Dubbing studio since 1994

IMAGINE carries out dubbing and multilingual revoicing for all types of programs, including institutional films and advertising. Quality control, from reception of the initial elements through to broadcasting copy, IMAGINE takes in charge all the stages of program dubbing (detection, adaptation, casting and artistic direction, recording, montage, mixing and transfer of the dubbed version to all types of media).

Teamwork between production directors, artistic directors, sound engineers, authors, and actors guarantees an optimal result, with a finished adaptation in perfect harmony with the original language version.

Calling upon a vast network of authors, actors and directors, IMAGINE puts great emphasis on the choice of adaptors and voices, in order to best fulfil the expectations of our clients and offer an adaptation perfectly suited to the target market. If so desired, voice casting can be submitted to the client for validation.

The various software used include :

• Mozaic
• Synchronos

Since 1998, IMAGINE has been developing DVD authoring. With its department specifically dedicated to DVD and Blu-Ray, IMAGINE is able to totally take in charge the client’s needs, from reception of material through to delivery of the final masters.
In order to simplify the client’s authoring projects, IMAGINE offers a complete range of services, in which all the stages of the process are centralised in-house:

• Encoding of MPEG2 and H264 videos via Sonic
• Encoding of Audio DTS master Audio - Dolby Digital AC3
• DVD and Blu-Ray authoring via Sonic
• Computer graphics, with the creation of fixed or animated menus
• Chapter indexing
• Multilingual subtitling
• Stereo and 5.1 multilingual audio
• Zonage
• CSS
• Mastering

Expert in multilingual and hearing-impaired subtitling, IMAGINE has worked for many years with a vast network of specialist translators and experienced adaptors.

IMAGINE is there to accompany and assist you in all your projects : cinema, television, video and institutional. IMAGINE as a department completely dedicated to the production and handling of subtitle files.

IMAGINE takes in charge all types of subtitling :

• Classic multilingual subtitling, for standard embedding or Ceefax.
• Subtitles for the deaf and hearing-impaired (with strict regard for colour codes).
• In accordance with the legal obligation for channels to make their programs
• accessible to the deaf and hearing-impaired, IMAGINE has developed its expertise in
• the field in order to best to satisfy this new requirement.
• The various software used include :
• EasySub
• FAB
• Ayato
• EZTitles

The subtitle file formats delivered by IMAGINE I designed for all types of usage (TV,
VoD, video, Internet, cellphones).

Equipped with the latest technology, the IMAGINE laboratory provides the complete chain of E-Servicing, for optimal production costs and delivery times. The laboratory is equipped for the secure reception and sending of your files (via Aspera, Signiant, Globecast, Smartjog or Ftp server) as well as the swift completion of your broadcast-ready and VoD files.

In regular contact avec with broadcasters, the laboratory team understands and perfectly masters the technical requirements of the different channels. Much more than a laboratory, IMAGINE simplifies for you the entire production process, from reception to delivery and acceptance of your E-PAD.
IMAGINE puts its expertise and material at your disposal to allow the perennial indexing and archiving of all your media and archive footage.

Stocking and archiving of footage :

• Monitoring of postproduction for your advertising, cinema films and television
• series.
• A videotech for distributors and producers.
• A file transformation and encoding service.

The IMAGINE laboratory undertakes all your video and audio postproduction work within the shortest possible time scale :

• Duplication (all formats, beta num, beta SP, HD Cam, HD Cam SR)
• Standard and format conversion (SD / HD)
• Speed conversion (Cross conversion)
• Digitization, band transfer
• Audio harmonisation and synchronisation
• Sound compression and restoration
• Quality control and broadcast-ready conformity
• Production, verification and delivery of broadcast-ready HD and SD both hardcopy
• and E-broadcast-ready

IMAGINE put all its skill into producing broadcast-ready material which conforms
perfectly to technical specifications, and guarantees you their acceptance by
broadcasters.