Short articles on camera work, signal routing, distribution and the day-to-day running of broadcast productions, published about once a day.
Our articles cover what we learn from live work: how signals are routed, how crews prepare, and how feeds reach broadcasters. Browse the list below and open any article to read it in full.
Distribution
A practical walk through the steps that get a finished or live feed from our desk to a network, news desk or streaming partner without surprises on the day.
Ewan Campbell
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Video Operation
Before you book camera operation or vision mixing for a bulletin, studio show or outside broadcast, these are the questions worth settling first, in the order they usually come up.
Ewan Campbell
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Signal Management
Most live feed failures start with small oversights long before the broadcast begins. Callum Reid goes through the mistakes he sees most often in signal routing and backup, and how to avoid them.
Callum Reid
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Pricing
A guide to how multi-camera concert and festival feeds are priced: camera count, site layout, backup paths and delivery all move the figure, and so does the time spent on site.
Callum Reid
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Customer story
Fiona MacLeod tells the story of Morag, a news editor who needed ready-to-air clips with clear metadata on a tight turnaround, and how the package was built around her bulletin.
Fiona MacLeod
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Distribution
Callum Reid sets out how to prepare content distribution for the darker, wetter months: delivery paths, schedules, file standards and the checks that keep feeds reaching air.
Callum Reid
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Video Operation
A plain-words guide to vision mixing, the part of video operation where several camera pictures become one programme, and the terms you will hear in a gallery.
Fiona MacLeod
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Signal Management
Ewan Campbell compares a fully mirrored second signal path with a standby route held ready, and says which one he recommends for most live broadcasts these weeks.
Ewan Campbell
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Behind the scenes
A behind-the-scenes look at how our crews prepare, rig and run a multi-camera feed from a stage or festival site, and what happens between the first cable and the last act.
Fiona MacLeod
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News Feeds
Producers ask us the same thing before they book: what do they receive, in what form, and by when? Here are the plain answers from the camera side of the desk.
Priya Sharma
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Company News
A plain account of how renyzo's distribution desk delivers live and finished feeds to television networks, news desks and streaming partners, and what we agree with each receiver beforehand.
Ewan Campbell
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Video Operation
Priya Sharma explains the camera supports, monitoring and mixing habits renyzo relies on when operating video for bulletins, studio shows and outside broadcasts through the autumn.
Priya Sharma
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Live Signals
Ewan Campbell walks through how to plan monitoring and backup routes for a live feed, from the venue's first connection to the broadcaster's receive point, with checks to run before air.
Ewan Campbell
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Live Events
A practical list of questions to settle with your feed provider before a concert or festival goes to air, from camera positions and power to delivery paths and backup routes.
Ewan Campbell
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News Feeds
Fiona MacLeod, Head of Operations, goes through the errors we see most often when news feed packages are ordered, prepared and handed over, and the habits that stop them recurring.
Fiona MacLeod
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Distribution
A plain account of how delivery to broadcasters and streaming partners is priced, which choices raise or lower the bill, and what to settle before asking for a quotation.
Ewan Campbell
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Case Story
A short case from these weeks: Morag's regional news desk needed a second camera operator and a vision mixer at short notice, and this is how the evening ran from first call to last bulletin.
Callum Reid
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renyzo runs video operation, live signal management and broadcast feeds from Stirling for news and television teams across Scotland and the wider UK.
