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Florida · Jib · Steadicam · Crane

Jib, Steadicam and crane operators for Florida — Tampa and West Palm Beach

Jib, Steadicam and telescopic crane operation for Florida productions that need an arm or a walking camera — from Tampa and West Palm Beach to the venues in between: indoors in a ballroom, arena or convention hall, outdoors at a concert, a festival or on a sideline. One team, one point of contact, and kit planned around your schedule.

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moving since 1993
Serving all 50 States
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Jimmy Jib
Camera Jib
Steadicam
Camera Crane
TechnoCrane
Live Broadcast
Sport
Commercials
Video Production
Since 1993

What we bring to a Florida crew

Three ways to move a camera in Florida — indoors or out

Florida is two working environments on the same day: cool, quiet and high-ceilinged indoors, hot, bright and unpredictable outdoors — and plenty of Tampa dates are both. Outdoor concerts and festivals on open ground, arena floors, convention halls and ballrooms all get the same question answered by the shot rather than the room. Here is what each machine does for a Florida production, and what the state does back.

01 — Jib

Jib & Jimmy Jib

A Jib earns its day outdoors as much as in. Festival and concert stages on open ground, waterfront and racetrack venues, sideline positions and county-fair sites sit alongside the convention halls, arena floors, hotel ballrooms and church auditoriums Tampa also shoots — anywhere with room to rise into, and plenty of those outdoor rooms have no ceiling at all. The arm gives you the sweep across a crowd that no locked-off or handheld camera can: the wide that establishes the place, and the rise at the end of a take. It also keeps the camera off ground that is usually full of people, tables and cable runs.

In Florida the plan gets written around ceiling height and ducting rather than a hard cyclorama wall, and around the air conditioning. A head that comes in off a humid loading dock and goes straight into a cold room will fog its front element at exactly the wrong moment, so the build leaves the minutes for it to come up to temperature — and the arm's run is kept clear of the house power and cable on the floor.

Jib & Jimmy Jib operation →

02 — Steadicam

Steadicam

Steadicam is for the shot that walks — through a lobby, down a concourse, from the back of a ballroom to the head table, out onto a terrace or across the open ground of a festival site, in one unbroken move. Florida makes that move longer and warmer than the same shot anywhere else: the spaces are larger and they connect to each other, and the operator is in a vest under lights in Florida heat.

Heat is the part that decides the day. It is hard on the operator and hard on the rig — sweat on the contacts, batteries running hot, and a rig coming out of an air-conditioned truck into ninety percent humidity. Our operators plan around it: water and rotations, somewhere for the rig to sit between takes, and enough time for the gear to come up to temperature before the take that matters.

Steadicam operation →

A broadcast camera on its head with an on-board monitor in the foreground, facing a blue-lit arena crowd and the stage beyond, during the 2022 Tampa run.

Camera on the head — Tampa, July 2022

03 — Camera crane & Technocrane

Camera crane, telescopic arm & long lens at distance

A crane or a telescopic arm buys scale a Jib cannot reach: the long travel down a sideline, the high wide that takes in a whole field and the stands, and the lens that has to sit a hundred feet away and still arrive on the mark. It is also the one arrangement that has to be agreed with the venue before the day rather than discovered on it.

That conversation is about floor loading and the path the camera travels, the build and strike time the production can give it, mounting or rigging points, and the wind. In Tampa it usually arrives with a forecast attached — afternoon storm cells through the summer and a hurricane season that runs half the year are real scheduling factors for anything rigged outdoors, so the build is planned around the weather rather than through it.

DisciplineJib, Jimmy Jib, camera crane, Technocrane
Typical useReveals, sweeps, live crowd and stage coverage, long lens at distance
BuildPrep and strike agreed before the day
CoverageWorking nationwide in the United States

How a Tampa job runs

Working Tampa

A Tampa date is decided by the room and the schedule rather than a cyclorama wall: ceiling height and ducting in air-conditioned ballrooms and arena floors, open-air festival and waterfront sites where there is no ceiling to work under at all, floor loading and rigging points, the build and strike window the production can give the rig, and the weather — heat, humidity, afternoon storm cells, and a hurricane season that runs half the year.

How the kit breaks down

The rigs are built to break down for transport. A Steadicam splits into checkable cases — sled, arm, vest and batteries — and is rigged in the room. A Jib breaks into long tube and flight cases, so it configures to the space rather than the space configuring to it. A telescopic crane is the largest item on the list, and it is arranged around the venue's access, floor and build time once those are known.

