Go Digital : Keep The Past Alive!
Title: Go Digital : Keep The Past Alive!
Authors: Colin Barrett, Steve Luck, Keith Martin, Allen Zuk
Paperback: 160 pages
Publisher: Taschen / Evergreen (26 Oct 2006)
I was asked to contribute to this book just as I had completed Digital Video for Beginners and jumped at the chance largely because of my interest in preserving analogue video, film, photographic and other archive assets into the digital domain.
The beautifully-illustrated book, in which I contributed the section on how to digitise, store and share video and film archives, provides in-depth tips and techniques that will ensure that all those physical artefacts can be preserved for future generations to enjoy.
My own contribution had to come together in record time (two weeks, I recall) but it was worth it; it’s a fabulous book of which both myself and fellow contributors are very proud.
Publisher’s Synopsis:
“Home computers are now so powerful and versatile that they are involved in almost every aspect of the creative arts. Music, photography, video and art can all now be created digitally and altered on a home computer. We all have a lifetime of memories from before the digital age. Put old Photographs up on a website, transfer LP’s to your portable digital music player or burn wedding video to DVD. All this and much more is possible when you go digital. Discover how to breathe new life into material you thought was frozen in time for ever. Clean up the sounds of scratches and hiss from old albums. Re-edit home movies into tighter, more professional looking productions. Organize your past financial data into a database so you can find that all important tax record quickly instead of searching through boxes”.