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01 / Services Aerial Cinematography · Mapping & Survey · Licensed Stock
— Capabilities Index

Three deliverables.
One flight crew.

AirPictorial produces broadcast-grade aerial imagery for projects that will be judged at 8K on a color-calibrated monitor, projected across a hotel lobby, or stitched into a 2,400-acre orthomosaic for a planning board. The work below is the working spec sheet we hand to producers, project managers, and GIS leads before a single aircraft leaves the case.

02 / Capability One

Aerial Cinematography

Pilot-cinematographer on every flight, in-house colorist on every project. We deliver broadcast-ready 8K plates to producers, not raw SD cards to assistants.

8K drone plate of a coastal resort at golden hour
A — Production

A pilot-cinematographer, not a drone rental.

Every AirPictorial flight is flown by a Part 107 pilot who is also a working cinematographer — same person blocking the shot, calling the lens, and logging takes. You brief once; you receive a director's cut, not a hard drive.

  • Frame rates1 — 120 fps
  • ResolutionUp to 8K (8192 × 4320)
  • Codecs outProRes 4444, ProRes 422 HQ, DNxHR HQX
  • ColorIn-house colorist, ACES pipeline, DNG raw on request
Aerial tracking shot of a modernist office tower at dusk
B — Workflow

Live review in flight, signed-off in 72 hours.

Our proprietary AirLog app streams low-res proxies to your laptop or phone during the shoot. Clients mark selects, drop comments, and approve takes before the aircraft is even packed down. From wheels-up to signed-off master, average turnaround is 68 hours.

  • Proxy streamLive, encrypted, time-coded
  • Approval SLA72 hours on projects < 20 flight hours
  • Master deliveryFrame.io, Aspera, or physical LTO-9
  • Backups3-2-1 redundant, 7-year archive
High-altitude pull-back over a mountain ridge at first light
C — Hardware

An owned fleet, ready to dispatch in 48 hours.

Eleven aircraft, including the DJI Inspire 3 with full-frame X9-8K Air gimbal, the Mavic 3 Cine for tight interiors, and the Freefly Alta X for heavy-lift cinema payloads. No third-party rentals, no subbed-out crews, no surprises.

  • Flagship cinemaDJI Inspire 3 · X9-8K Air · 14+ stops DR
  • Tight interiorsDJI Mavic 3 Cine · Apple ProRes
  • Heavy liftFreefly Alta X · up to 4.5 kg payload
  • Dispatch48 hours from any U.S. hub
Twilight aerial of a luxury hotel rooftop
D — Licensing

Cleared for unlimited use. No re-clear fees.

Every clip leaves the studio fully cleared for unlimited web, print, out-of-home, and broadcast use, in perpetuity. Run the same plate on a Times Square billboard, your hotel website, and a Marriott brand spot in year three — there is no per-use re-clear and no third-party rights to chase.

  • ScopeUnlimited, worldwide, in perpetuity
  • ChannelsWeb, print, OOH, broadcast, social
  • ReleasesProperty + talent secured per project
  • Re-clear feesNone
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03 / Capability Two

Mapping & Survey

Survey-grade orthomosaics, DEMs, and point clouds for construction, infrastructure, and municipal planning — exported CAD/GIS-ready, on a 72-hour clock.

Orthomosaic of a highway interchange construction site
A — Coverage

2,400 acres per flight, with centimeter accuracy.

Our survey-grade eBee X fixed-wing covers up to 2,400 acres per 90-minute flight at 2.4 cm GSD. For corridor work — pipelines, transmission lines, rail — we fly corridor-optimized grids with built-in GCP targets and RTK/PPK post-processing.

  • AircraftSenseFly eBee X (RTK/PPK)
  • GSDDown to 2.4 cm / pixel
  • Coverage2,400 acres / flight · 90 min endurance
  • Horizontal accuracy± 2.5 cm RMSE
Digital elevation model of a quarry site
B — Deliverables

CAD / GIS-ready exports, not locked viewers.

We deliver orthomosaics, digital surface models, digital terrain models, and classified point clouds in the formats your team already uses. No proprietary viewers, no portal logins — open the file in AutoCAD, Civil 3D, ArcGIS, QGIS, or Revit on day one.

