Wire Cast 4 Pro

Plug in your cameras. Prepare your shots. Broadcast live.

Wirecast Pro adds more advanced production features and additional source inputs for users who want to stream or record professional broadcasts to live or on-demand audiences. With added support for IP cameras, plus scoreboards, and virtual sets, this is the perfect solution for broadcasting live sporting events or for advanced studio production.

• New intuitive user interface
• Enhanced shot editor, user definable layers (with up to 35 layers of live compositing) and source-settings editor
• Improved integration for Blackmagic capture cards (Intensity Pro, Decklink SDI, Decklink Duo, Decklink Studio, Decklink HD Extreme 3D and Intensity Shuttle)
• New destinations for Brightcove, and Sermon.net
• More title templates (lower thirds)
• Improved high-quality Flash encoding: On2 (VP6) and Main Concept H.264
• Full scale video production studio for your desktop or laptop computer
• Capture live video from multiple cameras & control switching between cameras
• Import pre-recorded video, audio, graphics and slides
• Picture in picture – enables viewers to see multiple sources, including the presenter/host
• Chroma Key, 3D graphics & transitions – enable creation of professional quality webcasts
• Stream live and/or record to disk for on-demand viewing
• Encode to popular streaming formats (Flash, Windows Media & QuickTime)
• Simultaneous encoding to multiple bit rates – for a variety of quality choices

Mac OS X

• 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)

Windows

• Windows 7 processor: 2.3 GHz 32- or 64-bit, 
  1 GB RAM, or:
• Windows Vista processor: 2.3 GHz 32-bit (x86), 
  1 GB RAM, or:
• Windows XP, SP2 processor: 2.1 GHz 32-bit (x86), 512 MB RAM
• QuickTime 7.5
• 200 MB HD (for install)
• HD space for recording to disk
• 32 MB PCI-Express graphics card with 3D acceleration (GeForce or Radeon class card recommended)
• Microsoft® DirectX 9.0c
• GeForce 5200, Radeon 9600 or better for Chroma Key
• Sufficient upload speed (300kbps for low quality, 700kbps for good, 1.3 mb and up for HD)