Cinema-grade FPV drone work for commercials, music videos, and branded content. RED Komodo and Blackmagic cinelifter rigs, O4 Pro and cinewhoop for the tight work. Charlotte-based, agency-ready, insured for set.
Lead · Production Pilot FPV specialist on the production side. Music videos, car commercials, branded fly-throughs, and business-scale interior work involving tens of millions of dollars of commercial real estate. Hunter runs the five-figure cinema drone rigs and is the named operator on every cinelifter and Komodo shoot OSDT bids on.
"The rig is the easy part. Hitting the shot list under a director's direction. That's the job."
Day rates are transparent because production budgets live and die by line-item clarity. Pick the rig tier your look calls for; the camera body is built into the tier, not billed separately. Multi-day shoots quoted with the standard production discount.
Commercials where FPV is one unit of many, branded content, music videos with fast turns, social-native deliverables.
Add to bidProductions that need broadcast-acceptable cinema look, proper 12-bit color space for grading, and 45–60s of usable footage per flight.
Add to bidFlagship brand films, theatrical commercials, and productions going onto 4K+ broadcast, OTT, or theatrical delivery.
Add to bidMulti-day: 10% off days 2–3, 15% off days 4+. Travel + lodging quoted separately. Half-day rates available for captures under 4 hours on the Native FPV tier only. Rush lead time (under 72h) quoted with a surcharge.
National and regional brand commercials, automotive, sports, category-lead campaigns. Agency-friendly workflow, raw OCN delivered on set.
FPV performance coverage, reveal shots, one-take conceits, label and artist direct.
Brand films, sizzle reels, keynote openers, and social campaigns where motion is the hook.
Reveal shots, chase sequences, drive-throughs, and dealership brand films. Cinelifter + cinewhoop combo as required.
Live broadcast augmentation, highlight reels, venue flyovers. Cinelifter with broadcast-acceptable codec on request.
Architectural reveal films for firms, developers, and real estate at the flagship tier. Not listing media; brand work.
Treatment, shot list, or board in. We respond with reel links tuned to the job, a rig + camera recommendation, a crew call proposal, and a line-itemed budget, inside 24 hours.
Hunter takes direction from your director or DP. Live monitor feed with LUT on the director's monitor. On-set playback every take. Safety marshal for crowded sets. Airspace waivers filed in advance.
BRAW or R3D originals plus ProRes proxies (4444 XQ or 422 HQ) delivered same-day or via secure transfer. Dual-redundant on-set wrangling. Nothing leaves set unverified.
Your editor takes it from here. LUTs delivered on request. We're available for post-side questions, reshoots, or pickup days, often the same week.
The $1,750 native FPV day rate includes Hunter on the sticks, all prosumer FPV rigs in our kit (DJI Air 3S, DJI Avata 2, SPYDR iTSY Evo with O4 Pro, plus other O4 Pro indoor and racing variants), batteries for a full shoot day, on-set download and backup, and a same-day OCN handoff at wrap. It does not include cinema camera bodies; those step up through the cinelifter tiers.
The cinelifter is a custom-built frame engineered to carry a cinema camera body safely on FPV maneuvers, not a stock consumer rig. The Blackmagic Micro Cinema G2 is included at this rate (12-bit BRAW, native 4K), which gets you a proper color-gradeable codec for agency review and broadcast delivery. The differential covers the rig time, the camera body, additional insurance, and the BRAW offload workflow on set.
RED Komodo rentals alone run $800–$1,200/day on the open market, and R3D delivery adds a data-wrangler layer on set (cards, offload verification, proxy generation). The $4,200 day rate bundles all of that (the Komodo body, R3D media, on-set wrangling, and ProRes proxy deliverables) into a single line item you can drop into a budget. It's priced at mid-market for a regional cinelifter operator.
$1M liability baseline. COI with additional insured endorsement available same-day. For productions requiring $2M, $5M, or production-specific rigs insurance, we'll bind the policy and send proof of coverage before the call sheet goes out. FAA Part 107 certified; we file airspace waivers for controlled zones.
Hunter takes direction like any cinematographer on set: shot list in, shot list out. Live monitor feed for director/DP review. On-set playback of each take. LUT applied on the monitor to match the grade. Same-day OCN download straight into your editor's pipeline.
BRAW and R3D native files (camera originals), plus ProRes 4444 XQ or ProRes 422 HQ proxies as required. LUTs delivered on request. Log 4K from the native FPV tier delivered as original files plus a graded proxy pass on request.
Domestic with a week's notice. International with 2–3 weeks and additional rigging logistics. Day rate stays the same; we quote travel and lodging separately. Our gear travels in flyable ATA cases and has cleared customs on previous shoots.
Two weeks is standard. One week is workable for Charlotte-metro shoots when the scope is tight. Rush lead times (48–72h) are quoted with a surcharge depending on rig and crew availability.
Send a treatment, a shot list, or even a rough board, whatever you have. We'll come back inside 24 hours with reel links tuned to your shoot, a gear recommendation, a crew call proposal, and a budget breakdown. Shortlist conversations are welcome.
Reel links tuned to your shoot. Gear recommendation. Crew call. Line-itemed budget. We're built for agency workflow.