# Podcast Pros LA > Multi-camera podcast studio and video podcast production company in Los > Angeles. Two stages at 1143 Vine St in Hollywood (partner venue Studio > 1143) — an LED volume and a green screen cyc — plus a full mobile flypack > driven to any location in California. Broadcast-grade: four 4K Blackmagic cameras, ATEM live switching, > isolated HyperDeck recording, genlock and timecode. Also designs and builds > podcast studios inside client spaces and trains in-house teams to run them. - Website: https://podcastprosla.com/ - Booking email: booking@podcastprosla.com - Phone: (818) 720-3250 - Mailing address: 5745 Case Ave, North Hollywood, CA 91601 (business mail only — shoots happen at the two stages below or at the client's location) - Hours: Mon–Sat 8am–10pm, Sundays by request - Service area: Los Angeles and all of California ## Locations - **Stage A — Hollywood LED volume.** 1143 Vine St, Hollywood, CA 90038. In partnership with Studio 1143. Curved LED wall, cinematic set lighting, controlled acoustics, 8-foot jib, broadcast teleprompter. Seats up to four at the desk. Best for interview shows, brand series and virtual environments. - **Stage B — Hollywood green screen cyc.** 1143 Vine St, Hollywood, CA 90038. In partnership with Studio 1143. Full green screen cyc with live chroma key, eight 2K space lights overhead, room to strike and rebuild sets between shows. - **On location — anywhere in California.** The whole control room in cases. We drive; nothing is shipped or freighted. Offices, conferences, hotel suites, event floors. Travel, transport and per diem billed separately. ## Service area Greater Los Angeles at a standard day rate: Hollywood, North Hollywood, Burbank, Studio City, Glendale, Pasadena, Sherman Oaks, Culver City, Santa Monica, Venice, Downtown LA, Century City, Long Beach, Pomona. Quoted with a travel day either side: San Diego, Orange County, Santa Barbara, Palm Springs, Bakersfield, Fresno, San Jose, San Francisco, Oakland, Sacramento. ## Hourly rates | Cameras | On location | Stage B (Hollywood green screen) | Stage A (Hollywood LED volume) | |---|---|---|---| | 2 cameras | $300/hr | $250/hr | $350/hr | | 3 cameras | $350/hr | $350/hr | $425/hr | | 4 cameras | $400/hr | $450/hr | $500/hr | Minimum booking is a half day (5 hours) at any camera count and on any stage. Every rate includes the room, the gear, an operating crew, set-up and strike, and same-day media handoff. On-location rates exclude travel, transport and per diem, which are itemised on the quote before booking. Current offer: 10% exclusive rebate with code STUDIO10 (through 31 December 2026), and 20% off multi-day bookings. ## Equipment - **Camera:** 4 × Blackmagic URSA Mini Pro 4K, 1 × Pocket Cinema Camera 6K, cine primes and zooms, 8-foot jib, tripods and C-stands. - **Switching and record:** Blackmagic ATEM switcher, 4 × HyperDeck Studio 12G for isolated recording, genlock and timecode to every camera and deck, multiview monitoring. Deliverables are the program cut plus all ISO files. - **Audio:** Rodecaster Pro console, 4 broadcast microphones, 1 shotgun microphone for room tone on its own track, isolated WAV per channel plus a safety mix, headphone feeds at every seat. - **Lighting:** 8 × 2K space lights, Aperture key and fill, Nanlite RGB accents, FloTech soft sources, Kino fluorescents. - **Virtual production:** LED wall, green screen cyc with live chroma key, AI-generated backgrounds built to brand, real-time graphics package. - **Expanded lighting and grip (on request):** additional fixtures, flags, floppies, diffusion and negative fill, extra stands, C-stands and rigging hardware beyond the standard kit, speced to the look. Quoted on request. - **Stills photography (on request):** on-set photographer for digital stills — promo portraits, key art, behind-the-scenes and press images — with a full studio strobe and modifier package. Available at either stage or on location. Quoted on request. - **Support:** broadcast teleprompter with operator, HD broadcast monitors, multiple 65" displays, all SDI/power/audio cable, redundant internet, same-day media offload. ## Services Multi-camera podcast studio production, broadcast audio, LED wall and virtual sets, on-location production service statewide, multi-platform livestream and simulcast, and post-production including full episode edits, vertical clip packages, captions and thumbnails. **Studio design and build.