Each note takes one problem from a live stream setup, such as a dropped feed, echo in the room or a bitrate that is too high, and explains how to find the cause and fix it calmly.
Video Switching
A practical walk through the first habits of video switching: planning your sources, building scenes before the show, and timing cuts so viewers never notice the machinery.
Megan Foster
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Encoders
Before you commit to a bitrate, resolution and frame rate, run through these questions about the venue connection, the platform and your equipment. They save a lot of guesswork on show day.
Daniel Brooks
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Audio Routing
Most audio problems in a live stream come from a few repeatable routing errors. Here is what goes wrong between the microphone and the encoder, and how to catch it early.
Priya Natarajan
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Costs
A plain look at what drives the cost of connecting several cameras for a live stream: cable types, signal distance, adapters and the time spent checking each feed.
Daniel Brooks
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Connection Testing
Tom ran a panel for a local trade group and thought one fast connection was enough. A short test session showed why upload speed, backup paths and ingest settings all need checking first.
Megan Foster
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Rehearsal
As indoor panels, talks and studio shows pick up in the coming months, here is how to turn a dress rehearsal and a written checklist into the habit that protects every multi-camera stream.
Priya Natarajan
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Video Switching
Two words show up on every switcher panel: preview and program. Megan Foster explains what each bus does, why cuts go wrong without them, and how learners practise the habit.
Megan Foster
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Encoders
A side-by-side look at constant and variable bitrate for multi-camera panel streams on a shared venue connection, with a clear recommendation for most small productions.
Daniel Brooks
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Audio Routing
A walk through how we route microphones and room sound through a mixer into the stream, from the first cable to the last level check, and where the problems usually hide.
Priya Natarajan
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Camera Connections
Priya Natarajan answers the questions that come up most when learners connect several cameras for the first time: cable choices, cable length, labelling and checking each feed before going live.
Priya Natarajan
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Course news
Part two of our look at connection testing: how backup links and platform ingest settings are checked in the course, and why a failover you have never tried is not yet a failover.
Megan Foster
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Rehearsal
Megan Foster explains the paper, timers and test sources the course uses to turn a dress rehearsal into a repeatable pre-stream routine covering cameras, sound, scenes and platform settings.
Megan Foster
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Video Switching
Before you commit to a switching approach for your show, work through these questions about sources, scenes, overlays and transitions. Megan Foster shares what to check, in order.
Megan Foster
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Encoders
Most encoder trouble comes from a handful of repeated choices. This note walks through the settings mistakes we see most in multi-camera streams and the checks that prevent them.
Megan Foster
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Audio Routing
A plain look at what drives the cost of setting up microphones, a mixer and clean sound paths for a multi-camera stream, and where the money is best spent first.
Megan Foster
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Customer case
Megan walks through a customer case from these weeks: a small hall, four cameras on mixed HDMI and SDI runs, and how labelling and signal checks settled a flickering feed.
Megan Foster
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Connection Testing
Mid autumn brings panel evenings, business briefings and studio shows. A look at how upload speed, backup links and ingest settings are best tested in the weeks ahead.
Megan Foster
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Rehearsal
A dress rehearsal is more than a quick test. Megan explains the term in plain words and shows what a full run-through should cover before an audience arrives.
Megan Foster
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Video Switching
A plain comparison of a dedicated hardware video switcher and a software switcher on a laptop, with a recommendation for small studios and panel events running three or four cameras.
Daniel Brooks
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Encoder Setup
A look at how the encoder session is actually run in class: what we measure first, which settings we change one at a time, and how learners confirm the result before an event.
Priya Natarajan
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Audio Routing
The audio question learners ask us most, answered step by step: where echo comes from, why levels drift mid-show, and how a clean path from microphone to stream is built.
Daniel Brooks
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Course News
A look at how the Camera Connections module is taught: HDMI, SDI and network feeds, labelling every source, and checking each signal before the show goes live.
Daniel Brooks
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Connection Testing
A look at the speed checks, backup links and platform test streams we rely on when teaching connection testing, and how each one catches a different kind of problem early.
Daniel Brooks
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How-To Guide
A practical walk-through of a full dress rehearsal for a multi-camera stream: what to write on the checklist, how to run it in order, and how to record what you changed.
Daniel Brooks
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Video Switching
Most switching errors on a multi-camera show are small habits, not equipment faults. Here are the mistakes we see learners make most often, and the practice that fixes each one.
Megan Foster
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Encoders
A practical look at what drives the cost of setting up an encoder for a multi-camera show: bitrate, hardware, venue connection and the time spent testing before you go live.
Daniel Brooks
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Audio Routing
A short case from the autumn season: a small studio owner named Marcus and the echo and drop-outs that nearly ruined his panel stream, and the routing changes that settled it.
Priya Natarajan
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