What is flying in the sky at the one-year countdown party of the Olympic Games? Is it a real plane?

That's called "flying cat", which is a relatively advanced TV camera equipment. It stands on a track pulled up by several steel cables. "Flying cat" is like a car with wheels. It can walk on the track. The car is equipped with a camera, which can shoot the scene from the air, and its lens is transmitted to the ground broadcast car through the line connected to the car.

Camera system of flying cat ropeway

The shooting height difference ranges from tens of meters to hundreds of meters.

Theoretically, it can still be used normally when the wind speed is 70 km/h.

Tracking the target can reach thousands of meters or even more.

The top speed can be as high as 130 km/h or 36 m/s.

The lens can rotate 360 degrees.

No jitter, stable picture and no noise.

Simple and convenient installation

Traditional aerial photography is realized by rocker arm and aerial photography (airplane photography), each of which has its own limitations and shortcomings.

The lifting height of the rocker arm is very limited, and it can only be fixed in a small radius to shoot. The noise and trembling of helicopter during aerial photography is an insurmountable problem for all photographers, which makes aerial photography can only be used to shoot long-distance shots and cannot reflect the detailed movement of the subject. Cost problem and communication of aerial photography

Tracking shooting is also an important means for depicting long-distance moving objects. But the track must rely on the support of the ground, and the crux is self-evident. It can only move on the plane, but it can't be vivid in three-dimensional space, and the speed of trajectory shooting can't be accurately controlled, which puts forward high artificial technical requirements for photographers.

The flying cat was born in this way. It is an elf cruising in the air, recording everything with open eyes, and all kinds of impossible shots of rocker arms/aerial photography/tracks, just like flying cats.

Accurate mobile controllability is realized by high-tech remote control means. The smooth ropeway will not have the slightest tremor, and the top speed can reach 1.20 km/h. Tracking shooting at a distance of hundreds of meters or even thousands of meters, the gap of tens of meters in three-dimensional space and strong visual impact will make the traditional shooting method only sigh!

What we need to do is to think, design, what kind of picture we want, what kind of effect we want,

As a high-tech shooting method, it has been widely used and recognized in the world. Flying cats are widely used in commercials/MVs, scenery documentaries, large-scale party scenes, Harry Potter, Resident Evil, Troy and other films, as well as sports events broadcast in Salt Lake City/Athens/Turin Olympic Games. It was this flying cat that flew over Berlin Olympic Stadium at the closing ceremony of the 2006 World Cup.

Another host speaks French, which is one of the official languages of the International Olympic Committee.