Stunning Aerial Views of Grand Canyon National Park

Grand Canyon

by Aerial Filmworks

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Aerial Filmworks is working with the Grand Canyon National Park to film the national park using the Cineflex V14HD. The gyro-stabilized aerial system uses an integrated Sony CineAlta HDC1500 and all footage was recorded 1080/23.98p at 4:4:4 to a Sony SRW1 deck on HDCAM SR tape stock. 

Digital capture with an AJA Kona3 card to a MacPro 8 core with 17Gb RAM, and edited with Final Cut Pro.

The Cineflex was nose-mounted on a Bell 206B3 Jet Ranger helicopter. Permissions required about 8 months of paperwork and permits, along with daily updates to local air traffic control on flight days. The pilot needed to be 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.

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