Equipment Protection Guide
SmallHD Cine 7 — Cases & Transport Protection
The Cine 7 rides on gimbals, camera carts, and director monitors all day — and its touchscreen takes the hit when it travels loose. Here is how working crews case it, with 8 builds we already cut foam for.
- 7-inch high-bright touchscreen
- ≈567 g / 1.25 lb
- 8 case builds
- Bolt RX variants supported
About this equipment
The SmallHD Cine 7 is a 7-inch, daylight-viewable production monitor used as an on-camera display, a director's handheld, and a focus-puller's reference. It has become the de facto standard top monitor on ARRI bodies — so much so that ARRI's own CCM-1 camera-control monitor is built in partnership with SmallHD. Many units in the field are the Bolt RX versions with Teradek receivers built in, which adds antennas — the most fragile thing on the monitor — to the transport problem.
It rarely travels alone. Sun shades, articulating arms, brackets, batteries, and plates ride with it, and the touchscreen face should never bear against anything harder than foam. The builds below are cut for the monitor plus its real kit, not the bare display.
Choose protection by workflow
Occasional moves, vehicle transport: foam inserts and padded protection in a case you own.
Travel and carry-on workflows: compact hard-shell builds sized to airline limits.
Constant shipping: ATA shells, modular replaceable foam, fleet-matched layouts.
Purpose-built around your exact package and workflow.
Start a custom project →Cases built for this equipment
SmallHD Cine 7 Touchscreen Monitor
SmallHD Cine 7 with AKS in pelican 1520
SmallHD Cine 7 + Bolt with bracket for shade
SmallHD Cine 7 with RX bracket and small rig handles
Smallhd Cine 7 with Bolt 6 in Storm IM2300
SmallHD Cine 7 with RX bracket in Storm IM2700
SmallHD Cine 7 with bolt Touchscreen Monitor Pelican 1550
SmallHD Cine 7 with accessories Pelican 1500
More builds in this family
- SMALLHD CINE 24" 4K
- Smallhd Cine 13 UHD 4K High Bright Monitor Case
- SmallHD Cine 18" 4K UHD Monitor Case. Additional space for accessories
- SmallHD Cine 18" 4K High-Brigh Monitor Pelican case
- SmallHD Cine 18" 4K High-Bright Monitor Pelican
- SmallHD Cine 13 in Pelican 1440
- SmallHD Cine 13 in Nanuk 940
- SMALLHD CINE 24" 4K (Case has wheels and pull out handle)
- SMALLHD CINE 24" 4K (Case has wheels and pull out handle) Larger AKS
Transport knowledge
Corner impacts through soft pouches and pressure on the touchscreen face. Antenna stubs on Bolt RX units snap when the monitor is packed screen-down in a shared case. A dedicated cavity with the screen facing foam solves all three.
Our Cine 7 layouts carry the monitor face-down in its own pocket, with cavities for the shade, arm, brackets, and batteries. Builds in Pelican 1520-class shells keep the whole monitor kit in one hand-carryable case.
L-series and small gold-mount batteries that power the Cine 7 belong in your carry-on per airline lithium rules — the case design leaves them accessible rather than buried.
Where to buy the equipment
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Frequently asked questions
Yes — tell us which version you run and we cut the cavity for that body and its antennas. The foam is engineered around the exact configuration, not a generic 7-inch pocket.
That is the point of a custom layout: monitor face-down in its own cavity, accessories in theirs. If your kit differs from a catalog build, request a quote and we adapt the layout.
Builds shown here are made to order and typically ship in 7–10 business days. New layouts are quoted per project.
Related equipment
Equipment context referenced from: Film and Digital Times — ARRI Camera Control Monitor CCM-1. Case and foam guidance is Innerspace Cases’ own.
Multi-unit and matched case sets are what we build best — one engineered layout, every case identical, re-orderable for years.
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