Archives Australia Group

22/12/2025

Merry Christmas and Season's Greetings from the Archives Australia Group (AAG) team.
Our facility will be closed from the 23rd December until 12th January 2026.
Thank you for your continued support.

22/12/2025

As 2025 draws to a close, it’s clear we’ve built strong forward momentum across our broadcast archiving and preservation services.

This year saw measured investment turn into real operational confidence. We focused on safeguarding legacy and contemporary broadcast assets, strengthened our collaboration with numerous content owners and continued refining the technical workflows that underpin reliable, long-term preservation. Every step was taken with future access, format longevity, and industry standards in mind.

The progress achieved this year positions us well for 2026. With proven processes and capability now established, we move ahead with clarity, purpose, and ambition.

I’m proud of the expertise and dedication of the Archives Australia Group (AAG) team and excited by what’s ahead.

08/12/2025

At Archives Australia Group, we convert, manage and protect all three variations of 1 inch analogue video tape on open reels - from the rare type A (Ampex, 1965) and type B (Bosch 1976) formats which were standard in Europe, and the more popular type C video tape (Ampex / Sony 1976), which was widely adopted by the professional video and broadcast television industries, particularly in the US, UK and Australia between the mid '70s to early '90s.

We are able to digitise all standards of 1 inch type A, B and C open reel video tape from the US (NTSC), UK (PAL) and (SECAM) with appropriate noise reduction. 1" type A video is commonly monochrome, while types B and C are colour. We now have access to a machine uniquely modified to play very rare type A colour tapes.

We offer a range of delivery formats for our video transfers. Following International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives TC-06 guidelines, we deliver FFV1 lossless files or 10-bit uncompressed video files in .mkv or .mov containers for archives. We can also produce Apple ProRes mezzanine files for ease of editing. We provide smaller viewing files as H.264 encoded .mp4 files or on DVD. We're happy to create any other digital video files, according to your needs.

Information sourced from: https://thegreatbear.co.uk/project/1-inch-type-a-type-b-type-c/

27/10/2025

October 27, the date set by UNESCO to consolidate the concept of Audiovisual Memory in our culture.

17/06/2025

Luke Simpson Says:
Don’t let your collection say “See Ya Later” for good...
Still got tapes lying around? Here’s the hard truth, your magnetic media might already be on its last legs...
Magnetic tape’s been around since the ’40s for audio and the ’50s for video. Used everywhere from recording studios to living rooms. But it wasn’t built to last forever. As it ages, it breaks down, and once that happens, there’s no getting that content back.
Don’t just take my word for it. I’ve attached a link from the National Film and Sound Archive Australia backing this up. 2025 is the tipping point. After that, digitising could be too late.
So ask yourself, do you really want to be the one explaining why the archive couldn’t be saved?
Reach out today and see how Archives Australia Group can help rescue your collection before it’s too far gone.

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28/01/2025

Recently we were featured in a Channel 7 special news report about the NFSA 2025 deadline specifically concerning consumer video tape formats. Please see video below...!

10/12/2024

Merry Christmas and Season's Greetings from the team at Archives Australia..!

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26/09/2024

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