Putting Our 20 Years of Expertise in Your Pocket

Over the years, we've heard the same questions again and again from archivists across institutions of every size.

• What format is this?
• How urgent is it?
• Does this collection have value beyond our walls?

With limited budgets and competing priorities, it is crucial to know which formats are critically at risk versus stable enough to wait another year, and what has untapped potential to enable other preservation efforts.

These aren't simple problems. The landscape of archival media spans more than a century of evolving technology with countless formats in between. Even experienced professionals can struggle with similar-looking formats. That's why we built the Scene Savers APP — to make our years of hands-on preservation expertise available to you, on demand.

It is a mobile app that transforms decades of knowledge from our lab into a toolkit you can carry with you. At its core is a format identification trained on our comprehensive media archive. Snap a photo of any tape, reel, cassette, or film canister, and the app analyzes it against a database of 100+ archival media formats built from our real-world experience. Within minutes, you receive detailed results including format name, era, technical specifications, any condition issues like mold and or signs of wear, and—critically—a preservation urgency rating (Critical / At Risk / Monitor).

The Scene Savers APP also includes Ask AI, a conversational assistant trained specifically on our professional preservation knowledge base, ready to answer questions about format histories, storage best practices, digitization workflows, and handling procedures. Professional tools like the Film Footage Calculator and File Size Calculator help you plan projects with precision, while the Collection Monetization Assessment leverages our market knowledge to analyze your collection's commercial licensing potential.

Whether you manage a broadcast archive, university collection, or corporate media vault, the Scene Savers APP is a toolkit designed to help you understand what you have and how urgently it needs attention. For us, this is another example of how technology, applied thoughtfully, can strengthen preservation work.

The Scene Savers Toolkit is now available for download. Download the Scene Savers APP