Life Preservers: A Podcast About Personal History

Episode 8: Preserving your Audio, Video, and film for the future


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Tales of media lost and rescued, plus many ideas for digitizing your files from Paul Adams, archiving engineer, and owner of Mass Productions in Tewksbury, MA.
 
Show Notes:
Where can you go to get your files digitized?
Digital transfers of media and many rare formats, also archival restoration
http://www.massproductions.net/
Digital transfers of media Eclipse Video Cambridge: http://www.eclipsevid.com/
 
Where can you listen to archived media?
There are many places, but  https://archive.org/ provides thousands of hours of recordings of radio shows, interviews, and library archives.  
 
Where can you store your media?
Dropbox, GoogleDrive, and others
Here is a recent article comparing different platforms:
https://www.cloudwards.net/5-best-cloud-storage-for-families/
If you want a more complete service for curating and storing your family history, here are two services that can help you ( there are others—this is not an endorsement):
Family Arc: https://www.familyarc.com
LegacyShare: https://www.legacyshare.com/
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