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1. Cineflex- Grand Canyon
2 years ago
Aerial Filmworks is working with the Grand Canyon National Park to film the national park using the Cineflex V14HD. This amazing gyro-stabilized aerial system uses an integrated Sony CineAlta HDC1500 camera with 42x 9.7mm Fujinon lens. All footage was recorded 1080/23.98p dual-link 4:4:4 to a Sony SRW1 deck on HDCAM SR tape stock.

The original HDCAM SR source tapes were digitized using an AJA Kona3 card to a MacPro 8 core with 17Gb RAM, and edited with Final Cut Pro at our inhouse edit suite.

The Cineflex V14HD was mounted on the nose of a Bell 206B3 Jet Ranger helicopter. We worked closely with the national park to make sure all permissions and permits were in place. Daily updates to local air traffic control and the tour helicopter companies were sent on flight days. Our pilot was specifically approved for the operation by the FAA and Department of Interior. We mapped reference points to the GPS and input sensitive condor nesting areas that we needed to avoid. Natural resource and wildlife managers reviewed our flight plans.

The Aerial Filmworks team believes in doing our part to maintain a carbon neutral planet. Through a partnership with TerraPass, we invest in carbon offsets for every hour of flight time that our Cineflex equipment is on a helicopter.

All Grand Canyon clips are available as HD stock footage.
  • Martijn Doornenbal plus 2 years ago
    beautiful shots! it must have been really amazing flying through the grand canyon.
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  • King Learie 2 years ago
    Yup! the Mutt's Nuts!!!!
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  • Helge Hafstad plus 2 years ago
    A beauty! What more to say!

    Great that you offset emissions. Leave no trail, good motto for anyone caring for nature.
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  • John Rappold plus 2 years ago
    Stunning...and too short!
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  • Megan Leigh Sweeney plus 2 years ago
    Gorgeous. What a special way to view the Grand Canyon. Everyone needs to visit at least once.
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  • Brilliant color and clarity. Nice!
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  • mike ambs plus 2 years ago
    That was stunning! Beautiful camera work - I can't wait to take a ride over the Grand Canyon after watching this :)
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  • Richard M Chavez 2 years ago
    Nicely done.....
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  • jmarkley 2 years ago
    Beautiful clear images of the Grand Canyon, very nice!
  • studioworkplus 2 years ago
    Beautiful indeed, been to grand canyon and experienced the Skywalk but nothing can compare the feeling of going around the lower part of the canyon and the Colorado river. Congrats!
  • Aerial Filmworks plus 2 years ago
    I agree! Now that I have flown over the Canyon, I want to raft the river. The pilot and I kept saying to each other... "we want to be down there!"
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  • Stunning!!
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  • vveltze 2 years ago
    beautiful work. hongera !
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  • Petar Klašnja 2 years ago
    Nice works ...
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  • Lovely scenery captured perfectly, but why is HD not available?
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  • ferrinspace 2 years ago
    The very good vision enjoys
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  • makemassair 2 years ago
    Epic stuff.
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  • Excellent . . . even after seeing it a second time. Thanks for sharing your piece on Vimeo.
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  • Jose Bayón plus 2 years ago
    How wonderful! Fantastic shots. I do not know why I feel they could have taken more advantage of file compression. Thanks for sharing.
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  • Jerry Saale plus 2 years ago
    Stunning!
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  • Simon M 2 years ago
    Beautiful! miss HD.
    But it all reminds me on BBC's Planet Earth (HD), Part 3, Fresh Water
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  • Amenon plus 2 years ago
    Superb footage. Appreciate the care and professional approach used in planning the flights and shots, but still could not help thinking of the noise pollution that helicopters cause in such places. Still, wonderful footage of an extraordinary location.
  • Aerial Filmworks plus 2 years ago
    Hi Amenon, I agree about the potential noise issue. We avoided any contact with people rafting on the river and created concise flight paths to minimize our time in any one area.
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  • nick jacobsen plus 2 years ago
    which settings did he/you use for exporting from FCP?

    Absolutly AMAZING work!!!
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  • My Blu Horizon 2 years ago
    Beautiful, absolutely wonderful scenery. Great work.
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  • Antonio 2 years ago
    Grat work indeed! Absolutely.
    The music? What is the music?
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  • Ryan Purcell 2 years ago
    Great photography. Real pretty stuff. Check out a video my company produced using air to air Gyron mounted shots. This video shows a behind the scenes look at how it all works.

    vimeo.com/7566422
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  • Mennis Productions 2 years ago
    Amazing!
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  • Germán Zapata 2 years ago
    this is great really great. but i wish you would've uploaded an HD version...
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  • Temukong 2 years ago
    Wow..simply majestic! Good to have background music from Nicholas Gunn "The Grand Canyon".
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  • PSHK FLMS 2 years ago
    I really have no words ;s speechless.. this is the true beauty! 10 out of 5!
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  • Nathan Penny 2 years ago
    Simply beautiful.
    I too echo the call for HD!
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  • It's nice to it again !
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  • Jon Rawlinson pro 2 years ago
    Very nice!

    Too bad its not in HD.

    :(
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  • Aram Zegerius 2 years ago
    You should be in HD! Though, a true piece of art it is.
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  • Jordan Hochstetler plus 2 years ago
    Great... but REALLY needs to be in HD!
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  • E. J. Irish 2 years ago
    Mystic, spiritual and beautiful!
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  • Tom Wiedemann 2 years ago
    cineflex is always amazing! majestic stuff!
    Had the chance to fly a couple times over Berlin with such a system.

    Paperwork is always nasty. Flying in the governmental district in Berlin was as hard as it can get in Germany when it comes to permission.

