Vintage Cloud

The AI-processing of the digitized films runs deeper. It also identifies all the grey nuances and combined with object identification, automated re-colorization of footage originally captured on black and white film has now become a real and affordable possibility. The required GPU-processing (graphical processing unit) is massive – however it is all a matter of scaling. The results are impressive.

PRESERVATION ECOSYSTEM

AI makes us take it a step further.

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The output from the Vintage Cloud Ecosystem gives you all the requested metadata and a Digital Cinema Package (DCP) which is a collection of digital files to be processed in the piql Ecosystem. They consist of digital cinema audio, video, and data streams.

STRUCTURED METADATA PACKAGE

AIP PACKAGE

Preservation on piqlFilm

(IMF or DCP plus metadata.json)

TV broadcasters are increasingly utilizing this new technology to enhance clips used in documentaries and appeal to a wider audience. The recent movie blockbuster, They Shall Not Grow Old , directed by Peter Jackson , was the result of bringing real, 100-year-old footage of World War 1 back to life. The film’s restoration artists colorized and corrected old silent footage, creating a natural and immersive viewing experience that puts viewers in the shoes of wartime fighters. This was an impressive undertaking and experience.

“Our history is mainly documented in paper and film. Media that is under decay – especially film. The last 150 years of film documentation is deteriorating seriously fast. We need to accelerate our efforts to be able to preserve it and the stories it tells for all future generations. Our actions now will determine much of was posterity will know of this age. The scale of the heritage at risk is enormous. The task of digitizing all the obsolescent film and videotape formats in the world’s collection have already passed

the tipping point where there are not enough workable machines to do the job. We need a paradigm shift in our approach to digitization to rescue the remaining endan gered originals*. Instead of displaying paralysis and helplessness, we need to take action in a broader perspective and engage large-scale mass-digitization projects.”

Excerpts from “Audiovisual Archiving, UNESCO Memory of the World, 2016”

*UNESCO estimates that the World’s volume of audio-visual heritage material worth preserving is exceeding 200 million hours of footage.

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