“How do you know what all those buttons do?”
It’s a question I get asked all the time, and the simple answer is: I don’t. I use the features on this Grass valley Kayenne switcher that I need, and ignore what I don’t need. The same goes for other software like...
Why basing your pricing on tech is a big mistake…
You’re always looking for the shiny new box to make your life easier. It cost a lot of money, and you need to raise prices to pay for it.
You proudly tell your clients, “we can now do x, y, and z!” ...
The Amazon Live Black Friday/Cyber Monday live streams were a huge success this year, produced mainly in the AWS cloud.
For certain workflows, it’s a reality today.
Here are some hi-lights:
57 hours of streaming content for Amazon
3 cloud control rooms
6 remote directors working from home
24...
I’ll never be a network Technical Director….
This refrain repeated through my head early in my television career.
I started out with big dreams, just like everyone else.
When asked what I wanted to do in television, I responded like every other kid right out of college:...
A great director knows much more than which shot to take…
In fact, what makes them great has less to do with the actual content of the show.
After sitting next to directors for over 12 years, the best directors all have these same traits:
They trust their crew.
Trust in the crew is the most...
COVID had just shut down the entire sports world and I was effectively out of work, with no warning.
To be honest, it sucked. Thousands of my fellow freelancers, waited for what we thought was a temporary shutdown....