Wirecast Reviewer’s Guide

Wirecast Reviewer’s Guide Wirecast® All-in-one live streaming production software Ideal for streaming live events, news, sports, concerts, religious services, conferences, meetings, online games and more

Introduction Pricing This Reviewer’s Guide is designed to provide an • Wirecast Studio ($599 USD) overview of the features and functions of Wirecast • Wirecast Pro ($799 USD) and highlight the new features of the latest version Both Mac and PC licenses include one year of Insider to assist in the review process. Access (formerly called Standard Support), which gives Please review this document along with the users free Wirecast software updates and upgrades for associated Telestream Wirecast User Guide, which one year, plus free access to the Stock Media Library, provides complete product details. and eight hour response time from our our professional Telestream provides this guide for informational support technicians. After the 12-month period ends, purposes only; it is not a product specification. The users can choose to renew their support contract annu- information in this document is subject to change ally to continue to receive free upgrades and support. If at any time. the support contract expires, the user can continue to use Wirecast software, but will no longer receive Wirecast Overview professional support or software updates. Turn your computer into a television studio with Annual Insider Access Renewal Rates: Telestream Wirecast®. This award-winning live • Wirecast Studio ($99 USD) streaming production software gives you everything • Wirecast Pro ($99 USD) you need to stream and produce professional-qual- ity video from your Mac or Windows computer to Key Benefits any online streaming destination, including Easy to Use Facebook Live, YouTube Live, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Intuitive user interface makes it possible to be up many more. • and streaming in minutes. Wirecast supports an unlimited number of input • Computer, camera and an internet connection are sources ranging from web to professional cameras, all that are needed. local network NDI and IP sources, web and mobile • No experience needed to create professional, devices and even remote guests. polished broadcasts. Powerful production capabilities make it easy to Professional Production Capability switch between multiple live camera feeds while • Wirecast’s unique multilayer system allows live dynamically mixing in prerecorded video, audio, compositing with up to 250 layers and unlimited graphics and slides. shots which makes it easy to create and produce Stream, record, or choose from local outputs as very complex, high quality broadcasts. well as NDI and IP multi-casting and unicasting on your LAN. Virtual camera and microphone outputs can push to other software like Zoom, Skype, Google Hangouts, and more. Wirecast Reviewers Guide

Professional Production Capability (continued) • Social Media Comments: Built in Twitter com- • Includes professional video features like instant ment curation and display. replay, ISO recording, chroma keyer support, • Facebook Polling & Donations: Create and multi-viewer, and more. receive polling data from Facebook on your live stream. If you have a Charity ID from Facebook, Integrated destination support you can add a Live Donate button to your live • API-level integration with a wide range of output stream posts. destinations saves time in setting up live streams • Stock Media Library: Access to over 500,000 and makes it easier to manage every aspect of a unique media assets directly in Wirecast. The live stream from within Wirecast. Stock Media Library has videos, music, lower thirds, backgrounds and more. Included with an Key Features active support subscription. Some of the key features and capabilities of the • Instant Replay: With Wirecast Pro you can record software include: any source into a separate file and use for multi-angle replays Capture • Shot Templates and Placeholders: Use precon- • Unlimited Sources: Cameras, microphones, figured templates and placeholders to save time webcams, IP cams, or use our free wireless setting up your document. camera app for iOS. • Playlists: Queue a list of multiple videos, images, • NDI input and output: Bring any NDI source, audio or live shots to play successively. including Skype, on your network directly into • Chroma Key: Transport your production to a new Wirecast. Output your program feed via NDI (avail- studio or location using Wirecast’s high quality able in Pro). GPU accelerated real-time green screen solution. • Built-in screen capture: Capture any screen or • Luma Key & Color Key: Useful for keying out computer on your network. Perfect for PowerPoint graphics with white or black backgrounds or for or Keynote presentations, online gaming, or for images that have color backgrounds. broadcasting live interviews using Skype or other • Live Scoreboards & Clocks: Use the built-in chat clients. scoreboards, live clocks and timer templates to • Remote Conferencing: Wirecast Rendezvous track scores and play time for live action sporting enables up to 8-way peer-to-peer remote events. conferencing with any Internet connected • 3D Virtual Sets: Create a virtual TV studio computer or smart device. Conduct panel environment with Wirecast Pro’s built- in sets. interviews, talk shows, multiple points of view at • Integration with Control Surfaces: X-Keys live events and remote screen sharing and Controllers and Elgato Stream Deck production with just a few clicks. • Professional audio features for increased • Multi-channel audio capture allows Wirecast to workflow options: ingest up to 16 channels of audio per source. • Mix up to 8 independent audio tracks per Users can set up specific shots to contain any broadcast and output them to independent combination of input channels, allowing for the full destinations. Multi-track audio mixing also automation of what would have previously enables multilanguage productions. Users required an additional operator. route audio sources to discrete tracks for both Produce live productions and recordings. • Support for multi-channel audio interfaced • Multiple user-definable layers: Wirecast’s unique over low latency protocols (WASAPI, ASIO and multiple layer support allows live shot compositing industry-standard audio APIs), allowing users with up to 250 layers and unlimited shots. to connect more professional audio devices • Graphics and Animated Titles: Built-in Animated and gear to Wirecast. Title and Lower Thirds Library Wirecast Reviewers Guide

