Long-term Preservation of Cinematographic Content

With the cessation of analogue film as distribution medium for cinematographic content, its use as a storage medium was also abandoned. This created new challenges in the long-term preservation of cinema movies - now in its digital form. AMPAS drew attention to this in the two reports “The Digital Dilemma” in 2007 and 2012. — While storage capacities have continued to grow and are no longer the biggest problem, the increasing variety but also the rapid obsolescence of digital formats remains a hot topic. For this reason, a new European standard has been developed to address this issue. This paper presents the requirements, considerations and solutions discussed during the standardization project. It explains the system architecture, formats, and elements of a “preservation package” and the criteria for selecting specific metadata within the new standard.

Published

2023-10

Content type

Original Research

Keywords

Long-term preservation, metadata, DCP, file formats

DOI

10.5594/M001997

ISBN

978-1-61482-964-5