Wirecast Exciting Tool for Video Streaming

Posted by Derrick on May 10, 2010 under Video Streaming and Compression | Read the First Comment

Wirecast is an exciting tool for video streaming.  It holds many advantages over Free Live Streaming tools such as Windows Media Encoder, QuickTime Broadcaster and Flash Media Encoder.  Wirecast is a little more than a Live Encoder as it supports streaming with PowerPoint, Keynote and .PDF files. You can also deliver streams to different Streaming Servers so you’re not tied to one format for streaming delivery.  One of the main items that separates Wirecast from other encoders is that it’s a full production switcher in software.  You have a Program View, Preview View, Transitions, Lower Thirds, Effects, Videos for Playback and many other elements that you can use to enhance your webcast. Wirecast also provides one of the easiest ways of to add Picture-N-Pictures to your Webcast.  Attend one of our 1-Day Wirecast Live Streaming Trainings to learn more about this exciting webcasting tool.

Recording Presentations with Keynote and PowerPoint using Wirecast

Posted by Derrick on April 23, 2010 under Video Streaming and Compression | Be the First to Comment

Recording presentations with Keynote and PowerPoint using Wirecast is simply amazing.  The folks at Telestream have an amazing tool on their hands and the way that Desktop Presenter works is really cool.  If you have Desktop Presenter on your workstation with Keynote or PowerPoint, your presentation can be brought up on a separate computer running Wirecast.   What’s nice is you can have several Desktop Presenters going within your Wirecast application.  So if you wanted to have 5 different presenters speak during a Webcast or Video Recording you could have all 5 PowerPoint or Keynote presentations displayed at the appropriate time.

Wirecast Live Streaming Consulting

Posted by Derrick on March 5, 2010 under Video Streaming and Compression | Be the First to Comment

Wirecast Live Streaming consulting is available from Freeman Compression Inc.  If you’re working with Telestream’s Wirecast and need to deliver Live Streaming to QuickTime Streaming Server, Windows Media Streaming Server, Wowza Media Server 2, or a Content Delivery Network (CDN) give us a call for consulting services.  Freeman Compression Inc. can provide customized consulting for your next Live Streaming project with Wirecast.  Let us assist you with your Wirecast Live Streaming needs.  Contact us at 407.477.5837 or E-mail us at info@freemancompression.com.

Freeman Compression is available for the following services:

• Live streaming set-up to Wowza Media Server 2 (Flash Streaming Server)
• Live streaming set-up to QuickTime Streaming Server
• Live streaming set-up to Windows Media Streaming Server (PC only)
• Live streaming set-up to Content Delivery Networks, Ustream and Livestream
• Archiving Webcasts to a Video File
• Setting up Publishing Points
• Live streaming using RTSP, MMS and RTMP Protocols
• Live encoding using various video sources
• Including PowerPoint, Keynote and .PDF presentations in your Webcasts
• Including Picture-N-Picture in your Webcasts
• Creating and using Lower Thirds during your Webcasts

Wirecast Supports Live Encoding to QuickTime Streaming Server

Posted by Derrick on February 27, 2010 under Video Streaming and Compression | Be the First to Comment

Telestream’s Wirecast supports Live Encoding to QuickTime Streaming Server. This is a good thing if you’re going to be delivering you Live Webcast to Apple’s QuickTime Streaming and you have a PC for your Live Encoder.  You can easily send your Live Stream to the QTSS in the H.264 flavor and customize the frame size, datarate, key frame interval, fps etc.  Since QuickTime Broadcaster is not available for the PC Wirecast provides a wonderful solution for Live Encoding to QTSS with many other added benefits.

Wirecast provides a more advanced level tool for Webcasting.  Not only does it support Live Encoding to QTSS but Wirecast (for PC) also sports Live Encoding to Windows Media Server, Flash Streaming Servers and many CDNs. With it you can encode from Fireware cameras attached via Firewire.  If you have separate Firewire cards installed you can switch between multiple Firewire cameras.  Multiple Live Streams can be sent to the same server/different servers and you can create an archive for on-demand viewing later during your Webcast. Wirecast also provides a full production switcher in software.  You can switch seamlessly between multiple cameras, multiple video sources, and Powerpoint presentations.

Lower thirds (name keys) can also be included during your Webcasts.  So you could have 10-15 or more lower third graphics called up as desired during your production.  Wirecast comes with many pre-made lower third templates saving you a tremendous amount of time in design.  Wirecast can also do nice transitions and dissolves between sources.  You can even do Picture-N- Picture. Wirecast is not free like QuickTimeBroadcaster but you will definitely get a superior tool for Webcasting along with the ability to solve the issue of Live Encoding to Apple’s QuickTime Streaming Server from a PC.

Archiving Presentations for Flash Streaming without Streaming Live

Posted by Derrick on January 16, 2010 under Video Streaming and Compression | Be the First to Comment

Archiving presentations for Flash Streaming without Streaming Live is a workflow that you can use with Telestream’s Wirecast tool.  For those of you that are not familiar with Wirecast, it’s a software-based Live Encoder available for Mac and PC.  The live encoder lets you perform tasks that you’ve only dreamed of.  For this post I wanted to shared Wirecast’s ability to Archive your PowerPoint, Keynote or .PDF presentation along with a Web Cam or Video Camera.

Under the Broadcast Settings if you click the + button to add a new destination, instead of choosing a streaming server for the Destination you can choose Record to Disk.  You can customize you output location and filename of your file to archive.  For Flash you have the option to record files with the .f4v or the .m4v wrapper.  Once you adjust your settings you can then turn on the Record to Disk mode without Streaming Live by clicking the Broadcast button. Click stop Broadcasting when you presentation is done.  You’ll have to be sure to use the Desktop Presenter to display your PowerPoint, Keynote or .PDF presentation in Wirecast. When you finish recording your presentation you can upload your .f4v or .m4v video to your Flash Streaming Server.

To learn more about Recording to Disk and other features of Wirecast make sure you attend one of the FREE Episode Encoder, Wirecast and Sawmill Professional Trainings in your area.  Training sessions are coming up in Orlando on Jan. 22 and in Ohio on Feb. 19 in 2010.  You can also attend in Chicago, Las Vegas and New York.