Prep and strike are scoped with the job rather than added after the shoot — see how quotes work.

Lead time

There is no single lead time for a Tampa date. A one-day Jib call and a multi-day crane build have almost nothing in common, and an operator who quotes you one number for both is guessing. What does matter is that the earlier the date is locked, the better the options look. Send the dates, the city and the shot as soon as they exist and the reply is a straight one: yes, no, or the nearest window that works.

What a Tampa production should send

Six things get a Tampa date quoted properly:

Dates — the shoot days, plus the load-in and wrap that the rig affects.
City and space — the venue or the room, and whether it is indoors, outdoors or both on the same day.
The shot — what the camera has to do, and whether it has to do it in one take.
The room — ceiling height, mounting or rigging points, floor access and the path the kit takes in.
Conditions — air-conditioned, open air, stage-lit, or a forecast to shoot around.
The contact — the producer or production manager who can confirm access and times.

Send those and the answer comes back as an estimate, not a form letter.

02 — Proof

Florida, on the record

Florida jobs on the record — two Student Action Summits in Tampa, and the 2023 CLS in West Palm Beach.

A speaker on a blue-lit stage shown large on the flown screen, with a confidence monitor and crew area in the dark foreground — Tampa, July 2022.

2022 Student Action Summit, Turning Point USA — Tampa, Florida

Tampa & West Palm Beach — 2021–2023

Student Action Summit, Turning Point USA

Two Florida Student Action Summits on the record, both in Tampa — July 2021 and July 2022 — and both Jib jobs. The same client's event moved the following year: the 2023 CLS, Turning Point USA, was held in West Palm Beach.

Florida is where the repeat work is. The same client came back three years running — Tampa in 2021, Tampa again in 2022, then the CLS at the other end of the state in 2023 — and Florida dates have run from convention halls and arena floors to festival grounds, waterfront venues and fair sites in between. Repeat work is the part of a record that is hardest to fake: it means the dates were delivered, the kit arrived, and the crew was asked back.

The rest of the record — the national list, the broadcast work, the touring shows — lives on the credits page rather than being restated here. See the full credit list →

What we have shot in Florida so far is one part of what we do here. The rest travels: a concert, a festival, an arena show or a live broadcast is the same set of problems solved wherever it lands, and a gig shot in another state is not a reason to think it cannot be done in Florida. The shot gallery and the credit list are the same here as on the main site — the full range is on both. See the shot gallery → See the credits →

SSVIDEO appears on the official Jimmy Jib owner-operator roster, maintained by the manufacturer, Stanton Video Services.

Florida frames

Key frames from the library

From the library — the Tampa runs of July 2021 and July 2022, the 2023 CLS in West Palm Beach, and further jobs to show what we can do. Tap any frame to open it full size.

2017 Jay Leno Garage Show — Jib coverage. — 2017 Jay Leno Garage Show — Jib · frame from the clip

2023 CLS, Turning Point USA in West Palm Beach, Florida — Jib coverage. — 2023 CLS, Turning Point USA — West Palm Beach · July 2023

Location and capture date come off the camera file. The rest of the library is listed on where we work.

Florida frames — 2024

Miami and West Palm Beach, 2024

Two 2024 Florida jobs — a Miami shoot in March and a West Palm Beach shoot in July. Each caption names the job it came off; the rig, city and date come off the camera file. Tap any frame to open it full size.

Miami 2024 — Market America Conference — Jib Camera Crane

West Palm Beach 2024 — The Believers' Summit — Jib Crane

Rig, location and capture date come off the camera file. The rest of the library is listed on where we work.

Florida frames — 2025

Student Action Summit 2025, Tampa

From the July 2025 Student Action Summit in Tampa — the Jib on the show floor, the arena and the stage the rig was working over. Tap any frame to open it full size.

Rig, location and capture date come off the camera file. The rest of the library is listed on where we work.

03 — Availability

Send the dates and the details

Send the shoot dates, the city, the space and what the camera has to do. Rates depend on the kit and the number of days, so the fastest answer is always the specific one — send your dates and details and we'll send an estimate.

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Service area United States of America — nationwide
Florida dates Quoted per job
camera movement since 1993

Based in Phoenix, Arizona — serving all 50 states