Journal
Practical notes on studio equipment, cameras, acoustics, lighting and reliable live production from the factolio team.
The journal collects short, practical articles written by the people who plan and commission our studios. Topics range from gallery routing and camera placement to room acoustics and fallback planning.
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How-to guide ·Integrating a Live Studio: A Practical Guide to Specifying the Core Chain
A step-by-step guide to planning vision mixing, routing, monitoring and intercom as one system, so a news or interview studio is easier to install, test and run.
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Workflow ·Before You Commission a Gallery Workflow Review: A Checklist
Six questions worth settling before you ask anyone to review your gallery procedures, signal paths and fallback plans, so the written report fits the way your crew really works on air.
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Acoustics ·Six Acoustic Mistakes That Spoil Studio Dialogue, and How to Avoid Them
Most dialogue problems in a live studio trace back to a handful of avoidable decisions made before treatment begins. Here are the ones we meet most often, with ways to prevent them.
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Costs ·What Camera Setup Costs and What Moves the Price
A plain look at how camera setup and technique work is priced for news desks, interviews and live shows, and which choices push a quotation up or down.
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Customer case ·Warm skin tones under cold LEDs: one news desk, one fix
A regional news desk kept looking sallow on camera. Daniel Okafor tells how a revised lighting plot, matched fixtures and a tidier grid brought Marcus and his presenters back to consistent colour.
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Studio Systems ·Autumn Checks for Studio Equipment Integration Before the Busy Season
As the evenings draw in and live schedules fill up, a few weeks of patient testing on routing, monitoring and intercom will save a good deal of trouble on air.
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Trade terms ·Fallback, Failover and Redundancy: Three Trade Words Explained Plainly
Gallery crews use fallback, failover and redundancy as if they meant the same thing. They do not, and the difference decides what a written workflow review has to cover.
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Acoustics ·Treating a Studio Room or Building a Room Within It
Two routes to clean dialogue on air: treat the existing room with absorption and sealing, or build an isolated booth inside it. We compare cost, disruption and results, then recommend.
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Behind the scenes ·Behind the Camera: How We Plan a News Desk Shoot
A walk through how camera positions, rigs and shot plans are worked out for a news desk before anyone presses record, and what we check on the day.
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Lighting ·Why Do Faces Look Different Under the Same Lights?
The question we hear most about studio lighting: why two presenters, or the same one on two days, look so different on camera. A plain answer from the grid.
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Company news ·How We Now Scope a Studio Integration Project From First Visit
A short account of how factolio now approaches Studio Equipment Integration: what we measure on the first visit, what we write down, and how the specification, install and test stages are laid out
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Workflow ·The Tools Behind a Written Gallery Workflow Review
A look at the documents, test methods and measuring habits we rely on when reviewing a gallery's procedures, signal paths and fallback plans, and why plain paper beats clever software.
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Acoustics ·How to Check and Treat a Studio Room for Clean Dialogue
A practical walk through measuring a live studio room, finding what causes reverb and noise, and choosing treatment in a sensible order so that speech stays clear on air.
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Camera Setup ·A Camera Setup Checklist to Work Through Before You Decide
Before committing to a camera layout, robotic heads or a pedestal rig, run through these questions on format, space, crew and fallback. A practical list from the studio floor, written in mid autumn.
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Lighting ·Lighting Mistakes in Live Studios and How to Avoid Them
Daniel Okafor goes through the lighting and rigging errors that cause trouble on air, from mixed colour temperatures to overloaded grid bars, and how a calm plan prevents each.
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Prices ·What Studio Equipment Integration Costs and What Moves the Price
A plain account of how integration work is priced, from vision mixers and routing to monitoring and intercom, and which decisions make a studio project cost more or less.
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