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Digital Projection Guide

FIAF Digital Projection Guide

Are you ready for digital projection?

FIAF has published an extension to The Advanced Projection Manual written by Torkell Sætervadet in 2006. This new manual guides film archives and cinémathèques through the topics of D-cinema and digital projection.

Topics include:

- What is D-cinema and what are the alternatives?
- Pixel – the digital picture element
- The DCP format
- Digital projection systems
- 3-D systems
- External digital sources
- Sound for D-cinema
- Choosing the right equipment
- Maintenance and troubleshooting

The FIAF Digital Pojection Guide Projection is sponsored by the Norwegian Film Institute, the Giornate Del Cinema Muto and FIAF.

Release date: 15 December 2012.

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The Advanced Projection Manual

The Advanced Projection Manual is designed to provide cinema engineers and projectionists with the necessary technical know-how and hands-on advice.

The book also includes a much-needed introduction to electronic and digital projection technologies.

The Advanced Projection Manual is published jointly by FIAF and the Norwegian Film Institute.

FIAF/Norsk Filminstitutt, 2005, 266p., color illustrations, 55.00 €

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Technical Manual of the FIAF Preservation Commission

A user's manual on practical film and video preservation procedures containing articles in English and French.

FIAF, 1993, 192p., 66 €

Incl. Physical Characteristics of Early Films as Aid to Identification , 90.00 €

   
Handling, Storage and Transport of the Cellulose Nitrate Film

Guidelines produced with the help of the FIAF Preservation Commission.

FIAF, 1992, 20p., 17.00 €
   

Preservation and Restoration of Moving Image and Sound

A report by the FIAF Preservation Commission,
covering in 19 chapters the physical
properties of film and sound tape, their
handling and storage, and the equipment
used by film archives to ensure for permanent
preservation.

FIAF, 1986, 268p., illus., 42.00 €

   
Physical Characteristics of Early Films as Aids to Identification

by Harold Brown. Documents some features such as camera and printer apertures, edge marks, shape and size of perforations, trade marks, etc. in relation to a number of early film producing companies.

Written for the FIAF Preservation Commission, new reprint 1990, 101p., illus., 30.00 €

 
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