Recording Knowledge Base

General Resources

• A Recording Technology History, kept by history professor Steve Schoenherr at the University of San Diego, has its own set of interesting links.
• Spend some time and learn about the general issues involved in Digital Preservation at the Cornell Libraries' online tutorial. Especially useful as a reference is their timeline

Audio

Audio standards and other related organizations

• Audio Engineering Society (AES)
• Association of Recorded Sound Collections (ARS)
• RLG DigiNews Audio, Video and Print Preservation

Optical disc

• Optical Storage Technology Association (OSTA)
• NIST Digital Data Preservation Program
• NIST Care and Handling of CDs and DVDs
  

DVD-Recordable

• Real DV (RDVDC) Council
• Artistpro Publishing
  One stop source for great books on audio recording & related topics
• Anti-Piracy - IRMA
• Audio precision Audio Test and Measurement
  

Professional audio related magazines

• ProSound News
• Mix, Professional Audio and Music Production
• EQ Magazine
• Pro Audio Review
• Sound & Vibration
  

Video

General video and video magazines

• DV Magazine
• A great resource for DV questions and answers. Kept by Adam Wilt, a columnist at DV magazine.
• Creative Planet Communities is multiple sites in one. From 2-Pop, a DV site, to Digital Television and Videography magazines.
• Creative Mac: More general but can be useful.

Software we use

• Log tapes and Export an EDL in Final Cut Pro4 - View tutorial.
• VideoBank, a key partner in the development of our video archive.
• Apple's Final Cut Pro. We use this software for archival work and for productions.
• Pinnacle Systems CineWave: Our choice for standard and high definition and uncompressed video editing.

Camera manufacturers

• Sony: Information on professional and prosumer gear from DV-> HDCAM. (We use Sony HDCAM cameras and decks, as well as DigiBeta, Beta SP, DVCAM and others.)
• Canon DV camera information
• Canon broadcast lenses (our choice for our HD work)
• Panasonic: Information on professional and prosumer gear from DV-> VariCam HD.
  

Video standards and organizations

• Information on all of the MPEG standards found at the MPEG working group's home page.
• The DVD Forum
• National Association of Broadcasters
• Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC): Developing voluntary technical standards for digital television.
  

Media players for MPEG-4 and other standards

• Apple's Quicktime (Mac and Windows) free but solicits you to spend $30 to upgrade to the professional version. The upgrade is worth it if you want to do some basic work with your own video. Quicktime Pro is included with Final Cut Pro.
• Real Player (look hard to find the free version, works on Mac, Windows, and they have a Linux/Unix Player too.)
• VLC is a highly flexible open source media player with versions for just about every operating system out there.
  

Wildlife film festivals

• International Wildlife Film Festival (IWFF) annual event in Missoula, Montana.
• Wildscreen, even-numbered years in Bristol, UK.
• Jackson Hole wildlife film festival, held odd-numbered years in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
  

Study natural history filmmaking

• Montana State University is the only degree program in Natural History Film.
• Adventure Travel while you learn to film wildlife (Not an endorsement, as we've never been on one of these trips, but they look fun)
  

Wildlife Video Resources

• Wildlife-film.com
• Filmmakers for Conservation
• Arkive
• Surcat is the catalog of moving images from Survival Films
• BBC Science & Nature
• National Geographic
• Animal Planet
• PBS's Nature

A few great films

• Pale Male
• The Life of Birds: A master work by any measure
• Blue Planet