Wireless Video Systems

Wireless video stock in Italy sits with Panalight Rome and Milan, Cinecittà Rental on the Tuscolana campus, Lumiq Studios in Turin, and Cinegrip. EM srl and Cargo Studios Bologna add the backup chain when a date runs long.

Our rental team books across all of them, so any package can be built on a feature day at Cinecittà Studio 5: a multi-receiver Teradek Bolt 4K chain, a Vaxis Storm 3000 long-range pair, a Bolt 6 XT 1500 for a Steadicam and remote-head combo, or a Bolt 6 LT 750 for a tight commercial setup. This holds even when a parallel Mediaset Cologno Monzese, Rai, or Sky Italia block is locking up inventory.

Standard packages run one primary transmitter with three to six receivers. These feed the director's monitor, the focus puller's handset, the script supervisor station, the agency client tent, and the QTake DIT cart. A backup transmitter is pre-paired and staged in the camera cart for a hot-swap. RF density on Italian sets is real, and many places crowd the 5 GHz band: Rome's Centro Storico ZTL zone, the Mediaset and Rai broadcast corridors at Saxa Rubra, the trade-show seasons at Fiera Milano in Rho-Pero, and the Sky Italia campus at Santa Giulia. So frequency planning is a pre-production task, not a shoot-day fix.

Each link is bench-paired at the rental house before the trucks load out for the call sheet. We measure latency on a frame-counter bench against the camera's genlock, cycle the encryption keys, log the antenna patterns, and walk the range against the expected location footprint.

Italian DITs and video engineers from the AITS and CCNL Cinema Audiovisivo pools run the on-set planning. They coordinate the Preston FI+Z and cmotion cPRO focus systems with the production's wireless audio plan (Lectrosonics SR and DSR4, Sound Devices A20-Mini, Wisycom MCR54) to dodge the 2.4 and 5 GHz collisions. Those clashes show up most on the Dolomite altitude exteriors above Cortina and on the Cinque Terre cliff positions, where antenna heights have to sit on Avenger 40-foot stands, scaffolding rigs, or telescopic poles pinned into the rock.

Cases clear Fiumicino, Malpensa, and Linate cargo under ATA carnet. The Italian customs broker we keep on retainer holds the back-channel paperwork for same-day receiver expansions, which big-day commercials, second-unit feature days, and multi-camera commercials at the Mediaset campus often demand. Our 24-hour swap cycle out of Rome and Milan covers shoot-day failures, dead batteries, and last-minute receiver additions for agency clients.