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Three Days Before The Shoot
Three days out from a multi-day shoot, the call sheet finally lands. The location's confirmed for Thursday — except the lead has flu and they want to push Thursday to Saturday. Now the production manager has to open every gear reservation she'd built — the A-cam package, the B-cam package, the sound bag, the lighting tower, the seven radios — and edit each one. One gets missed. The radios stay booked for Thursday, which is now somebody else's shoot day, and at 5am Saturday a kit list is short by seven RX units.
The day was never going to be relaxed. The reschedule made it worse than it needed to be.
A Kit Is One Thing, Not Twenty Things
Asset Giant's Asset Booking Calendar treats a shoot kit as a single bookable thing. Build the kit once — pick the camera bodies, lenses, lights, audio, radios, batteries, the lot — and reserve them all for the shoot dates in one action. The booking shows up on the calendar as a single tidy pill, not a wall of individual cards. Reschedule lands? Long-press the pill, drag it from Thursday to Saturday, let go. Every item in the kit moves with it. None get left behind. A confirmation appears at the bottom of the screen with an Undo link in case the call sheet changes again.
For multi-day productions, that's not a nice-to-have. It's the difference between a production manager who's serving the team and one who's spending three hours patching reservations.
Save the Kit You Always Use
Most production companies pack the same way most of the time. A documentary unit's "interview rig" looks much the same from job to job; a corporate-video shoot has a core lighting and audio set that travels everywhere. Asset Giant lets you save any kit as a list so next time you mobilise that style of job, you reach for it in one click rather than building it asset by asset.
It works the other way round too: when you build a kit in the booking modal, a Save as list button turns the selection into a reusable list without losing your place in the booking. The shoot you're already booking gets reserved; the next ten shoots of the same shape get easier.
See Your Kits As Kits, Not Just Pills
The Asset Scheduler has a small but powerful switch above the time grid: Show: Assets ⊙ Kits ⊙ Assets and Kits. The default is one row per asset, which is great when you want to see a single camera's week. Flip it to Kits and you get one row per kit booking — each shoot or event sits as a single pill across its days. For a busy production company with several shoots running in parallel, that's the view that lets the producer see "who's where, when" in seconds rather than minutes.
Tick Include unbooked lists in the same row and any saved kit you haven't yet reserved appears as an empty row, ready to be turned into a booking with a click.
Catch the Clashes Before the Crew Notices
Asset Giant is quantity-aware. It knows you have three A-cam bodies, eight radios and twelve V-locks. So when you book a kit, every single item is checked for availability across the chosen window, and any clash is flagged before the booking is created. You see "Sennheiser MKE600 — already booked Sat 14th by 'Northern Doc'" before you commit, so you swap to the spare, or move the shoot a day, or have an honest conversation about subletting — but you don't find out on set.
The same check protects you on reschedule. Drag a kit to a new day where one of its items is already reserved, and the move is blocked with a clear explanation — better to find out as you're planning than at 6am call.
Plan and Reality, Side by Side
A booking is a plan — it says where a kit should be. Your normal QR check-in/out still records where it actually is. Each booking carries a small coloured flag that tells you whether the kit has been checked in where it's meant to be: green for "where it should be", amber for "checked in elsewhere", red for "not checked in by now". A glance at Saturday's call tells the production manager exactly which kit is on truck and which still needs collecting from the office.
Built for the Way Shoots Actually Get Planned
- Tap an empty rectangle on the Scheduler to start a booking — the dates fill in to that exact rectangle, whether it's a half-hour pickup or a whole week's shoot.
- Drag across rectangles to span a longer window.
- Long-press a pill to drag-reschedule (a short click opens it to edit — no accidental drags).
- Drop on a different day in the Calendar grid and the kit shifts by that many days, time-of-day preserved.
- Sync your bookings to Google Calendar, Outlook or Apple Calendar so the whole crew gets reminders the way they already work — see [help_link slug="calendar-feeds-and-reminders"].
