Jan Weigner, President & CTO, Cinegy GmbH, Germany, participated in the TFT 1957 survey of ISE 2025 exhibitors on their showcased solutions and equipment in Barcelona, February 4-7, 2025.
– What is Cinegy showcasing at ISE 2025?
At ISE 2025, Cinegy is showcasing our latest hardware product, the Cinegy Encode 1000. This is our first dedicated hardware appliance, featuring four SDI channels that can be configured as either inputs or outputs, depending on the workflow requirements. The device is capable of encoding video into all common codecs and transporting it via SRT, RTP, or standard transport streams. Conversely, it can receive these streams and convert them back to SDI.
This is one of the highlights of our presentation at ISE, alongside updates to our Cinegy Multiviewer, the latest version of Cinegy Air, and enhancements across our product portfolio, including Cinegy Media Asset Management, Cinegy Desktop, and more.
– What are the key market trends you are observing, and how do you see AI shaping the industry?
AI is certainly transforming the industry, but for Cinegy, the impact is more on specific applications rather than on our core solutions. AI is particularly useful in scaling algorithms and frame interpolation, which we have already integrated into our workflows.
At IBC 2024, we demonstrated how we utilize AI for automatic subtitle and caption generation, as well as for real-time translation. Now, we are introducing AI-driven metadata generation in our media asset management system. This will enable automatic tagging and description of media assets, making content easier to organize and retrieve.
However, when it comes to generative AI, that’s not really our focus. That area is more relevant to post-production, editing, and content creation—fields that we don’t directly engage with. Our role is to develop robust, AI-enhanced tools that improve media processing efficiency rather than generative content creation.
About Cinegy GmbH:
Cinegy was founded in Munich, Germany, and focuses on researching and developing software and technologies for media and television. Cinegy Workflow is a software platform that integrates digital asset management, video capture and encoding, broadcast automation and playout, production tools, archival storage, and retrieval. All these functions are combined into a seamless production workflow based on a database.
The development of Cinegy Workflow began more than 10 years ago as an integrated digital archiving, asset management, and production environment, utilizing desktop hardware for the front-end and standard IT server hardware for the back-end, all within an existing network infrastructure. This design forms the foundation of today’s workflow. The first pilot projects started in 2001, and the first commercial products were launched under the Cinegy brand in 2002. The goal was to ensure that archiving was not just an afterthought but an ongoing process, starting with metadata collection from the very beginning to create a full lifecycle that continuously adds value to media assets throughout their existence. From the outset, the Cinegy platform was designed as an enterprise-level system, independent of resolution or storage systems, highly scalable, and open in terms of architecture. Over time, additional features such as news integration, broadcast automation, and playout have been incorporated into the solution.
To meet the demands of the broadcast industry, Cinegy has developed high-performance MPEG software codecs, scalable software frameworks for media asset management and collaboration, advanced real-time media engines, real-time metadata processing and exchange, and heterogeneous production integration (AAF, IMX, DV, MXF, XML, etc.), among other innovations.
A SQL-based database for digital asset management forms the foundation of the system, extending collaboration and teamwork far beyond simple shared storage. The digital asset management platform abstracts physical storage into virtual storage, providing load balancing, various storage classes, storage migration, HSM integration, garbage collection, and complex user access control policies.
Cinegy licenses several of these core technologies to various software and hardware manufacturers in the broadcast and consumer video industries, who incorporate them into their products to deliver best-in-class solutions. Cinegy directly serves the broadcasting, television, and production markets to establish itself as a leading provider of media technologies and production systems.
