Wirecast is a unique webcasting application. Wirecast offers support for multiple webcams (including iSight), amazing 3D graphics, over 20 built-in professional broadcast quality titles themes, a simple interface, and video effects.
Wirecast also offers you Keynote integration, multiple layers, multiple broadcast support, broadcast archiving, and AppleScript support.
Here are some key features of "Wirecast":
Support for Multiple Cameras:
· Load up your system with HDV* (1), DV and USB cameras. Switching between them is effortless.
Amazing 3D Graphics:
· Generates amazing transitions and effects in real-time, including cross-fade, 3D cube, swinging doors, sliding etc.
Chroma Key:
· A high quality, GPU accelerated real-time green and blue screen solution is now part of Wirecast.
Incredible Titles:
· Over 20 built-in professional broadcast quality titles themes. Pick your favorite, enter your text and you`re done. It`s just as simple as that. Wirecast takes advantage of the high-quality font rendering capabilities of Mac OS X, so you know its going to look good.
Multiple Broadcast Support:
· Wirecast can output your broadcast to any number of destinations in any number of compression formats. You can scale your broadcast from 3G cell phone all the way to DVD quality.
Simple User Interface:
· Controlling a live broadcast can be very challenging -- not with Wirecast. You create your shots before you go live, and when its broadcast time, you simply click the one you want to take it live.
Desktop Presenter:
· Use the small Desktop Presenter application to transmit the desktop of another computer into Wirecast for use during your webcasts. Perfect for broadcasting PowerPoint or Keynote presentations, training webcasts and software demonstrations.
QuickTime Streaming Server Support:
· Delivering your stream to a larger audience is a couple of clicks away. Send your broadcast to an industry proven QuickTime or Darwin Streaming Server. Both have the power to stream to thousands of viewers. Wirecast produces fully ISO-compliant MPEG-4 video streams, so your audience isn`t tied to one platform. Creating a 3GPP webcast for mobile phone viewers is made easy too.
Core Image:
· New for Mac OS X Tiger is the GPU accelerated Core Image filter and transition library. You can apply an unlimited number of Core Image filters to any layer in your webcast, then move between your shots with beautiful transitions like Ripple and Page Curl. The best part is that you can add Image Units from 3rd party developers to expand your filter library.
Keynote Integration:
· Drag and drop a QuickTime movie exported by Keynote and Wirecast will automatically recognize its slide markers.
H.264:
· Full support for the next generation video codec, offering extremely high quality, scalable compression for your broadcasts and archives.
Multiple Layers:
· You want an audio background track, a camera input, a title and company logo in your webcast? No problem, Wirecast makes it easy.
Languages supported:
· English, German, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch
Requirements:
· A Quartz Extreme capable graphics card.
· QTSS/DSS 4.1.3 or later is needed for automatic "announce" unicasting.
· A supported GPU is required for Core Image and GPU video compression acceleration.
· Intel or PowerPC G5 processor. (Core Duo or G5 recommended). At least a 500MHz CPU is required.
· Intel Core Duo or dual G5 is required for HDV decoding.
· Minimum 512MB RAM
· QuickTime 7 or higher
· 100 MB HD (For install)
· Flash Streaming on Mac requires Intel based processor
· Sufficient Upload Speed (300kps for low quality, 700kbps for good, 1.3 mb and up for HD)
What`s New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· New! Added integrated support for Blackmagic cards: Decklink Studio, Decklink HD Extreme 3D, Intensity Shuttle
· New! Added new lower third graphics
· Fixed help button links in the Broadcast settings area for Flash and QuickTime destinations
· Fixed potential crash related to Blackmagic capture card plug-ins
· Fixed GDI leak on Windows when drawing colored backgrounds
· Improved resolution of iSight camera capture
· Improved interface to allow for renaming of source settings by double-clicking on source name
· Added "Restore Default Presets" to preset menu
· Fixed message in the Wirecast Pro preference window that erroneously stated HDV sources would be watermarked
· Moved legacy device configuration options from Media drop-down to Source Settings window.
· Added more detailed information about audio meters in the User Guide
· Changed all references of Flip4mac.com to Telestream.net
· Changed documentation to note ability to stream VP6