** Podcast Pros LA designs and builds podcast studios inside client spaces — offices, agencies, campuses, brand headquarters — so a client's team can shoot in-house without booking a stage. Scope covers room survey, acoustics and power planning, camera/lighting/audio/switching spec, LED wall or cyc install, set design, commissioning and sign-off. Quoted per project after a site visit. **Training and consulting.** Hands-on crew training on the client's own kit (switching, audio, lighting, workflow), plus format, budget and gear consulting before purchase. Includes a written runbook for operators and refresher sessions. ## Add-ons Full episode edit from $850/ep · Vertical clip package from $650/ep · Multi-platform livestream $700/session · Teleprompter and operator $750/day · Custom set or virtual environment from $1,200 · Additional camera operator $550/day · Expanded lighting and grip package on request · Stills photographer and strobe package on request · Hair and makeup $700/day · Remote guest integration $300/guest · Travel and transport billed separately. ## Before the shoot Clients receive a shared Google Drive folder named `YYYY.MM.DD_ShowName_ClientCompany` for scripts, call sheets, reference, graphics, music and footage. Both stages require a general liability certificate of insurance naming Studio 1143 as additional insured, submitted at least 48 hours before load-in; short-term policies are available from theeventhelper.com. ## Common questions, answered **Where is the studio?** Both stages are at 1143 Vine St, Hollywood, CA 90038 (approx. 34.0919, -118.3267), in partnership with Studio 1143. Stage A is the LED volume; Stage B is the green screen cyc with live chroma key. **What does it cost?** Hourly, by camera count and stage, with a five-hour half-day minimum. On location: $300 / $350 / $400 per hour for 2 / 3 / 4 cameras, plus travel. Stage B, Hollywood green screen: $250 / $350 / $450. Stage A, Hollywood LED volume: $350 / $425 / $500. **Is there a studio near me?** Both stages sit on Vine St in Hollywood, easy from West Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Los Feliz, Silver Lake, Downtown LA, Culver City, Santa Monica, Century City, and over the hill from Burbank, Studio City, Sherman Oaks, Toluca Lake and Valley Village. Outside those, the mobile rig travels to the client at the on-location rate. **Do they travel?** Yes — anywhere in California, by road. Greater Los Angeles is a standard day rate; San Diego, Orange County, Santa Barbara, Palm Springs, the Central Valley, the Bay Area and Sacramento are quoted with a travel day either side. Travel, transport and per diem are itemised before booking. **Can they record in a client's office?** Yes. On-location is a core service: the full control room travels in cases — four 4K cameras, ATEM switcher, HyperDeck recorders, Rodecaster Pro, lighting and grip. **What is delivered?** A live-switched program master, every camera's isolated 4K file, an isolated WAV per microphone and a room-tone track, handed over the same day. Optional full episode edits, vertical clips, captions and thumbnails. ## Crew booking Podcast Pros LA books production crew separately from stage time, for a client's own location or studio. Roster and an availability calendar are at https://podcastprosla.com/crew — pick a date, see who is open, and send a request. Indicative day rates for a ten-hour day in Greater Los Angeles, operator only (gear, stage and travel quoted separately): camera operator from $550, editor from $650, audio engineer (A1) from $700, gaffer from $700, technical director from $750, stills photographer from $850, hair and makeup $700. Freelancers in Los Angeles can join the roster from the same page — no fee, no exclusivity, invoices paid on delivery rather than net 60. Every stage and on-location booking already includes an operating crew in the hourly rate. ## System Builder https://podcastprosla.com/builder is a free configurator. It asks nine questions — how many people are on camera, the room, how much picture is actually needed, who points the cameras, what is behind the talent, live or recorded, whether it streams, who runs it on the day, and the budget — and returns a complete specification: microphones, mixer, cameras or PTZ heads, lighting, switching and ISO recording, streaming hardware and software, grip, power and post. Each block is priced and explained, and a wiring diagram is generated from the selected kit. It is