In the Fraunhofer Business Area Digital Media, five institutes are working together to develop key components for a complete digital media workflow and for multi-format and multi-platform content creation and distribution. The institutes offer research and development in the areas of production, audio systems, data compression, post processing, transmission, projection, distribution and digital archiving. As an one-stop competence center for digital media the business area provides for their customers scientific know-how and the development of solutions that can be integrated in workflows and optimize process steps.