TELESTREAM WIRECAST STUDIO PC/Mac

Description

All-in-one live video streaming software that enables unlimited capture, live production, and encoding of HD and SD sources for live streams broadcast to multiple servers and platforms simultaneously. Includes a FREE copy of NewBlueFX Titler Live Express (a $149 value).

*Includes 1st year of Standard Support

Wirecast

Turn your computer into a television studio with Telestream’s Wirecast® software. Wirecast is the easiest way to produce and stream professional quality video with titles and graphics to Facebook Live, Youtube Live, Twitter, Twitch.tv and more. Don’t edit later, make your streams look amazing now and tell your story. Live.

What’s New?
Major performance and usability improvements, new render engine, Wirecast Rendezvous remote production and easy video conferencing built in to Wirecast added, Telestream Cloud integration, greatly expanded professional audio features, including multi-channel ingest, multi-track audio mixing, expanded support for pro audio interfaces and protocols, new multi-viewer output for professional monitoring, improved encoding and color-space conversion, simultaneous launch with Wirecast Go 2.0 iOS app for remote Rendezvous contribution, NewBlueFX Titler Live 3.0 complete titling suite with social media titling templates, sports templates, and much more.

Wirecast Rendezvous
Bring in up to 6+ live guests into your broadcasts with Rendezvous, Wirecast’s built-in peer-to-peer conferencing, screen-sharing, and remote contribution solution.

Facebook Live Comments
Curate and display Facebook comments and posts directly on screen in beautiful, custom-animated templates.

Multi Viewer
Preview any source or camera angle on any connected display. Cutomize your layouts so you can see all your content at a glance.

Wirecast Go 2.0
Using our new and improved free IOS app, you can stream to an Wirecast system from any location using your LTE or will connection with Rendezous. Perfect for live remote production and contribution.

Multi-channel Audio Ingest
Now you can bring in up to 16 channels of audio per source. Avoid unnecessary upstream mixing and get the sound you want in Wirecast.

Clocks & Timers
Add the time and date to any broadcast or create customer clocks, timers and stopwatches you can control with the click of a mouse.

Easier to Use
The best just got better. New wireframes for your sources allow you to resize, rotate and crop directly inside the Preview Editor. Z-rotation has landed! Dropshadow & Reflection

Add beautiful, customizable reflections and dropshadows to any source. Works with chroma keyed and live sources, so it only applies the effect on the correct part of the image.

Better Performance
Like a well-oiled machine. Brand new render engine, better solor space conversion, and increaded encoding performance and resource management mean better results while using fewer resources.

NewBlueFX Titler Live 3
Wirecast ships with the latest version of NewBlueFX’s award winning live graphics an titling program. Create beautiful 3D animated titles and graphids, and choose from hundreds of templates or build your own. Comes in 3 different versions: Present, Sport, and Social. New

Transitions
Wirecast brings a wealth of new transition animations, including a complete overhaul to the “smooth” transition. Bring your shots on screen in style.

Better performance

GPU-Accelerated encoding (Studio, Pro)
- Take advantage of powerful, cost-efficient hardware encoding capabilities for better performance and lower CPU utilization. (Requires Intel QuickSync, or nVidia NVENC hardware.)
Improved CPU utilization (Studio, Pro)
- Now with more efficient, lower CPU usage, for smoother, high quality streams.
Graphical Output Statistics (Studio, Pro)
- Graphically shows System CPU usage, memory, framerate and bitrate. Streaming stats include Bitrate, and RTMP Queue size. This is great for seeing the strength of your stream or to diagnose problems.

More powerful, streamlined production capabilities

High resolution ISO recording and Replay (Pro only)
- Create high-resolution recordings of your individual (isolated) cameras or audio sources. Isolate clean shots that can be used later for editing offline or for live replay during an event. (Note: must have valid license to demo this feature)
Updated, streamlined User Interface (Studio, Pro)
- Our new streamlined User Interface (UI) enables quicker access to shot editing features and more control over every aspect of your broadcast. This includes a new Shot Editor panel, with control sliders for modifying properties, in-shot toggles for turning off and on video and audio sources; plus an all-inclusive source dropdown; playlist tabs and more.
  - Tab through the shot editor panel to easily access all the properties panels to edit layer properties, adjust audio, add chroma keying, modify source settings and more.
  - Use sliders to change scale, X/Y Rotation, Opacity, and Cropping
  - In-shot visibility toggles for both visual and audio sources
    - Turning sources on and off can be done from the Shot Layer Management tab in the Shot Editor. Instead of adding and deleting sources, you can now toggle them on and off at will. Want a certain audio source muted for a few moments? Want to flash a quick message on stream? No need to build a new shot, just turn your source on or off!
    - Playlist tabs
      - We’ve moved playlists to a new area with tabs which makes it more accessible and keeps your desktop organized
      - All-inclusive source dropdown
        
        Allows you to add in all your sources from one dropdown, from cameras and audio to scoreboards, text, media files and even webstreams.
Text (Studio, Pro)
- Add text to your broadcast from a variety of sources: typed in text, from a file, or from an RSS feed.
  - Live text: Type in text and display it instantaneously
  - File-based: Text file monitoring allows Wirecast to read data from external .txt file.
  - RSS feed: The RSS feed feature allows you to have a running ticker built into your shots through the text widget.
3D Animated Titles (Studio, Pro)
- Create beautiful, fully animated titles and graphics with NewBlueFX’s Titler Live Express (a $99 value), now free with Wirecast 7. Choose from over 60 professionally-designed main title and lower third templates then customize the color, font and image to fit your needs. Now it’s easier than ever to bring jaw-dropping animated 3D titles to your live streams.

Redesigned Audio Mixer (Studio, Pro)
- Lets you control every audio source within your document from the specialized audio mixer window. Mix minus, panning, source selection, muting and individual source volume controls are all now beautifully packaged in one spot for easy audio control. This minimizes the need for external hardware and keeps your stream organized.
Audio Monitor/Mix Minus (Studio, Pro)
- With the new mix minus feature, you can now take out specific audio sources from your output monitoring. This lets you monitor the full stream audio output while turning off the monitoring of your own voice.
Audio Playout Device Selection (Studio, Pro)
- Choose where you want Wireacast to play out its audio. Select any available system audio device in the Wirecast Preferences to route all Wirecast audio to for more precise monitoring.
Hotkey Manager (Studio, Pro)
- With our new Global Hotkey Management System, you can now create your own hotkeys for switching, replay or any repetitive task in Wirecast.
Color Correction (Studio, Pro)
- Adjust the brightness, contrast, gamma, hue and saturation for all of your video and graphic sources.
Video Sync (Studio, Pro)
- Delay the video and/or audio of an incoming source to maintain sync.
Solid Color Generator (Studio, Pro)
- Add in a solid color as a source. Great for use as a background, or in lower thirds.
Redesigned Screen Capture (Studio, Pro)
- Replaces Local Desktop Presenter as an easy way to bring in your computer screen, or application window. Great for adding Keynote or PowerPoint slides into your broadcast.
System Audio capture (Studio, Pro)
- We have added a new source option…System Audio. This allows you to pull in just the audio produced by your computer. This saves time by bypassing the process of adding a screen capture and removing the video.

