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SEDONA ARIZONA USA-2023: Mountains With A City Below Them And A Valley Below

6s 4K UHD 29.97fps Sedona, Arizona, United States 2023
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About this clip

Aerial footage from 2023 captures Sedona's Cathedral Rock bluff and surrounding mountains, with a distant city nestled in the valley below. The cinematic shot, filmed from 1,000 feet, showcases dramatic desert landscape under a vast sky with scattered clouds. This vintage-style Super 8 clip features natural light and rich color tones, offering a serene, human-free view of Arizona’s iconic scenery. Ideal for nature documentaries, travel content, or nostalgic visual storytelling.

Clip Intelligence

Production use
Aerial Sedona desert footage for travel edits, regional documentaries, agency mood reels, brand films, and social cuts needing red rock mountains with a town spread across the valley below.
Edit role
Use this six-second aerial view as an opener, location cutaway, transition beat, or quiet closer when a sequence needs to place Sedona before moving into town, trail, or desert detail shots.
Visual details
Red rock buttes and dark mountain forms rise above a low desert town, with roads and scattered buildings in the lower frame, hazy mesas on the horizon, pale blue sky, soft daylight, and no visible people.

Tags

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Shot slate

Resolution
3840 × 2160
Frame rate
29.97 fps
Duration
6s
Codec
H.265 (HEVC) MP4
File size
73 MB
Location
Sedona, Arizona, United States
Year filmed
2023
Published
Jun 2026

Still Frames From This Clip

2 frames exported from the 4K master of this clip, in timeline order. The licensed download is the full-motion master, not these stills.

Wide aerial frame over Sedona, Arizona, showing red rock mountains, scattered valley buildings, distant mesas, pale sky, and no visible people.
The opening frame sets the town below the red rock formations and broad desert horizon. (0:00)
Second frame over Sedona, Arizona, with the central rock mass more prominent above the town grid, distant plateau walls, soft daylight, and no visible people.
This moment emphasizes the main rock formation rising above the developed valley floor. (0:01)

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