INSANE camera behind AVATAR 2 and TOP GUN | Sony "J" CAM

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    🔥🔥Behind The Scenes of Cinematography SERIES - • The Production of Film... 🔥🔥
    AVATAR WAY OF WATER RIG: • The CRAZY Camera James...
    James Camerons had "needs" and SONY stepped up, resulting in one of 2022's most influential camera systems. The Sony Venice Rialto.
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    0:00 James Cameron had... needs
    0:23 Sony Venice Rialto System
    0:58 Tasks that are incredibly complex... do they have to be?
    2:07 Traditional rigs getting in the way of AVATAR Way of Water
    2:55 Cameron reached out to Sony to make the "J" cam
    3:39 The Sony Venice Rialto is born
    4:11 But it's not just about James Cameron
    4:45 TOP GUN MAVERICK
    5:13 Fitting the Venice in a fighter Jet
    6:45 GRAN TURISMO
    7:01 Using the Venice Rialto to make gamelike viewpoints
    8:23 SONY's MOST EXPENSIVE CAMERA
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  • @FrameVoyager
    @FrameVoyager  Рік тому +9

    What "needs" can your camera manufacturer fulfill? 😏😏😏
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  • @alain99v6
    @alain99v6 Рік тому +31

    I was the digital technician on Journey to the center of the earth 3D for the second unit, the 3D cameras were supplied by James Cameron, the main unit was working with beam splitter rigs while we were shotting with a side-by-side 3D setup, the ancestor of the system shown in your video, it was custom made with 2 sony studio HD camera, for which the sensors were removed and fitted inside a carbon fibre cube with B4 lens mounths, the les lens mounts on the camera were replaces with a huge multipin connectors that was tapping into the camera circuits, the camera bodies were fixed on a video cart using plain VCT-14 camera plate, the main unit used a similar system too but like I mentionned, on a beam splitter mirror mount, the main problem was the cables they would break easily

  • @DavidMcCoul
    @DavidMcCoul Рік тому +3

    They built a “J” camera for J. Cameron. Clever

  • @giljesusseraspe9225
    @giljesusseraspe9225 Рік тому +3

    I love Sony and I love this! ♥️❤️♥️❤️♥️

  • @dice268926
    @dice268926 Рік тому +3

    This got me hype for GT.. lol
    Didn't know they were making a movie, so much tech now to make it REALLY look like a Video Game in real life

  • @Zaqariyah
    @Zaqariyah Рік тому +2

    7:02 - I'm so happy to see Blomkamp as a director! He deserves more than just yt videos!

  • @CNC-Time-Lapse
    @CNC-Time-Lapse Рік тому +38

    I have to say, watching Frame Voyager videos are like watch the very best content UA-cam can provide without the annoying streaming service subscription. I swear, your content could be on network television. Fantastic content!

    • @FrameVoyager
      @FrameVoyager  Рік тому

      🥰️🥰️🥰️

    • @nekola203
      @nekola203 Рік тому

      Specially while using Sponsorblock. Couldn't even imagine watching this shit without it.

  • @balmofilms
    @balmofilms Рік тому +2

    Man, I love each of your videos!
    I saw the rialto system in a couple of showrooms back in he day, and I love seeing how all this creative people have used it.

  • @bryansheehy2000
    @bryansheehy2000 Рік тому +1

    You're killing it with this channel. Good stuff.

  • @bigqflex
    @bigqflex Рік тому +30

    The Rialto wasn’t the first Sony did with a split block. They had a system for the HDC-1500 called the HKC-T1500. They were used a lot for gyro stabilized cameras on helicopters for broadcast. That was probably a decade before the Venice came out.

    • @jvaDigital
      @jvaDigital Рік тому +1

      Also can’t forget the alexa M!

    • @watchvideosoul
      @watchvideosoul 2 місяці тому

      Correct!
      In fact pretty much all BVP & HDC broadcast cameras from BVP-550 through to HDC-2500 have had interchangeable sensor blocks, with the ability to use T Blocks for remote operation (gimbals or 3D etc).

