# Nitrate & Pixel
> Nitrate & Pixel explores the practical and ethical decisions involved in preserving moving-image archives, from scanning fragile film and repairing damaged frames to AI-assisted upscaling, colourisation, transcription.

## Entries
- [Restoring a 16mm Wedding Film With Vinegar Syndrome: A Four-Pass Workflow](https://nitrate-pixel.pages.dev/16mm-wedding-film-vinegar-syndrome/): A 16mm wedding film affected by vinegar syndrome needs careful physical assessment before scanning, followed by a preservation-quality capture and separately.
- [AI Upscaling of Archival Film: How to Disclose Inferred Image Detail](https://nitrate-pixel.pages.dev/ai-upscaling-archival-frame-inference/): AI upscaling can make archival footage easier to view on modern displays, but it can also generate image details that were never recorded in the original film.
- [Should Historical Footage Be Colourised? A Decision Tree for Film Societies](https://nitrate-pixel.pages.dev/historical-footage-colourisation-decision-tree/): Historical footage should be colourised only when the purpose is clear, the available evidence is understood and the resulting interpretation can be disclosed.
- [Transcribing Oral-History Tapes: A Speech-to-Text Workflow for Accurate Names](https://nitrate-pixel.pages.dev/oral-history-speech-to-text-names/): Speech-to-text can produce a useful first transcript of an oral-history recording, but personal names, place names, dates and specialist vocabulary require.
- [Home Movie Metadata: A Minimal Schema Families Can Maintain](https://nitrate-pixel.pages.dev/home-movie-metadata-minimal-family-schema/): A useful home movie catalogue does not need a complicated database or specialist software.
- [Born Vertical, Born Ephemeral? Preservation Questions for One-Minute Platform Films](https://nitrate-pixel.pages.dev/vertical-short-films-digital-preservation/): One-minute vertical films published on character platforms are born-digital moving images with preservation needs that extend beyond the video stream.

## About
- [About Nitrate & Pixel](https://nitrate-pixel.pages.dev/about/): what the site covers and how entries are made

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