2026 Training Courses

Tutorials

Beginner Level

• Einführung in FFmpeg, one-day workshop at the Lichtspiel in Bern on 12 February 2026 [de]
• Initiation à FFmpeg, one-day workshop at the Lichtspiel in Bern on 13 February 2026 [fr]
• COBOL Essentials, a two half-day course in Autumn 2026 [en]

Intermediate Level

• FFmpeg-Aufbaukurs, one-day Memoriav workshop in Bern on 16 March 2026 [de]
• Cours avancé de FFmpeg, one-day Memoriav workshop in Bern on 20 March 2026 [fr]
• Medienkunst: Technologie und Erhaltungsstrategien III at the Akademie der bildenden Künste in Vienna, Austria, on 27 and 28 May 2026 [de]
• Open-Source Tools and Resources for Audio-Visual Archives at Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola in Donostia (San Sebastián), in Spring 2026 [en]

Advanced Level

• FFmpeg-Workshop at Hochschule der Künste Bern on 6 May 2026 [de]
• Advanced FFmpeg Workshop, possibly at Lichtspiel in Bern, probably in Autumn 2026 [en]

Seminars

• Moving Beyond Inertia: Manufacturing of Archive Film Scanners from 3 to 7 August 2026 [en]
• Beyond Reason: Chemical Treatments and Alchemy of Last Resort from 16 to 20 November 2026 [en]

Lectures

• L’impossibile successione at Vom Wissensaustausch zum Generationenwechsel / De l’échange de connaissances au changement de génération / Dallo scambio di conoscenze al ricambio generazionale by SKR/SCR in Bellinzona on 28 February 2026 [it]
• On the Environmental Impact of Audio-Visual Files for the Joint Technical Symposium (JTS) at the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia in Canberra on 3 and 4 March 2026 [en]
• Was können wir überhaupt noch bewahren? at the Akademie der bildenden Künste in Vienna, Austria, on 28 May 2026 [de]
• No More Time to Waste, on 16 October 2026 [en]
• On the Environmental Impact of Audio-Visual Files the IASA–BAAC Joint Conference 2026 at the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania in Vilnius from 19 to 22 October 2026 [en]
• The Path from Analogue to Digital, for the SEAPAVAA Fellows Lecture Series AV Archiving: Do We Still Need Vaults?, online in 2026 [en]

Reports from the Field

• Soviet 1-inch SECAM video variants on 15 May 2026 [en]
• From a CPU-based render farm to a GPU-based render farm on 5 June 2026 [en]
• “Bash on [Ubuntu on] Windows” on 2 August 2026 [en]
• Apple’s past and present hardware ProRes encoding on 30 October 2026 [en]
• Ten years of the “de-restorer” utility, on 3 December 2026 [en]
• The FFV1 video codec in practice, on 17 December 2026 [en]

Internships

We were pleased to welcome eight colleagues, as well as to mentor online three colleagues and two students.

Publications

• Reto Kromer: «The FFV1 Video Codec in Practice: Oppurtunities and Challenges» [provisional title], in Keep it Safe! The Sustainability of Italian Film Heritage

Patronage of the Arts and the Sciences

• AMIA, the Association of Moving Image Archivists
• FIAF, the International Federation of Film Archives
• IASA, the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives
• No Time to Wait: the 10^th edition will take place at Filmoteka Narodowa – Instytut Audiowizualny (FINA) in Warsaw, Poland, from 14 to 16 October 2026

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