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HDaerial provides aerial production services throughout the United States and the world. We provide aerial filming services for feature films, commercials, television and aerial GIS surveying. For over 20 years HDaerial has produced hundreds of commercials, TV productions and feature films. Our aerial film credits include Animal Planet, ESPN, BBC, Discovery Channel, CBS, NBC Dateline, NBC TV “The Chase”, Weather Channel “Turbine Cowboys”, True TV “Black Gold”, Granada TV “Bait Car”, MTV “Cougars”, 48 Hours, ESPN NASCAR, ESPN “The Breeders Cup”, Busch Gardens, The Richards Group H.E.B. and Cortez Brothers Productions “Coors Beer”.
HDaerial just wrapped a thirty second commercial for H.E.B. Supermarkets and the Richards Group out of Dallas. We provided a gyro stabilized Tyler Middle Mount ll with the Arri Alexa, mounted in a Bell 206 Blll Jet Ranger. The commercial aired throughout Texas during the 2012 Super Bowl.
HDaerial shot the background plates for “Atlas Shrugged”, using the aerial helicopter services of Air Cam in Denver, Colorado. We used the Gyron Super G for the camera platform and the Red One Mysterium X camera with an Optimo 24-290mm lens. The Gyron Super G handled the hard banking and turns exceptionally well with its new horizontal stabilization. Bloggers wrote “The aerial shots over Colorado alone are worth the price of admission”. The aerial production for Busch Garden took place over London, England, Ireland, and Germany and finished in Rome, Italy. HDaerial mounted a Gyron Stab C on various TWINSTAR AS-355 Helicopters and filmed with the SONY F35 camera. Various helicopter services were used throughout Europe. The aerial production lasted for three weeks and filmed eight different locations in Europe. HDaerial also completed an aerial production for a new VH-1 reality show in Aspen, Colorado, employing the V-14 Cineflex.
HDaerial provides a wide variety of equipment for aerial filming, camera operators and qualified technicians for aerial cinematography throughout the U.S.A. and the world. As part of our full services we provide aerial cinematographers, experienced pilots, helicopters, fixed wing aircraft, fuel trucks, and insurance and safety officers. 35mm, 16mm film, HD, Red One Mysterium X, Red Epic, Arri Alexa, Genesis, Canon 5 and 7D cameras are also available along with various camera mounts and stabilized systems including Cineflex V14HD, Gyron Super G, Wescam Pictorvision, Customized Flir UltraMedia ll HD, plus Tyler Nose Mount ll, the Tyler Middle or Tyler MiniGyro.
HDaerial is now rebuilding Flir UltraMedia ll and converting them to HD. The Flir UltraMedia ll HD comes with a new Sony T1500 camera, new gyros, 22x1 lenses all cabling, ox box and controller, for about half the price of a new Flir or Cineflex. Call Matt Trub for more information.
HDaerial offers High Definition Video Mapping which are Geo-coded or tagged. Our system is an ArcGIS extension that provides geospatial random access to digital video through the ArcMap interface. We can provide Geo-code images with GPS data embedded in the data fields of high resolution images. These Geo-coded high definition videos (1920 x 1080p) are powerful tools for utility and pipeline surveying.
Whether your project is a feature, Television series, commercials, documentaries, or corporate, HDaerial can bring the right aircraft, equipment and personnel together for your shoot with one call.
Air to ground or air to air, HDaerial undertakes aerial filming projects throughout the United States, Canada, Caribbean, Europe, Africa, Mexico, Central America and South America. Some equipment and countries are restricted.
Our cost effective approach will locate the best pilot and closest aircraft for your project and install the latest generation of gyro camera systems. Cineflex, Wescam Pictorvision, Gyron, and the Flir UltraMedia systems are also able to be mounted on a variety of filming platforms including cranes, all types of vehicles, all terrain, boats and airplanes or just about any moving platform. Motion picture helicopter time aloft and filming can be a real factor when filming over terrain where refueling is an issue or built up urban areas. 35mm rigs require reloading of magazines about every twelve minutes and in some cases are not cost efficient due to landing and reloading of film. Where as most HD systems allow for the recording deck to be housed within the helicopter or aircraft and can be reloaded with new tape without having to land. The reduced weight of some of the smaller ball and mount system means up to one third more time aloft before having to refuel plus reducing the number of ferrying trips to the airport or refueling depot.
Pictorvision is pleased to announce the first ever use of the revolutionary RED ONE digital cinema camera in the aerial shooting of two national advertising campaigns. Capitalizing on their expertise in camera stabilization technology, the team at Pictorvision were able to quickly make the modifications necessary to successfully stabilize and accurately control the ground breaking new RED camera package, all on very short notice. The RED ONE, including both the Angenieux HR 25-250mm and the Cooke 18-100mm zooms were successfully integrated into Pictorvision’s Wescam Film / HD System.
Compatible with the Wescam design, the images captured by the RED ONE was produced with as much stability as if shot with a traditional Wescam Film System. Shooting at 4K resolution the Wescam stabilization quality was demonstrated by impressive final images. You can immediately make reservations for the this RED ONE aerial stabilization and precision control package, integrate their own RED ONE camera or take advantage of Pictorvision’s RED ONE camera as a turnkey package in January, 2008 by contacting HDaerial.
High Definition recording can be accomplished with several recorders, the Sony HDCAM SRW 1 Field recorder which delivers breathtakingly natural, detailed pictures while achieving close to lossless full-bandwidth 4:4:4 (RGB) 1080-line, high-definition recordings at multiple frame rates up to 60 frames per second, or the Sony HI DEF Record Deck (24P) HDW-S280 recording 4:2:2. Also available is the Panasonic AJ-HD1400 tape deck. Recording at 1080/59.94i, 1080/50i, 720/60p, 720/59.94p,720/50p. SD record decks are also available.
We also provide cross and down converters for other HD and SD formats, HD and SD monitors, camera booms, weather nose or side, for various helicopters, planes, vehicles, blimps and boats. Additionally HDaerial can provide HD-Microwave downlinks transporting High Definition or Standard Defintion video in real time for use in live telecast provides outstanding picture quality and minimal delay.
Some of our clients include the BBC, VH-1, Anheuser Busch Gardens, Discovery Channel, National Geographic,NHK Japan, Granda ITV U.K., Arizona Department of Tourism, San Antonio Economic Development, Rolls Royce Group U.K., Massachusetts Electric and Animal Planet. We have completed aerial productions in the USA in the following states; Texas, California, Arizona, Ohio, New York, Washington D.C., Florida, Louisana, Oklahoma, Kansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Colorado, Nevada, Utah and New Mexico. International productions include UK, Ireland, Germany, Canada, Mexico, Brazil and several projects along the Almafi Coast, Capri and Rome Italy.
