Wirecast 3.5.8 [MAC]

Wirecast is a live production tool that allows everyone to easily broadcast live events and create professional webcasts from any location all you need is a computer and an internet connection. With the intuitive and fully integrated streaming capabilities, Wirecast makes it easy for anyone to share live experiences and build a global community. Wirecast lets you stream multiple live cameras while dynamically mixing in other media such as movies, images, sounds, etc. Features including Chroma Key (blue/green screen), transitions and built-in titles allow you to create beautiful, professional broadcast productions for live or on-demand distribution on the web.

Wirecast Features :

Support for Multiple Cameras
Load up your system with HDV* (1), DV and USB cameras. Switching between them is effortless.

Amazing 3D Graphics
Generates amazing transitions and effects in real-time, including cross-fade, 3D cube, swinging doors, sliding etc.

Chroma Key
A high quality, GPU accelerated real-time green and blue screen solution is now part of Wirecast.

Incredible Titles
Over 20 built-in professional broadcast quality titles themes. Pick your favorite, enter your text and you're done. It's just as simple as that. Wirecast takes advantage of the high-quality font rendering capabilities of Mac OS X, so you know its going to look good.

Multiple Broadcast Support
Wirecast can output your broadcast to any number of destinations in any number of compression formats. You can scale your broadcast from 3G cell phone all the way to DVD quality.

Simple User Interface
Controlling a live broadcast can be very challenging -- not with Wirecast. You create your shots before you go live, and when its broadcast time, you simply click the one you want to take it live.

Desktop Presenter
Use the small Desktop Presenter application to transmit the desktop of another computer into Wirecast for use during your webcasts. Perfect for broadcasting PowerPoint or Keynote presentations, training webcasts and software demonstrations.

QuickTime Streaming Server Support
Delivering your stream to a larger audience is a couple of clicks away. Send your broadcast to an industry proven QuickTime or Darwin Streaming Server. Both have the power to stream to thousands of viewers. Wirecast produces fully ISO-compliant MPEG-4 video streams, so your audience isn't tied to one platform. Creating a 3GPP webcast for mobile phone viewers is made easy too.

Core Image
New for Mac OS X Tiger is the GPU accelerated Core Image filter and transition library. You can apply an unlimited number of Core Image filters to any layer in your webcast, then move between your shots with beautiful transitions like Ripple and Page Curl. The best part is that you can add Image Units from 3rd party developers to expand your filter library.

Keynote Integration
Drag and drop a QuickTime movie exported by Keynote and Wirecast will automatically recognize its slide markers.

H.264
Full support for the next generation video codec, offering extremely high quality, scalable compression for your broadcasts and archives.

Multiple Layers
You want an audio background track, a camera input, a title and company logo in your webcast? No problem, Wirecast makes it easy.

System Requirements:

• Mac OS X 10.5 or later
• Intel Based Mac or Apple Power PC G5
• Minimum 512 MB RAM
• QuickTime 7 or higher
• 200 MB HD (for install)
• HD space for recording to disk
• A Quartz Extreme capable graphics card
• Intel Core Duo or dual G5 is required for HDV decoding
• QTSS/DSS 4.1.3 or later is needed for automatic "announce" unicasting
• A supported GPU is required for Core Image and GPU video compression acceleration
• Flash streaming on Mac requires Intel based processor
• Sufficient upload speed (300kbps for low quality, 700kbps for good, 1.3 mb and up for HD)

Video Input Devices

• Live USB cameras
• Live Firewire cameras (DV or HDV)
• Analog to Firewire converters (DV or HDV)