Wirecast Studio $695	Wirecast Pro $995
CAPTURING
Support for multiple cameras and inputs (USB, SDI, HDMI)	No limit	No limit
Wirecast Rendezvous: remote live guests and production	2 guests	7 guests
NDI™ (Mac/PC) and Syphon (Mac only screen capture alternative) sources
Web page display and capture
Multi-channel audio ingest
Add additional media: audio, video, graphics
Screen capture
Integration with capture cards from Blackmagic, Magewell, Matrox, AJA, Epiphan
Wi-Fi iOS sources with Wirecast Go
ASIO support
IP cameras and web stream input (RTMP, MMS, HTTP, RTSP, HLS, MPEG-Dash and UDP)
Teradek StreamReader plug-in (Cube 100/150/200/250, Clip, Sputnik)
PRODUCTION	Wirecast Studio $695	Wirecast Pro $995
Up to 250 layers
23 beautiful transitions
Text and titles (lower thirds)
Chromakey
Advanced audio mixer, multi-channel ingest
Audio & video sync
Social media comments, curation, and display
Live viewer counts (Facebook, YouTube, Twitch, and Hitbox)
Playlists and image carousels
Clocks, timers, and stopwatches
Live Scoreboards	with Titler Live Sport $449
NewBlue Titler Live (starting at $149) Animated 3D titles and graphics, Facebook comments	Titler Live Express $149 FREE with Wirecast Studio purchase	Titler Live Present $449 FREE with Wirecast Pro purchase
Control Surface X-keys for Wirecast Support	Sold Separately $599	Sold Separately $599
Built-in PTZ Controller for Robotic Cameras (VISCA over IP)
8-track audio mixing, Pro Audio FX
Instant Replay
Virtual sets and backgrounds		3 sets included
Beautiful 3D virtual sets from Virtualsetworks ($329/6-pack)		Buy Now
OUTPUT & STREAMING	Wirecast Studio $695	Wirecast Pro $995
GPU-accelerated encoding (requires Intel or Nvidia GPU)
RTMP, RTP multi + unicast
Built-in destinations: Periscope/Twitter, Brightcove, Facebook, YouTube, DaCast, Akamai, Wowza, Microsoft Azure, and more…
Record to disk (MP4, MOV)
Facebook Live: groups, 24/7 ambient streaming, paired encoding, geo and sponsor tagging, live cross-posting
Virtual Camera and Microphone output
Monitor output data and statistics
Multi-viewer output	1-4-slot	1-17-slot
ISO Record individual sources
Program feed output (AJA and Blackmagic cards)
NDI™ output
Multi-track audio recording
WIRECAST WEB SERVICES	Wirecast Studio $695	Wirecast Pro $995
Wirecast Restream Cloud-based restreaming & distribution	Starting at $25/month	Starting at $25/month
Wirecast Live Captions Automatically embed live CEA-608 closed captions using speech-to-text recognition	Starting at $60/month	Starting at $60/month
SUPPORT	Wirecast Studio $695	Wirecast Pro $995
Standard Support ($99/year)* Includes FREE software upgrades and support through Email, Knowledge Base, Telestream Community Forum. See our support page for more resources.	^*	^*

	MINIMUM	RECOMMENDED
Operating System	Windows 7, 8, 10, macOS Sierra, Mac OS X El Capitan	Windows 10, macOS Sierra
Processor	i5 dual-core @ 2.3GHz¹	i7 quad-core @ 2.8GHz+
Memory	4GB RAM	16GB+ RAM
Hard Drive	2GB², 7200 RPM for record to disk	500GB+, Solid State OS Drive
Graphics Card	Intel HD³, DirectX 11 capable	Nvidia GeForce or AMD Radeon, 1GB+ video memory
Internet Connectivity	Open HTTP/HTTPS port 80, RTMP port 1935, port 7272 for Remote Desktop Presenter	If behind a firewall, check with your CDN for any sites to whitelist

NewBlueFX Titler Live Express & Present – Includes over 60 title templates for lower-thirds and overlays (Mac & Windows).

Purchase of Wirecast 8 Studio includes a free copy of NewBlueFX Titler Live Express.
Purchase of Wirecast 8 Pro includes a free copy of NewBlueFX Titler Live Present.
Remote Desktop Presenter – Please use the Remote Desktop Presenter version 2.0.8, available as a separate download from Telestream.

