Welcome to AV Artifact Atlas, a resource for identifying errors and anomalies in analog and digital video. AVAA is built for and by a community of professionals in the field of audiovisual archiving but useful for anyone working with av material. Check out our About page for more information about the project and the Contributor’s Guide for steps on how you can participate.
To start, you can view this list of commonly occurring audio and video artifacts.
You can browse the site using the search box in the sidebar, the tag cloud below, or this list of artifacts.
2-inch Quad
Abrasion
Analog
Audio
Azimuth
Baking
Balanced Cables
Banding
Betamax
Black Levels
Cable
Cassette
Chrominance
Cleaning
Clicks
Clipping
Color
Color lock
Color smearing
Comet Tails
Common Artifacts
Curvature error
DV
DV25
Deck Failure
Deformation
Device Error
Digital
Digital Clicks
Digitization
Dirt
Disc Playback
Discrete Cosine Transform
Dot Crawl
Dropout
Dying Batteries
Edge curl
Editing cut
Electrical
Error
Expansion
Extended Play
Film
Flange pack
Flicker
Frequency Loss
Ghosting
Gouging
Head Clog
Hue
Hum
Interference
LP
Levels
Levels Too Hot
Long Play
Luminance
Luminance Blooming
MPEG
Magnetic Tape
Magnetostrictive Action
Media Damage
Media Failure
Mono
Noise
Open Reel Tape
Operator Error
Overs
Oxide Out
PAL
Phase
Pitch
Playback Adjustment
Popped strand
Post-echo
Power Supply
Pre-echo
Processing Artifact
Production Error
Pulse
Quilting
RF
Rewinding
Servo
Shrinkage
Skew
Smearing
Speed Fluctuation
Spoking
Station Qualification
Step pack
Stereo
Strobing
Sub-sampling
Synchronization
System Failure
Tape Error
Time Base Corrector
Tracking Error
Transfer Artifact
U-matic
Undersaturation
Video
Warble
Waveform
Windowing
Y/C Delay Error
deterioration
flutter
lubrication
sticky