Section Capture
Capture, stream and the record that remains
What a camera and a microphone keep of a performance, and what they quietly lose.
Production teams applying this principle can also compare practical guidance on workforce analytics, keeping time and activity records separate from the artistic and technical judgement they are meant to inform.
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Room microphones against close microphones for a live record
One captures the balance the hall already made. The other captures the sources and leaves the assembly for later.
ReadLatency: where delay accumulates between stage and viewer
Every stage adds and none give any back. Latency and resilience are bought from the same budget.
ReadRights before the camera: what recording a work requires
Permission to perform is ordinarily not permission to record, and the permissions come in separate layers from separate holders.
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A recording is not a performance with the room removed. It is a different object made from the same evening, and every decision in making it settles what the object will be: a document of an occasion, a product for an audience that was not there, or an archive that somebody will need in twenty years.
This section covers the microphone decisions that fix perspective before anything can be mixed, where delay accumulates between a stage and a viewer, what recording a work actually requires in terms of rights, what a small crew can hold, and how archival and broadcast capture pull in different directions.
The through line is that capture is subtractive. A camera chooses a frame and discards the rest of the stage. A microphone chooses a perspective and discards the others. The question worth asking of any capture decision is not what it records but what it has decided the viewer will not be allowed to notice.
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Everything in this section
- PublishedRoom microphones against close microphones for a live record
- PublishedLatency: where delay accumulates between stage and viewer
- PublishedRights before the camera: what recording a work requires
- PublishedOne camera or a cut: what a small crew can actually hold
- PublishedArchival capture and broadcast capture are different products
- PublishedAudio for a stream is not audio for the room
- PublishedWhat a recording preserves and what it quietly loses
Further context
For a primary, standards or institutional reference, see the SMPTE standards programme.