When you buy a product from Freefly,you are making an investment in innovation.At every fork in the road our team has taken the path that leads to innovation,excitement,and customer smiles.Freefly’s innovation per person is offthe charts!
Good enough has never been good enough.
This perspective is why we continue to set a new standard with each product we release.From MōVI to Synapse,MIMIC to ALTA’s folding booms and SkyView capability.You can be sure our development team is dreaming about ournext ‘first.’
Yeah,we’re a little obsessed
The same part of us that notices every bump and shake in footage is dead set on delivering our best on every detail.This is a driving force behind our products,our culture and how we treatour customers.
We are a reflection of our customers’ creativity
We started in the film industry.A strong connection to our customers fuels us with inspiration.We don’t consider a purchase to be the close of a sale,it’s the opening of a relationship where new ideas grow and we solveproblems together.
Remove barriers to unrestricted
camera movement
Create products that enable what
once was impossible
The easiest high speed imaging system created that can capture 2277fps continuously at 2.5K
Emesent and Freefly partner to bring their incredible hovermap mapping and autonomy for Astro
Alta X continues to expand its use cases with this test between Drone Amplified and Alaska DOT
These shots represent 6 months to 1 year after Ember launched and within a year its clear Ember has changed the high speed cinema game
Smooth footage with no gimbal is now just a few clicks in the app away
Movi Pro gets a firmware update that allows 40%more performance for free!
Finally a pro level drone controller hits the scene!
Freefly customers and partners from around the world travel to the drone ranch for an epic party
Astro gets a thermal payload option!
In just 6 months Ember customers have already set the world on fire with incredible footage.
Ember is machined completely in house – the first time we have done full production run machining at Freefly!
Camera team hits it out of the park with their second camera to market – Ember
Movi Pro gets a battery upgrade from SL8’s new little brother.
Astro+Freefly Gimbal+A7R4=❤️
Camera division ships amplify which allows users to visually analyze vibrations using Wave realtime.
Camera division ships a feature to help improve the quality of our 2K footage.
Farewell Alta 6 and 8,you and your swan neck booms will always have a place in my heart.
It’s a big,fast,capable drone and is now Blue approved.
Doing some next-gen design,David B started using Aeolus for aero design/optimization.After being super impressed with the software Freefly invested.
Our first battery designed and manufactured in-house ships and we kick off our “Power Systems” Playpen.
Our compact drone platform launches!We built a new flight controller,motor drives,and batteries for this – what a project!
Freefly decides to decentralize even further,and hire/promote CEOs for each business unit or “playpen” as we call them.
Farewell baby Mōvi,it was fun while it lasted.
Unable to keep up with drone demand,Freefly looks to BFD to help us scale and keep our quality high
Freefly launches our first camera which shoots 4K 400FPS continuously.This brings high-quality high speed to the masses.
Shane is back!After creating the Wave on his own in Boston,Freefly joined the party to help bring it to market.
Freefly launches Ublox F9p-based RTK positioning for increased accuracy.
BFD develops a fuel-injected,water-cooled,gas hybrid multirotor for long endurance mapping missions.
Freefly launches Alta X which becomes the cinema and industrial heavy lift workhorse and the first quad people trust.
Freefly launches its first waypoint capable drone built on the open PX4 flight stack.
BFD works with Protonics to develop the world’s first water-cooled hydrogen fuel cell multirotor.
Freefly introduces Mōvi Wheels which allows Mōvi operators precise control of Mōvi Gimbals.
Freefly launches ‘3D Majestic’ which allows users to roll 360 degrees while maintaining full majestic control.
Freefly introduces ‘Blackjack’ firmware which allows for 360-degree roll – the first in any handheld gimbal.
Freefly Robotics introduces the Arc200, a 200 amp universal motor control.
The Freefly ecosystem grows to include a line of components for DIY vehicles and other projects.
Freefly introduces the first 5-axis gimbal mounted on an electric bike.
Freefly introduces the Fiber Optic Gyro upgrade for Mōvi XL. For the first time, consumers can access the same level of performance found on gimbals 10x the price.
BFD develops heavy lift tethered multirotors for persistent flight emergency cell towers.
Freefly introduces the first smartphone stabilizer designed to easily create professional content with external lenses.
Freefly announced the Mōvi XL – built to handle the largest professional camera packages.
Freefly announces the world’s first handheld/drone mountable 5-axis gimbal allowing for shots up to 240mm.
Freefly customers create the most amazing contest we have ever seen.
FW 1.1 allows users to control the Mōvi Pro with a Playstation Controller.
Move your hand to control Focus/Iris/or Zoom.
Tuning a gimbal becomes a thing of the past.
Our very first mash up contest.
8 rotor version of the ALTA 6 for increased payload.
For situations where the compass is unreliable,we developed an algorithm that derives aircraft heading with only one GPS.Still unique today in the market!
No more screeching motor drives; all you hear on ALTA is prop noise.
World’s first top/bottom mounted camera drone.
World’s most intuitive remote camera control.
World’s smallest/lightest 3-axis lens controller.
More than doubled the performance by holding the camera more rigidly.
Shipments of the larger Mōvi M15 begin.
Our first ground vehicle to carry Mōvi.
We never imagined all the ways people would use a Mōvi.
Kirk Bereska risks life and limb to create one of our all-time favorite shots with Nick Schrunk and Corey K.
We can now fly a fully professional camera package and create stable imagery.
Our first integrated controller for Mōvi Product line.Gives users complete control over Mōvi/Camera/and FIZ from 600+feet away.
Freefly announces the smaller/lighter Mōvi M5.
Shots up to 85mm in this piece ignited the quest which eventually led to Mōvi Carbon.
Intuitive single-operator control of a 3-axis handheld stabilizer.
Vince strapped Tabb to the front of a helicopter and flew around NYC.
World’s first 3-axis digital Handheld Stabilizer.
Freefly’s first electronic product – camera stabilization module.
We added a pan axis to the 2-axis gimbal to allow more complex dual-operator aerial cinematography.
Our first octocopter built to carry heavy (for the era) camera packages.
Tabb strapped on his Epic and kept it low,the flight was terrifying but showed that multirotors had the potential to carry cinema packages.
Our first 2-axis camera gimbal designed to fly on CineStar 6 and 8.
Shit’s getting real!
This was really one of the key moments for us taking the leap to start Freefly.I took the CS6 to NAB and showed it to GoPro and Quadrocopter and they were so pumped.
One of the first times I actually thought our footage looked good!
Exploded on first flight!