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Preserve your legacy media

Every media collection has value: historical, cultural, even monetary. Aldis is in the business of helping our clients protect and extract maximum value out of their legacy media.

We can help

Analog assets deteriorate over time, and even digital assets need to be upgraded with the newest technologies, or risk becoming completely obsolete. We can work with you to develop a process that works for you, and ensure your media is preserved, cataloged, and available to use.

Ready to digitize and leverage your legacy?

Organization & distribution

Inventory

Understanding your media collection.

The first step in creating a media preservation plan is to quantify the media collection. A small team will come onsite and examine the physical assets. We’ll take a complete inventory of the media formats while making an initial condition assessment. We’ll then create a working plan and budget for the initial digital ingest, cataloging and archiving of the library. A budget for ongoing preservation and secure access will also be created.

Digital Ingest

Preserving your assets in the highest-quality digital form.

Aldis’ media experts will transfer each piece of media into digitized content, preserving every tiny last detail. The goal is to get as perfect a copy of the original as possible. In many cases, this is the last copy that may ever get made, so we apply broadcast network quality controls to make sure we get it right. There’ll be at least three copies created: a high-quality “perfect” copy for future use, a smaller lightweight viewable copy, and a long term storage version for deep archive.

Organization

A collection where everything is in the right place.

Properly organizing your DAM project is essential to managing and sharing digital asset fsrom you DAM system's library in the future. Aldis’ professional archivists gather all the bits of information about your media and enter them into a customized database, allowing you to search and retrieve your collection as easily as using Google.

Accessibility

Assets ready to be used and stop collecting dust.

Legacy assets require storage that takes up space, and if that space is off-site, it can be quite expensive. Their media formats can be hard to access because the requisite players are often no longer available. Digitizing legacy assets frees organizations up from the space use/costs of storing the physical assets while making them easily usable and accessible in a centralized repository.

Secure Access

A safety deposit box for your legacy assets

No matter what level of access you want to your media, security and privacy are always our top concerns. Constructing tight network security and carefully creating user permissions are just the first necessary steps. We make sure that only the people you authorize have access to your valuable media.

Here are our in-house formats

Betacam

DVCAM

 U-matic 3/4"

Betacam SP

DVCPRO

U-matic SP

Digital Betacam

 DVCPRO HD

VHS

Betacam SX

XDCAM

S-VHS

MPEG IMX

XDCAM HD

DAT

ALL Betacam PAL

Hi8

DA-98 Multi-track

 HDCAM

 Digital8

Audio Cassette

 HDCAM SR

Video8

DVD Video

 D2

HDV

 Blu-ray

D5 HD

1" Type C

 1/4" 2-track w/TC

Betacam

 Hi8

Betacam SP

Digital8

Digital Betacam

Video8

Betacam SX

HDV

MPEG IMX

1" Type C

ALL Betacam PAL

U-matic 3/4"

 HDCAM

U-matic SP

HDCAM SR

VHS

D2

S-VHS

D5 HD

DAT

 DVCAM

DA-98 Multi-track

 DVCPROAudio Cassette

DVCPRO HD

DVD Video

XDCAM

Blu-ray

XDCAM HD

1/4" 2-track w/TC

Betacam

HDCAM

D5 HD

HDV

DAT

Betacam SP

HDCAM SR

XDCAM

1" Type C

DA-98 Multi-track

Digital Betacam

D2

XDCAM HD

U-matic 3/4"

Audio Cassette

Betacam SX

DVCAM

Hi8

U-matic SP

DVD Video

MPEG IMX

DVCPRO

Digital8

VHS

Blu-ray

ALL Betacam PAL

DVCPRO HD

Video8

S-VHS1/4" 2-track w/TC

Why Experience Matters

  • Integrated installation of required equipment
  • Aldis MAM Archivists trained in library sciences
  • Library of Congress standards of archiving and organization
  • Ongoing DAM system preservation services
  • Lossless ingest of multiple formats
  • Restoration expertise

Ready to digitize and leverage your legacy?