Live Broadcast & Streaming
Directed multi-camera live production to television standard, for launches, conferences and online events.
Live is the only format with no second chance. It goes out once, in real time, and everything that goes wrong goes wrong in front of the audience. That is why it is either the most stressful thing on the schedule or the calmest, and the difference is entirely down to who is running it.
I spent years directing multi-camera broadcasts for national television. Vision mixing, talkback, counting a presenter into a live link, deciding in half a second which camera tells the story. It is a specific skill, and it is not the same skill as filming something and editing it later.
In practice, a professional live stream means the cameras are cut with intent rather than left on a wide shot, the audio comes from the sound desk instead of a camera microphone, and the graphics appear when they are supposed to. It also means someone is watching the stream itself, so if it drops, it is noticed in seconds rather than by an email from a viewer.
Everything we broadcast is recorded at full quality at the same time. The stream serves the people watching now, the recording serves everyone who could not make it, and the highlights from both go out in the following days.
Who this is for
Product launches with an online audience
The room holds eighty people and the stream holds everyone else. Both audiences should get the same event, not a shaky version for one of them.
Conferences running as hybrid events
Speakers in the room, delegates at home, questions coming from both. That needs direction and comms, not a laptop on a tripod.
Award ceremonies and annual meetings
Formal, scheduled, and watched by people who will notice if the camera misses the moment. Multi-camera direction exists for exactly this.
Organisations with a regular broadcast
Monthly all-hands, town halls, member briefings. Once the setup is worked out, each subsequent one is faster and cheaper.
Everything in your Live Broadcast & Streaming
What lands in your inbox
- The live stream itself, on your platform, branded and directed
- The full broadcast recording at proper quality, not the compressed platform version
- Clean individual camera recordings, which make a tighter re-edit possible afterwards
- The desk audio as a separate track, useful for a podcast version or a transcript
- A highlight edit the same day or the next morning, if you want one
A simple, calm process
Design
We plan camera positions, audio, graphics and the running order, then agree what happens if something slips.
Rehearse
A technical rehearsal on site: cameras, levels, graphics and the stream itself, all checked before the audience arrives.
Broadcast
The broadcast, directed live, with someone watching the outgoing stream for the whole of it.
Archive
The recording, the separate camera files and the desk audio, plus a highlight edit if you want one.
What moves the price
Every quote is itemised, so you can see what each part costs. The pricing page has the full menu.
How many cameras
Two cameras make a directed broadcast possible. Four gives you reaction shots and a wide safety net. Each one adds an operator and a channel to mix.
How long the broadcast runs
A ninety-minute launch and a full conference day differ in crew, power and the amount of rehearsal the day can absorb.
Graphics and playback
Lower thirds and a holding slide are standard. Live score overlays, video playback into the stream and countdown clocks are a bigger build.
The venue's internet
A solid wired connection costs nothing. A venue without one means a bonded connection or a backup line, which is worth every penny on the day.
Common questions
Yes, and most of what I stream now is hybrid. The part people underestimate is the audio: the room needs to hear the online questions and the stream needs to hear the room. That is worked out in the technical rehearsal rather than discovered live.
YouTube, LinkedIn, Vimeo, Teams, Zoom, a private page on your own site, or several at once. If your audience is behind a login or the event is confidential, we stream to a private link instead of a public platform.
A directed two-camera stream starts from £1,500 for a half day including the recording. Four cameras, graphics and a full day lands higher, and a regular monthly broadcast is quoted as a series because the setup is already solved. The <a href="/pricing/">pricing page</a> has the components.
I bring a backup connection and the broadcast is always recorded locally at full quality, so a dropped stream never means a lost event. Viewers see a holding screen, the recording carries on, and the replay goes out afterwards.
Always, for anything that matters. A technical rehearsal on the day covers camera positions, audio levels, graphics and the running order. If there are presenters who have not done this before, that rehearsal is also where they stop being nervous.
Yes, and it is part of why this is worth doing properly. You get the full recording, the individual camera files and the desk audio. That is enough to build session videos, social cuts and a highlight film without filming anything again.