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Wirecastcomes in two different versions. Wirecast Studio is generally suitable for most users. The Wirecast Pro version offers a few more options that are necessary for specific applications that you may find useful. The lower-priced ($599) Wirecast Studio version comes standard with unlimited inputs. This includes an unlimited number of inputs from sources such as video, audio, screen capture, USB, capture cards, NDI, iOS, IP, and web stream sources. This version can handle video up to 4096 x 3072 for production and encoding. It also comes with integrated text, titles, chroma key, built-in and custom transitions, an advanced audio mixer, social media integration, and a stock media library.

Standard Support.*Pricing & Features Are Subject to Change.Wirecast Studio ($599) offers unlimited output destinations, including native integrations designed for an easy login experience with Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter directly through the platform. You can also live stream to any RTMP destination with the custom address. When you are live streaming you can also record to your hard drive simultaneously. This is ideal for recording your production in a high quality format while live streaming in a compressed format for transport over the public internet. The multi-viewer feature is an output option available to show between 2 and 4 views on an external screen. Wirecast Rendezvous is included in this version allowing you to add two remote guests to your production at any time.

Wirecast Pro ($799) includes all of the same features as the Studio version with several enhancements. You can control PTZ cameras from within the production software in the Pro version allowing you to instantly move cameras by clicking visual thumbnails of camera locations. This edition also adds pro audio effects, sports production plus features like instant replay and scoreboards. Wirecast Pro also includes access to virtual sets and backgrounds. Output capabilities are also expanded with NDI program output, ISO recording of individual sources, and multi-track audio recording. The multi-view output also expands to a total of 17 possible views. Finally, the Wirecast Rendezvous feature expands to allow up to 7 remote guests.

Both packages come with free standard email support and upgrades to the latest version for one year. After one year, the support service can be extended, including free upgrades for $99 a year. Premium support is also available for $299 a year. This provides access to phone support and remote access services that allows a technician to identify and resolve issues remotely.

To download Wirecast, just head to , download the correct version for your computer (PC or Mac) and follow the instructions and prompts. Once the software is installed, you can enter your license key (if you have purchased it already) or use the free trial. The free trial gives you access to a full-featured version of Wirecast with a watermark on your output. This allows you to try out all the aspects of the software if you are still not ready to make a purchase decision.

After meeting with Telestream, Wirecast showed itself to be a promising solution as the only switching software compatible with Facebook Live. We must note that not a month later Facebook opened up their API to run with any program with RTMP protocol. However, Wirecast 7 still holds a unique place in the market. Additionally, Wirecast is not limited to streaming over Facebook Live.

For our review of Wirecast 7, we wanted to get a better training than just jumping in and learning as we go. Luckily enough, Telestream offers some great learning resources and videos, and they even offered a webinar on the new features of version 7, which we found helpful.

At its core, Wirecast 7 is a software input switching tool. It can switch between any captured sources in real time. You can even add transitions and fades when going between sources. While only using your computer running Wirecast, you can switch between an unlimited number of input sources. Wirecast allows you to capture from a camera, microphone, webcam, IP camera, a capture card, your computer screen, pre-made videos, images and more. You can use an iPhone 4S or newer as a wireless camera input source and it can even pull live Twitter feeds into the broadcast.

Wirecast 7 does not limit where you can stream. Stream to one or more locations simultaneously, including Facebook Live, YouTube Live, Twitch, Church streaming.tv and many others. All you have to do to stream is enter your username and password to your streaming provider.

With Wirecast 7 Pro, you can now create high-resolution recordings of each camera or audio sources. You can also isolate clean shots with no tilting or lower thirds for later editing or live replay. Wirecast 7 allows you to stream and record video and audio using the newest codecs and compression

Other notable new features include the ability to place and use text from a variety of sources, like from a file or an RSS feed. The RSS feed can even be configured as a running ticker. You can now adjust brightness, contrast, gamma, hue and saturation of any input source.

Wirecast 7 Pro is $1,000 and that's no small amount to pay. However, it's a robust program and offers a simple solution that doesn't require any hardware to get started. Wirecast 7 Studio comes with fewer features, but will save you $500 over Wirecast 7 Pro.

The NewTek TriCaster series also offers hardware-based solutions but no standalone software. The hardware is required and starts at $5,000 for the Tricaster 40 and goes up to their full Live Sports 460 solution for $55K.

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Whether you're producing sports, educational, musical, or any other live content, Wirecast Pro has what you need for productions of any size. Take in an unlimited number of video sources, switch between them, and stream live to your favorite CDN, be it YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, or a dedicated streaming server. You can even stream to multiple destinations simultaneously

Wirecast Pro is the top of the line Wirecast offering. Designed with the most dedicated streamers in mind, Pro has all the features of Studio plus expanded inputs and audio capabilities, 7 simultaneous Wirecast Rendezvous guests, 3D virtual sets, PTZ camera control and much more.

If you want the best of the best, and have all the top tech already, Wirecast Pro is for you. From local sports games to worldwide, full production broadcasts, Wirecast Pro is the perfect partner for producing the best live streams around.

Archive each live video input to a clean, unmodified file, separate from your composited program recording. Great for post-production workflows, and each ISO can be used as a live instant replay source!

Wirecast is ideal for broadcasting professional-looking live web shows, news, online gaming, sporting events, concerts, church services, corporate meetings, lectures and much more. With Wirecast, users can stream multiple live cameras while dynamically mixing in other media such as movies, images and sounds, and adding production features such as transitions, built-in titles, chroma key, virtual sets and live scoreboards.

The new Replay function enables the capture and replay of clips during live production, allowing users to easily switch in important captured segments right from the interface. Using Replay, users can slow down, speed up or scrub across a clip and find the exact moment to show. Replay is useful for sports broadcasts or for any application that needs to reshow portions of a live broadcast.

The new Playlist feature in Wirecast 6.0 allows users to create playlists on the fly: they can easily drag-and-drop the queuing of multiple videos, images, audio or live shots to perfectly automate broadcasts, add commercial breaks, or stream archived content during off hours. Playlists can also be used to rotate live camera views.

Wirecast 6.0 makes it easy to add social media feeds to live broadcasts with Twitter messages overlaid directly onto the broadcast. To maintain control of what is being displayed, operators can easily search and select only the Tweets they wish to share.

New in version 6.0 is the ability to quickly and easily send content from Wirecast to Microsoft Azure Media Services allowing large-scale streaming broadcasts to leverage the dynamic scalability, reliability, redundancy and minimum capital investment the cloud offers when streaming live to large audiences with myriad devices.

Wirecast 6.0 is available immediately from the Telestream store. Wirecast Studio is priced at $495. Wirecast Pro, which adds support for more advanced production features and additional input sources, is priced at $995. Customers who currently own Wirecast 5.x can upgrade to Wirecast Studio 6.0 for $149 and to Wirecast Pro 6.0 for $295.

About Wirecast

Wirecast is the only cross-platform, all-in-one live streaming production software that enables capture, live production, and encoding of live streams for broadcast to multiple servers and platforms simultaneously. Wirecast is ideal for streaming or recording live internet shows, broadcasting breaking news and sports, streaming live concerts and games, transmitting church services, corporate meetings, lectures and more. Pro production features include live scoreboards, 3D virtual sets, chroma key support, advanced audio controls and more.