Languages Supported

English
Brazilian Portuguese
Chinese (Simplified)
Czech
Dutch
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Spanish
Swedish

Best Practices

Minimum Required Upload Speed

It is recommended that an upload speed rate of at least double the selected video bitrate be available, especially for a total target bit-rate of 10Mbps (Megabits per second) or less, or when there are multiple outgoing streams.
Upload speed can be tested at a website such as TestMy.net/upload.
Additional tasks that can consume upload bandwidth on the network should also be considered when determining how much of the available upload bandwidth can be allocated towards streaming

Rendezvous

Wirecast Rendezvous uses WebRTC technology that can be very resource intensive. For the best experience, we suggest considering the following table when choosing hardware:

Studio (2 guests + 1 host)
Pro (7 guests + 1 host)

	Studio (2 guests + 1 host)	Pro (7 guests + 1 host)
Bandwidth⁴	Add 4 Mbps	Add 5+ Mbps⁵
Processor⁴	i5 quad-core⁶	i7 quad-core⁶

4 Based on a single simultaneous stream of 720p30 x264 @ 4.0Mbps.
5 Bandwidth per guest will scale downwards as more are added to maintain reliability.
6 Minimum recommended processor with example stream4. More demanding workflows may require a more capable CPU.

High frame-rate streaming (60fps):

High frame-rate streaming will result in increased CPU usage and require a higher bit rate (4Mbps or higher) for a quality encode.
Simply switching to a higher frame-rate without ensuring the CPU and bitrate are sufficient may result in a lower quality encode.

CPU Usage:

Consider lowering your canvas frame rate and/or streaming resolution to lower CPU usage.
Maintained system CPU usage greater than 60% will increase the likelihood of dropped frames.

ISO Recording

Solid State Drive or fast RAID array recommended for ISO Recording and Replay functionality.
Actual data rates will vary depending on quality level selected for ProRes (Mac) or MJPEG recording (Windows), as well as the resolution and frame rate selected.
For Mac ProRes recording please refer to Apple’s ProRes data rate specifications.
Windows MJPEG Best Quality Guidelines (Megabytes per second):
1080i and 1080p 29.97 and 30 FPS, MJPEG Best Quality – ~25MB/sec
1080p 60 FPS, MJPEG Best Quality – ~50 MB/sec
720p 59.94 and 60 FPS, MJPEG Best Quality – ~20 MB/sec
Total expected data rate should be compared to available disk write speed to ensure adequate disk throughput.
Failure to ensure the available disk write speed is greater than the highest expected total data rate may result in frames being dropped from recordings (ISO, Replay, and Record-to-Disk).

Hardware accelerated encoding requirements:

Intel Quick Sync Video encoding requires an Intel CPU with an Intel® QuickSync Video core.
List of Intel CPUs supporting QuickSync
NVIDIA NVENC encoding requires an NVidia GPU with Kepler architecture or newer.
NVIDIA only maintains a general list of supported GPUs

Wirecast for Education

Wirecast is used in schools, colleges, universities and technical institutions all over the world. Professors, teachers and online educators use Wirecast to stream presentations, courses and lectures, online classes, software demos, tutorials, meetings and conferences, as well as public events.

Administrators and technology coordinators use Wirecast to stream graduations and special events, district meetings, and inter-organizational trainings and seminars.

Students use Wirecast to learn broadcasting techniques, build and grow community, broadcast sports, news, and school events, among many other uses. Student-run broadcasts and content production can be one of the best ways to get student communities to take ownership and responsibility for their school or community.

Wirecast Features for Education:

Easy-to-use, easy-to-learn
Live switching and mixing audio/video sources
Live screen and web page capture
Chroma key
Clocks, scoreboards, timers
YouTube, Facebook and Wowza integration
IP source input and output
Multi-casting, unicasting

“From the moment we demoed Wirecast, we were instantly impressed with its screen layout, features, workflow and capabilities. The set-up was so easy, it wasn’t long before we went live with Wirecast.”

