The All New Dana Dolly #danadolly #hihat #smoothasfrank
This is our Dana Dolly which we cannot recommend enough, it is delightful. Make sure to add it to your next camera rental to truly enhance your upcoming shoot.
The Always Resourceful PMW 300 #Las Vegas Rental Gear #Sony PMW 300 #Las Vegas Production Rentals
If you're project is on a slight budget that won't allow you to go with the fan-favorite Canon C300, we have a couple Sony PMWs that are in and of themselves wonderful, durable, and dependable.
Slip and slide... Cineslide that is. #Kessler #Cineslider #Las Vegas Production Rental
Here is a look at our Kessler Cineslider, and a couple tasty sliders. A cineslider will add value and class to any project.
Streaming live from Las Vegas! #streaming #wirecast #isthislive?
F11 Rentals recently provided gear to FiveSix Productions when they worked a job streaming a four-day educational speaker last week. The speaker held a four-day, eight hour educational session that was attended by about thirty people, and then viewed by an additional dozen or so more online.
FiveSix ultimately ended up utilizing the wirecast software from telestream to stream online, and was very impressed with the ease and dependability of the product. Our mighty Panasonic HPX 500, along with a Blackmagic converter made a great trio with the new streaming software used by FiveSix.
Future streaming jobs will now be much smoother and more efficient thanks to the wirecast software.
Next time you're up a creek (or stream) without a paddle, give us a call and we'll get you all situated with the right gear to get the job done right.
Audio guy guide
Today we're talking about your basic 3-channel mixer setup as well as what it takes to embrace a life as an audio guy.
Dana Dolly. . . It's a beautiful thing.
Dolly moves are cool.
You want your project to be cool.
I want your project to be cool.
You want the Dana Dolly on your next project.
Seriously though, the Dana Dolly is the perfect combination of dolly and slider. It's smooth and beautiful, but sets up in a snap. This bad boy is rocking a C300, a 70-200 and a Ki Pro Mini, powered by Dionic batteries. All of which are available at f11 Rentals. If you prefer a more conventional dolly setup though, we can accommodate that as well, that's out dolly in the background.
Introducing our video blog.
Hello and welcome to our f11 Rentals Video Blog! In the first of hopefully many instalment we're going to talk about an item found on almost every set, the C-47.
But do you know how it got it's name? Stick around and find out. . .
F11 Rentals out at Gibson
Our gear made it out to Beverly Hills last week for a shoot at the Gibson Brands Showroom.
Safety First
Today I want to talk about safety on set. It's a boring topic, one that nobody cares about until the day your camera is on fire, your first AD is in a coma and a state of emergency has been declared around your set.
This is an exaggeration of course, but there is nothing worse and nothing more frustrating than dealing with an accident on set.
Now the number one thing you can do is make sure you express to your crew that safety is the number one priority. On small crews with a limited number of people where everyone is doing two or three jobs here are the quickest fixes that will prevent most problems.
Throw some dirt on it.
If it's a stand holding anything whatsoever it should have a sandbag holding it down. Which means when you rent a light kit with six lights you need to remember to rent six sand bags. Stands are heavy and hard and once they tip over the only thing you can do is pray no one gets hit and nothing gets broke. Bags are cheap, make sure to have plenty of them.
Gaff tape is cheaper than a lawsuit.
Cable management is the other big one. You run a power cord and figure people will be able to avoid just one extension cord. Then you run a pigtail back for audio, audio figures that everyone can avoid just one cable. Then you run some BNC to get a monitor up, surely no one will trip on it, then some timecode goes down, let's run a second monitor, hey; let's audition a special on that painting in the corner, while we're at it let run the camera on AC to save batteries for later. Just like that you have a spaghetti circus on your hands. Tape down all your cables, it not only makes your set look nice but also makes it much safer. (Bonus tip don't run your audio lines next to your power, it can cause interference.)
If all else fails sweep it under the rug.
Rubber mats are a shortcut to the cable game. Run all your cables, nice and messy (the fun way) then just throw a mat over it to make it safe. . .Safe-ish
Sound Devices 664
We now have for your production pleasure the Sound Devices 664 6-channel portable mixer and recorder. If you want truly professional audio on your next project the 664 will be able to handle whatever you can throw at it.