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## Conclusion

We began using RAWcooked to convert 3 petabytes of 2K DPX sequence data to FFV1 Matroska for our *Unlocking Film Heritage* project. This lossless compression to FFV1 has saved us an estimated 1600TB of storage space, which has saved thousands of pounds of additional magnetic storage tape purchases. Undoubtedly this software offers amazing financial incentives with all the benefits of open standards and open-source tools. It also creates a viewable video file of an otherwise invisible DPX scan, so useful for viewing the unseen technology of film. We plan to begin testing RAWcooked encoding of TIFF image sequences shortly with the intention of moving DCDM image sequences to FFV1. Today, our workflow runs 24/7 performing automated encoding of business as usual DPX sequences with relatively little overview. There is a need for manual intervention when repeated errors are encountered, usually indicated when an image sequences doesn't make it to our Digital Preservation Infrastructure. Most often this caused by a new image sequence 'flavour' that we do not have covered by our RAWcooked licence, or sometimes it can indicate a problem with either RAWcooked or FFmpeg file encoding a specific DPX scan - there can be many differences found in DPX metadata depending on the scanning technology. Where errors are found by our automations these are reported to an error log named after the image seqeuence, a build up of reported errors will indicate repeated problems.
We began using RAWcooked to convert 3 petabytes of 2K DPX sequence data to FFV1 Matroska for our *Unlocking Film Heritage* project. This lossless compression to FFV1 has saved us an estimated 1600TB of storage space, which has saved thousands of pounds of additional magnetic storage tape purchases. Undoubtedly this software offers amazing financial incentives with all the benefits of open standards and open-source tools. It also creates a viewable video file of an otherwise invisible DPX scan, so useful for viewing the unseen technology of film. We plan to begin testing RAWcooked encoding of TIFF image sequences shortly with the intention of moving DCDM image sequences to FFV1. Today, our workflow runs 24/7 performing automated encoding of business-as-usual DPX sequences with relatively little overview. There is a need for manual intervention when repeated errors are encountered, usually indicated when an image sequences doesn't make it to our Digital Preservation Infrastructure. Most often this is caused by a new image sequence 'flavour' that we do not have covered by our RAWcooked licence, or sometimes it can indicate a problem with either RAWcooked or FFmpeg file encoding a specific DPX scan - there can be many differences found in DPX metadata depending on the scanning technology. Where errors are found by our automations these are reported to an error log named after the image seqeuence, a build up of reported errors will indicate repeated problems.

In recent years we have been encoding a larger variety of DPX sequences, a mix of 2K and 4K of various bit depths has seen our licence expand. Between February 2023 and February 2024 the BFI collected data about its business-as-usual encoding capturing details of 1020 DPX encodings to CSV. A Python script was written to capture data about these encoded files, including sequence pixel size, colourspace, bits, total byte size of the image sequence and completed FFV1 Matroska.

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