Wirecast is a live production tool that allows everyone to easily broadcast live events and create professional webcasts from any locaion – all you need is a computer and an internet connection. With the intuitive and fully integrated streaming capabilities, Wirecast makes it easy for anyone to share live experiences and build a global community. Wirecast lets you stream multiple live cameras while dynamically mixing in other media such as movies, images, sounds, etc. Features including Chroma Key (blue/green screen), transitions and built-in titles allow you to create beautiful, professional broadcast productions for live or on-demand distribution on the web.

New Wirecast 3.5.2
Direct integration with streaming service providers makes it even easier to publish live streams to the web. Version 3.5.2 adds direct integration with Limelight Networks content delivery service and Justin.tv live online video service (3.5 added integration with Ustream and Mogulus). Now we give you even more choices for streaming your webcasts to the world.

Here is an overview of some of the great new features of version 3.5:

• Adobe Flash Support
• Direct integration with live streaming service providers: Ustream and Mogulus
• Ability to turn on/off streams independently of each other
• Auto-reconnect when a connection to a streaming server is severed
• Ability to turn off auto-load of devices
• Ability to change canvas size to true 4:3 and true 16:9
• and more!

Feature Highlights:

• Support for multiple cameras
• Chroma Key
• Multiple Broadcast Support
• Desktop Presenter
• Core Image
• H.264
• Amazing 3D Graphics
• Incredible Titles
• Simple User Interface
• QuickTime Streaming Server Support
• Keynote Integration
• Multiple Layers

Cutting Edge Webcasting
Wirecast introduces the unique concept of shots. You can package up your selected cameras, graphical overlays, movies and titles into a shot. Once you have built your list of shots, you can transition the broadcast between them with a single mouse click.

Multiple Layers
Controlling your broadcast in real-time is easy. With Wirecast's multiple layer support, it's simple to place a background music track or a company logo over your webcast, while changing between the cameras you want your viewers to see.

Flexibility
When it comes time to broadcast, Wirecast takes advantage of the powerful QuickTime Streaming architecture on Mac OS X, and both QuickTime and Windows Media on the Windows platform.

Using QuickTime, you can unicast or multicast to your clients. When you want to scale your webcast up, you simply send your broadcast to a Darwin or QuickTime Streaming Server. Your viewers can then watch your webcast through QuickTime Player or embedded directly into a webpage.

Windows Media supports both a push and pull model, viewers can either connect directly to your machine using the "pull" method or when you need to scale up you can "push" your broadcast to a Windows Media Server. Viewers will connect either through Windows Media Player or directly inside a webpage.

The finished result is a QuickTime movie, ready for publishing to your website or blog.

Wirecast Features

Support for Multiple Cameras
Load up your system with HDV* (1), DV and USB cameras. Switching between them is effortless.

Chroma Key
A high quality, GPU accelerated real-time green and blue screen solution is now part of Wirecast.

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.

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.

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.

H.264
Full support for the next generation video codec, offering extremely high quality, scalable compression for your broadcasts and archives.

Amazing 3D Graphics
Generates amazing transitions and effects in real-time, including cross-fade, 3D cube, swinging doors, sliding etc.

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.

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.

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.

Keynote Integration
Drag and drop a QuickTime movie exported by Keynote and Wirecast will automatically recognize its slide markers.

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.

1. *HDV decoding support requires Wirecast HDV Upgrade additional purchase. PC / MAC

MAC OS X

• Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.10 or greater (Mac OS X 10.5 recommended)
• Intel or PowerPC G4 processor (Core Duo or G5 recommended). At least a 500MHz CPU is required
• Intel Core Duo or dual G5 is for HDV decoding
• QTSS/DSS 4.1.3 or later is needed for automatic "announce" unicasting
• A Quartz Extreme capable graphics card
• A supported GPU is required for Core Image and GPU video compression acceleration

Windows

• Windows Vista or Windows XP (32-bit version), latest service packs recommended
• Minimum specification CPU for live video encoding : Intel Pentium 4 processor at 2.3 GHz or higher with 512 Mb of RAM or more. (Pentium 4 3GHz recommended)
• Microsoft DirectX 9.0c
• Apple QuickTime 6.5.2 or better (7.5 recommended)
• 32 MB AGP or PCI-Express graphics card with 3D acceleration (GeForce or Radeon class card recommended)
• GeForce 5200, Radeon 9600 or better for Chroma Key