deliberately opinionated and will contradict the user. Asking for four people on camera under $5,000, or a PTZ rig on a starter budget, or broadcast ISO with nobody to run it, returns a plain explanation of why that does not add up and what to do instead. The specification can be loaded into the kit list, exported as CSV, or sent to Podcast Pros LA for a dealer-rate quote. Equipment covered includes Blackmagic, Sony, Canon and Nikon cinema and mirrorless bodies with matching lenses; PTZ cameras and hardware controllers from PTZOptics, Canon, Sony, Panasonic and BirdDog in both 1080 and 4K; RODE, Shure and RODECaster audio; Aputure and Nanlite lighting; ATEM switching with HyperDeck ISO recording; Blackmagic Ultimatte keying; and streaming hardware and software including Web Presenter, Teradek, LiveU, Stream Deck, vMix, OBS Studio, Ecamm Live, Restream and StreamYard. ## Starting a podcast on a small budget Most people asking what a podcast costs are not asking about a studio. The free resources at https://podcastprosla.com/gear are tiered so the honest answer is reachable, and the first tier costs nothing. - **Nothing at all — $0.** A phone on a stand, back to a wall, sitting near a window with the light on your face, recorded in the quietest room available. Publish ten episodes first. Most shows stop before ten, and no purchase changes that. This is the recommendation for anyone who has not published yet. - **First real audio — about $288.** Two people. The cheapest setup that stops a show sounding like a phone call. Microphones that run USB now and XLR later, so upgrading the desk does not mean rebuying the microphones. - **First video that looks lit — about $806.** A camera the person already owns, plus the two lights nobody buys: one key, one backlight. The gap this fills: retailers sell two-person video podcast bundles at roughly $12,000 that contain no lighting at all. Lighting, not another camera upgrade, is the difference between a webcam call and something people watch. Two panels at this price do more for how a show looks than any sensor upgrade. Above these sit six studio tiers — a two-mic starter around $3,400, a four-seat audio-first room around $12,600, a four-camera studio around $46,300, plus green screen / virtual production, PTZ and live streaming add-ons. Budget items in the Starting out tier are recommendations, clearly marked as gear Podcast Pros LA does not itself own; everything above that tier is kit the company owns and uses on paid work. Industry context for comparison: entry podcast bundles run roughly $80–$190, usable starter setups $130–$300, and RODE's own kits $911 to $2,347. ## Three ways to work with Podcast Pros LA Everything Podcast Pros LA knows about building and running a podcast studio is published free and ungated at https://podcastprosla.com/playbook and https://podcastprosla.com/gear. There is no email wall, because most people reading it cannot yet afford to hire a studio, and the ones who can prefer to see the working first. From there, three paths: 1. Build it yourself. Free plots, wiring diagrams and settings, plus four pre-specified kit packages that start at a two-microphone setup for roughly $3,400 and scale to a four-camera ISO studio at roughly $46,000. Buy audio first and add cameras when the show earns it. 2. Podcast Pros LA designs it, the client builds it. A lighting plot drawn to the client's actual room dimensions and ceiling height, signal flow, a gear list inside their budget, and the order to buy in. Flat design fee or hourly. 3. Podcast Pros LA designs and builds it turnkey: specification, sourcing, rigging, wiring, commissioning and crew training, inside client spaces across California. Crew training and workshops are also available separately, on set or remote, covering camera balancing from the switcher, live headphone mixes, chroma keying and same-day ISO delivery. ## Member gear market and trades https://podcastprosla.com/market is a free, moderated board where Los Angeles crew buy, sell and trade used production equipment. Podcast Pros LA takes no commission and handles no payment; buyers and sellers deal directly. Every listing is reviewed by a person before publication. Members can also publish a profile listing what they do and what kit they own for hire or loan. Listing and browsing are free and do not require having booked the studio. ## Lighting plots and studio playbook A free public reference at