Ever wish you could magic the metadata from a folder full of AV files into a nice CSV file? Well this blog will hopefully get you to that point, using MediaInfo software to extract metadata from your media files, and cutting it up in Python before writing to CSV.
Finding the deepest AV metadata with MediaConch and MediaTrace
This year there have been two MediaConch projects that have taught me a great deal about writing policies. Both have required using Media Area's MediaTrace, a feature you can only use when manually writing your XML policies.
The Case of the Failing Framemd5…
The BFI National Archive SD video tape workflow transcodes and stores captured video tape as FFV1 matroska files, ingesting them into the Digital Preservation Infrastructure for long-term preservation. FFV1 is a losslessly compressed video codec now a standard for many SD video tape archives around the world. Sadly, producers of non linear editing software have … Continue reading The Case of the Failing Framemd5…
Open source scripts from the BFI National Archive
I wanted to share a few GitHub repositories which have been created during my first several months as Collections and Information Developer at the BFI's National Archive...
Archiving, Demuxing and Ripping Optical Media Discs
Optical media is also listed as ‘Critically Endangered’ in the DPC Bit List, so discussions about approaches for disc preservation are very important...
Rescaling Video with FFmpeg
Recently I led an open-source workshop in India, where concerned students asked questions about rescaling SD video tape to HD, or SD upscaling for DCP creation! They were hopeful I knew of open-source workflows/tools already in existence that do this. So I thought I'd write a post about rescaling with FFmpeg and share some commands … Continue reading Rescaling Video with FFmpeg
RAWcooked cheat sheat
No Time To Wait 6 is only days away, and I've finally found a few minutes to create my first ever cheat sheet! Of course it has to be for MediaArea's RAWcooked, but no basic operation as I feel the help and man pages of RAWcooked more than cover this kind of helpful information. This … Continue reading RAWcooked cheat sheat
Conference literature drop!
I've had a little time to upload some recent conference literature including videos and PDFs so thought I'd share them here in case they are helpful, newest to oldest. I hope to have more content available in the not to distant future, watch this space! RAWcooked DPX Workflows at the BFI National Archive: Reviewing two … Continue reading Conference literature drop!
Using bash scripts to automate #AVpres workflows
I'm editing, writing and running bash scripts to automate mass RAWcooked preservation of 3PB worth of DPX sequences. Using bash scripts with cron scheduling is a new experience for me, so it feels like another excellent opportunity to share my steps and help someone else along.
The NTTW Effect: Dispatches from Budapest
The dust has settled following another brilliant No Time To Wait (NTTW) conference which took place during a snowy week in Budapest, scheduled to coincide with the 17th birthday of Matroska on December 6th. This is the fourth year the conference has taken place, launching in Berlin in 2016, 2017 in Vienna, and 2018 at … Continue reading The NTTW Effect: Dispatches from Budapest
For the love of FOSS 