    So this was not recorded on the SRW-1 but with a mac with 16Gigs RAM amazing!

    cheers
  • Aerial Filmworks plus 2 years ago
    Hi Tom,

    We recorded to HDCAM SR on the SRW1, then those tapes were digitized using FCP. Sorry for the confusion!

    Ron
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  • MetalFusion 2 years ago
    Awesome! I would love a HD download thought.
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  • John Green plus 2 years ago
    I can't imagine better resolution if the video were in HD. It was *shot* in HD, with one of the best cameras imaginable, and the video I see is truly remarkable and stunning. As always, "if it looks good, it IS good!"
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  • Pathetic Pictures plus 2 years ago
    Years ago when it was legal I flew a C172 below the rim. Didn't have a movie camera with me, just 35m Kodachrome. I remember the water being a lot dirtier than that.
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  • mas73 2 years ago
    Beautiful stunning capture! Definitely a great share for those who have never been to the Grand Canyon and for those who wouldn't mind going again!
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  • Zbigniew Prochowski 2 years ago
    Awesome... awersome... awesome...
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  • Andrew Swan 2 years ago
    Very, very professional work.
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  • Natalie Newman 2 years ago
    What are the lens specs? All of those shots were in real time? (no slo mo?)
    Beautiful light...
  • Aerial Filmworks plus 2 years ago
    The lens is a 42x 9.7mm Fujinon which allows for those extreme close-ups of the river from a higher altitude. Most of the shots are real time- we did speed up a few, like the cloud sequence.
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  • Daniele Bettazzi 2 years ago
    FAntastic
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  • Rob Hutt 2 years ago
    Well....grand!
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  • Teleisias 2 years ago
    Awesome pictures! I love anything in nature but my favorite are the canyons.
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  • Dean Keller 2 years ago
    As beautiful as the canyon is from above it's exponentially better from below. Take a hike!!!
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  • Ran Naim 2 years ago
    Supreme adventure to observe such a movie. Well done. Kudos
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  • joss2007 2 years ago
    Everybody thinks this is a great work and they're absolutely right. Wonderful location plus nice point of view. In addition, I really liked the film's music. Go ahead..
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  • Matt Tesluk 2 years ago
    Amazing! would be moreso in HD!
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  • Vladimir Shafikov 2 years ago
    really breathtaking! thanks for video)))
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  • Jani Saajanaho 2 years ago
    Amazing! Is this ever gonna be available as HD download?
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  • logan black 2 years ago
    Fantastic place
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  • dora maharaj 2 years ago
    Great job of capturing some of nature's most intriging scenes. Very professional work.Keep on at it. It's just awesome.
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  • Nicholas Deistler 2 years ago
    dude the shots are beautiful. how much for a day in a heli?
  • Aerial Filmworks plus 2 years ago
    Helicopters range in price from $850 - 1,750 per hour. We dry-leased an aircraft and brought in our own contract pilot to keep the costs reasonable- so we were at the lower end of the scale. We flew about 5 hours a day for a week.
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  • Joel Barquez 2 years ago
    Breathtaking! I love it.
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  • John Traill 2 years ago
    Fantastic !!
    took me back to the mid sixties when I camped thru many different areas for almost 4 months
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  • TuristaHD 2 years ago
    Hi, fantastic place. I'd like to embed it at turistahd.com.br - A brazilian travel site. Can I?
  • Aerial Filmworks plus 2 years ago
    Sure, please credit Aerial Filmworks with a link to our site.
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  • Harry Juselius plus 2 years ago
    Awesome, stunning, amazing, fantastic breathtaking experience in full screen...wow...Harry.
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  • Sheriva S. 2 years ago
    It my intent to visit this magnificent place one day... soon!
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  • Ahsan Arshad 2 years ago
    Stunning work Sir !... Just beautiful !

    :)
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  • Rosemary Gregory 1 year ago
    This is just magnificent! Thank you!
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  • Amazing, Ron. I love 1:42.
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  • Alex Gower-Jackson plus 1 year ago
    Hi Ron, here is the stuff I shot on the Cineflex for the 2010 Olympics

    vimeo.com/9526954
  • Aerial Filmworks plus 1 year ago
    Awesome Alex, so good to hear from you. Great work!
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  • Alex Gower-Jackson plus 1 year ago
    And some more stuff shot on your gear.

    vimeo.com/5326025
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  • Alex Gower-Jackson plus 1 year ago
    This is just beautiful.
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  • Ivan Čiš 1 year ago
    it's great...Could it be uploaded in HD. I would very much love that :)
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  • Miguel Costa 1 year ago
    Hi. First I want to congratulate all the team for such an amazing work, both as capturing this fantastic scenery and as trying to avoid any disturbance in the environment.
    Second, I want to know when (and where) can I buy the Blueray :D
    I'm from Portugal and I have always dreamed about visiting the Grand Canyon. Unfortunately, I don't have enough money to travel to the States, yet.
    Best regards.
    Miguel Costa
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  • Make Some Tea plus 1 year ago
    Thank you for such detailed description of this project.
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  • Wayne Mendryk 1 year ago
    Having been to the Grand Canyon myself, I can truly say that this video captures the essence and beauty of the area, just as I remember it, in the most remarkable way.
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  • UpInTheAir.me 11 months ago
    Thank you for uncovering the beauty of our planet!!!
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  • Carlos Espinoza 6 months ago
    Definately needs HD, you went through all that work, and bragged about it, the least thing you could do is make HDable.

    Brilliant nonetheless
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  • vadim andreev 5 months ago
    очень красиво!)
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  • Wil van Lammeren plus 3 months ago
    The amazing beauty of our World
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  • Peliculeras Vimeo plus 2 months ago
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