Stream (and more!) • New Secondary Display Live Output Audio • Stream to multiple destinations and bitrates mapping: More flexibility to route specific audio simultaneously Wirecast allows you to stream and tracks when sending a program out via a Second- record to more than one destination at a time. Set ary Display. up your project to simultaneously stream to Wirecast System Requirements multiple destinations and bitrates with just a few clicks. Minimum Recommended • Easy integrated destinations: API-level integra- Operating System Windows 10 1803 Windows 10 2004, tion with a wide range of output destinations or higher, macOS Mojave, saves time in setting up live streams macOS Mojave, macOS Catalina Stream and Record: Stream and record at the macOS Catalina, • macOS Big Sur same time. Great for archiving or off-line editing, record MP4 or MOV files to any drive. Processor i5 dual-core @ i7 quad-core @ 2.3GHz1 2.8GHz+ • Multi-view support for monitoring up to 17 live 6th generation2 or 6th generation2 or sources independently on external monitors. higher, Apple M1 higher, Apple M1 • Program feed output (with AJA & BlackMagic Gen1 Gen1 cards) Take your Wirecast feed out directly to Memory 4GB RAM 16GB+ RAM Blackmagic Design Intensity or DeckLink hard- Hard Drive 2GB3, 7200 RPM 500GB+, Solid ware. Ideal for sending live feeds directly into for record to disk State OS Drive editing, effects and broadcast design systems Graphics Card Intel HD4, DirectX Nvidia GeForce or • Virtual Camera and Microphone output: Wirecast 11 capable AMD Radeon, video and audio output can be picked up as a 1GB+ video source in other devices or software for example: memory Zoom, Skype, GoToMeeting (Windows only) and Internet You may want to check that the following Google Hangouts Connectivity ports are open for traffic on your network: • Secondary Display Live Output: Sends a 80 (HTTP/HTTPS), 443 (SSL), 1935 frame-accurate program feed out to a secondary (RTMP), 2935 (RTMPS), 5353 (mDNS for NDI sources), 5960-59xx (NDI port range, 1 display or monitor port per each NDI source in use), 7272 • NDI Output: Wirecast Pro can output its (Remote Desktop Presenter), 50000-60000 produced live feed over NDI, allowing it to be (WebRTC/Rendezvous – selected at received by other devices or software on the local random). If you are behind a firewall, check with your streaming destination for any sites network. you may need to whitelist. • ISO Record: Record each individual source or 1 shot in your document May be insufficient for 1080p+ or 60 fps workflows • Multi-track audio recording: Route audio sources 2 How to check the generation of your Intel processor. to discrete tracks for both live productions and 3 Additional hard disk space required for record to disk. recordings. 4 Insufficient for advanced Multi-Viewer workflows.

