Tape Digitization 

NOVAC offers videotape preservation services. We are currently able to digitize:

 ¾” Umatic | VHS | S-VHS | Betamax | Video 8 | Hi8 | Digital8 | Betacam | BetaSP | DVCAM | DVC | DVCPro | DigiBeta

If you are interested in digitizing tapes, please download and complete the Workflow Pricing List form. Then email the form to Gene at gene@novacvideo.org.

Workflow Pricing List

Archiving

The best of New Orleans’ community videos from 1972 and on – here is our collection of preserved and digitized footage from NOVAC’s history of documenting our city.

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Archives

Committee

The NOVAC Archives Committee serves to preserve, digitize and make accessible to the public the entire NOVAC media archive. We are grateful to the volunteer committee for doing this work:

  • Vicki Mayer, Chair
  • Liz Dunnebacke
  • Gene Fredericks
  • Larry Blake
  • Michael Mizell-Nelson (memorial)
  • Matthew Martinez

Video Preservation

NOVAC’s extensive archive comprises over 2,200 local productions, some dating back to 1972, the year NOVAC was founded.  We are actively digitally preserving this priceless media content, so these pieces of local history are accessible to filmmakers and organizations.

Support the Archives

Digitizing our extensive archive is an uphill battle and time is not on our side. We’re working against-the-clock to digitize our tape-based media archive that is actively deteriorating, even while being stored in climate-controlled conditions.

We are grateful for the support of individual donors, volunteers, and financial contributions from Tulane University and the National Endowment for the Humanities. We need your support too.  All contributions are tax-deductible.