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Preservation Access Program Recipients Summer/Fall 2016
The Preservation Access Program is about to end its third consecutive year of continuous support from the National Endowment for the Arts. We’ve been so busy capturing fantastic content from our participants we forgot to announce who they are! Some of our old friends are back, including Charles Woodman, Nancy Meli Walker, and the creators of the upcoming documentary on Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, and we’ve made some new ones, notably three filmmakers revisiting work they began years ago: Audrey Daniel, Jim Culp, and Susana Aikin. Interestingly, there are three collections that consist primarily of ½” open reel [...]
PAR, SAR, and DAR: Making Sense of Standard Definition (SD) video pixels
By Katherine Frances Nagels It’s well-known that while motion picture film has seen many different aspect ratios come and go over its history, video has been defined by just two key aspect ratios: 4:3 for analogue and standard definition (SD) video, and 16:9 for high definition (HD) video. Simple, right? Yes—but underlying this are some aspect ratios that are not so straightforward: those of the video pixels themselves. These days, we are very used to thinking of each pixel in an image or video being the same width and height, i.e., square—and this is indeed the case for the vast [...]
These 5 Tips won’t win you a Tony but they could land you the job
A skilled performer seizes the opportunity to practice before taking their act to the stage by going over the script, meditating for focus, and perfecting techniques to connect with their audience. The same goes for the art of job interviewing; practice can make things pretty close to perfect. Last month, jobseekers from the TechSF program benefitted from participating in a mock interview event with members from the LinkedIn Sales Solutions Team. After the one-on-one mock interviews took place, the group gathered for a debrief session to hear from the LinkedIn team about tips on interviews based on what they observed. [...]
QCSchool: Embedding QCTools in an automated digitization workflow
By Peter Bubestinger As our open-source, video analyzation software, QCTools continues to evolve, we’ve been talking to users around the world about how they use the versatile application in their specialized workflows. Peter Bubestinger is a digital archivist who has worked with many cultural heritage institutions including Austrian Mediathek (Österreichische Mediathek), the country’s national audio/video archive. Peter is a notable contributor and user of QCTools and recently I asked him if he could describe for us how QCTools is used in conjunction with Mediathek’s innovative digitization workflow system, DVA-Profession, for which he also serves as a lead developer. - Kelly Haydon [...]
WHY ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL VIDEO PRESERVATION, WHY NOW.
How I Learned (Almost) Everything I Know About ½” Video from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr by Moriah Ulinskas, Former Director of Preservation Originally published October 5th, 2011 Early this year I received a call from the librarian of Manchester University, a small, faith-based university, regarding a video recording they wanted to have preserved and transferred to an archival digital file. The video was a ½” video reel which had been in the school library for 40 years and had been unplayable for almost as long. I work in the video preservation program at BAVC Media, one of the only not-for-profit video preservation programs [...]
Change is good.
Technology workers are making their own rules in the workplace. They involve much more flexibility, mobility and autonomy than ever before. If you work in the technology industry, chances are that you are either looking for work or soon will be. Whether you’ve just landed a new job or been with your company for ten years, a move to another position is undoubtedly in your future. According to PayScale's 2015 employee turnover report, the employee turnover rate among Fortune 500 companies in the tech industry is the highest among all industries surveyed with the average employee tenure being estimated at [...]
Employers and the Informational Interview
There are countless articles out there touting the benefits to job-seekers of conducting informational interviews to advance their career. For the job-seeker, informational interviews can be a great research tool to learn more about a profession, or a company in which they might be interested. They can build their networks. They might even get a lead on a job prospect. There are surely lots of potential benefits for the person seeking the interview, but employers, or the people giving the interview, might think – what's in it for me? Can I get 30 minutes of your time? When one of [...]
Meet Amber Pope and Law Buddy
Amber Pope came to the University of California, Santa Cruz wanting to be an accountant but soon realized that her Economics major wasn’t adding up. Looking for summer opportunities in line with her switch to Sociology, Pope applied to BAVC Media’s Bridges Fellowship on the recommendation of one of her professors.
