Wireless Video Systems

Here is how this works in practice. Wireless video transmission across Aotearoa runs on the industry standard Teradek Bolt 6 LT and Bolt 4K Monarch ranges, with Bolt 4K MAX deployments for multi-receiver feature village builds. Vaxis Storm 3000, Hollyland Pyro H/S, and ARRI WVS (Wireless Video System) supplement the workflow on lower-budget productions. Latency-critical multi-camera Wellywood feature work standardises on Bolt 4K with frame-accurate sync across video village, director monitors, focus puller Preston FIZ receivers, and editorial-cut feeds.

Here is how this works in practice. Frequency planning routes through Radio Spectrum Management (RSM) under the Telecommunications Act, with UHF and 5GHz band scans completed against ambient RF before call sheet lock. Domestic stock sits at Panavision Wellington, Panavision Auckland, Lemac New Zealand (Auckland + The capital), Mediatech NZ, and Filmworx Auckland, supplemented by the Wellywood gear pool at Stone Street Studios, Park Road Post The capital, and Weta FX Miramar.

Here is the short of it. Heritage wireless video deployments in NZ feature cinema include the LOTR trilogy (early ENG-grade Modulus-style hops at Stone Street, refit to Modulus and then Bolt during The Hobbit), King Kong 2005 (pioneering multi-receiver village builds for the Skull Island stage work), Avatar Way of Water (Cameron's Kumeu Film Studios pool with custom underwater Bolt 4K housings reaching surface receivers), Rings of Power (Amazon Prime Auckland — concurrent multi-unit Bolt 4K deployment), Thor: Ragnarok (Auckland Bolt 6 LT pipeline), and Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog (Otago Bolt 4K monitor distribution to remote producer feeds). For Mackenzie Country UNESCO Dark Sky Reserve night shoots we tape over LED indicators on Bolt receivers to protect the dark-sky protocol. Cross-border supplements from Sigma Cine Sydney and ARRI Rental Sydney arrive same-week via 3-hour Trans-Tasman flight under ATA carnet processed through Auckland or Wellington Customs.