Digital Restoration: Introduction

Motion pictures or Movies and Photographs capture history and culture of a country. They are vital in the depiction of the art, culture, and lifestyles of the past. Many movies produced in 1930’s and 1950’s are deteriorating and run the risk of being lost mainly on account of high humidity, moisture, neglect and poor storage conditions.

Digital Film Restoration:
Digital Film Restoration is the cleaning and preserving of old filmic footage. It is the process of repairing damaged films recorded on any format and presenting a new restored sequence of images in any media.

Digital Archiving:
Digital Archiving is the storage medium for original and master digital files making it easy to manage and monitor them. Online Archiving enables the digital preservation of all your data for the future in a format that is flexible with the changing media environments.

Asset Management:

Asset Management provides a central storage medium for your media archive that provides a convenient distribution channel for your organisation while saving time and effort in searching and locating your material. Furthermore, your assets are more secure and loss proof in this tape-less library. Asset Management also opens up new revenue streams for your organisation with the high demand for Middle East material in the global market.

Digital Restoration and Archiving is a highly specialised process that involves a variety of software required to clean and fix the images. It works on a staged workflow pattern that needs to be dealt by an intensive organization with multiple set-ups capable of churning out large volumes of material. As a result, it requires handling by experts who have the knowledge and proficiency of working with various film formats.