The Offset Podcast EP048: Dealing With Archival Part 1

Productions of all types and sizes often rely on archival and stock footage, but not all archival is created equal and some content can be wrought with issues. While its easy to just to say 'inherent to source' and ignore issues with these types of sources, a lot of problems can be addressed in a pretty straight forward manner.

In this episode we're starting a two part series on dealing with archival sources and how to get them looking their best. We'll start out in this show exploring general issues with archival and stock and then explore film originated archival issues - issues you'll often encounter and ways to address them. In part 2, we'll focus on video orginated specific challenges.

In this episode some of the specifics we'll discuss include:

• Big picture issues with archival - aspects ratios, resolution, and codecs/containers
• Managing texture and grain with film orginated archival
• Film restoration toolsets
• Pulldown cadence issues and repeated frames
• Additional problems with film orginated archival sources - gate weave, color layer separation etc

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