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Wirecast
Wirecast is the most advanced live webcasting product available for your Mac or PC. You can stream multiple live video cameras, while dynamically mixing in other media (movies, images etc). Features such as Chroma Key (blue/green screen) and built-in titles merge seamlessly with Wirecast's layering system, allowing you to create beautiful, professional webcasts.

1. Shot list 3. Live Preview
2. Transition selection 4. Broadcast Controls

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

QuickTimeWhen 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.
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  1. HDV decoding support requires additional purchase.
  • FEATURE HIGHLIGHTS
  • 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.

REQUIREMENTS

MAC OS X
  • Mac OS X Panther 10.3.9 or greater (Mac OS X 10.4.10 or 10.5 recommended)
  • 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 G3 processor. (Core Duo or G5 recommended). At least a 500MHz CPU is required
  • Intel® Core Duo or dual G5 is required for HDV decoding
WINDOWS
  • Windows® 2000 or Windows® XP (32-bit version), latest service packs recommended
  • Microsoft® DirectX 9.0c
  • Apple QuickTime 6.5.2 or better (7.2 recommended)
  • 32 MB AGP or PCI-Express graphics card with 3D acceleration (GeForce® or Radeon® class card 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)
  • GeForce® 5200, Radeon® 9600 or better for Chroma Key