  • @mikevlack7687
    @mikevlack7687 Рік тому +1

    The original J-Cam was based on F900s for a side-by-side 3D rig. Built by Sony for Panavision. I can't remember, but I think it was initally for the Terminator 2 ride film at Universal Studios that Cameron was making at the time. A few years ago, I saw Panavision were selling some of these cameras on E-Bay. That's what jogged my memory about them.

  • @kayjaylin
    @kayjaylin Рік тому

    That brand integration....SMOOOTH.

  • @richardwilliamson1533
    @richardwilliamson1533 Рік тому +23

    I've loved working with the Venice cams. The rialto system makes for some cool rigging that was previously only possible with the old Arri Alexa M.

    • @daniellove162
      @daniellove162 Рік тому +1

      It’s interesting that the rialto (on Venice 1) doesn’t record raw but uses Sony’s 10 bit log profile.

    • @berkertaskiran
      @berkertaskiran Рік тому +1

      Sensor can also be detached in Alexa 65. They did the same thing in The Revenant.

    • @Postman00
      @Postman00 Рік тому

      @@daniellove162 The Venice itself doesn't record RAW without an AXS-R7

  • @TheAMadMan
    @TheAMadMan Рік тому +1

    This is the kind of cool stuff you can do with properly designed modular systems.
    Seeing this in action finally gives me a reason to give Avatar 2 a watch.

  • @xWood4000
    @xWood4000 Рік тому +16

    Hopefully Sony starts to listen to their lower end consumers at some point. Focus breathing compensation is in the A7IV but not in the A1. And things like shutter angle, waveforms and DCI 4K/open gate has been requested for so long for their cine line

    • @FrameVoyager
      @FrameVoyager  Рік тому +13

      I'm sorry... did you say your name wasn't James Cameron? ☎️**Click**

    • @jacobdean1858
      @jacobdean1858 Рік тому

      @@FrameVoyager I feel triggered.

  • @deangofnungproductions
    @deangofnungproductions Рік тому +3

    these stories are all so interesting. it is amazing to learn about how a movie was filmed and with what new tech!

    • @FrameVoyager
      @FrameVoyager  Рік тому +1

      We cover that a lot on this channel. A lot of the videos we try and get interviews from the people working on the shows or movies!

    • @deangofnungproductions
      @deangofnungproductions Рік тому +1

      @@FrameVoyager yes! I love your channel ☺

    • @FrameVoyager
      @FrameVoyager  Рік тому +1

      @@deangofnungproductions 🥰🥰🥰

  • @andreathode3782
    @andreathode3782 Рік тому +2

    Sony really knocked it out if the park with the rialto!

    • @FrameVoyager
      @FrameVoyager  Рік тому +1

      They really did. Feels like a little bit of a flex for their development team 😂

  • @izzieb
    @izzieb Рік тому +7

    Love these videos, always learn something new. As for James Cameron having a need for blue creatures, I'd say the jury is still out on that.

  • @NatesFilmTutorials
    @NatesFilmTutorials Рік тому +2

    🔥video! keep it up

  • @johnthomasgoerke7852
    @johnthomasgoerke7852 Рік тому +2

    2 minutes in, and this is the most fun and informative video I've seen in a month.

    • @oat1000
      @oat1000 Рік тому

      You must really like ads

    • @johnthomasgoerke7852
      @johnthomasgoerke7852 Рік тому

      @Taistelu_pelto Yikes. Can you recommend any videos about proctology? I'd like to learn how to respond to assholes, such as yourself.

  • @Stasiek_Zabojca
    @Stasiek_Zabojca Рік тому

    This is so handy and revolutionary that it seems weird, that it have not been made, or at least it didn't work out, that good for cinema industry earlier.

  • @ZankitVeeEz
    @ZankitVeeEz Рік тому +1

    Once Sony was synonym of Televisions. Now it's cameras.

  • @PetesShredder
    @PetesShredder Рік тому +2

    The Alexa M did this 10 years ago. Also silicon imaging had something similar even longer ago. The Batman used rialto on a lot of the car shots too

    • @FrameVoyager
      @FrameVoyager  Рік тому

      Difference being the rialto can be used for both. If I remembering right, the Alexa M was only just an Alexa they cut in 2 and it wasn't a detachable sensor block?

