March, 2011 – DAMsmart, Australia’s leading audiovisual digitisation agency, has announced that Dave McGrouther is joining DAMsmart’s team to head up their Film Services Division. Dave is well known in the industry as one of Australia’s leading film preservation experts. Having spent 14 years at the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA), most recently in an executive role as Film Curator, Dave brings with him extensive knowledge of archiving, preservation, conservation and repair techniques for all film formats. Dave’s appointment further strengthens DAMsmart’s specialist audiovisual digitisation and preservation services. The growth of DAMsmart’s technical team underscores their commitment to developing their digitisation business in Australia and their expansion into Asian markets.
For further information please contact:
Adam Hodgkinson
DAMsmart
Business Manager
0403 242 372
About DAMsmart:
DAMsmart are Australia’s leading audiovisual digitisation specialists. DAMsmart offer a comprehensive videotape, film and audio digitisation service to provide logistically viable and cost-effective solutions for organisations to outsource the digitisation of their AV collections. DAMsmart provides a hosted Digital Asset Management (DAM) solution to assist our clients manage their newly digitised collections. This service gives organisations access to an enterprise-level DAM system, without the need for large-scale investment in technology. DAMsmart represent a number of audiovisual digitisation hardware manufactures, including SAMMA for video digitisation, MWA for archive specific film scanners and Rimage for optical media replication hardware.
DAMsmart is an advocate of open standards and can provide digital files in non-proprietary formats as well as proprietary formats.