This video delves into the technical challenges of migrating data from HDV videotape. Having a different format standard than MiniDV, many open-source toolsets geared towards capturing DV content are incompatible with HDV, leaving archivists to rely on unsupported, proprietary tools. This session will explore a case study of a large-scale video migration project carried out by the USC Digital Repository involving oral history interviews from the Television Academy Foundation captured in HDV. The Foundation’s Interviews collection includes 940 interviews spanning over 3,000 hours of cataloged and publicly accessible first-hand accounts of television industry pioneers and professionals. Read more about the preservation project here.
View the presentation from the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) 2023 Annual Conference here.