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About this tool
Build a shoot-specific gear list with calculated battery counts, card capacity, backup storage and total pack weight.
This packing list works out the two things creators actually get wrong — power and storage — then builds the gear list around them. Batteries come from ceil(record minutes × safety factor ÷ battery runtime) with a two-battery floor, and card capacity from GB = Mbps × minutes × 60 ÷ 8 ÷ 1000, so a 100 Mbps camera recording for an hour needs 45 GB. It also totals the pack weight and converts battery capacity to watt-hours for airline rules.
Open Creator Gear Packing List on AltFTool — it loads instantly in your browser.
Add your input to the workspace.
Adjust the options until the result looks right.
Copy or download the output and put it to work.
The counts come from your record time and bitrate, not from a generic list.
Outdoors, after dark, no mains and multiple cameras each change what appears.
Every line carries a typical weight so the bag total is visible up front.
Take enough to cover your rolling record time with about 50% headroom, and never fewer than two. For two hours of recording on a battery that lasts an hour, that is three per body — cold weather, high frame rates and constant monitoring all shorten runtime further.
Multiply the bitrate in Mbps by 450 to get gigabytes per hour: 100 Mbps 4K is about 45 GB an hour, 400 Mbps All-Intra about 180 GB, and 880 Mbps ProRes 422 HQ about 396 GB. Double it if you are recording to two cards or two cameras.
Spare lithium-ion batteries must go in carry-on baggage, never in the hold. Under 100 Wh each they normally need no approval; 100 to 160 Wh requires airline approval and is usually capped at two spares; above 160 Wh they are not allowed in passenger baggage at all.
Watt-hours = volts × amp-hours, so divide mAh by 1000 first. A 7.2 V, 6600 mAh camera battery is 47.5 Wh; a 14.8 V, 10,000 mAh V-mount is 148 Wh and needs airline approval.