– Rob Zdrojewsky, Adjunct Professor, Education Technologies, Canisius College

Customer Case Studies:

K-12

Higher Education

Wirecast for Houses of Worship

Wirecast is used all in churches, synagogues, mosques, monasteries, temples, ashrams and retreats all over the world. Some communities and organizations use it to broadcast their weekly services to Churchstreaming.tv, Facebook or YouTube. Others use it to build closer ties within far-spread congregations. Some use it as a teaching or online ministry tool, others use for collaboration, reflection or engagement.

Wirecast is perfect for streaming celebrations, ceremonies, and special events such as baptisms, weddings, confirmations and more.

Whether you decide to expand your audience and reach beyond your four walls with your message, or whether you use it to reach those within, Wirecast has the features you need.

Wirecast Features for Houses of Worship:

Easy-to-use, easy-to-learn
Train volunteers to use it
Live switching and mixing audio/video sources
Screen, slide, Powerpoint capture
Works with worship software (Pro Presenter, Easy Worship, etc.)
YouTube, Facebook, Livestream, Churchstreaming.tv and Wowza integration
IP source input and output (Syphon, NDI, RTSP, and more)
Multi-language broadcasting
Local program output

“Wirecast is much more of a Swiss army knife than we’d ever anticipated. At first we used it just for encoding, then realized it could do virtual switching and had all kinds of professional capabilities that gave us more polish.”

– Jason Lee, Online Campus Pastor & IT Director, Northwoods Community Church

Customer Case Studies:

Wirecast for Live Event Production

Today’s fans are increasingly turning to the web for entertainment – from music, sports and interviews, to documentaries, comedy and more. Wirecast allows you to quickly and easily capture live or pre-recorded video, audio, music and other media – create professional productions – and broadcast events in real time to web audiences.

Use Wirecast’s powerful audio ingestion and mixing capabilities to bring your online audience directly to the event. Create multiple discrete audio tracks of audio for different outputs and streams. From conferences and seminars to live rock concerts and everything in between, Wirecast is the perfect tool for streaming and producing your live events.

Wirecast Features for Live Event Production:

Easy-to-use, easy-to-learn
Live switching and mixing audio/video sources
Pro audio ingestion, ASIO support
Works with Syphon and NDI sources for complex workflows
Native YouTube, Facebook, Livestream, and Wowza integration
IP source input and output (Syphon, NDI, RTSP, and more)
Multi-language broadcasting
Local program output
Multi-viewer for multiple camera angle monitoring

“Wirecast took us from local to global. This little piece of software delivers absolutely everything in the most perfect way. I can’t wait to find out what the future is going to look like as they take this thing an unimaginable next step later.”

– Cary Harrison, Host of Afternoon Drive, Los Angeles

Customer Case Studies:

“On game days, we produce a live pre-game show, half-time show and post-game show, and Wirecast is the key to it all. Wirecast creates shows that look like massive undertakings with just a few cameras.”

– Tom White, Director of Sports Broadcast Institute, Rockdale Career Academy

Wirecast for Sports

Capture the action! Wirecast is one of the most popular live production solutions for streaming sports. Used in big games at major sporting facilities with tens of thousands of viewers, all the way down to youth league soccer games on the weekend, Wirecast is versatile enough to handle the demands of any sport or production workflow.

Whether you are a solo operator, or you have a large team to help you film and call the game, Wirecast is packed with features designed to make your sports streams look and sound great. Use the built-in timers, clocks, stopwatches, scoreboards and Instant Replay feature to add professionalism to any live stream. Add NewBlue Titler Live Sport to use additional features like direct on-premise integration with stadium scoreboard data and build advanced animations and animated scoreboards.

