Suggestions for on set Cable management (specially for camera's on dolly's)

[PatrickFaith]

I'm going crazy on set with cable management, just wires everywhere on complex robotic dolly moves. Normally I can just put some of those flat tubes with inserts down, but ton's of stuff is moving on dolly's ... and I'm going crazy (and having grips constantly holding cables during automated dolly moves is a hassle). I noticed something on the HBO gladiator show clips ... (they have some camera's that are moving all over the place) ... but I couldn't figure out how they where managing the cables.

 

[David Carstens]

If you're referring to video village cables, they could be using wireless feeds.

 

[PatrickFaith]

If you're referring to video village cables, they could be using wireless feeds.

hmm ... my camera controller's aren't wireless. I'm about 100x lower budget the HBO shows anyway, i might just have to build a little dolly to put my electronic stuff on. I saw some shot's of the hugo camera's (for those long running shots) ... they had a crap load of wires hooked to camera ... of course that's about 1000x more budget then my operation(they where also using those huge super nice dolly/jib's, which u can have 100's of pounds of equipment placed on).