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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 to the newest digital 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 & distibution

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 content to new media 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.

Organizing and proper categorization of large-scale media projects are essential if you want to easily manage and use your library of assets. Aldis’ professional archivists gather all the bits of information about the media and enter them into a customized database. This allows you to search and retrieve your collection as easily as using Google.

Accessibility

Assests ready to be used and no longer collect dust.

Legacy assets require storage that takes up space and if that space is off-site can be expensive. They are also not usable because their media formats are hard to access because players are not common or available so you can’t easily see or use what you have. Digitizing legacy assets frees organizations up from the space use/costs of storing the physical assets while making them easily usable and accessible.

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

DVCPro 

 VHS 

Betacam-SP 

 DVCPro-HD

SVHS

Digital Betacam 

XDCAM 

DAT Audio Tape 

HDCam 

XDCAM-HD 

DA-98 Multi-track 

HDCam-SR 

Hi-8 

Audio CAssette 

D2 

Digital-8 

DVD Video 

D5 

HDV 

Blu-Ray 

DVCam 

1-inch Type-C 

 1/4" 2-track w/TC 

 

Umatic 3/4" 

 

 Betacam

 Hi-8

Betacam-SP 

Digital-8 

Digital Betacam 

HDV 

HDCam 

1-inch Type-C 

HDCam-SR 

Umatic 3/4" 

D2 

VHS 

D5 

SVHS 

DVCam 

 DAT Audio Tape

DVCPro 

DA-98 Multi-track 

DVCPro-HD 

Audio Cassette 

XDCam 

DVD Video 

XDCAM-HD 

Blu-Ray 

 

 1/4" 2-track w/TC

Betacam

D2

XDCAM

1" Type-C

DA-98 Multi-track

Betacam-SP

D5

XDCAM-HD

Umatic 3/4"

Audio Cassette

Digital Betacam

DVCam

Hi-8

VHS

DVD Video

HDCam

DVCPro

Digital-8

SVHS

Blu-Ray

HDCam-SR

DVCPro-HD

HDV

DAT Audio Tape

1/4" 2-track w/TC

Why Experience Matters

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

Ready to digitize and leverage your legacy?