<![CDATA[n Future-proofing your camera rig!  n n As I mentioned in my previous post I have once again pretended I have an actual budget to come up with a Multi-Purpose Camera Rig. This time though rather than designing it to be part of something else, I wanted to design it so that it could be…

<![CDATA[n It’s so easy the pirates are already doing it  n Since the second year of my degree, a thought has been bugging me. Why are there no internet/cloud-based broadcasters? We have Over-The-Top stuff light the Red Button or On-demand programming, but the closest we get to prosper live internet broadcasting is live streams on…

<![CDATA[n So….. Blog 2.0 it is then  n Well it look like I’ve just lost over 2 years of blog posts… and this time it wasn’t even my fault (Stupid hosting providers) n At least I have the opportunity to go through some of my ideas and tidy them up. Might take me a little…

<![CDATA[n I Finally Got a Lighting Desk Connected! n Now I have my laptop back full time, Abi got her new one yesterday, I thought I’d have a shot at getting my offline lighting desk connected to WYSIWYG and see what I could come up with. n As always I chose to connect the Chamsys…

<![CDATA[n Guess who’s Made a New Kit List?  n So a few weeks back Blackmagic Design released a couple of interesting products. One of those is now firmly attached to the top of my AV Wishlist. It’s the ATEM Mini Extreme ISO. This little beauty not only gives you the ability to record each of…

<![CDATA[n The History  n When I was back in University I produced a student-led webcast once a week. It wasn’t the most watch webcast in the world with average viewing figures in the tens rather than the thousands but whilst doing it I learnt a lot about setting up, producing and even hosting live programming….

<![CDATA[n Home Assistant Rocks!!!… Just not on my phone  n You may have noticed that I’ve not posted anything over the last couple of week. It’s been a bit busy what with work and the surprising amount of DIY that Abi has found for me to do now that I’m back at work. 😂 n…

<![CDATA[n Where are my Royalties @BlackMagic_News ?  n A Few months ago I wrote a post asking Blackmagic design to add a couple of features to the ATEM Mini Pro on the Blackmagic forums and it seems they have listened. Unfortunately, I’ve not received any royalties for my idea, and I’m not expecting ant any time soon…

<![CDATA[n Was The Upgrade Worth It?  n I recently started my new job at Vodafone and one of the first things I was told was that I could talk about work. As you can imagine this makes writing about my daily life quite difficult as I spend 5 days a week with the wonderful team…

<![CDATA[n Finally, A Way To Do Face Tracking With FaceID  n For a while now I’ve been looking into different ways to do motion capture on the cheap. You won’t believe how ridiculously expensive it is to create even an at-home setup that captures your body and face movements for animation software. That was until…