Online/Virtual Event
Wednesday, December 1st 2021 from 4:00pm
to 5:00pm
See a recording of this webinar here.
Videotape (and audiotape) preservation is all about equipment: sourcing equipment, getting the right equipment for the formats you’re digitizing, paying attention to how your equipment is functioning, repairing or finding experts to repair equipment for you, and putting all of these pieces together. In this hour-long webinar, Ben Turkus, audiovisual preservationist and member of the XFR Collective, offers a tour of videotape/audiotape preservation gear, focusing on strategies for creating high quality but super streamlined digitization set-ups.
Topics include:
- Gathering the right gear for your needs
- Overcoming institutional bureaucratic procurement issues
- Determining what gear is essential and what gear would be preferred but optional
- Interoperability issues, particularly between computers and capture cards
- Format-specific considerations
This workshop is designed for librarians, archivists, and community members with some experience with tape-based digitization and access workflows. The instructor focuses on the most prolific formats (VHS, audiocassette, MiniDV) and some other formats as well.
About the presenter:
Benjamin Turkus (he/him) is the Assistant Manager of Audio and Moving Image Preservation at the New York Public Library. He's also an adjunct professor at New York University, where he holds an MA in Moving Image Archiving and Preservation. Previously, he was the Preservation Project Manager at the Bay Area Video Coalition. He is a member of XFR Collective.