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Category Archives: Home Entertainment
Content Creation
Content creation and production: From filming interviews, creating image and corporate movies to direct-broadcast live shows with multi-camera OB-Vans and audio multitrack 5.1 recording. We create, enhance and deliver content at every scale and for every purpose.
Archiving
We take care of your most important asset – your content. With our secure and redundant archiving solution, we make sure your content is safe and right at hand when it is needed.
Digital Supply Chain / Platform & Delivery Services
Imagion is not only one of the very few Apple Preferred Plus Encoding Houses, Netflix Preferred Vendor (NPV) and premium supplier of many major platforms (Amazon Video, Google Play, …) – we are your reliable partner for your content for all output devices. Serving as a one-stop-shop solution for our clients, we make sure that we can handle it all with one master, one QC and one set of metadata.
Metadata Creation
Most core assets today come with masses of metadata such as language packages, subtitles, special features and background material. We know how to handle all those value added items and provide our own database and archive facilities. Our media server tool: James, provides a wide range of functions to organize ancillary content and control all adaptions or to place orders. James itself acts like a courier by providing you and your suppliers with a simple and secure infrastructure to interact with.
Quality Control
With detailed QC reporting, Imagion AG invented several quality control systems and tools to create the most efficient workflow. This enables us to offer high-level quality assurance for your asset ingest, output and delivery. We discover the flaws before they become a problem – thus avoiding embarrassing, money losing, time-consuming rejections.
Digital / Physical Storage
Imagion has heavily invested in building up a robust storage and archiving solution for our clients. Our system – powered by Quantum – is a high performance media storage and archive solution that allows for high volume output and fast turnaround. Managed by our James software – including reliable, scalable and secure archiving, we make it safer and easier for you to manage your data assets.
Digital Transcoding / Encoding
Content conversion and digital compression technologies allow us to transform media into the digital format you need. We process the specifications of all major platforms or output channels. Imagion AG will consistently deliver high quality encodes for all physical media and digital platforms. Our reputation for excellence in QC, encoding and delivery earned us our Apple preferred partner and Netflix preferred vendor status.
Content / Metadata / Database Services
One of the biggest issues in the digital supply chain is consistent metadata handling. At Imagion we have created our Master Metadata Set, implemented into our James content processing platform, which allows for groundbreaking Metadata handling and management. And it just makes it easier!
Music Blu-ray & DVD
Most of Germany’s frontline audiovisual music releases have included the involvement of Imagion. Artists like Max Herre, Herbert Grönemeyer, Nena and many others have chosen us as their trusted partner. With our 5.1 Mastering expertise in Classical, Pop and Rock projects we offer the hands-on production that artists, labels and record companies are looking for.
For many international clients like Winland IFC in Beijing, China we are executive producers of their live events and concerts on DVD and Blu-ray – from content creation to distribution.
Live Productions
For live productions Imagion offers complete executive production services. From live concert broadcast on TV, OB-van multi-camera recording for DVD and Blu-ray to multi channel audio remote recording services, we have accompanied many award-winning artists and helped them document their performances. Just bring us your project and we will handle it all.
For many artists, major record labels and international clients like Winland IFC in Beijing, China we produce and capture live events and concerts.
iTunes LP / iTunes Extras
Starting with iTunes Extras and LPs we have brought interactivity to the digital supply chain. Features like bonus content, lyrics, games and internet-links are transferred to the digital platforms to enhance your assets. Make your content more attractive by adding all the bells and whistles your clients have come to expect from replicated media! Click here to access our iTunes Extras / LP microsite.
Blu-ray & DVD
Starting back in 1999 as one of the first authoring houses for DVD in Europe, Imagion offers the complete range of authoring services for blu-ray and dvd releases. We start by consulting with you to plan your project. Menu design, authoring & encoding follows and then the big finish with final QC. With over 10,000 titles including international blockbusters like the James Bond Special Edition to corporate projects for Porsche and many others, we have the experience you demand in a production partner.
BD live & Community
Interactivity and communication possibilities have always fascinated us. With our groundbreaking BD-live technology dynamicHD we have equipped over 5,000 titles with web enabled features like online trailer streaming, market research data and user generated content via our portal.
Apps
We create Apps. Starting with our Menufact-App for iPad, we have also designed and programmed numerous Apps for movies. Checkout for example our App for Ziemlich beste Freunde or LeMac and add bonus, games and marketing tools to your content.
4K
Seeing is believing – 4K (Ultra High Definition). Four times the pixels, double the color-space and new spatial audio formats, it really is the next revolution in the living room. Get ready for a giant leap in home entertainment with us – on physical media and the digital supply chain.
3D-formats
In producing the first live action 3D Blu-ray in the world “Grand Canyon Adventure” and the first triple feature 3D demo disk, we established our company as leading pioneers of the 3D home video format. We have the experience and knowledge on how to handle 3D content to tap the full potential of the technology.
Interface & Interaction Design
Modern interaction and interface design issues require more than just basic tasks like deciding positions and sizes. It is all about generating great experiences to let the user feel comfortable with using your product. Imagion AG is your partner for all tasks of UI/UX design. Let’s create something special together.
Artworks, Print Design
Creating attraction – the digital or physical packaging is often the first step in sparking interest in your customers about the media content that resides inside . Our creative services have created countless impactful and successful artworks, advertisements and marketing material for our clients
Motion Design, Animation
Benefit from Imagion AG’s state-of-the-art animation and motion design services. We offer the full range of non-static visual design technologies – not only in the field of menu / navigation, but also in all other areas – logos, trailers and advertising spots.
Audio Mastering
At Imagion we put the “round” in surround! we offer one of the most renowned 5.1 mastering rooms in Germany. Many award-winning 5.1 and stereo releases have been mastered at our mastering studio.
Post Production
At Imagion we have it all – the latest professional tools and skilled specialists to create, enhance, edit or modify your content. The editing-suites, video and audio studios at our facilities provide high-end post-production services for editing, color-correction, transcoding and all video processing required.