Drone Live - Freeway Drone

LIVE DRONE – RETRANSMISSION LIVE WITH DRONE

Specialist drone aerial cinematography. Freeway Prod now has all the equipment necessary to offer direct broadcast aerial images broadcast drone for TV.

We have validated with AMPVisual TV a technical solution able to broadcast aerial images from our drones, a broadcast quality image for TV (we are not talking about live broadcasting for Facebook or Youtube). Our live drone experience for France Télévision on the last Dakar allowed us to better target the broadcaster’s demand and improve our HF re-transmission systems. We recently made a Live with our drone for the last Tour de France.

LIVE DRONE – OUR EQUIPMENT AND OUR EXPERTS

Our company Freeway Drone puts at your disposal a team of audiovisual professionals and allows you to relay live all your high definition images. Our broadcast re-transmission system is was used on different productions yet, which has already proven itself on the Dakar but also on Fashion Week during the Yves St Laurent and Givenchy fashion shows, the direct live broadcast drone is accessible on sporting events and concerts.

In order to guarantee high quality aerial videos for all your projects, our drones are specially designed to record stable and fluid images from long distances. This is a new technology of live broadcast, you can according to your needs, simultaneously broadcast your shots that require to fly over an audience such as sports events or shows on a television or even on giant screens.

We provide the control room a broadcast signal live with the drone in HD 1080 / 50i via a 100m SDI cable (or HF). In order to validate our quality of the broadcast signal, we made several tests at AMP visual TV, we made several technical tests to find the best technical solution and the best stable video quality. We already work with this production for Live : Dakar – Tour de France – Ironman – Fashion Week.

LIVE TRANSMISSION FOR TOUR OF FRANCE

We were commissioned by France TV Sport and ASO to provide all aerial images with drone and Live during the arrival of the Tour de France at the Louvre.

A technical challenge that we managed and success, including getting all the necessary permissions. This is a first in the history of the Tour de France, our images have been broadcast in 190 countries around the world.

We have been working with France TV Sport and ASO on the Tour de France for 8 years now. Our job is to film the French patrimonies run by runners during their passage in cities, villages and landscapes.

Our patrimonies images are then mixed with that of live helicopters, our specifications are to shoot additional images to helicopters, this means that we are very close to the elements we film and sometimes even inside the cathedrals and churches.

LIVE TRANSMISSION FOR ABC New York

ABC New York / Disney We have been working with the ABC New York office for over 3 years on the ABC program “Good Morning America”. Our job is to provide them with all the aerial drone images on their live stream. Live streams are re-transmitted across the US on ABC’s star show “Good Morning America”, the second most watched show in the US. This is our third mission for ABC New York, indeed we have already worked with the American team for a direct at the top of the Pic du Midi, then in Canada for the births of baby seals and recently in Paris for the re-opening. from the Eiffel Tower. We have established a relationship of trust with ABC / Disney and they call on us as soon as a live drone is needed on their show. For this we use a DJI Inspire 2 drone and an X5s and a TVU for the live re-transmission of our images.

CONCERT DRONE LIVE PARIS GLOBAL CITIZEN LIVE

We were contracted by the organization of Global Citizen Live and Limewire productions to provide the aerial live and drone imagery on one of the larger ones. Concert this year 2021. We were live from the Champ de Mars at the foot of the Eiffel Tower in Paris for 3 hours of live. Indeed Global Citizen Live is 24 hours of non-stop music across the world, Paris, New York, Los Angeles, Sydney, Buenos Aires, Seoul etc… It is the city of Paris which opened the ball with the Blacks Eyes peas, Elton John, Christine and the queens, Ed Sheeran etc… For the recording of this concert there were more than 20 cameras and our drone to cover the event, so we had to be creative in order to see our live images . It was a success both technically and artistically where we managed to come up with original shots that only the drone could provide to the director and we had the immense satisfaction of seeing our live images broadcast on BBC and ABC. as well as TF1 and TMC. Our technical broadcast retransmission solution proved its worth again at this event, we have set up our own HD transmission system which provides a highly optimized signal both day and night.