.iij4u.or.jp/~kondo/wave/mpidata.txt ) |
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QuickTime File Format (MOV) |
Uncompressed 4:2:2 | Apple QuickTime File Format Specification (ISO/IEC 14496-14:2003): ( https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/QuickTime/ QTFF/QTFFPreface/qtffPreface.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40000939) |
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Windows Media Video 9 File Format (WMV) |
9 | VC-1 | Advanced Systems Format (ASF) Specification Revision 01.20.03 Microsoft Corporation December 2004: ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb643323.aspx ) Windows Media Video 9 encoder: ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ff819505 (v=vs.85).aspx ) |
MPEG 4 | H.264 | ISO/IEC 14496-10:2003. Information technology -- Coding of audio-visual objects -- Part 10: Advanced Video Coding (formal name) MPEG-4, Advanced Video Coding: ( http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/ catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=37729 ) |
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MPEG-2 Video (MPEG2) | ISO/IEC 13818-2:2000 Information technology -- Generic coding of moving pictures and associated audio information: Video: ( http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/ catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=31539 ) |
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Material Exchange Format (MXF) | J2K-losslessly-compressed | ST 377-1:2011 Material Exchange Format (MXF) — File Format Specification: ( http://standards.smpte.org/content/ 978-1-61482-517-3/st-377-1-2011/ SEC1.abstract?sid=63bac43b-e0e1-40a3-8019-d379a103987e ) ISO/IEC 15444-1:2004Information technology -- JPEG 2000 image coding system: Core coding system: ( http://www.iso.org/iso/ catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=37674 ) |