As a team we focus on communicating with DPs and Directors to provide something more than high altitude vistas of a landscape. It is our goal to find ways to help tell the story with low altitude, close proximity, and camera movement, while maintaining the highest level of safety and professionalism.
Pilot: Max Tubman
Visual Observer
MoVI Pro
Recommended & Tested Set-Ups:
C300 II — Compact Cine Prime, Wireless Video, Wireless Lens Control
a7S II — Compact Cine Prime, Wireless Video, Wireless Lens Control
Max Flight Time: 15min
Brass Hand Wheels
Alpha Link S.Bus XR
MoVI Pro, Ronin 2
Range: 1,500 ft, line of sight approx
Never adjust trim: All-digital signal, when you don’t move the wheels, the gimbal doesn’t move. Never adjust trim again. Period.
Repeatable moves with no perceived lag: Alpha Link digital signal is not averaged like analog wireless components. Return to your true wheel position every time. Faster response time means the link between your hand and the frame becomes intuitive.
Freefly Controller
Joystick
Docked to tripod
MIMIC Mode
2x DJI Smart Controllers for Pilot and Cam Op
We are able to fly ALEXA Mini, ALEXA Mini LF, RED Cameras, Sony Venice, Sony FS9, Sony FS7, Canon C300, and pretty much anything in between with a payload capacity of 30lbs on the gimbal.
Our flight times range from about 10 minutes to 20 minutes, the weight of the camera payload determines how long we are able to stay in the air.
As long as we have control of the setting we are able to fly down it. We will not fly over or near non-participating vehicles or persons. We are always more than happy to work with locations departments as well as law enforcement employed by the production to ensure that this is an achievable goal. Safety is the number one priority in all of our work and the Pilot in command has final word on what is and isn’t safe to fly.
UAV stands for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, which is what we fly. Technically the multirotors that we fly are not drones because they do not utilize autonomous flight.
