Video

Content definition: Tools that support the preservation of video data that typically combines frame based moving images with an audio soundtrack.

Tools for this content type

		Access, Use and Reuse	Create or Receive (Acquire)	Cross-Lifecycle Functions	Dispose	Ingest	Preservation Action	Preservation Planning	Store
AudiAnnotate	To make audio and its interpretations more discoverable and usable by extending the use of the newest IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework) standard for audio with the development of the AudiAnnotate web application, documented workflows and workshops that will facilitate the use of existing best-of-breed, open source tools for audio annotation (Sonic Visualiser), for public code and document repositories (GitHub), and audio presentation (Universal Viewer) to produce, publish, and sustain shareable W3C Web Annotations for individual and collaborative audio projects.	X		X		X	X		X
Audio/Video to WAV Converter	This tool converts audio and video files to WAV format.						X
Avcc	AVCC is an open source application that enables collaborative, efficient item-level cataloging of audiovisual collections.						X		X
Catalyst	Catalyst is a solution for the creation of better inventories and the management of digitization workflows.
Clipper	Clipper is a free open-source web application enabling researchers to create and share virtual-clips without altering the original media files	X
Cost of Inaction Calculator	A calculator to analyze the Cost of Inaction of not digitizing/preserving audiovisual assets							X
DNS	DNS - DA NRW Software Suite			X		X	X
DV Analyzer	DV Analyzer is a technical quality control and reporting tool that examines DV streams in order to report errors in the tape-to-file transfer process.					X	X
DVRescue	DVRescue is archivist-made software that supports data migration from DV tapes into digital files suitable for long-term preservation.					X	X
DiPS (Digital Preservation Solution)	DiPS (OAIS compliant Digital Preservation Solution)	X	X	X	X	X	X		X
DiscMaster	Website to browse and search vintage computer files from archive.org			X
EmbARC	internal file metadata management including embedding and validation					X	X
ExifTool	Properties extraction, identification, metadata editing			X		X	X
FFAStrans	Task automation engine, mostly used in audio and video visual content management.			X		X	X	X
FFmpeg	FFmpeg is a complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video.						X
Filestar	Universal file converter for 900+ file types.			X		X	X
Free Video Cutter Joiner	It cuts and joins video streams without altering the codecs.	X		X	X		X		X
GetID3()	Extracts technical and embedded descriptive metadata from common multimedia file formats.			X		X
HandBrake	Converts video data into widely accepted formats.						X
IsoBuster	Recover data from CD, DVD, BD, HDD, Flash drive, USB stick, media card, SD and SSD.		X
Libsafe	libsafe allows the organizations to create a full OAIS compliant Archive, including active and passive digital preservation workflows and is particularly suited for master image files of digitizing processes.			X
Lossless Cut	LosslessCut is a video editing application
MPlayerRR	A movie player that runs on many systems, supports a wide range of formats and supports a wide range of output drivers						X
Mdqc	Tool for managing and comparing digital asset metadata			X		X	X
MediaConch	MediaConch is a file validation software.					X		X
MediaInfo	Supplies technical and tag information about a video or audio file.			X		X
Metadata++	Freeware tool to view, edit, modify, extract, copy metadata of various formats.			X		X
Metadata2Go	Web-based EXIF data viewer			X		X
NARA Video Frame Analyzer	NARA Video Frame Analyzer analyzes technical properties of individual frames of a video file in order to detect quality issues within digitized video files.			X		X	X
Open Video Converter	This tool is for video conversion, splitting and editing.						X
Paranoia	"Use your CDROM drive to read audio tracks.... and have it actually work right!"		X
Python DPX validator	A lightweight DPX file format validator.					X
QCTools	Digitized analog video analysis					X	X
The Open Video Digital Library Toolkit	The Open Video Digital Library Toolkit project is intended to provide museums, libraries and other institutions holding moving image collections tools to more easily create Web-based digital video libraries.			X
TubeKit	TubeKit is a toolkit for creating YouTube crawlers.		X
Unstoppable Copier	Attempts to recover every readable piece of a file and puts the pieces together.						X
VLC Media Player	Cross platform audio and video player based primarily on the libavcodec.						X
XMediaRecode	A GUI platform for video conversion and cutting.						X
YT-DLP (You Tube Download P)	Supports download of youtube videos, based on the now defunct YT-DL		X