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...
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
DPX preservation workflow with RAWcooked and fixity checking
Since acquiring a Golden Eye 4 (GE4) scanner here at the Media Archive for Central England (MACE) we've developed a DPX preservation workflow which I've decided to share here, in the hope of feedback and collaboration. Our first DPX scans would be wrapped as uncompressed sequences using 7-Zip in a TAR archive and written to … Continue reading DPX preservation workflow with RAWcooked and fixity checking
AVhackers launches on Zulip Chat
To anyone who has been enjoying the open source audiovisual preservation topics covered in this blog please consider visiting a new Zulip Chat space that myself and a few #AVpres friends have just launched - AVhackers. The purpose of this space is still a little undefined, but I hope above all else it will form … Continue reading AVhackers launches on Zulip Chat
DIY Python microservices in audiovisual preservation workflows
This summer I had an amazing opportunity to work with a Computer Science PhD student for a few days receiving assistance writing and learning Python, resulting in the development of a couple of scripts for the Media Archive for Central England (MACE). I’ve been struggling to work with Python for over a year since discovering … Continue reading DIY Python microservices in audiovisual preservation workflows
For the love of FOSS 