Grand Canyon Flyover

Posted: December 28th, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Camp Sites | Tags: , , , | 13 Comments »

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. The lens is a 42x 9.7mm Fujinon. 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.

13 Comments on “Grand Canyon Flyover”

  1. 1 gotatm said at 2:28 pm on January 9th, 2010:

    just absolutely amazing! thanks for posting. I just got home, super tired, watched your clip and somehow got my energy back…

  2. 2 stez4x said at 4:57 pm on January 10th, 2010:

    SPECTACULAR!! I got similar HD footage on my channel, check it out “SwissView”. Looking forward for more HD stuff like that.

  3. 3 pusa09144 said at 10:15 am on January 11th, 2010:

    what is the music??

  4. 4 douglasbaird said at 10:56 am on February 2nd, 2010:

    that`s superb

  5. 5 rubmop said at 12:50 pm on February 15th, 2010:

    This editor is on meth. Scenes change every few seconds instead of letting you get in to a long uninterrupted flight through this awesome view.

  6. 6 samhamels said at 4:39 am on April 30th, 2010:

    @rubmop I think you’re just smoking to much weed… the speed’s perfectly fine

  7. 7 theredtrain said at 7:19 am on May 12th, 2010:

    Music is great…. Who is it by?

  8. 8 RoboDouche said at 7:43 pm on June 13th, 2010:

    1:41 through 1:59 is staggeringly beautiful. The Grand Canyon is truly amazing.

  9. 9 matizekp said at 10:41 am on September 17th, 2010:

    Good job ! :)

  10. 10 marylene89 said at 1:40 am on October 18th, 2010:

    Quel beauté !

  11. 11 tickledpink2U said at 9:04 pm on October 19th, 2010:

    When I visited the Grand Canyon I was in such awe all that I could think was, “This is holy ground”. It certainly made me realize where I, a mere human, stood in the scheme of things.

  12. 12 AccordionLadyMi said at 9:11 am on November 18th, 2010:

    So beautiful….Fran

  13. 13 Bigu47 said at 3:51 pm on November 24th, 2010:

    If you remember the 1991 movie “Grand Canyon” where Kevin Klein, Danny Glover and families first see the Grand Canyon from the parking lot- that is what put the hook in me to see it in person a few years later.

    The end scene musical score from that movie is a masterpiece along with the helicopter flyover by John Sarviss.

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