Additional Information
Turn your laptop or Desktop computer into a television studio
| Version | Wirecast 16.3.1 |
| Requirements |
Windows 10/Windows 11 |
| Updated | October 19, 2024 |
| Author | Telestream, Inc. |
| Category | Video Software |
| License | Demo |
| Language | English |
| Download | 332 |
Overview
Turn your laptop or computer into a television studio with Wirecast, the most popular award-winning video production software for Windows. Perfect for live streams, webinars, webcasts, sports, church services, and education or training videos, and more. Learn more below, or try it for free. Easily stream and produce professional videos!
Engage and expand your remote congregation with live streams of your services and events. Reach out and touch more people. Live stream graduations, award ceremonies, student news and sports, guest lectures, and classroom lessons to your community. This program is used at every level of education. Capture the action! Use Wirecast’s professional features like clocks, scoreboards and instant Replay to bring your audience to the game.
Live stream conferences, concerts, interviews and more. It provides everything you need to stream professional live events. Stream your programming to OTT and social platforms or augment your premium content with second-screen live and interactive offerings. Wirecast for Windows is the perfect live video marketing tool. Engage real-time with customers, fans, and prospects using Wirecast’s native integrations with Facebook Live, Twitter, Periscope, YouTube and more.
Now included with every active support subscription., the new Stock Media Library adds a growing database of over 500,000 unique, high quality media assets to your projects. A new custom-built portal gives you direct access to transitions, motion backgrounds, royalty-free backing tracks, and videos from right within the software.
There’s a reason Wirecast is used by hundreds of thousands of people around the world for live streaming, recording, and video production. It committed making each version better than the one before it. It continually releases new features, fixes, and improvements at a rapid rate. The latest version features an integrated Stock Media Library (included with every active support subscription.), Stinger (Custom Transitions) Playback Speed Controls, Rendezvous Audio Mixing and a QR Code Generator.
Features and Highlights
Unlimited Sources
Capture everything you need for your live production — cameras, microphones, webcams, IP cams, capture cards, computer screens, videos, images, and more.
Wireless Camera App
Turn any iPhone (from 4S to iPhone 12) or iPad into a wireless camera and capture it into Wire cast as a source using the software Cam.
Internet/IP Streams (Pro)
Pull any live feed (RTSP/RTMP/HTTP/MMS) from your network or the internet directly into the program as a source (you must have access credentials). Add Teradek streams from their wireless devices for cordless production
Audio/Video Sync
Sync any audio and video sources using advanced video and audio delay features! Great for productions with multiple types of sources.
Twitter
Pull live Twitter feeds directly into your broadcasts for direct interaction with your audience.
Switching
Switch any sources you’ve captured in real time for your audience and produce your show. Add professional transitions and smooth fades between sources. Assign any audio input source to any and all video sources or vice versa.
Editing
Dynamic editing of any and all sources. Resize, position, crop, flip rotate, add color correction filters and more. Use Wirecast’s powerful graphic editing features to compose picture-in-picture shots or layer up to 250 different sources on screen at the same time!
Titles
Easily add titles and lower thirds, scrolling, crawling or live text to your broadcast. Choose from template library of pre-made titles, and or bring in professional animated 3D live titles, scoreboards, clocks, logos and more using NewBlueFX’s Titler Live Express software (a $99 value), included with every purchase of the program.
Live Chroma Key
Transport your production to a new studio or location using Wirecast's high quality GPU accelerated real-time green screen solution. Replace your (green) background with your own video or still image background live and at the moment.
Audio Mixing
Built-in audio mixer allows for better control over any audio source. Mix-minus, panning, solo, mute and audio playout device selection are some of the powerful new audio features.
Audio Effects (Pro)
Now add VST-based audio effects such as Noise Reduction, EQ, or Dynamics filters directly from the Audio Mixer
Instant Replay (Pro)
Sports fans who need instant replay to catch game highlights or play action, can use the built-in replay system to easily grab and edit clips and replay them at any speed.
ISO Recording (Pro)
Want to capture individual high-quality, edit-ready files for each camera you’re capturing? ISO Record feature will allow you to specify which sources you want to record separately.
Virtual Sets (Pro)
Add your own background or virtual studio behind your talent and place them in beautiful, realistic environments. Choose from three built-in virtual 3D sets or buy the expansion pack of over 6 additional sets and 90 additional camera angles
Scoreboards
Use built in scoreboard generator (Pro), or create your own using NewBlue’s Titler Live Advance ($445) or Titler Live Ultimate ($945) — available for Wirecast Studio or Pro. Bring in real-time data directly from your stadium scoreboard using Sportzcast’s technology, for hands-free scoring!
Stream to Anywhere
Choose from over 30 integrated destinations, or add your own custom RTMP destinations. Stream your content to Facebook Live, YouTube Live, Twitch, Microsoft Azure, DaCast, Churchstreaming.tv, Wowza, New! Hitbox and many more! Streaming to them is as easy as entering your username and password in Wire cast and getting automatically connected with your account.
High Quality Streaming & Recording
Stream and record high quality video and audio using the latest codecs and compression algorithms. Use x264 to live encode your stream. x264 offers high quality encoding with lower bitrates, making it one of the best low-latency video streaming formats in the world.
GPU-Accelerated Encoding
Stream better quality while using fewer resources. Take advantage of powerful, cost-efficient hardware encoding capabilities for better performance and lower CPU utilization. (Requires Intel QuickSync, or nVidia NVENC hardware).
