Level 3 is the Broadcast / Production Studio layer: the workflow that turns your lesson assets into reliable, professional delivery—either live (workshops) or recorded (course modules)—without you becoming a full-time technician. The whole point is to make the studio behave like a system: predictable signal flow, repeatable checks, clean capture, and fast recovery when something glitches.
The switcher isn’t just for cameras either—you’ve designed it for teaching: Apple TV and a laptop input sit alongside the cameras (including an overhead), so you can move smoothly between you, slides, demos, and examples. You also keep a HyperDeck HD Pro ready to play video back through the switcher when you want to run clips inside a live session.
Audio is treated as its own disciplined pipeline (because it’s the first thing that makes “pro” feel “amateur” when it fails). You capture audio via two Rode NT3 mics—one into a MixPre-3, and one into the Broadcast G2 camera—so you have redundancy and a “known good” reference track.You monitor workshop participants with AirPods and route Zoom audio using Loopback, while making sure the Mac audio setup integrates properly with the MixPre chain.
It starts with a simple backbone: cameras → switching → output + recording. In your setup you’re running multiple Blackmagic cameras (including Micro G2, Broadcast G2, and Pocket Cinema 4K) and feeding them via SDI into Blackmagic HyperDeck recorders for 4K record-to-disk capture.
Those camera feeds are also integrated through a Mac into Blackmagic’s ATEM environment so you can switch live and stream out to Zoom (or externally) via an ATEM Mini Extreme ISO.From there the workflow becomes “control + visibility.” You run multiple monitors so you can see the ATEM outputs and the program feed at a glance.
Control is the next layer of repeatability: Stream Deck + Companion becomes your “operator console” to focus cameras and switch between camera and computer sources quickly, without hunting menus mid-session.
Then comes capture discipline. You record clean audio to the MixPre and sync in post with a clapper, while also keeping one camera channel that already has synced audio. You timecode-sync HyperDeck recorders for consistent multi-angle capture, and your Pocket cameras run 4K disks that dock into the Mac Studio for editing.
Finally, you add “advanced broadcast” capabilities: green screen integrated through Unreal Engine → Aximmetry, controlled from an iPad via TouchOSC.
And for delivery fluency, your teleprompter workflow runs off a HyperDeck Shuttle, with files uploaded via Cyberduck FTP over Wi-Fi.
Underneath it all is a dedicated studio network so HyperDecks, switchers, and computers stay stable.
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By the end of Level 3, learners aren’t just “buying gear.” They can run a repeatable studio workflow: set the look, route signals, switch confidently, deliver to Zoom, record safely, and walk away with edit-ready files every time
Release Schedule
The Four Levels Pathway
This series is being released as a four-level pathway, because building a content and production capability isn’t something you “learn once” — it’s something you layer. Each level gives you a complete, usable capability on its own, and each release adds the next layer of power without forcing you to rebuild what you already have.
The schedule is designed around a simple idea: different people are starting from different places. Some of you already have a website, a course platform, and an audience — your constraint isn’t motivation, it’s throughput. You don’t need a studio tour; you need a faster, cleaner way to turn your thinking into publishable assets, using AI and workflow design.
Others want the opposite: you already have content ideas, but you want to deliver with confidence — a setup that lets you run workshops, record modules, and switch between camera, slides, demos, and examples like it’s normal. And some of you want the whole machine: content that’s coherent, production that’s reliable, and a publishing system that compounds week after week.
So the release schedule is staged in the same sequence the capability is built: