FIAT/IFTA Latest News, April 4th 2003

Summary

• New members application procedure and fees
• Upcoming events : NAB, Copeam
• New professional organisation : ACSIL
• Requested for video equipment, for telecinema services

New members application procedure and fees

As from 1st April 2003, all new members will pay a pro rata sum when they join, according to the time of the year. For instance, if they join after March, they will pay 75% of the yearly rate, after June 50% and after September 25%.

New members applications are submitted for approval to the FIAT Executive Council. Once the application for membership has been approved, the applicant will receive an invoice. He will become a member after his payment is received. His membership will be confirmed by letter or e-mail and he will get the passwords needed to access the restricted areas of the website.

Have a look at the Join FIAT page !

Upcoming events

Are you going to NAB ?

The SMPTE and Pro-MPEG association are holding a meeting which will discuss Descriptive Metadata Standardisation, next week in Las Vegas during NAB. Input from archivists will be very welcome and is being actively sought. The meeting will be at 3 p.m. on Wednesday 9th April, and the venue is in the Table Talk Restaurant, 99 Convention Drive, Las Vegas. The documentation is now at draft international standard stage. So now is the time to voice your views.

Key contact : Mike Cox, Mirador Techniques Ltd
Phone : +44 1264 850 360
Mobile : +44 7802 655 414
mirador-techniques@csi.com

Copeam Conference

The 10th Permanent Conference of Mediterranean Audiovisual Operators / Conférence Permanente de l'Audiovisuel Méditérranéen (COPEAM) will take place in Catvat (Dubrovnik) next May 1-3, 2003, hosted by HRT. The South East European archive project is on the agenda of the Heritage Commission. We hope that most FIAT members from the region will be able to attend the conference !

For more informations, contact the COPEAM General Secretariat :sgcopeam@copeam.org

New professional organisation : ACSIL

Film and video libraries from leading media organisations - among which are ABC News Video Source, NBC News, ITN Archive, CNN Image Source - have united to form ACSIL, the Association of Commercial Stock Image Licensors, a non-profit organization aiming at promoting the value of stock footage to traditional and non-traditional markets. The organisation is based in New-York.

http://www.footage.info/acsil/pr.htm

Requested !

Request for video equipment !

From Ivanka Cangovska, Head of Film Archive, Macedonian Television

Following my former announcement in the last FIAT Newsletter, here is the list of the video equipments most needed :

A/B roll editing

• BVW 70 P Player / Recorder : 1 piece
• BVW 60 P Player : 2 pieces
• PVE 500 Editing Control Unit : 1 piece
• 14" Video monitor : 4 pieces
• Audio monitor
• Audio mixer (analogue) : 2 pieces
• Video mixer (analogue) : 1 piece

Cut editing

• PVW 2800 P : 1 piece
• PVW 2600 P : 1 piece
• PVE 500 Editing Control Unit 1 piece
• 14" Video monitor 2 pieces
• audio monitor 2 pieces

NLE non linear editing : 1 piece

BVW 70 P : 1 piece

As many of TV Archives Departments have already switched to a digital technology, we will appreciate very much if they can donate to us the equipment they do not use or need anymore. Thank you, Ivanka.

zcango@unet.com.mk
Phone : + 389 211 220 024

Request for provision of Telecinema services !

From Ivanka Cangovska, Head of Film Archive, Macedonian Television

We hold a significant film archive of about 4.000 valuable materials that need to be transferred to video BETA. We have been granted a budget for this operation. We would like either to rent a Telecinema or to subcontract the transfer of our film materials.

We would welcome any proposal. Thank you, Ivanka

zcango@unet.com.mk
Phone : + 389 211 220 024