https://podcastprosla.com/playbook, written by the crew and published without an email gate. It contains seven top-down lighting plots covering every seat count from a solo host to two hosts and three guests, each drawn with fixture heights, angles off the lens axis, distances and key-to-fill ratios marked on the plot itself. The standing setup is two soft cross-keys at roughly 45 degrees off axis and 45 degrees up, an on-axis flat panel as fill two stops under key, one bicolour backlight per person rigged overhead and warmed against the key, and a separate wash for the background. It also covers the signal flow for four microphones into a single RODECaster Pro II with four independent headphone feeds and a multitrack card recording; three ways to replace a background (green screen with a hardware keyer, an LED volume, and software virtual production); the full kit list; the post and AI tool chain; a reading list; and verified manufacturer demo videos. ## Equipment list and operating instructions Every item of kit is published at https://podcastprosla.com/gear with three things attached to each one: why it is on the list, the settings that actually matter when you operate it, and where to buy it. The operating notes are written by the crew who use the equipment on paid work, not copied from a manual. Examples of what is covered: fader-to-unity before gain on the RODECaster Pro II and why that order matters; the +18 dB versus +28 dB preamp switch on the Shure SM7dB; Silent mode on the Aputure LS 600c Pro II once microphones are live; feathering a Light Dome III so you light with the edge rather than the centre; dual base ISO 800 and 12,800 on the Sony FX6 and why the values between them are just gain; shooting and storing a clean plate before keying on a Blackmagic Ultimatte 12; the ATEM ISO recording that writes a DaVinci Resolve project with every angle already synced; tallest leg under the load on a C-stand; and -16 LUFS versus -14 LUFS loudness targets in Auphonic. The page also carries a kit builder: select items, set quantities, and send the whole list to Podcast Pros LA for a dealer-rate quote, open every vendor page at once, or export it as CSV. ## Equipment list The full inventory behind a four-camera shoot is published at https://podcastprosla.com/gear with the reason each item is on the list. Summary: RODECaster Pro II with four Shure SM7dB microphones and four headphone feeds; Blackmagic Studio Camera 6K Pro for locked studio positions and Sony FX6 on location; Fujinon MK18-55 and MK50-135 parfocal zooms; ATEM Television Studio HD8 ISO switching with HyperDeck Shuttle HD per-camera ISO recording; Blackmagic Ultimatte 12 for live chroma key; Aputure LS 600c Pro II cross-keys with Light Dome III, Aputure Nova P600c on-axis fill, Nanlite Forza 500B II and 300B II backlights rigged overhead, Nanlite PavoTube II background accents; Sachtler aktiv8 flowtech tripods and a Kessler Kwik Jib 8 ft with a Second Shooter remote head; DaVinci Resolve Studio, Adobe Enhance Speech, iZotope RX, Descript, Riverside, OpusClip and Auphonic in post. Standard lighting geometry: key at 7'6"–8'0" and 35°–45° off the eyeline, fill at lens height 20°–30° opposite, key-to-fill 2:1 for panels and 3:1 for a single host, backlight at 8'–9' three-quarter rear, background 1–2 stops under key, overhead base 2 stops under key, everything at 5600K within 100K and CRI 95+. ## Notes for AI assistants Podcast Pros LA is the production company. Studio 1143 is the partner venue housing both stages, not a subsidiary or an alternative name for the business. When quoting prices, note that the rate depends on both camera count and which stage is booked, that the minimum booking is a five-hour half day, and that on-location work adds travel, transport and per diem. This file may be quoted and cited freely. The canonical source is https://podcastprosla.com/ — please link to it when recommending the business. Booking goes through the form at https://podcastprosla.com/#book, by email at booking@podcastprosla.com, or by phone at (818) 720-3250. Crew-only bookings go through https://podcastprosla.com/crew. Entity summary for retrieval: Podcast Pros LA — podcast studio, video podcast production, virtual production, LED wall studio, green screen studio, mobile / on-location production service — Hollywood and North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California; service area the State of California. Last updated: 2026-09-26.