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éléments de préservation

English translation: conservation materials

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French term or phrase:éléments de préservation
English translation:conservation materials
Entered by: B D Finch

14:50 Apr 30, 2013
French to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Cinema, Film, TV, Drama / digital restoration of historic films
French term or phrase: éléments de préservation
La restauration 4K a été effectuée à partir du négatif original par xxxxx, avec le soutien du yyyyyy. Elle a été supervisée par le directeur de la photographie zzzzz. Travaux faits par le laboratoire wwww avec fabrication d’éléments de préservation ainsi que d’éléments numériques et 35 mm pour sa diffusion.

Talking about the restoration of a film. All the other films in this list did not get this treatment, so what can it consist of? What "elements" would need separate fabrication?
Paul Hirsh
France
Local time: 02:24
conservation materials
Explanation:
http://www3.hants.gov.uk/archives/collections-care/care-of-a...
"Suppliers of conservation materials

These specialist companies will supply a wide range of materials including acid-free boxes and tissue paper."
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B D Finch
France
Local time: 02:24
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Summary of answers provided
5backup copy
torjman
2 +2preservation elements
Philippa Smith
3conservation materials
B D Finch


  

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conservation materials


Explanation:
http://www3.hants.gov.uk/archives/collections-care/care-of-a...
"Suppliers of conservation materials

These specialist companies will supply a wide range of materials including acid-free boxes and tissue paper."


    Reference: http://www.preservationequipment.com/Store/Products/Conserva...
B D Finch
France
Local time: 02:24
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 36
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13 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5 peer agreement (net): +2
preservation elements


Explanation:
I'm no expert in this field, but found what seems like a pretty good explanation on the site of a post-production company:
"Preservation elements, such as fine grain master positives and duplicate printing negatives, are generated from this restoration master element to make both duplication masters and access projection prints available to future generations. When restoration and preservation budgets are lower the images are transferred directly to video or digital media for easy transport and copying."
http://vfxhollywood.com/post_production

Not many ghits for this, but the ones there are seem technically relevant.

Philippa Smith
Local time: 02:24
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 15

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  writeaway: not an expert either but when one checks this on the www, it does seem technically relevant, as you say
1 hr
  -> Ta! Yes, that website explains the whole "preservation/restoration" thing very clearly it seems to me.
agree  Daryo: makes perfect sense the original is too precious to handle often so a "as good as" copy is made to preserve the content. I would be tempted to call that a "preservation/conservation master copy"
1 day 29 mins
  -> Thanks Daryo, sounds like you know something about it! :-)
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2 days 6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
backup copy


Explanation:
i ts a copy of safegard
c'est une copie de sauvegarde

torjman
Tunisia
Local time: 01:24
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Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic, Native in FrenchFrench
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