How to run a 500-person keynote with a two-person crew
· Best Practices · 9 min read
A real 48-minute keynote broken down cue by cue. Studio, players, moderator, and gateway working together so two people can do what used to take six.
The Timers Studio pro blog
Field notes for live events, TV studios, and production teams. Show control, broadcast timing, rundown orchestration, and concrete workflows that ship on stage or on air.
Stream Deck or Companion: which path for your show control
· Hardware · 8 min read
An honest comparison of native WebHID integration versus Bitfocus Companion for controlling Timers Studio from hardware surfaces.
Five things your timer software should do that most don't
· Industry · 9 min read
Server-side show clock, moderator intercom, audience Q&A, API automation, and multi-collaborator support. The features that separate toys from tools.
Automating your show with the Timers Studio REST API
· Technical · 10 min read
A practical walkthrough of the 53-endpoint REST API. Authentication, timer control, SSE streaming, and real-world automation patterns.
The moderator console nobody talks about
· Features · 9 min read
A deep dive into the moderator player. Intercom, Q&A queue, flash messages, and why the moderator is the most important role in any live production.
How to handle timing for a corporate event with a professional timer studio
· Best Practices · 7 min read
A practical playbook to keep a corporate event on schedule from arrival coffee to closing applause, using a dedicated timer studio built for live events.
How to integrate Timers Studio with OBS and vMix for a TV studio
· Technical · 9 min read
A concrete integration guide to wire a broadcast timer studio into an OBS or vMix production pipeline, with show clock overlays, cue triggers, and fail-safe fallbacks.
Case study: running a festival with perfect timing
· Industry · 10 min read
A behind-the-scenes account of a three-day music festival where six stages, forty artists, and an audience of twenty thousand shared the same server-side clock.
Why Sub-10ms Latency Changes Everything for Live Events
· Technical · 9 min read
A technical look at how single-digit-millisecond sync transforms live production and why 150ms feels like eternity on stage.
Server-Side Show Clock: Why Zero Drift Matters in Broadcast
· Technical · 8 min read
Client-side clocks drift. Server-side clocks do not. Here is why that distinction defines the reliability of your show.
Cloud-First Production: Why the Best Control Room Is a Browser Tab
· Industry · 10 min read
No downloads, no installers, no version conflicts. The case for a production tool that lives entirely in the browser.
Fifty Screens, One URL: How Real-Time Sync Actually Works
· Technical · 9 min read
Behind the scenes of WebSocket dual-path architecture that keeps fifty screens in perfect lockstep with sub-50ms initial sync.
The Desktop App Is Dead. Long Live the Browser.
· Industry · 8 min read
Desktop production tools had a good run. Browser-based tools are faster to deploy, easier to maintain, and finally powerful enough.
Nine Themes and the Art of Broadcast-Ready Visuals
· Features · 9 min read
From Matrix green to Corporate blue, how nine preset themes and five-zone color overrides shape your broadcast identity.
Stage Architect: The Readability Simulator No One Else Built
· Features · 10 min read
AVIXA DISCAS compliance, six hardware types, and a green sightline that tells you if your speaker can read the timer before you install anything.
Six Digit Architectures for Six Different Production Moods
· Features · 7 min read
Standard, Cinema, Minimal, Newsroom, Digital Red, Digital Green. Each tells a different visual story on your production screens.
Your Logo on Every Screen: Custom Branding for Live Events
· Best Practices · 8 min read
Logo overlay, five positioning zones, chroma-key backdrop, and ticker mode. How to make every timer screen carry your brand.
Smart Templates: Broadcast Quality in One Click
· Features · 7 min read
Six template categories, four view modes, and a path from blank studio to broadcast-ready output in under sixty seconds.
Stream Deck Native: Seventeen Actions, Zero Drivers
· Hardware · 9 min read
Plug a Stream Deck into Chrome and control your show instantly. No Companion, no drivers, no configuration files.
Thirty Actions, Fifteen Feedbacks: The Companion Module Deep Dive
· Hardware · 10 min read
When your show control surface needs to talk to everything in the rack, Bitfocus Companion and Timers Studio speak the same language.
Fifty-Three Endpoints: How to Automate Your Entire Show
· Technical · 11 min read
OpenAPI 3.1, four security scopes, SSE streams, and real-world automation examples with n8n, vMix, and OBS.
From Excel Spreadsheet to Casino Wheel: The Gateway Workflow
· Best Practices · 8 min read
Import participants from Excel, spin the casino wheel, broadcast the winner live. The complete raffle workflow in five minutes.
Export, Import, Repeat: Why Studio Backup Changes Your Workflow
· Best Practices · 7 min read
JSON export, cross-account import, and version history. How studio backup turns one-off configurations into reusable production templates.
The Visual Pager: A Silent Language Between Moderator and Speaker
· Features · 8 min read
How a hold-to-trigger flash alert creates an invisible communication channel between backstage and stage, letting moderators signal speakers without the audience ever noticing.
Three Agenda Players for Three Different Screens
· Features · 9 min read
A detailed look at how List, Focus, and C+Next agenda players serve three distinct audiences in a live production, from the audience-facing timeline to the confidence monitor facing the stage.
Live Polls on Three Surfaces: How Instant Audience Feedback Works
· Features · 9 min read
From draft to active to results, live polls in Timers Studio appear simultaneously on the timer player, the audience voting page, and the admin dashboard, with no third-party tools required.
Encrypted Intercom: Backstage Communication, Reinvented
· Features · 8 min read
Why Timers Studio replaced walkie-talkies and WhatsApp groups with an end-to-end encrypted intercom channel built directly into the production interface.
Spatial Q&A: When You Know Where Every Question Comes From
· Features · 10 min read
How Timers Studio's spatial Q&A system maps audience questions to seats on an interactive floor plan, giving moderators a geographic view of participation across the room.