EDITORIAL - Edwin Outwater
A View from the Mountain

AN INDUSTRY PERSPECTIVE - Malcolm F. Davidson
The Hidden Costs and Complexities of Storage, or "Pay As You Play"

Getting Around the Shelving Challenge

Inside Iron Mountain Film & Sound

About Iron Mountain's Film & Sound Archive Services and Xepa Digital Studios

   
 

Q:Can Xepa Digital Studios help establish my personal and internal preservation standards?

A: Yes. We have helped many of our customers tailor such standards to their own internal workflow and retrieval requirements, or, if requested, we can create a client's preservation programs from scratch.

Q: Can Xepa Digital Studios actually play back and digitally capture 2" Quad Video tape inside Iron Mountain's secure preservation environment?

A: Yes, IM/XDS has several fully operational Quad machines (and back-up parts) available currently, and we expect to have our additional AVR2 Quad machines in service within a new broadcast video facility sometime this summer.

Q: What is the best way to get in touch with Iron Mountain / Xepa Digital Studios?

A: Use the information in the "Contact" section of this newsletter, call our toll-free number 1-800-899-IRON, or visit us.

  

 

EDITORIAL - Edwin Outwater
A View from the Mountain

The tragic fire on a major studio lot in Los Angeles last June 1st was certainly one of the biggest archive-related disasters to befall the entertainment industry in recent memory. What seemed to have been a secure environment for priceless entertainment assets in fact turned out not to be. What happened? Were the assets protected (at a minimum) as per Archiving 101? Could anything more have been done to prevent the event itself and, just as importantly, its repercussions?

There are a myriad of questions relating to this event, and only few people who are qualified to give meaningful answers. One of them is Paul West, Senior VP of Studio and Archive Services for Universal Music Group. Although most of UMG's assets had been moved out of the vault and the rest were scheduled to be moved, some masters were still being stored in building that burned that day on the back lot. I asked Paul if he would go over with me the events of that Sunday, June 1, 2008 and share his observations and conclusions for the benefit of the IMF&S Bytes readership.

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AN INDUSTRY PERSPECTIVE - Malcolm F. Davidson
The Hidden Costs and Complexities of Storage, or "Pay As You Play"

As the basic cost of storage continues to decline, many entertainment companies and individuals are beginning to consider archival projects for digitizing their valuable physical assets. With many possible solutions available, picking the right technology can clearly be a challenge.

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Getting Around the Shelving Challenge

Iron Mountain Film & Sound in Hollywood has just installed several new "state of the art" vertical carousel systems. Each carousel is approximately 35 feet high and houses 90 trays, maximizing the use of overhead space and recovering up to 75% of the floor space required for traditional shelving systems.

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Inside Iron Mountain Film & Sound

Film & Sound Welcomes New Staff Members
Iron Mountain is proud to welcome several exceptional new Mountaineers to Film Sound.

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About Iron Mountain's Film & Sound Archive Services and Xepa Digital Studios

Those moldy old masters with the dried out splices and edge damage and hub drop that have been sitting on the bottom shelf in the back of the warehouse for God knows how many years are the biggest challenge when it comes to an archive preservation project, right?

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