Local Program Output Feed
Take your Wire cast feed out directly to Blackmagic Design and AJA hardware. Ideal for sending live feeds directly into editing, effects and broadcast design systems.
Note: Watermark on the broadcasted images. Limited functionality in demo version.
Engage and expand your remote congregation with live streams of your services and events. Reach out and touch more people. Live stream graduations, award ceremonies, student news and sports, guest lectures, and classroom lessons to your community. This program is used at every level of education. Capture the action! Use Wirecast’s professional features like clocks, scoreboards and instant Replay to bring your audience to the game.
Live stream conferences, concerts, interviews and more. It provides everything you need to stream professional live events. Stream your programming to OTT and social platforms or augment your premium content with second-screen live and interactive offerings. Wirecast for Windows is the perfect live video marketing tool. Engage real-time with customers, fans, and prospects using Wirecast’s native integrations with Facebook Live, Twitter, Periscope, YouTube and more.
Now included with every active support subscription., the new Stock Media Library adds a growing database of over 500,000 unique, high quality media assets to your projects. A new custom-built portal gives you direct access to transitions, motion backgrounds, royalty-free backing tracks, and videos from right within the software.
There’s a reason Wirecast is used by hundreds of thousands of people around the world for live streaming, recording, and video production. It committed making each version better than the one before it. It continually releases new features, fixes, and improvements at a rapid rate. The latest version features an integrated Stock Media Library (included with every active support subscription.), Stinger (Custom Transitions) Playback Speed Controls, Rendezvous Audio Mixing and a QR Code Generator.
Features and Highlights
Unlimited Sources
Capture everything you need for your live production — cameras, microphones, webcams, IP cams, capture cards, computer screens, videos, images, and more.
Wireless Camera App
Turn any iPhone (from 4S to iPhone 12) or iPad into a wireless camera and capture it into Wire cast as a source using the software Cam.
Internet/IP Streams (Pro)
Pull any live feed (RTSP/RTMP/HTTP/MMS) from your network or the internet directly into the program as a source (you must have access credentials). Add Teradek streams from their wireless devices for cordless production
Audio/Video Sync
Sync any audio and video sources using advanced video and audio delay features! Great for productions with multiple types of sources.
Pull live Twitter feeds directly into your broadcasts for direct interaction with your audience.
Switching
Switch any sources you’ve captured in real time for your audience and produce your show. Add professional transitions and smooth fades between sources. Assign any audio input source to any and all video sources or vice versa.
Editing
Dynamic editing of any and all sources. Resize, position, crop, flip rotate, add color correction filters and more. Use Wirecast’s powerful graphic editing features to compose picture-in-picture shots or layer up to 250 different sources on screen at the same time!
Titles
Easily add titles and lower thirds, scrolling, crawling or live text to your broadcast. Choose from template library of pre-made titles, and or bring in professional animated 3D live titles, scoreboards, clocks, logos and more using NewBlueFX’s Titler Live Express software (a $99 value), included with every purchase of the program.
Live Chroma Key
Transport your production to a new studio or location using Wirecast's high quality GPU accelerated real-time green screen solution. Replace your (green) background with your own video or still image background live and at the moment.
Audio Mixing
Built-in audio mixer allows for better control over any audio source. Mix-minus, panning, solo, mute and audio playout device selection are some of the powerful new audio features.
Audio Effects (Pro)
Now add VST-based audio effects such as Noise Reduction, EQ, or Dynamics filters directly from the Audio Mixer
Instant Replay (Pro)
Sports fans who need instant replay to catch game highlights or play action, can use the built-in replay system to easily grab and edit clips and replay them at any speed.
ISO Recording (Pro)
Want to capture individual high-quality, edit-ready files for each camera you’re capturing? ISO Record feature will allow you to specify which sources you want to record separately.
Virtual Sets (Pro)
Add your own background or virtual studio behind your talent and place them in beautiful, realistic environments. Choose from three built-in virtual 3D sets or buy the expansion pack of over 6 additional sets and 90 additional camera angles
Scoreboards
Use built in scoreboard generator (Pro), or create your own using NewBlue’s Titler Live Advance ($445) or Titler Live Ultimate ($945) — available for Wirecast Studio or Pro. Bring in real-time data directly from your stadium scoreboard using Sportzcast’s technology, for hands-free scoring!
Stream to Anywhere
Choose from over 30 integrated destinations, or add your own custom RTMP destinations. Stream your content to Facebook Live, YouTube Live, Twitch, Microsoft Azure, DaCast, Churchstreaming.tv, Wowza, New! Hitbox and many more! Streaming to them is as easy as entering your username and password in Wire cast and getting automatically connected with your account.
High Quality Streaming & Recording
Stream and record high quality video and audio using the latest codecs and compression algorithms. Use x264 to live encode your stream. x264 offers high quality encoding with lower bitrates, making it one of the best low-latency video streaming formats in the world.
GPU-Accelerated Encoding
Stream better quality while using fewer resources. Take advantage of powerful, cost-efficient hardware encoding capabilities for better performance and lower CPU utilization. (Requires Intel QuickSync, or nVidia NVENC hardware).
Local Program Output Feed
Take your Wire cast feed out directly to Blackmagic Design and AJA hardware. Ideal for sending live feeds directly into editing, effects and broadcast design systems.
Note: Watermark on the broadcasted images. Limited functionality in demo version.
