Equipment Planning Services

Here is how the work lines up. Gear planning in Canada means matching creative intent to a rental landscape that spans three production hubs and a national supply chain. Our coordinators build kit lists against the live inventories at William F. White Global (Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, Halifax), Sim Video / Sim Digital, Panavision Toronto and Vancouver and Montreal, ARRI Rental Vancouver and Toronto, Keslow Camera, DAZMO Camera Montreal, and MELS Equipment — the houses that hold the ARRI Alexa 35, Alexa Mini LF, Sony Venice 2 and RED V-Raptor 8K bodies the streamers and studios shoot on in Vancouver and Toronto blocks.

Here is the breakdown. Lens packages often anchor on Cooke S7/i, Atlas Orion anamorphics, ARRI Signature Primes and Panavision Primo 70 sets, with HMI counts scaled to PNW overcast in Vancouver, urban tungsten interiors in Toronto, and historic-stone exteriors in Old Montreal or Quebec City. We map dollies, technocranes, Trinity and Ronin 4D rigs against the schedule before locking quotes so producers see real-world openings rather than catalogue fantasies.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. Cross-border shoots add a CBSA customs layer that our team handles from start to finish via ATA carnet. We set up broker filings at YVR, YYZ, YUL, YYC and YHZ, schedule gear releases against the shoot calendar, and stage redundant kit at White's bond store for replacement runs during principal photography. Power packs, distro and grip trucks come through William F.

Here is how the picture comes together. White's Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal yards with ops familiar with Canadian power infrastructure (120V/240V split-phase residential, 600V industrial), and drone packages are booked with Transport Canada RPAS Advanced Operations-certified pilots who already hold the Special Flight Operations Certificates needed for off-limits zones over the Toronto downtown core, YVR class-C airspace and the federal precinct in Ottawa. Cold-weather kit — heated battery sleeves, Arctic-rated lubricants, condensation protocols — is built into each Quebec, Yukon or Nunavut package from December through March so a -25°C morning in Whitehorse or Iqaluit doesn't cost a shooting day.