Magellan Control Panels
Sports & Live
Engage fans with more content on more devices — and protect your ROI
As video gets bigger, budgets get smaller, and demand for multiplatform content explodes, Sports and Live operations face unprecedented pressure. Migrating to agile IP technology makes it easier to keep pace.
At Imagine, our state-of-the-art technology has been center stage at the most iconic sports and live events for decades. Today, our field-proven, standards-based solutions can help you protect your existing SDI investments and transition to IP at whatever pace works with your business.
Whether you're retrofitting an existing unit or building a new truck from the ground up, planning infrastructure in anticipation of "what's next?" has become a critical factor in mobile facility design.
Imagine's field-proven, uniquely integrated mobile production solutions simplify infrastructure, maximize opex, and easily meet any production quality requirements, including HDR UHD. Our operator-friendly platforms can be quickly configured from one production to another. And our SMPTE ST 2110/ST 2022-6 standards-based solutions integrate seamlessly into any SDI, hybrid SDI-IP or all-IP environment — ensuring today's investment is ready to meet any future requirements.
About Automation, Control & Orchestration
Imagine’s scalable, reliable playout and enterprise automation, combined with a comprehensive portfolio of hardware and software control systems, ensures that managing your end-to-end hybrid SDI/IP or all-IP playout or live event production will be streamlined and seamless.
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About Content Delivery
However consumers choose to watch content, they expect a familiar, high-quality experience. Imagine provides a full range of content delivery solutions that enable media companies to reach viewers efficiently and reliably across any platform – over-the-air, OTT and mobile.
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About Multiviewers
Video and audio monitoring has never been more challenging due to the need to deliver large quantities of high-value content in multiple formats, on multiple devices, at any time. Our multiviewers are designed for any baseband, IP or hybrid SDI/IP video monitoring environment, including small-scale installations, large enterprises, broadcast and playout facilities, mobile production trucks, master control rooms, production centers, and cable head-ends.
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About Processing
Video, audio, and data processing unifies the core applications in every broadcast, production, and media facility. Broadcast facilities, studios, stadiums, control rooms, and mobile live production units require reliable, proven solutions to efficiently manage multiple signal types for acquisition, ingest, conversion, synchronization, and outbound processing across the workflow. Our innovative, widely deployed modular or standalone platforms support standards-based solutions for SDI, hybrid SDI/IP, all-IP, UHD, HDR, and beyond.
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About Routing
From space-constrained mobile production trucks to complex multichannel operations, today’s signal routing requirements are moving beyond traditional broadcast applications to support next-gen workflows in hybrid/IP and all-IP environments. Whether you need a small-matrix router or large-scale routing encompassing thousands of I/O and support for UHD, we offer a solution that is simple to deploy and operate — and scales easily and affordably as your business and your requirements grow.
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Imagine's innovative and easily integrated in-venue control room solutions are designed to optimize your current and future broadcast capabilities. IP and UHD-ready technology with support for HDR, standards- and COTS-based architecture, and flexible software-defined solutions ensure reliable, agile and interoperable workflows for the production and broadcast of your high-value live content.
Leveraging hybrid SDI-IP or all-IP infrastructures, our solutions translate into robust systems that keep your in-venue show running smoothly, with no on-air disruptions. This allows you to focus on maximizing fan engagement and driving new monetization opportunities for your high-impact live content — venue-wide and beyond.
About Automation, Control & Orchestration
Imagine’s scalable, reliable playout and enterprise automation, combined with a comprehensive portfolio of hardware and software control systems, ensures that managing your end-to-end hybrid SDI/IP or all-IP playout or live event production will be streamlined and seamless.
3 Products
About Content Delivery
However consumers choose to watch content, they expect a familiar, high-quality experience. Imagine provides a full range of content delivery solutions that enable media companies to reach viewers efficiently and reliably across any platform – over-the-air, OTT and mobile.
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About Content Production
As competition for viewers and the associated revenue intensifies, broadcasters and live event producers are driven to deliver compelling content reliably, at the highest quality, for any device. For example, spinning up a limited-time channel with specialized content has to be done quickly and efficiently to maximize a business opportunity. A playoff game has to be live on-air for broadcast in-venue and beyond, produced with eye-catching graphics and impeccable video and audio. To meet the requirements of today’s demanding content production environments, Imagine offers a comprehensive portfolio of widely deployed solutions ranging from ingest, storage, and graphics to playout.
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About Multiviewers
Video and audio monitoring has never been more challenging due to the need to deliver large quantities of high-value content in multiple formats, on multiple devices, at any time. Our multiviewers are designed for any baseband, IP or hybrid SDI/IP video monitoring environment, including small-scale installations, large enterprises, broadcast and playout facilities, mobile production trucks, master control rooms, production centers, and cable head-ends.
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About Processing
Video, audio, and data processing unifies the core applications in every broadcast, production, and media facility. Broadcast facilities, studios, stadiums, control rooms, and mobile live production units require reliable, proven solutions to efficiently manage multiple signal types for acquisition, ingest, conversion, synchronization, and outbound processing across the workflow. Our innovative, widely deployed modular or standalone platforms support standards-based solutions for SDI, hybrid SDI/IP, all-IP, UHD, HDR, and beyond.
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About Routing
From space-constrained mobile production trucks to complex multichannel operations, today’s signal routing requirements are moving beyond traditional broadcast applications to support next-gen workflows in hybrid/IP and all-IP environments. Whether you need a small-matrix router or large-scale routing encompassing thousands of I/O and support for UHD, we offer a solution that is simple to deploy and operate — and scales easily and affordably as your business and your requirements grow.
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Capture the Excitement. Deliver the Experience.
Dynamic Sports/Live Event Productions
From outside broadcast of the world’s highest-profile sporting events to captivating entertainment productions in world-renowned arenas, the market’s leading sports and live event companies rely on Imagine Communications to provide the power behind high-impact performances — and the tools to help them achieve greater return on their investments.
Professional Services
Why go it alone? We can help you plan and design a system, get it up and running, train your team, and work with you post-deployment to ensure you get maximum ROI — whether day 1 or day 1000.
IP Live Production Brochure
Whether you're a hybrid SDI-IP toe-dipper or an all-IP trailblazer, Imagine has a field-proven solution that will give you an edge whenever you're ready to jumpstart your IP journey.