GOTIKA Legacy
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From the archaeology, rescue, and preservation of audiovisual heritage to the artistry of post-production and mastering, GOTIKA Legacy ensures every story and memory is ready to shine.
“Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”
Film Research and Archaeology
Artificial Intelligence Applied to Image and Sound Regeneration
Film Cleaning, Repair, and Scanning
Tape Cleaning, Repair, and Digitization
Film and Video Restoration
Color Correction, Mastering, Encoding, and DCP
Sound Restoration
Preservation
Infrastructure and Technology
Works and Clients
Film Research and Archaeology
For each project, GOTIKA Legacy undertakes a complete process that involves gathering historical and technical information related to the project, researching the availability of the best film sources, as well as other related media that can aid in the restoration process. GOTIKA Legacy's staff thoroughly will document every discovery and every step or future utilization.
Teaser of the process of restoration of the film "Perdón Viejita" (1927, José A. Ferreyra)
Artificial Intelligence Applied to Image and Sound Regeneration
In Artificial Intelligence, information is one of the bases. Many of our developments focus on products that lack samples on the Internet and need very high resolution in them. Our company began by providing image and sound post-production and restoration services. We use this experience of almost thirty years to achieve original samples of information that allow unique AI products.
Film Cleaning, Repair, and Scanning
GOTIKA Legacy's staff cleans and handmade repairs accordingly to the condition of the film to avoid unnecessary stress and chemical processes that can generate degradation of the film support. GOTIKA Legacy's technology allows high-speed frame by frame scanning, using the latest methods such as high dynamic range and infrared reading of dirt, retaining the quality of the original film in its digital counterpart. Regarding the sound, GOTIKA Legacy's staff can digitize from positive and negative optical soundtracks, both variable area and density, as well as magnetic soundtracks. GOTIKA Legacy provides Film Cleaning, Repair, and Scanning services ON SITE WORLDWIDE to avoid unnecessary handling of heritage assets. The services include inspection, cataloguing, and labelling.
World Day for Audiovisual Heritage 2015
Tape Cleaning, Repair, and Digitization
GOTIKA Legacy's tape digitization service includes all old video and audio formats and systems. From Quadruplex to XDCAM. Before digitization, every tape is visually inspected to decide upon the cleaning and repair processes. GOTIKA Legacy provides Tape Cleaning, Repair, and Digitization services ON SITE WORLDWIDE to avoid unnecessary handling of heritage assets. The services include inspection, cataloguing, and labelling.
Some work realized for INCAA TV (2010-2015)
Film and Video Restoration
Since 1996 GOTIKA Legacy restores and preserves thousands of hours of audiovisual heritage and feature films, accomplishing satisfied customers around the globe. GOTIKA Legacy works in a non-destructive workflow specifically designed to achieve the best possible quality for every project. GOTIKA Legacy specializes in frame-by-frame repairing all the serious film problems like dirt, dust, scratches, vertical lines, drops, warps, tears, instability, flicker, noise, grain, channel align or missed frames without affecting the source material. GOTIKA Legacy also recreates optical titles and credit sequences, among other visual effects, with the latest digital tools.
Argentine Film Recovery Scheme (recuperar.org) Restoration Demo
Color Correction, Mastering, Encoding and DCP
To recover the original look and working with the Film Research and Archaeology Department, GOTIKA Legacy's experts color grade and corrects according to the initial aesthetic decisions. The multiscreen mastering includes deliverables for cinema, television, and the Internet up to 4K resolutions, and complying SMPTE, ITU, AES, EBU and DCI standards among others.
Process of restoration and color grading of the film "La Mary" (1974, Daniel Tinayre)
Sound Restoration
GOTIKA Legacy's staff restores problems such as an excessive presence of noise, clicks, saturation, unbalanced mixes. Also, out-of-phase to enhance mono mixes to up mix them in stereo, stereo mixes to up mix them in 5.1 surround with the real center, Music & Effects mixes or even Dolby® Digital and DTS® encoding on films or embedded in broadcast masters using the Dolby® E system. High-resolution loudness normalization complies with recommendations by ITU and EBU for determining subjective program loudness and true-peak signal level.
Preservation
From worldwide logistics to rehousing, inspection, repairing, labeling, digital cataloging, scanning (on our premises or on-site), digital assets management, GOTIKA Legacy puts all the pieces together.
Infrastructure
After years of work and expertise, GOTIKA Legacy has invested in the best tools and equipment on the audiovisual market. Our technology includes software and hardware of the most prominent and experienced companies of digital cinema and broadcast business like DIGITAL VISION®, LASERGRAPHICS®, AVID®, PRO TOOLS®, ASSIMILATE®, BLACKMAGIC DESIGN®, DIGIMETRICS®, DOLBY®. DELL® and IBM® provides storage, networks and archiving systems. All connected through high-speed fiber optics.