  • RasterGeoTIFF, COG, MrSID
  • Point cloudLAS 1.4, classified, RGB
  • SurfaceDTM / DSM, GeoTIFF + contours (.dxf)
  • CAD / GISAutoCAD, Civil 3D, ArcGIS, QGIS, Revit
Oblique aerial of a solar farm
C — Vertical

Built for the workflows of construction and planning.

Cut-and-fill volumes, stockpile inventories, progress tracking against BIM/CAD baselines, slope analysis, drainage modeling — we output the derivative products your project engineer actually opens, not just raw tiles.

  • VolumesCut / fill, stockpile, basin capacity
  • ProgressOverlay on design surface, % complete per zone
  • AnalysisSlope, aspect, hydrology, line-of-sight
  • CadenceWeekly, bi-weekly, or milestone-based
Master-planned community under construction
D — Compliance

Insured, licensed, and cleared for restricted airspace.

We hold $5M in aviation liability and full FAA Part 107 compliance across all four U.S. hubs. For restricted airspace, we obtain the LAANC authorization or full Section 333 waiver per project — never "fly and hope."

  • CertificationFAA Part 107, all operators
  • Insurance$5M aviation liability, per flight
  • AirspaceLAANC + Section 333 waiver handling
  • DocumentationWaiver packet delivered with every project
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04 / Capability Three

Licensed Stock Library

Forty-eight thousand cleared plates, searchable, already licensed for unlimited marketing use. For editorial, tourism boards, and brand teams who don't need a custom shoot.

Tropical coastline aerial
COASTAL · 1,240 plates

Coastal & Island

Pacific, Atlantic, Caribbean, Mediterranean — over 1,240 cleared plates shot from 800 ft.

Browse plates
Urban downtown aerial at blue hour
URBAN · 9,800 plates

Urban & Civic

38 U.S. states and 11 countries, day and night, vertical and oblique, all property-released.

Browse plates
Mountain wilderness aerial
WILDERNESS · 3,420 plates

Wilderness & Park

Shot under permit with the U.S. National Park Service and equivalent authorities abroad.

Browse plates
Library size
48,000+ cleared plates, growing monthly
Licensing
Unlimited web / print / OOH / broadcast, worldwide
Resolution
8K master, 4K web-ready on delivery
Search
By location, season, time-of-day, and clear-day index
Delivery
Direct download, Aspera, or API for stock partners
OPEN LIBRARY Browse the Library
05 / Deliverable Spec Sheet

The one-page reference producers email internally.

Below is the working spec sheet AirPictorial delivers to VFX supervisors, GIS managers, and brand producers before contract signature. No marketing copy — just the formats, aircraft, and turnaround you need to plan a shoot.

Discipline Aircraft Max output Codec / format Turnaround
Cinematography DJI Inspire 3 8K · 120 fps ProRes 4444 / DNxHR HQX / DNG raw 72 hrs
Cinematography DJI Mavic 3 Cine 5.1K · 50 fps Apple ProRes 422 HQ 48 hrs
Cinematography Freefly Alta X RED Komodo / FX3 ProRes 4444 / RAW 72 hrs
Mapping SenseFly eBee X (fixed-wing) 2,400 acres / flight GeoTIFF · LAS 1.4 · DXF · DWG 72 hrs
Inspection DJI Matrice 350 + L2 LiDAR Tower / roof / corridor LAS · RCP · ortho mosaic 48 hrs
Stock license — 48,000+ plates 8K TIFF / 4K JPEG Instant download
  • Piloting: FAA Part 107 certified, $5M aviation liability, zero-incident record across 3,200+ commercial missions since 2016.
  • Airspace: LAANC authorizations and Section 333 waivers handled per project, with documentation packet delivered on completion.
  • Post-production: In-house colorist on every project, ACES pipeline, broadcast-legal scopes on request.
  • Licensing: Unlimited web, print, OOH, and broadcast use, worldwide, in perpetuity, included in every deliverable.
  • Archive: 7-year redundant archive of all raw and master files, retrievable on request.