Sony chief talks codecs
Posted on Oct 31, 2025 by Pro Moviemaker
Sony’s Nobutatsu Takahashi says internal Raw recording will come when filmmakers want it, as Sony continues to innovate with new cinema camera designs
Nobutatsu Takahashi, the general manager of professional imaging technology at Sony, explained that Sony can bring internal Raw recording to its cameras when customers demand it.
As the head of the Sony Cinema Line series, he denied the reason Sony has not yet offered internal Raw is a much-rumoured patent issue with Red over compressed Raw video formats.
He is unconvinced professional filmmakers actually use Raw, citing that even Hollywood blockbuster films find the quality of the X-AVC and ProRes formats to be more than satisfactory, even though the Venice can
output Raw X-OCN files.
Takahashi showed a prototype box-style mini-camera that Sony made especially for the movie F1, which is linked by a cable to a separate recorder unit. He said it recorded in X-AVC, which was used in the movie, and the camera could be put into production in the future.
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