Selecting a Digital File Format for France's Professional Television Archive

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Publisher: SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
Doc Type: Journal Article
Content Type: Original Research
Volume: 121, No. 1, pp. 51–59
Abstract: More than ten years after the launch of its massive preservation and digitization plan, and after several months of studies and experimentation, Ina, Institut National de l'Audiovisuel-France, has opted for JPEG 2000 as the master file format for its professional television archives. This strategic decision will cause the institute to convert its technical system for managing digital archives and to migrate several hundred thousand hours of TV program masters currently stored on Digital Betacam. This will have a huge impact. Ina, which currently has 800,000 hr of digitized archives, will put the first JPEG 2000 transfer lines into service by the end of 2011. It will take three years to convert the entire technical system to JPEG 2000, and another four to six years to complete the migration of the programs stored on digital beta. During this transitional period, the current and future formats will co-exist. The following paper explains the reasons and methodology that led to this choice and the way it is being implemented.
Publication Date: 2012-02-01
DOI: 10.5594/j18136
ISSN: Print: 1545-0279 | Electronic: 2160-2492
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/j18136
Author(s): Jean Varra
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Jean Varra is in charge of the technical evolution of the archives at Ina, where he has managed the preservation and digitization plan of the audio visual archives since 2003. — Varra also participates in the international activities of Ina. He has led several missions with objectives to assess audiovisual holdings, to advice and to evaluate the solutions for various televisions and institutions in various countries such as TSR in Switzerland, RTS in Serbia, EPTV in Algeria, and MOCI in Saudi Arabia.
Copyright: © 2012 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.

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