Research on moving images usually presents difficulties because the dynamic medium is not so easy to grasp. Existing software solutions facilitate the task, but are often limited to the medium of audio or video. But in our field — the humanities — we have a lot of various disciplines, each with its specific resource objects like photograph, text, video and audio, but also geographic information data, 3-d models or reflectance transformation imaging (RTI). At our lab, we are developing one virtual research environment with the approach to bring all these different fields and their multimedia content together. The development includes a web-based user interface, a media (stream) server and a database architecture with a long-term perspective.