How to digitize our stuff

If we want to mix and match — and clean up and maybe distribute — all the great stuff we created back in the day, we’re going to have to transfer it into decent-quality digital format. A little consistency will go a long way!

Here are some suggestions RE digital formats for “mastering” audio, photos and line art.

Audio: 88.2-kHz or 44.1-kHz, 24-bit AIFF or .WAV files. (We’ll want to crunch this down to MP3 for easy distribution, but the big files will give us more room for cleanup.)

Photos: 300-dpi, 24-bit-color or eight-bit grayscale TIFF files. (Again, we’ll want to crunch down to JPEGs for distribution, but TIFFs have more uncompressed data.)

Line art: 800-dpi, black-and-white bitmapped TIFF files.

Video: We don’t have any video yet! If we do strike gold, what should our format be?

Anybody have other ideas about formatting?

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