    • @PetesShredder
      @PetesShredder Рік тому

      @@FrameVoyager yeah it was two units connected by a cable and I don't think you could unplug it either

  • @Abeisgreat1
    @Abeisgreat1 Рік тому +1

    I work as a dolly grip in Toronto working on big TV shows. I have only worked on 1 arri show in the past 4 years. Everything has been sony

  • @mutalix
    @mutalix Рік тому +3

    "Sony always wins, you can't beat Sony".

  • @azv343
    @azv343 Рік тому

    Chris Nolan is seething... SEETHING!!!! 😂

  • @michaelspencer5614
    @michaelspencer5614 Рік тому

    i'd be curious for more info on the Alexa XT M !

  • @LarsZu
    @LarsZu Рік тому

    There is something budget friendly around with a zcam. I've seen it at IBC 2022 used as a helmet cam.

  • @Skrenja
    @Skrenja Рік тому +1

    I think the Venice is the best digital cinema camera out. From the movies I've seen shot on it, no other camera emulates the film look as well.

  • @pizdacipkowska7405
    @pizdacipkowska7405 Рік тому +4

    Actually, Cameron talked to Arri first and they built one in 2011 ua-cam.com/video/oe8MmjNpryE/v-deo.html but they could not deliver a 4K version of the camera on time for Avatar 2, then Cameron reached out to SONY and they delivered.

    • @FrameVoyager
      @FrameVoyager  Рік тому +1

      Yep! Probably should have mentioned that. Though Cameron has worked with Sony for a while. It also makes sense Sony had the R&D power to deliver so quickly too.

  • @watchvideosoul
    @watchvideosoul 2 місяці тому

    Watching this reminded me: did we ever find out what the Sony camera was that was being used on Apex is?

  • @filipmichalsaffray441
    @filipmichalsaffray441 Рік тому

    Frame Voyager really best docu about film world around for free...men great work...a question about a Blackmagic BMPCC and URSA12K Camera Fan any hope for the brand or will it be soon in your video Program as one of the abonndoned camera line...?

  • @Shiinamusiclyricssubs
    @Shiinamusiclyricssubs Рік тому

    it's insane that those hollywood filmmakers are using the same e-mount lenses as i do on a cheap a6000

  • @dimitrimoonlight
    @dimitrimoonlight Рік тому +2

    It's like the IMAX prooved DJI ronin 4D but without intelligent gimbal 😁

  • @sadovski.pavel.photography
    @sadovski.pavel.photography Рік тому +2

    Bro, cool video. But watch your sound levels and balance between your narration and soundtracks from films, TopGun track really hit my ears :)

    • @FrameVoyager
      @FrameVoyager  Рік тому +3

      Whoops. I may have forgotten to add the leveler on it. Sorry about that. I have a little Nolan in me when it comes to music haha

  • @kcliffordphoto
    @kcliffordphoto Рік тому +4

    Woah people don’t like it when they need to jump over hurdles and use third party adapters to overcome nonsensical design flaws? You’d never know looking at the world around us

  • @YuutaShinjou113
    @YuutaShinjou113 Рік тому

    Is a DSLR-shaped discrete sensor block possible? It would be like the Rialto but shaped like a DSLR.

  • @alpenfoxvideo7255
    @alpenfoxvideo7255 Рік тому

    i’ll wonder if we will have an FX camera with a remote head, to be used like the Ronin 4D

  • @JacobCarlson
    @JacobCarlson Рік тому +1

    I'm curious, does anyone know if there is a limit to the length of cable that can be used for the Rialto? Like if at a certain length, you start to experience a degradation in quality or too much latency to pull focus?

    • @FrameVoyager
      @FrameVoyager  Рік тому

      I think currently 18 feet is the farthest away it's able to go. 9ft cable and then a 9 ft extension cable. It's an interesting to think about if we could have a wireless version in like 10-20 years. I wonder what the transmission rate would need to be...

