Articles
Practical notes on cameras, lighting, audio synchronisation, control rooms and workflow, written by the mediqly team for people who run and build studios.
New articles appear about once a day. Each one takes a single technical subject, from lens choice to timecode, and explains it plainly enough to use on your next production.
How to Prepare Your Studio for a Workflow Review
A practical guide to gathering signal diagrams, logging real production days and briefing your crew, so a written studio workflow review starts with accurate information and ends with usable findings.
Read more →Before You Commit to a Compact Control Room Layout: A Checklist
A practical list of questions to settle on paper before ordering desks, monitors or intercom for a small control room, so the layout still works once the crew is sitting in it.
Read more →Lip-Sync and Timecode Mistakes That Keep Coming Back, and How to Avoid Them
Amelia Fox goes through the audio synchronisation errors we meet most often in small studios and live productions, and the habits that stop them returning.
Read more →What Camera System Planning Costs and What Moves the Price
A plain account of how camera planning is priced, which choices push the figure up or down, and what to settle before you ask for a quotation.
Read more →A Lighting Plan for a Small Studio: Jamie's Rigging Problem
A short case from the lighting side of our work: how a community studio's patchy, overheated set was reworked through rigging, colour temperature and power decisions.
Read more →Planning Crew Training Before the Winter Production Season
Mid autumn is the sensible moment to book crew training. A look at how half-day and full-day workshops fit around winter schedules, and what to settle before the first session.
Read more →What a Signal Path Diagram Is and Why a Review Starts With One
A plain-words explanation of the signal path diagram, the drawing at the heart of a studio workflow review, and how reading one shows where delay, noise and confusion creep in.
Read more →Two Layouts for a Compact Control Room, Compared
A side-by-side look at a single-row desk and a split vision and audio arrangement for small control rooms, with a clear recommendation for most studios of this size.
Read more →How we trace a lip-sync fault from microphone to playout
A look at how an audio synchronisation job actually runs: what we measure first, which tools we bring, and how we narrow a delay down to one device in the chain.
Read more →Which Camera Setup Suits a Small Studio? Answers to Our Most Common Question
Clients ask us the same thing before almost every project: how many cameras, which lenses and what cabling does a small studio really need? Here is how we answer it.
Read more →What a Stage Lighting Plan Covers: Rigging, Colour Temperature and Power
A look at how our Stage Lighting Design Advice works in practice, from the first site notes to a written plan covering rigging points, colour temperature choices and the electrical supply a set needs.
Read more →What we bring into a training room and how we run the day
A look at the materials, kit and teaching methods behind our half-day and full-day workshops for production crews, and why we favour live equipment over slides.
Read more →Before You Commission a Studio Workflow Review: A Checklist
A practical list of questions to settle internally before asking anyone to review your studio's signal path and production workflow, so the written report arrives with a clear scope and usable
Read more →Six Control Room Setup Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
Compact control rooms go wrong in familiar ways: crowded desks, badly placed monitors and intercom afterthoughts. Here is what we see most often and the simple habits that prevent each one.
Read more →What Audio Synchronisation Support Costs and What Moves the Price
A plain account of how we price lip-sync, timecode and delay work, which parts of a studio chain make a job larger or smaller, and what to have ready before asking for a quotation.
Read more →Four cameras, one small studio: Callum's camera planning case
Thomas recounts how a community broadcaster led by Callum rethought camera positions, mounts and cable runs before buying anything, and what changed in the plan once the floor was measured.
Read more →Preparing Your Studio Lighting for the Darker Months Ahead
Shorter days change how a set looks on camera and how a rig is used. Amelia Fox sets out what to check on rigging, colour temperature and power before winter schedules fill up.
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