For a full list of features, check out the product compar- Best Practices ison chart. Minimum Required Upload Speed New in Wirecast 14.3 It is recommended that an upload speed rate of at New Animated Title Library: An integrated lower • • least double the selected video bitrate be avail- third and full screen title library with animations. able, especially for a total target bit-rate of The library is free and customizable, and what’s 10Mbps (Megabits per second) or less, or when even better is that everything can be done within there are multiple outgoing streams. the Wirecast app to save you time and remove the Upload speed can be tested at a website such as need for additional 3rd party software. (Read • TestMy.net/upload. about the Wirecast Animated Title Library.) Additional tasks that can consume upload New Media Playback controls: Now you can • • bandwidth on the network should be considered control playback of media clips even when they when determining how much of the available are Live. You can play, pause and scrub through upload bandwidth can be allocated towards videos so you can add live commentary, or review streaming. content as part of your broadcast. Wirecast Reviewers Guide

Rendezvous High frame-rate streaming (60fps): Wirecast Rendezvous uses WebRTC technology that • High frame-rate streaming will result in increased can be very resource intensive. For the best experience, CPU usage and require a higher bit rate (4Mbps we suggest considering the following table when or higher) for a quality encode. choosing hardware: • Simply switching to a higher frame-rate without ensuring the CPU and bitrate are sufficient may Studio (2 guests + 1 host) Pro (7 guests + 1 host) result in a lower quality encode.

Band- Add 4 Mbps Add 5+ Mbps5 CPU Usage: width4 • Consider lowering your canvas frame rate and/or Processor4 i5 quad-core6 i7 quad-core6 streaming resolution to lower CPU usage. Maintained system CPU usage greater than 60% 4Based on a single simultaneous stream of 720p30 x264 @ 4.0Mbps. • will increase the likelihood of dropped frames. 5Bandwidth per guest will scale downwards as more are added to maintain reliability. Additional Product Information, Tutorials And 6 Minimum recommended processor with example stream4. More Documentation demanding workflows may require a more capable CPU. https://www.telestream.net/wirecast/resources.htm ISO Recording • Solid State Drive or fast RAID array recommended Graphics Resource for ISO Recording and Replay functionality. • Actual data rates will vary depending on quality To access Wirecast logo/s and product images visit level selected for ProRes or x264, as well as the http://www.telestream.net/company/press-kit/press-kit.htm resolution and frame rate selected. Contact Information • For ProRes recording please refer to Apple’s ProRes data rate specifications. Press Contacts: • Total expected data rate should be compared to North America available disk write speed to ensure adequate disk throughput. Veronique Froment [email protected] Doug Hansel [email protected] Note: Failure to ensure the available disk write speed is greater than the highest expected total data rate may +1 603-537-9248 result in frames being dropped from recordings (ISO, EMEA & APAC Replay, and Record-to-Disk). Bob Charlton: [email protected]

See our ISO Recording Guide for more information. +44 20 7084 6335

Hardware accelerated encoding requirements: Reader Inquiries: • Intel Quick Sync Video encoding requires an Intel CPU with an Intel® QuickSync Video core. Telestream Headquarters Phone: 530.470.1300 List of Intel CPUs supporting QuickSync Email: [email protected] • NVIDIA NVENC encoding requires an NVidia GPU Web: www.telestream.net with Kepler architecture or newer. NVIDIA only maintains a general list of supported GPUs • Apple Hardware Accelerated H.264 encoding requires a Mac with an integrated Intel GPU*. * This may change in the future, as the Apple API decides what hardware acceleration method is used. At the time of this writing, only Quick Sync via an Intel GPU is supported. Wirecast Reviewers Guide

Company Overview 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 such as CBS, CNN, FOX, CBC, Comcast, Direct TV, Time Warner, MTV, Discovery, and Lifetime, as well as a growing number of users in a broad range of business environments, rely on Telestream products to streamline operations, reach broader audiences and generate more revenue from their media. These companies choose to work with Telestream as they know they will get a trusted and highly skilled technical partner. Telestream products span the entire digital media lifecycle, including video capture and ingest; live and on-demand encoding and transcoding; playout, delivery, and live streaming; as well as management and automation of the entire workflow. The company also partners closely with the industry’s leading digital media companies across the entire digital media lifecycle, from consumer to enterprise. Telestream corporate head- quarters are located in Nevada City, CA.

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