Wirecast

Updated on Jan 01, 2025

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Developer(s) Telestream Type Live streaming		Operating system Windows, macOS

Initial release 1999; 18 years ago (1999) Stable release 7.4 / February 24, 2017; 39 days ago (2017-02-24) Written in C, C++ (with Qt), Objective-C

Wirecast is a live video streaming production tool by Telestream. It allows users to create live or on-demand broadcasts for the web.

Wirecast works like a video switcher, controlling real-time switching between multiple live video cameras, while dynamically mixing in other source media, such as QuickTime movies, music, audio and slides to create professional broadcast productions for live or on-demand distribution on the web.

Specifications

Can broadcast to multiple services at once

Support for multiple cameras

Chroma key (blue/green screen)

Scene transitions

Built-in lower-third titling

Desktop Presenter - makes Macintosh or Windows Desktop available as a source

H.264

3D Graphics

QuickTime Streaming Server Support

Keynote Integration

Multiple Layers

Multiple Broadcast Support, when ready to go live, it provides direct integration with a number of streaming service providers.

A direct integration with Limelight Networks, adds support for Flash streaming

Adds a built-in streaming service access from Ustream.

Encoding support for Nvidia NVENC and Intel Quick Sync Video

References

Wirecast Wikipedia

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