nathan tomlinson : cinematographer : Sydney Australia

Welcome to Xtreme Freelance Airview

This is site focuses on an aireal based filming service provided by Xtreme Freelance.

Cineflex V14 - is a gyro-stabilized helicopter mounted gimbal, it has a Sony HD F950 camera mounted inside it, the recording formats are HDCAM and HDCAM SR capable of uncompressed 4:4:4 recording either in Interlaced or progressive scan.

Xtremefreelance Airview offers a per hour price including all equipment necessary for HD aerial filming, Xtremefreelance Airview has eliminated the runaround and coordination usually needed in organizing a traditional aerial film shoot, we own the Helicopter the Cineflex Gyro HD Gimbal and everything needed so only one phone call is necessary to book our aerial filming service.

Aerial Equipment

  • Cineflex V14ms- 4 Axis Gyro-Stabilized ball mount camera gimbal
  • Camera - Sony HD F950 CineAlta
  • Helicopter - Eurocopter Squirrel 350B
  • HDCAM Recorder - Sony S-280 4:2:2 440mbps
  • HDCAM SR Recorder - Sony SRW-1 4:4:4 880mbps
  • Microwave Transmitter - HD Nucomm TX and RX
  • Monitor (onboard)- Astro HD TFT 15"
  • GPS position of helicopter recorded as data on tape.

Editing Equipment

  • Final Cut Studio 2 - Final Cut Pro 6 / Motion / Color
  • Uncompressed HD 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 capture and editing
  • HDCAM and HDCAM SR via duel-link HDSDI
  • Output to any tape format, hard-drive or disk
  • 10+ Terabytes of X-Raid storage