We are not a technology company that hired filmmakers. We are filmmakers who built the technology we wanted to shoot on.

For filmmakers, by filmmakers is not a tagline here. It is who signs off on every stage, every workflow and every shot.

We are not a technology company that hired filmmakers. We are filmmakers who built the technology we wanted to shoot on.

For filmmakers, by filmmakers is not a tagline here. It is who signs off on every stage, every workflow and every shot.

A minute of the work

Features, series, commercials and music videos, shot on our stages.

We knew exactly what we were looking at.

Between us we had spent decades planning sequences shot by shot before anything was built, lighting features and series, and running the kind of production day where a hundred people wait on a single decision. So when LED volumes arrived we did not see a novelty. We saw design, planning, backgrounds and principal photography finally happening in one room, on one day, in front of the director.||Then the industry began renting the technology out as floor space. Stages opened staffed by people who had never been responsible for finishing a shooting day. Productions were handed an LED wall, a list of vendors and an assurance that the rest would take care of itself. It did not, and it still does not. Synapse exists to close that gap, because a stage is only worth building if the people who built it also have to shoot on it.

The people who run Synapse still work on set.

Justin Diener

Two decades as an award-winning executive and line producer for Paramount, Universal, Google and Anonymous Content, working with Peter Berg, Doug Liman, Antoine Fuqua, Francis Lawrence and Marc Webb.

Rich Lee

Thirty years directing and building visual effects. Planned the effects sequences on Minority Report and Pirates of the Caribbean. Directed Limitless for CBS and videos for Eminem, Rihanna and Maroon 5.

Christopher Probst, ASC

ASC cinematographer, nominated for David Fincher's Mindhunter. Former technical editor of American Cinematographer and co-author of The Cine Lens Manual. Hundreds of commercials for Nike, BMW and Audi.

Aaron Gordon

Founder and CEO of Optic Sky, and a Webby and One Show honoree. Partnered with the Rochester Institute of Technology to build one of the first virtual production degree programs in the country.

Duke DuQuesnay

Twenty years in visual effects. At Hydraulx he directed the effects photography on The Avengers, Avatar, Iron Man and Stranger Things, and built the company's camera department from the ground up.

The crew, not the vendor list.

Supervisors who built the volumes they run, and an art department that has designed environments for features and series. The crew you meet in prep is the crew on the floor.

Building the volume

On the floor

Shooting backgrounds

Hitchhiker

Every discipline that puts an image on the wall.

We do not hand a production between vendors. The people who design the environment, run the stage and finish the shot work in the same company, and nearly all of them have crewed on a set.

The filmmakers

Directors, cinematographers, producers and a virtual art department that designs the environments before anyone builds them.

The stage

LED volumes, camera tracking, media servers and color pipeline, engineered and operated to the Synapse Certified standard.

Synapse Capture

Our own capture and environment work: location photography, 3D scans and real-time tools built in house, because nothing off the shelf did what we needed on the day.

Who we build for.

Three cities. And expanding.

Every stage is built and run to the same standard, so a crew that shoots with us in one city knows exactly what it is walking into in the next.

Los Angeles

LA Center Studios. Our flagship volume, and the stage most of our own work is shot on.

Atlanta

Tyler Perry Studios. A Synapse volume on one of the largest production campuses in the country.

New York

Borden. Opening soon, built to the same standard as Los Angeles and Atlanta.

Nobody had written one, so we did.

Synapse Certified is a measured bar for virtual production stages, so a certified stage means the same thing in Los Angeles as it does in Atlanta.

Tell us what you are making.

Bring us a script, a board, or a problem. We will tell you honestly whether virtual production is the right tool for it.