Wirecast Features for Sports:

Easy-to-use, easy-to-learn
Live switching and mixing audio/video sources
Replay and ISO replay
Clocks, timers, stopwatches, and scoreboards,
Pro audio ingestion, ASIO support
IP-based workflows for input and output (Syphon, NDI)
Native YouTube, Facebook, Livestream, and social media integration
Multi-language broadcasting
Local program output
Multi-viewer for multiple camera angle monitoring
Remote titling and native scoreboard data with NewBlue Titler Live Sport

– Tom White, Director of Sports Broadcast Institute, Rockdale Career Academy

Customer Case Studies:

LiveArena (published by feedmagazine.tv)
Rockdale Career Academy
D.C. United
Munzing Media
The Lacrosse Network
Harvard University
Mount Royal Curling Club
YES Networks

Wirecast for Television, Radio & News Broadcasters

Traditional, terrestrial media companies, advertisers and content producers are embracing new media distribution channels and harnessing the power of live video through low-cost, global-spanning content distribution networks like Facebook, YouTube, and more. Radio DJs are using Wirecast to stream their shows from their booths, newspapers using Wirecast to become their own television news broadcasters online, and television stations and regional networks are using it to stream their content live, 24/7 online, create highlights, boost engagement, and drive traffic to their premium content.

Wirecast and Wirecast Gear allow stations and media producers to cheaply and easily deploy professional content production systems to any team in their organization. With Wirecast, it’s much easier to stream your premium content to OTT and social platforms or augment your premium content with second-screen live and interactive offerings.

Wirecast Features for TV, Radio & News Broadcasters:

Easy-to-use, easy-to-learn
Live switching and mixing audio/video sources
Replay and ISO replay
Clocks, timers, stopwatches, and scoreboards
Pro audio ingestion, ASIO support
IP-based workflows for input and output (Syphon, NDI)
Native YouTube, Facebook, Livestream, and social media integration
Multi-language broadcasting
Local baseband program output
Multi-viewer for multiple camera angle monitoring
Remote titling and native scoreboard data with NewBlue Titler Live Sport

“Since live video news is a key service that we provide, Facebook Live presents a unique opportunity for us to raise the visibility of our media brand on Facebook, and to share the timely and trusted news programming that airs on our main channels.”

– Larry Oakes, Vice President of Technology at Meredith Corporation

Customer Case Studies:

Wirecast for Digital Marketing & Social Media

Wirecast is the perfect live video marketing tool. Stream to more than one platform at the same time! Engage real-time with customers, fans and prospects using Wirecast’s native integrations with Facebook Live, Twitter, Periscope, YouTube and more.

Brands, marketers, solo-preneurs, content experts, and digital media natives are using Wirecast all over the world to build their businesses, drive leads into their funnels, and build awareness for their messages and identity.

Wirecast offers a wealth of social media functionality and tools that you can leverage to grow your audience, create amazing content, and build organic reach. Use the built-in tallies to keep an eye on your viewers, comments, and likes on Facebook. Wirecast Rendezvous is allows you to invite remote guests to join you directly in your broadcasts as if you were interviewing them in the same room.

Use Wirecast’s integration with NewBlue Titler Live Social to create amazing looking graphics for your social media channels and boost engagement by displaying YouTube, Facebook and Twitter posts and comments directly on the screen so everyone can read.

Wirecast Features for Digital Marketing & Social Media:

Easy-to-use, easy-to-learn
Run your broadcasts and be your host at the same time
Live switching and mixing audio/video sources
Screen capture, web page display, and more
Rendezvous – bring in up to 7 remote live guests!
Social media comments
Beautiful graphics and titles
Chroma key, transitions, playlists
Native YouTube, Facebook, Livestream, and social media integration
Animated social media titles, banners and live comments with NewBlue Titler Live Social

“This is the software I use to go live on Facebook every week. It has been a HUGE catapult for the show’s growth, visibility, and professional look. I get asked on a daily basis what I use to go live on Facebook with a side by side interview – and Wirecast is my secret weapon!”

– Vicky Lashenko, Host of the Mompreneur Show