MEDIA MAKER
TAKE THE PICTURE AND YOUR DONE.
What’s in the Box?
Place on console and raise to
90-degrees for interior panorama
Built for Auto Photography
This is a tool we designed for dealerships and more specifically to the needs of auto groups. Whether your dealership is make up of 1 or 100 rooftops the Media Maker is an all-in-one tool that provides the technology and online app to collect pictures in the most efficient manner.
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Most dealerships would prefer to have perfected real pictures but this requires space for a booth or studio to provide a protected space designed with a controlled reflection design, and directional lighting, however as space is our biggest competitor that limits a controlled environment choice.
Most dealer groups have only 20%-35% of locations with space to implement a photo studio, the other 65%-80% of the location need a hand-held, manual method to acquire photos and media outdoors.
The next best thing is manual staged photography to showcase the vehicle and interactive media creation to keep a visitor engaged.
The Media Maker provides a method to capture the pictures by category and our system does the rest. Take the picture and your done.
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VIN volume of less than 75 vehicles per month will likely limit the economics of choice to a manual hand-held solution to use in "parking lot" picture capture or a staged area.
Our Media Maker or any method of outdoor photography can only be as good as the environment surroiunding the vehicle at time of photography. To be clear a Media Maker cannot create a perfected picture in an outdoor environment unless collected in a staged area, in good weather, at the right time of day, which is not likely to be gained consistently unless we can control nature.
What it will do, is guide a user to capture all picture categories in a consistent manner and upload the content to our server, where we build a storybook presentation of your pictures and create interactive 360 spins, interior panoramas, and seperates each category for an impeccable presentation and applies all our post-production services automatically.
If "space" is not a challenge, we recommend combining your Media Maker with an economical manual photo booth that you can upgrade to photo studio as VIN volumes increase.
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All pictures and media come together in a single corporate website within dealer groups. The media is derived from varied methods of collection, and environments, that need to come together in a consistent, uniform presentation and include interactive media to meet corporate media goals.
Media standards; which pictures should be taken, picture order, type media collected, standardation of backgrounds, and presentations are paramont.
The Media Maker inserts this standard into every Media Maker before it's shipped to allow the users to be ready to go and always meet the standards required.
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Corporate requirements for pictures and order are important but the order requirement may not be the most efficient method of collection and require a user to run back and forth around the vehicle collecting the order desired costing valuable production time.
Our Media Maker solves this issue by enabling each user to establish and save, the most productive order to take each picture and upon completing the session our system will automatically put the picture back into order per the corporate structure.
Providing each user with the most efficient order to take their pictures and increase production time and meet all corporate guidelines, it's a WIN, WIN, WIN.
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To collect media it can require multiple cameras and support tools (holders, etc.) to capture all the media content required to compete in todays online environment, and it can be difficult for a photographer to juggle all these components as they go about their craft..
Our Media Maker has all cameras and components build into ONE package to provide a manageable solution to keep all the proper tools in a photographers hand to create media.
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Whether your a single dealership or have multiple rooftops media standards are important. The order pictures should be taken, the categories, and type media collected, standardation of backgrounds if required, and presentations are paramont.
The Media Maker inserts this standard into every Media Maker before it's shipped and provided uniformity with our automated post-production services to allow the users to be ready to go and always meet the standards required, so they can Take the picture and your done.
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See the last section detailing the post-production work that completes automatically so you can Take the picture and your done.
Categories
Gallery
The dealership sets vehicle template pictures for users to follow.
Specialty
All pictures captured within this category display specialty pictures about the vehicle.
There are several categories to gain pictures. Some dealerships only desire the entire picture set through gallery to save time but we recommend to take the designated pictures within each category to match media collected for all dealerships within your dealership group, and to deliver a full picture set and interactive media.
Review the categories below and what each one collects, all categories will display in the online presentation within our HDViewer within your website..
360 Spin - doors closed
This template helps collect 10 exterior pictures that will be used in gallery and populates a 360 spin.
Wear & tear
All pictures captured within this category to display dents, scratches, worn areas, when needed for full-disclosure.
360 Spin - doors open
This template helps collect 10 exterior pictures that will be used in gallery and populates a 360 spin.
Interior panorama
The media maker is placed on the console and the panorama camera captures a 360 view of the cabins interior.
Gallery sequence
Available for the user to rearrange the order template pictures are preseented to speed production. Upon upload the system will automatically reset to the dealership order of pictures.
Finish
This selection saves all pictures in memory until they are uploaded and a new session is ready to start.
Under-carriage panorama
The media maker is placed under the vehicle and the panorama camera captures a 360 view of the under-carriage after a 5-sec. time delay..
You can use Gallery singularly, or select which categories are important to your needs. The system offers the ability to use one, more, or all of the categories to deliver an incredible visitor experience.
How it works
Type in the last 3-digits of the VIN, the vehicle displays and template shots are presented per category, in the order directed by the dealership but the user can change the picture taking order to speed production. The resulting order is presented for the user to follow, an example picture of the “next picture” that needs to be taken in the sequence is presented and a “ghost overlay” displays over the screen to help position the vehicle in proportion and angle to match the template vehicle. This enables all users taking pictures to capture the same picture uniformity that will display in your online presentations.
Media Maker result in an outdoor environment.
Media Maker result from within our Vehicle Photo Booth
Our media maker kit makes the presentation process easy!