Post-Production

Post-production is where your story takes shape. Our full-service team takes all of your raw footage and sculpts it into a polished video that resonates with your audience. Driven by our passion for perfection, we refine and enhance every last detail— frame by frame.

See our passion for yourself! Contact us for your next explainer video, promotional video, product animation, corporate video, trade show animation, digital daily, or feature film.

Our Post Production Services

Video Editing
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Helping you craft a clear, powerful narrative that showcases your brand’s story in an impactful way.

The post-production process begins with skilled video editing. Our filmmakers take all of the raw footage, stock video, and animation and splice it together to create a concise story that effectively conveys your brand’s message.

Beyond simply arranging the footage, we focus on building a clear structure, carefully controlling pacing, and weaving in music and voiceovers to keep audiences engaged. This can also include adding elements like sound effects, dubbing, subtitling, and more.

Our overall goal is to create a polished final deliverable that connects with your target audience and stands out in the crowded media landscape.

2D Animation
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We help you bring abstract concepts to life, breaking down complicated information in order to make it engaging and easy-to-understand for audiences.

Perfect for explainer videos, branded content, advertising, and engaging social media visuals, 2D animation can be anything from lower thirds to animated text builds.

We can even help you design fully original characters, scenes, and transitions, which benefits brands aiming to build recognition. After all, consistent visual style and animation cues help reinforce your brand’s identity.

In creating motion from flat, two-dimensional images, we help you showcase product features or tell a story that captures—and keeps—your audience’s attention.

3D Product Visualization
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We create realistic renderings that highlight important features of your product.

Perfect for web, print, and even user manuals, 3D product visualization creative services are ideal for brands that want to showcase intricate product features and represent them in the best light.

By utilizing engineering files like STEP files, our animators can work directly with the original design data, ensuring that every element of the product is faithfully depicted. This streamlines the production process, allowing our experienced team to focus on enhancing textures, lighting, and rendering in order to produce realistic presentations.

Overall, 3D visualization provides a cost-effective production solution that showcases your product’s appeal, offering a high-quality, immersive viewing experience for your potential customers.

Motion Design
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We add dynamic, engaging motion graphics to communicate key ideas quickly and memorably.

This type of work combines graphic design principles with animation. By introducing movement to elements such as icons, text, and logos, motion design helps capture viewer attention, ensuring that key information about your product or story is communicated quickly and effectively.

Overall, motion design is an extra layer of engagement and is especially valuable in advertisements, explainer videos, and social media content, where concise, engaging visuals are vital.

Color Grading
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To set the visual tone of the piece, we grade each and every shot for consistency in addition to enhancing the overall look and mood.

Color grading is essential in creating the right atmosphere and visual tone. It also allows us to create visual consistency across shots, ensuring that scenes appear seamless and cohesive, even when filmed in different lighting or locations.

Our color correction specialists use DaVinci Resolve to adjust color balance, contrast, and saturation, ensuring each frame aligns with your story’s emotional intent. From warm and nostalgic hues to modern cool tones, our colorists use this step in the process to transform mere footage into rich, visual storytelling.

3D Animation
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Our 3D animations add depth and realism in order to bring products and stories closer to your audience.

Perfect for immersive product demonstrations and virtual tours, 3D animation can elevate brand storytelling by adding depth and lifelike movement to your visuals. It is especially effective for industries like technology, manufacturing, and architecture, where accurate visual representation is key.

Our in-house design team creates detailed models, textures, and lighting to simulate realism and stylized looks that suit your brand’s aesthetic. Therefore, by combining your realism with our creativity, we can help you captivate viewers and deliver a memorable brand experience.

VFX
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We add visual effects to live-action shots in order to enhance reality and its impact.

Our award-winning team uses visual effects to integrate digital enhancements into live-action footage. From adding atmospheric elements like rain or sunlight or simply removing distracting objects, we take each shot to its full potential.

These realistic effects help you achieve visually captivating results without needing complex or expensive on-site setups—all while immersing viewers into your story.

Aligned Media’s post-production studio is equipped with advanced tools and technology that streamline our workflows and ensure a high-quality end product. Here’s a look at the tools we use to bring your vision to life:

  • 4 Editing/Animation Suites
  • Sound Design Suite
  • High-Speed Shared SAN
  • Gig Internet
  • 3D Accelerated Workstations
  • Backup and Archiving System

Post-Production Tools We Use

All of our editing suites have custom-built PCs that are designed to accelerate 2D and 3D rendering. They are also all connected via a high-speed network to internal servers specifically built to accommodate 8K raw video playback.

No red tape, no egos… just great work with a team that’s got your back.

Aligned Media thrives on partnership, collaborating with you every step of the way to ensure the final project reflects your vision.

No matter your budget, we’ve got the expertise, the gear, and a no-fuss approach to deliver video content creation that clicks with your audience.

The best part? You can pop into our post-production house in the heart of the St. Louis Arts District at any point during the video production process to collaborate. We’ve designed our studio to feel like home, complete with all the latest gear, comfy decor, and a vibe that’s just right for the creativity to flow.

But if you can’t make it to our post-production facility, no worries! From Los Angeles to New York, we can travel wherever your story takes us.

Contact Us to Get the Ball Rolling

Ready to turn raw footage into something phenomenal? Drop us a line or swing by our post-production company anytime. Whether it’s a strategy session over shuffleboard, checking in on your project, or you simply want to chat, we’re always ready to collaborate.

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