Equipment Planning Services

Here is how this works in practice. Mexican gear planning routes through a deep Mexico City rental ecosystem and a smaller Baja California secondary hub. CDMX rental houses carry full Alexa 35, Alexa Mini LF, Alexa 65, Sony Venice 2, Red V-Raptor, and Arri Mini packages alongside Cooke S7/i, Zeiss Supreme Prime, Master Prime, Panavision (via reciprocity), and Atlas anamorphic glass — the same inventory tier the Tres Amigos crews access for Mexican shoots and that Rodrigo Prieto ASC AMC pulls from for hybrid US-Mexico schedules.

Here is the breakdown. On the ground, Grip and electric inventories have full HMI ranges, SkyPanels, Astera tubes, and condor-and-lift rentals scaled for Estudios Churubusco, Estudios América, Lemon Studios, Argos Comunicación, and Fox Baja Studios stage builds. Fox Baja specifically retains specialty marine and water-tank kit for the deep ocean tank used on Titanic (1997), Master and Commander (2003), and Pearl Harbor (2001). Our planners build pull-lists against the production's shoot days, drive crews against STPC late hours windows, and sync gear delivery with the AICM Mexico City Global or Tijuana cross-border timeline.

Here is the short of it. Customs and frequency-licensing logistics dominate cross-border gear movement. Our planners pre-clear forms on the production's behalf. Inbound camera and grip packages clear Mexican Aduanas through SAT (Servicio de Administración Tributaria) on ATA carnets. With short-term-import declarations and bonded-storage spares for delays at AICM or Tijuana. The IFT (Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones) licenses each wireless transmitter. The list covers Lectrosonics, Wisycom, Comtek IFB, ARRI WCU-4 wireless lens control, Teradek video transmitters. And our team files frequency-planning dossiers ahead of arrival.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. On the ground, Drone packages route through AFAC (Agencia Federal de Aviación Civil, formerly DGAC) for RPAS sign-off and through SCT (Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes) for off-limits-airspace clearance over INAH archaeological zones (Teotihuacán, Chichén Itzá, Palenque, Monte Albán, Uxmal, Tulum) and military or border zones. For altitude shoots in CDMX (2,240m), Toluca (2,667m), or near Pico de Orizaba (5,636m, Mexico's highest peak), we have altitude-rated camera, battery, and power packs specs in the pull list. Hurricane-season Caribbean and Pacific shoots add waterproofing and salt-spray protection. Sonoran and Chihuahuan desert shoots layer in dust-rated camera coverage.