    • @qiyuxuan9437
      @qiyuxuan9437 Рік тому

      For very long range, optical fiber cable is the way to go. There are very long thunderbolt optical cables(20+ meters), those cable can handle massive amount of data, like over 3gb per second.

    • @jona623e
      @jona623e Рік тому +1

      The Rialto 2 does a max of 12 meters!
      You wouldn't so much get delay, but sending such an incredibly immense amount of raw data over fiber is very difficult. The final recorded RAW file can be up to around 670MB/s.

  • @joevssteve
    @joevssteve Рік тому

    I think that chievo did it before Jim in the revenant when he had choped the Alexa

  • @somename8831
    @somename8831 Рік тому +1

    Detached camera has been something you wanted in a lot of different types of camera systems but it has never been implemented for some reason, but we all know its cost... gotta get that last 0,1% profit instead of a user friendly system.

  • @rilril5129
    @rilril5129 Рік тому +7

    Would love to see a video on the origins of this tech via the SI-2k (Slumdog Millionare) and Alexa M - way ahead of their time but what prevented them from being as popular as the Rialto has become?

    • @FrameVoyager
      @FrameVoyager  Рік тому +1

      That one is on our list!

    • @jmalmsten
      @jmalmsten Рік тому

      Yeah, every time I hear about this new tech/party trick, I'm thinking specifically of articles I read about SI2K and Slumdog Millionaire. Even going back further, the whole concept of the "cam-corder" back in the 80's was to sell the new convenience of having the recorder on the camera as opposed to having the recorder in a separate box in a sling bag or a table/rack box nearby which was the norm for mobile video recording before that invention.
      Though. I think the real innovation with the J-Cam came with the increased resolution in that detachable sensor. Making it possible to get that mobility while keeping the image quality.

    • @berkertaskiran
      @berkertaskiran Рік тому

      @@jmalmsten It's not really an innovation because Alexa 65 can do the same thing. It was done in The Revenant (2015). Alexa 65 has a larger sensor and a larger resolution at uncompressed raw. I don't know why Cameron haven't used an Alexa. Probably because he has better relations with Sony and maybe something to do with 3D.

    • @jmalmsten
      @jmalmsten Рік тому

      @@berkertaskiran
      Yeah, business-relations are probably in play. Sony can provide way more exposure with their channels through ads on TVs, Playstation, directly to consumers and everything else. ARRI, ... Is "just" a camera and equipment company.

    • @watchvideosoul
      @watchvideosoul 2 місяці тому

      They weren't actually the first. Sony have been doing detachable sensor blocks since about 1995!

  • @nerfbutt
    @nerfbutt Рік тому

    I'm surprised more (lower end) camera companies aren't doing the split block approach. I'd love to see a Blackmagic, Canon version, or same on Sony's mid-range camera range. I guess it's such a niche use that it's hard to justify for the mass market.

    • @slinkytrips
      @slinkytrips Рік тому

      Sony had the UMC-S3C which was a block camera version of one of the A7 models, the problem was despite removing all the stuff to make it smaller it cost a lot more than the standard A7, it has since been discontinued. Granted it wasn't a split block but when you add in a remote battery, screen and controller it's not too far off that concept.

    • @jona623e
      @jona623e Рік тому

      Very niche and also very expensive. Also only makes sense with cameras that are larger in their original format. A Blackmagic or similar is already as small as you're gonna get

  • @ActuallyHoudini
    @ActuallyHoudini Рік тому +8

    what i'd think would be more impressive is if ghey were able to make imax film cameras that fit into these tight areas. say what you will about digital being the more superior thing, but the advancements made in recent years in records to how absolutely miniscule things can be produced with the technology we have now, i don't think that super-8 sized IMAX resolution film is an impossibillity anymore. it'd be great to see if we take what we know about reducing the size of digital sensors and applied it to film cinematography.

