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Digital media hackers.
Free and open source software, released under permissive licenses, because media infrastructure works better out in the open.
What we are
imm studios, z.s. is a Prague-based non-profit hackerspace for people who work with media: broadcast engineers, editors, developers, and anyone curious about how television, radio and video actually get made. We share a post-production and broadcast lab, build tools we wish existed, and give the results away.
We believe media infrastructure is too important to be locked behind proprietary vendors, so we publish everything we build as open source, and we're vocal supporters of Creative Commons and the public domain: culture that can be shared, remixed and reused without asking permission.
What we build
Our flagship project is Nebula, an open source media asset management and broadcast automation system used by television, radio and VOD platforms worldwide since 2012. Nebula handles the whole chain: cataloguing and search, transcoding and normalization, linear scheduling, and playout control.
Nebula
Media asset management & broadcast automation system.
Firefly
Desktop client for broadcast planning, scheduling and playout.
Conti
A minimalistic playout server.
nxtools
Python utilities and helpers used across our tools.
Everything lives on GitHub. Browse it all at github.com/immstudios and github.com/nebulabroadcast.
Get involved
Want to visit the lab, contribute to a project, or just talk shop about broadcast engineering and open source media tools? Get in touch, or join Open Source Broadcasting, a Discord community for people building open media infrastructure.