Canal+ will release a new documentary about MotoGP on Apple Vision Pro this September.
Filmed entirely with the new Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive camera and finished in DaVinci Resolve Studio, it follows world champion Johann Zarco and his team during the French Grand Prix in Le Mans.
The production team captured the action using the URSA Cine Immersive camera with dual 8160 x 7200 (58.7 Megapixel) sensors at 90fps, delivering 3D immersive cinema content to a single file mixed with Apple Spatial Audio.
To place the viewer at the centre of the action, Canal+ deployed multiple URSA Cine Immersive cameras. Each camera was paired with an ambisonic microphone to capture first order spatial audio, the ambisonic mics were supplemented by discrete microphones for interviews and other critical sound sources.
The team had a portable production cart with a Mac Studio running DaVinci Resolve Studio, alongside an Apple Vision Pro, set up trackside to monitor and test shots in context.
Canal+ had a second Mac Studio running DaVinci Resolve Studio and an Apple Vision Pro set up at the hotel in Le Mans to handle media offload and backups. With 8TB of internal storage, recording directly to the Media Module, the crew could film more than two hours of 8K stereoscopic 3D immersive footage on the track without having to change cards.
Post production took place in Paris, where Canal+ used a Mac Studio running DaVinci Resolve Studio for editing, colour grading, and audio mixing. Spatial Audio was mixed using DaVinci Resolve Studio’s Fairlight.
“MotoGP is made for this format,” said Etienne Pidoux at Canal+. “You feel the raw speed, and you see details you’d otherwise miss on a flat screen. It puts you closer to the machines and the team than ever before.”
“Immersive video changes how you shoot,” added Pidoux. “You plan more, shoot less, and you rethink composition because of the 180-degree view, especially in tight or crowded spaces like the pit lane. We added some extra light to compensate for the 90 frames per second stereoscopic capture.”
“Filming with the URSA Cine Immersive camera and viewing it in Apple Vision Pro, we found incredible moments we’d normally treat as background. Cleaning the track, helmet close ups, the crowd, they all become part of the experience.”
The MotoGP Apple Immersive sports experience will be available exclusively on the Canal+ app on Apple Vision Pro from September 2025.
