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Wirecast Pro 4 for Mac
(WIRECASTPRO4M)
$950.00
Reg. $995.00
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OverviewSystem RecommendationsWirecast Pro Mac and Matrox Multi IN
Overview
 Wirecast Pro adds more advanced production features and additional source inputs for users who want to stream or record professional broadcasts to live or on-demand audiences. With added support for IP cameras, plus scoreboards, and virtual sets, this is the perfect solution for broadcasting live sporting events or for advanced studio production.
New features in Wirecast 4
- New intuitive user interface
- Enhanced shot editor, user definable layers (with up to 35 layers of live compositing) and source-settings editor
- Improved integration for Blackmagic capture cards (Intensity Pro, Decklink SDI and Decklink Duo)
- New destinations for Brightcove, and Sermon.net
- More title templates (lower thirds)
- Improved high-quality Flash encoding: On2 (VP6) and Main Concept H.264
Wirecast Pro 4 adds:
- HDV camera input
- Support for wireless IP cameras (AXIS 211 W, Sony SNC-RZ50, and Cisco WVC80N)
- New global Audio Inspector with sync delay
- 3D virtual sets
- Scoreboards
Including these popular Wirecast features:
- Full scale video production studio for your desktop or laptop computer
- Capture live video from multiple cameras & control switching between cameras
- Import pre-recorded video, audio, graphics and slides
- Picture in picture – enables viewers to see multiple sources, including the presenter/host
- Chroma Key, 3D graphics & transitions – enable creation of professional quality webcasts
- Stream live and/or record to disk for on-demand viewing
- Encode to popular streaming formats (Flash, Windows Media & QuickTime)
- Simultaneous encoding to multiple bit rates – for a variety of quality choices
Benefits:
- Easy for anyone to use – a novice, corporate communicator or streaming media producer
- Portable – load on a laptop and take it anywhere
- Flexible, upgradeable software, enables fast, easy addition of new formats and features
- Intuitive and fully-integrated with live streaming services & CDNs enables quick, easy live streaming to audiences located anywhere in the world
- Ideal for live web broadcasts: entertainment, sports, business & community events
- An affordable alternative to costly of hardware broadcasting solutions
System Recommendations
System Requirements
Mac OS X
* Mac OS X 10.5 or later
* Intel Based Mac or Apple Power PC G5
* Minimum 512 MB RAM
* QuickTime 7 or higher
* 200 MB HD (for install)
* HD space for recording to disk
* A Quartz Extreme capable graphics card
* Intel Core Duo or dual G5 is required for HDV decoding
* 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
* Flash streaming on Mac requires Intel based processor
* Sufficient upload speed (300kbps for low quality, 700kbps for good, 1.3 mb and up for HD)
Windows
* Windows 7 processor: 2.3 GHz 32- or 64-bit,
1 GB RAM, or:
* Windows Vista processor: 2.3 GHz 32-bit (x86),
1 GB RAM, or:
* Windows XP, SP2 processor: 2.1 GHz 32-bit (x86), 512 MB RAM
* QuickTime 7.5
* 200 MB HD (for install)
* HD space for recording to disk
* 32 MB PCI-Express graphics card with 3D acceleration (GeForce or Radeon class card recommended)
* Microsoft® DirectX 9.0c
* GeForce 5200, Radeon 9600 or better for Chroma Key
* Sufficient upload speed (300kbps for low quality, 700kbps for good, 1.3 mb and up for HD)
Video Input Devices
* Live USB cameras
* Live Firewire cameras (DV or HDV)
* Analog to Firewire converters (DV or HDV)
Wirecast Pro Mac and Matrox Multi IN
Capture Multiple Camera Sources Simultaneously for Live Video Production and Streaming
 Matrox Multi-Ingest enables 4 simultaneous HD-SDI inputs into Wirecast Pro
- Now you can produce live broadcasts from the field with multiple cameras
- Dynamically mix in prerecorded media, such as movies, sound & images
- Great for professional multi-channel live sports, news and entertainment
Click here for Wirecast Pro Bundle with Matrox Multi Ingest Card w Wirecast Pro (Mac) $4495!
Improve video capture resource utilization and live video production quality
Matrox Multi integrates with Telestream Wirecast Pro for Mac to enable professional journalists, videographers, and producers to easily capture and produce multi-camera live events for the Web. The joint solution provides four simultaneous HD-SDI inputs into a single Mac Pro running Wirecast Pro live webcasting software.
Up until now, a common challenge has been how to efficiently add more camera sources to live streaming software running on standard desktop computers. The Matrox/Telestream solution combines improved capture and resource utilization with the best in live production.
Simply plug the Matrox Multi card into your Mac Pro and install Wirecast software on your computer. Wirecast will automatically detect the camera feeds, allowing you to easily switch between live feeds and other sources, such as prerecorded video.
Why Choose the Combination?
Telestream and Matrox offer Mac video professionals best-in-class solutions from two industry leaders.
Telestream’s Wirecast Pro combines live switching between multiple camera feeds with the live video production features that professionals require – including chroma key, transitions, up to 35 layers in one shot, 3D graphics, built-in titles or lower-thirds, virtual 3D foregrounds, backgrounds and virtual sets, plus built-in scoreboard templates – allowing you to create beautiful broadcast productions for the Web. When ready to go live, Wirecast provides live encoding to popular streaming formats, including QuickTime, On2 Flash 8, H.264 and Windows Media.
Matrox Multi brings a new level of channel density to Mac Pro systems. In a single PCIe slot, a Matrox Multi-Ingest card provides up to four independent HD-SDI inputs with up to 16 embedded audio channels per SDI stream. Matrox Multi-Ingest delivers broadcast-quality video and audio for professional multi-camera events, while taking up an absolute minimum of the precious real estate inside your system.
About Telestream and Wirecast Pro
Telestream provides world-class live and on-demand digital video tools and workflow solutions that allow consumers and businesses to transform video on the desktop and across the enterprise. Many of the world’s most demanding media and entertainment companies as well as a growing number of users in a broad range of business environments rely on Telestream products to reach broader audiences, streamline operations, and generate more revenue from their media.
Wirecast Pro allows anyone with a camera, a computer, and an Internet connection to produce high-quality streams for delivery to global audiences using the growing number of Internet-connected viewing devices. Wirecast software is enormously empowering and easy to use, allowing a single operator to control all the production functions from the desktop and create high-quality streams.
About Matrox and Matrox Multi-Ingest
Matrox Video Products Group is a technology and market leader in the field of HD and SD digital video hardware and software for accelerated H.264 encoding, realtime editing, audio/video input/output, DVD/Blu-ray authoring, streaming, scan conversion, capture/playout servers, clip/still stores, and CGs. Matrox's Emmy award-winning technology powers a full range of content creation and delivery platforms used by broadcasters, post-production facilities, project studios, corporate communicators, and videographers worldwide.
Matrox Multi-Ingest is a single-slot, ¾ length PCI-e x8 card for Mac Pro. It features four independent SDI inputs in NTSC and PAL as well as 480p, 720p, 1080p, and 1080i HD resolutions at all frame rates. Sixteen channels of embedded audio per SDI stream are provided, along with four analog audio channels for monitoring. When combined with Wirecast Pro, Matrox Multi-Ingest is the ideal capture card to enliven web events with multi-camera shoots that capture the action from all angles.
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