Articles on multi-camera switching, control room design, streaming and the practical side of running live television and online shows.
Our articles draw on day-to-day work in the control room, from switching and signal flow to rehearsals and streaming. A new piece appears about once a day, so there is always something recent to read.
Production Management
A practical walk through how production management holds a live television or streaming show together, from the first crew list to the final rehearsal before going to air.
Continue readingSwitching
Choosing a vision mixer for a live show is easier with a short list of questions. Here is what I check with producers before a switching crew is booked.
Continue readingLive operation
Playback, replay, graphics and routing all fail in familiar ways when a show is live. Here are the slips I see most often from the gallery, and the habits that stop them.
Continue readingControl Room Design
A plain look at how control room design is priced, from desk layout and monitor walls to signal flow and comms, and which choices make a budget grow or shrink.
Continue readingCustomer story
A short account of one client's evening concert, a mobile gallery parked beside the stage, and the quiet decisions that kept the picture steady when the weather turned.
Continue readingLive Streaming
Autumn and winter bring earlier dusk, colder venues and more indoor events. Rhys Pemberton sets out how to prepare a live stream for these weeks, from lighting to connection checks.
Continue readingProduction Management
A producer's three-word rhythm of stand-by, cue and go keeps crews, cameras and graphics in step. Here is what each call asks of you and why the order matters.
Continue readingVision Mixing
A comparison of cutting to a camera script against cutting by ear and eye, what each asks of a vision mixer and which one we recommend for most live shows.
Continue readingBehind the Scenes
A senior vision mixer walks through the playback, replay, graphics and routing work that runs behind a live show, and the small habits that keep every cue on time.
Continue readingControl Room Design
The question we hear most when planning a gallery: who sits where, and why. Rhys Pemberton walks through desk order, sightlines and talkback so a crew can work without raising its voice.
Continue readingCompany news
A look at how the Concert and Festival Broadcast offer works in practice these weeks: the roaming camera crews, the mobile gallery and what organisers can expect from us on site.
Continue readingStreaming Tools
A look at the tools Priya's streaming crews rely on: encoding, graphics, signal monitoring and backup paths, and why each one earns its place on a live online production.
Continue readingProduction Management
Callum Ashworth lists what to settle before a producer and technical manager take on your show: crews, schedules, rehearsals and who holds the final say once the programme goes live.
Continue readingLive Switching
Most problems in a live cut come from preparation, not from the vision mixer's hand. Here are the mistakes we see most often in multi-camera switching, and the habits that prevent them.
Continue readingCosts
Playback, replay, graphics and routing run live each carry a cost. This note sets out what shapes a quote for real-time video operation and where a producer can keep spending sensible.
Continue readingCustomer Story
Priya Nandra tells how a small studio's cramped gallery was planned again from desk layout to comms, and what Elliot's team noticed on their first live show afterwards.
Continue readingSeasonal advice
Priya Nandra walks through what changes when a stage broadcast moves into late autumn and winter: shorter daylight, damp cable runs, early sunsets and the planning that keeps a roaming crew steady.
Continue readingStreaming Terms
A producer's plain-words guide to the numbers on a streaming encoder: what bitrate, keyframe interval and latency actually mean, and why each one changes what your audience sees.
Continue readingProduction Management
Two ways to set up production management for television and streaming: a producer and technical manager booked show by show, or a retained team across a season. A comparison and a recommendation.
Continue readingBehind the Scenes
A technical engineer's account of what happens behind a live cut, from the first rehearsal run to the last transition, and how vision mixers and crew keep many angles in step.
Continue readingLive Production
One question reaches us before almost every live show: what does a video operator actually do while the cameras are running? Rhys Pemberton answers it plainly, from playback to routing.
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