Vision
Design the workflow before the first cable is run. Signal paths, formats and failure modes, planned end to end.
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The answer to the question no one thought to ask.
Technical services for live event, concert touring and broadcast production, specialising in video workflows. Workflow design, production management, camera direction and broadcast engineering — backed by 34 years on the floor and in the truck.
Scope, design and document the video workflow for your event or facility — signal paths, formats, redundancy and the failure modes nobody thought to plan for.
Run the technical side of the production so the creative side never has to think about it. Crew, kit, schedule and the contingencies underneath all three.
Cut the show live. Directing multi-camera coverage for concerts, events and broadcast with an eye on the story and a hand on the clock.
Build it, rack it, commission it and keep it on air. Hands-on engineering across acquisition, processing and delivery.
Black Technical is Olin Winton — three and a half decades of experience, from the OB truck to the control room to the middle of a touring show when something needs to work and there is no rehearsal left.
The value isn't just knowing the gear. It's knowing where a workflow will break before it does, and building it so it doesn't. That comes from having been there, on air, when it mattered.
Most of what goes wrong on a show isn't on the run sheet. It's the question nobody thought to ask — until it's live and it's too late. I know where those questions hide. I ask them early, and I make sure they have an answer before they become your problem.
Show-control and timecode software written to solve real problems from the production floor — the gaps the big vendors never got around to filling.
Analyses footage to identify the camera shots used across a production, pulls the lyrics, and lays the show out in timecode-aligned tracks. A simple place to edit a show, then push it to Shotfire for full automation.
A live show rundown and playout controller. Shotfire chases LTC and drives the whole rig from one place — vision switchers from Grass Valley, Ross, Panasonic, Barco and Blackmagic, plus routers, playback devices and cameras. It can also feed individual cue outputs to each operator on the show, and Descry hands off to it for full automation.
A small, standalone timecode generator — LTC to audio and MTC over MIDI, selectable frame rates with drop-frame, lock to time of day, and LTC export to WAV or MP3.
If you need someone who asks the questions before they become problems, get in touch. Tell me about the show, the facility or the workflow — I'll take it from there.
vision@blacktechnical.com.au