    • @FrameVoyager
      @FrameVoyager  Рік тому

      haha for sure! But I think that's starting to become something that no one will want to mess with when you have systems like these in place. Cost/Reward benefits might start to become less and less

    • @ActuallyHoudini
      @ActuallyHoudini Рік тому +1

      @@FrameVoyager Well I don't think there's much of a cost/reward in regards to film-making in general. Or just, making stuff in general. You of all people should know that producing cinematographic equipment overall is a hit or a miss. So people taking that experimentation and applying that to film and film cameras, I think it'd be as succesful as most other cinematographic ventures. Kodak is starting to get a lot more hands-on with their partnered filmmakers. They produced 35mm Ektachrome stock for Euphoria and 75mm Eastman Double-X stock for Christopher Nolan for Oppenheimer. So they are open to modification and technological advancements to suit the filmmaker's needs, just like Sony or RED or Arri. Digital has not killed film, as some people really love to claim. In fact, it's helped it. The advancements of digital can be applied to film, and I think they will very soon. My prediction is we'll see orthochromatic cinefilm coming from Kodak very soon and as I said, IMAX quality images at Super8 sizes.

  • @BigKarl519
    @BigKarl519 Рік тому +2

    Can we get a abandon camera episode on the 2016 CRAFT modular cinema camera?

  • @lyht5626
    @lyht5626 Рік тому

    “Sony listens to their customers” tell me you’ve never had to shoot with an fx6 without telling me you’ve never had to shoot with an fx6…😂

  • @mrshaheedmalik
    @mrshaheedmalik Рік тому

    You imagine putting this on a Cine Lifter?

  • @mrshaheedmalik
    @mrshaheedmalik Рік тому +1

    They should've put the camera in the Mechwarrior rig from the first Avatar.

    • @FrameVoyager
      @FrameVoyager  Рік тому +1

      That would have been the smart thing to do

    • @mrshaheedmalik
      @mrshaheedmalik Рік тому +1

      @@FrameVoyager my back hurts just looking at him hold it.

    • @FrameVoyager
      @FrameVoyager  Рік тому +1

      @@mrshaheedmalik Seriously though haha

  • @reyluna9332
    @reyluna9332 Рік тому

    I'm down for the GT movie if the cars are the stars.

  • @EmptyLose
    @EmptyLose Рік тому

    But what I don’t get, Arri did this 10 years ago with the Arri M

  • @Schrlenproductions
    @Schrlenproductions Рік тому

    I really hate directors who just want to act like cinematographers on set without being an actual cinematographer!

  • @ekming751
    @ekming751 Рік тому

    Did the actor in top gun 2 really fly the F18, while self filming themselves ?

    • @BobbyGeneric145
      @BobbyGeneric145 Рік тому

      No, they were in the back seat normally occupied by the weapons officer.

  • @luqman7970
    @luqman7970 Рік тому

    unbereable with how loud this is

  • @Bast6
    @Bast6 Рік тому +1

    20th Century STUDIO.
    Disney won't be happy about the "fox"... And will force you to listen to "It's a small world after all" for eternity ! 🤣

    • @FrameVoyager
      @FrameVoyager  Рік тому

      My literal nightmare 😳
      But they did have that play before the avatar movie if I'm not mistaken 😅

    • @Bast6
      @Bast6 Рік тому +1

      @@FrameVoyager The First one yes, not the second. Bewaaaaaaaare

    • @FrameVoyager
      @FrameVoyager  Рік тому +1

      @@Bast6 👀

  • @presston
    @presston Рік тому

    why do you need all those fancy camera when the final film you see is 100% cgi?

  • @AnotherCameraChannel
    @AnotherCameraChannel Рік тому +1

    first

    • @FrameVoyager
      @FrameVoyager  Рік тому

      You've been first a lot lately 😅😅😅

  • @marcsmithsonian9773
    @marcsmithsonian9773 Рік тому

    Toyota makes better cams. Celica was diuble cam shaft car.

  • @peltsi1993
    @peltsi1993 Рік тому

    Just a note here: i find the youtuber humor repulsive and distracting. If it helps you reach a wider audience i'll deal with it. Cheers.

  • @tokelahti
    @tokelahti Рік тому +1

    Hmm, split camera, when Sony did that last time...
    www.broadcaststore.com/pdf/model/816495/F35%20Brochure%201_0.pdf
    page 8...

  • @graealex
    @graealex Рік тому +2

    YИOƧ is a camera brand I haven't heard in quite some time