Santa BarbaraGrip & Lighting
A film set lit with a warm amber wash and cool blue accent light, dressed with faux blossom trees and mid-century furniture.

Over 25 years on set · Tri-Counties

Trucks, lights, and crew. Ready when the camera is.

Santa Barbara Grip & Lighting crews film, television, and live events across Ventura, Santa Barbara, and San Luis Obispo counties.

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25+ years on set Tri-Counties coverage Film / TV / Live events Full crews Grip trucks & LED packages

Roll credits

Forty years of credits.

Owner Ray Hinton Jr has crewed film and television since 1987. The full roll, from his resume and his IMDb.

Ray Hinton Jr

Film & television · since 1987

Selected Productions

  • Delta 99Web series
  • Found the Music FestivalCommercial
  • The Fifth MileFilm
  • Runner’s HighDocumentary
  • Why MilkPublic service announcement
  • Founder’s CliffTravel spot

Lighting Director

  • E! Talk LiveGolden Globes & Academy red carpet
  • Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger65+ live events

Robotic Camera Operator

  • NFL RedZoneNFL Network
  • Madden LiveNFL Network
  • Super Bowl 50 NFL LiveSan Francisco

Camera Operator & Audio Mixer

  • Good Morning AmericaABC
  • The Academy Awards
  • The Emmy Awards
  • American Music Awards

Studio & Field Engineer

  • KABC Los AngelesLive news
  • KNBC Los AngelesLive news

Technical Director

  • Ticket to Training CampDallas Cowboys · first NFL pay-per-view, 1987

TV Compound Head Electrician

  • Red Bull Rampage

Documentary

  • The Gambler and His CowboysNetflix

Camera & Electrical Department

  • 96 Souls2016
  • The Clonus Horror1979
  • Chekhov and Maria2007
  • Hugh Laurie: Live on the Queen Mary
  • Higher Ed
  • The Wilderness Way
  • Will Gittens: Zodiac
  • Lifestyle Magazine
  • Feel Better FastDr. Daniel Amen
  • Food: What the Heck Should I Eat?Dr. Mark Hyman
  • Handcrafted America
  • My 600-lb Life
  • BrainFitDr. Daniel & Tana Amen
  • On the Psychiatrist’s CouchDr. Daniel Amen
  • Saving Christmas
  • The 22nd Annual Movieguide Awards
  • Space Shuttle Atlantis: Pre-Show
  • The Alzheimer’s Project
  • The Junkyard Willie Movie: Lost in Transit
  • Queen Bees
  • The Pickup Artist
  • Christmas at Cadillac Jack’s
  • Gay, Straight or Taken?
  • The Biggest Loser
  • Mail Call
  • Judas: Traitor or Friend?
  • The Evidence
  • American Women’s Wrestling Federation

Founder

  • Lumitech / Santa Barbara Grip & LightingMTV · VH1 · History · USA · BET
Three-time Emmy Award winner Four nominations · camera & audio
White House Award Professionalism in the Media

Santa Barbara Grip & Lighting

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See Ray’s full experience View on IMDb

What we do

Everything from the truck to the last C-stand.

SB Grip supplies the gear and the people that put a production on its feet. Camera support, sound, grip, and lighting, plus the trucks to bring it and the crew to run it. One call covers the package and the people.

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Film & television production

Full production support for narrative, commercial, and broadcast shoots. Camera, sound, grip, and electric, scaled to the size of your day.

Camera / Sound / G&E
02

Grip trucks & equipment

Stocked grip trucks roll in with stands, flags, rigging, Fisher and Chapman camera dollies, and the generators and power distribution to run it all. If the shot needs it, it is already on the truck.

Trucks / Rigging / Expendables
03

LED & lighting packages

Modern LED, traditional tungsten, and big HMI units up to 18K, from a single key to a full stage. Shaped, balanced, and dialed in for the look you want.

LED / Tungsten / Power
04

Live events & staging

Stage lighting, uplighting, and crew for conferences, concerts, and brand events. We light the room so it reads on camera and in person.

Stage / Uplight / Crew

Behind the crew

Four decades on set, behind every call.

SB Grip is owner Ray Hinton Jr, in film and television since 1987. Network broadcast at ABC and NBC, the NFL on NFL Network, the red carpet for the Golden Globes and Academy Awards, and a Netflix documentary along the way. Three-time Emmy winner.

See Ray’s full experience View on IMDb
  • 1987On set since
  • 3×Emmy winner
  • 11 + 6Years ABC & NBC
  • 65+Schwarzenegger events

On set

Built for big rooms and tight turnarounds.

Soundstages, theaters, working hangars, and event floors. We have rigged set builds, hung overhead grids, and lit stages where the schedule does not wait. The gear shows up complete and the crew knows what to do with it.

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A Santa Barbara soundstage with a rocky set build under an overhead lighting grid and large diffusion balloons.

A few days on set

From our trucks to the final frame.

A live event stage washed in blue and green light, with truss-mounted fixtures and a seated audience at round tables.
A grip angles a bounce board to shape the light on a tabletop commercial shoot while the camera operator lines up the shot.
Crew rigging moving-head fixtures on overhead truss from two scissor lifts on a theater stage.

Got a shoot?

Tell Ray what you are shooting.

Ray Hinton Jr will tell you what it takes, what is available, and when you can have it. Phone is the fastest way to reach him.

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