Inspection the enabler for preservation

You can't Expect unless you Inspect – the QUADRIGA concept

Besides photochemical conservation, film inspection is the most important enabler for preservation. Nearly all actions require the insights generated while inspecting the archived film materials.

Until now, film scanning has required intensive preparation work before a film reel can be entrusted to the film scanner of choice. This is now different, INSPECTIONscan enables a film inspection without any stress. The film transport is so smooth that it comes close to a manual film winder in terms of safe handling of damaged, warped and spliced film material. This means that inspection can start without any pre-condition. QUADRIGA enables sustainable film inspection on a large scale, and these insights will drive most downstream preservation decisions and provide instant digital access to the contents.

INSPECTIONscan provides full edge-to-edge digitisation of film material which remains of high archival value even after the investment in high-end scanning. The automatically generated Inspection Report also documents the dynamic shrinkage of the footage and the condition of the material before you hand over the reels to a digitisation service provider.