QPIX Equipment Hire
Thursday, 12 October 2006 19:26

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Welcome to QPIX’s equipment & facilities hire service, one of the many services available within our QPS. We always back up our hirers with technical advice, and we hold a range of equipment and facilities which includes:

 

  • Outside Broadcast Vans (highly-mobile, compact, capable of up to 4 x camera shoots, ideal for sporting fixtures, arts and music festivals, outdoor and indoor entertainment events, performing arts events etc)
  • DV, HDV and DVCPROHD cameras & accessories
  • 16mm film cameras, including Super 16mm
  • lighting and gaff equipment
  • Field sound kits, microphones, and accessories
  • Additional field kit materials (eg monitors etc)
  • Range of dollies –
    • light-weight with runs up to 20ft (6.5M)
    • heavy-duty (35mm capable, and below) professional metal rail - 1 run to 23m (70ft) and a circle metal rail run of 5.5m (18ft)
    • heavy-duty (35mm capable, and below) Weston rubber-tyred studio dolly -
  • Jib-arms – professional heavy duty (35mm capable, and below) dolly mounted – reach of 4m at peak, 2.3m under-slung – adjustable to featherlight touch
  • Range of editing options in-house and mobile in Final Cut Pro and Avid

 

Coming Soon!…

  • Sound-dedicated edit suite incorporating ADR facility

Also available:

  • Production Office
  • Training rooms
  • Meeting rooms
  • Studio
  • Screening space (can accommodate audience of 40)
  • Rehearsal and audition spaces

 

Our rates are very competitive, and we offer packages.

QPIX updates its equipment and facilities as regularly as possible, and maintains a research approach to the rapidly changing technical environment within the screen industries.  QPIX then passes on this techical knowledge to its hirers.

The QPS equipment hire service supports over 250 new productions every year, including short dramas, feature dramas, documentaries, community videos, corporate videos, music video clips, television commercials, and pilots and episodes for television series and other programs.

QPIX is a non-profit, industry-building operation rather than a straight commercial business so all earnings in QPS go back into assisting early-career professionals break into the screen industry.

 

Video Production

Video Production Services

OB Vans

OB Van InsideOB Van OutsideOB Van Camera

Grip Equipment

Platform DollyDolly TrackWestern DollyJib Arm

Cameras

Panasonic HVX 202Sony HDV Z1PJVC Pro HD 101

QPIX Facilities

QPIXScreening RoomEdit SuiteQPIX Office