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A streaming operator position at night lit by multiple monitors 20 August 2026 OBS on macOS: getting clean sources in, and clean signal out OBS is excellent at the middle of the job — scenes, transitions, layout, recording, streaming. It is weakest at the two ends: getting good… A silhouetted operator in front of several differently lit screens 6 August 2026 Multi-screen playback from one Mac: the honest limits The spec sheet says the machine supports four displays. The spec sheet is describing a desktop — four monitors showing windows, mostly static, occasionally… An ordered grid of glowing connection points in darkness 23 July 2026 Routing audio between Mac apps without the virtual cable mess You need the output of one application to become the input of another. On macOS this is a solved problem in the sense that… A small aluminium computer on a dark rack shelf with one status light 9 July 2026 Running a show on Apple Silicon: what actually changed The marketing story about Apple Silicon is performance, and the performance is real. The parts that change how you build a live video rig… A long dark corridor of equipment racks lit in stages 25 June 2026 Where the latency in your video chain is actually hiding Someone waves at the camera and the wall responds visibly late. The room notices. Everyone blames the network, because the network is the part… An equipment rack bay in a dark room with status lights and dressed cabling 28 May 2026 DeckLink output from a Mac: the parts that bite SDI is refreshingly binary. Either the switcher locks to your signal or it does not, and there is no "it's mostly working". That makes… A darkened auditorium with a large screen and a smaller side screen lit 14 May 2026 Getting ProPresenter onto a second surface without a second Mac The room has a main screen and now it has an LED wall down the side, or a foyer display, or a stage-left panel… Two audio interfaces stacked in a dark equipment rack, meters lit 30 April 2026 Why your aggregate device drifts, and what to do about it You need more inputs than one interface has, so you make an aggregate device. Two interfaces, one device, sixteen channels. macOS builds it in… Close view of an LED panel array with individual pixels visible 16 April 2026 What an LED processor actually wants from your Mac You have built a canvas that matches the wall exactly. It is 3840 × 1152, because that is what the panels add up to.… A projector beam falling across a bare wall in an empty hall 2 April 2026 Projection mapping on a Mac, from an empty room Most introductions to projection mapping start with content — here is a nice loop, here is how to warp it onto a wall. That…

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