TRANSFER AND TECHNICAL SERVICES

Video Ark
4 Glenfield Road
Ealing
London W13 9JZ
Tel: 020 8840 6293
Email: video.ark@talk21.com
freespace.virgin.net/greg.taylor1/videoark/
Video Ark, a small London business, specialises in the recovery of material from obsolete video and audiotape.  They will transfer to and from any video format.

The Machine Room
54 - 58 Wardour Street
London W1D 4JG
Tel: 020 7734 3433
www.themachineroom.co.uk
The Machine Room offers a variety of technical services including transfer, telecine and other digital encoding and asset management.

ontodvd
12 Carmyle Avenue
Mount Vernon
Glasgow G32 8HJ
Tel: 0141 588 0745
Fax: 0141 588 0735
www.ontodvd.com
Email: sales@ontodvd.com
ontodvd.com is a small Glasgow based company that repair, telecine and transfer from and onto video.

Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC)
www.bavc.org/classes/dvd/preservation.htm
The non-profit, San Francisco based preservation centre sell a DVD entitled PLAYBACK: Preserving Analog video.  This guides users through the complex decisions and technical procedures behind preserving and reconstructing analogue artist video.  There is information about the DVD at the BAVC website link above.

INFORMATION LINKS

The Association of Moving Image Archivists provide a series of video preservation fact sheets, written by Jim Wheeler with Pete Brothers.  These are clearly laid out and contain a lot of information.
www.amianet.org/publication/resources/guidelines/videofacts/about.html

For more explanation and information about Time Codes, see www.sfu.ca/sca/Manuals/ZAAPf/t/time_code.html