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/
