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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 |
DVCPRO | Audio 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-VHS | 1/4" 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?