Overcoming Roadblocks to Cloud Broadcasting & Production
Cloud broadcasting solutions are not one-size-fits-all. Let’s discuss how to overcome some of the common hurdles to adoption so you can bypass any roadblocks.
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Unveiling Trends: The 2023 Telestream Global Media Format Report
The 2023 Telestream Global Media Format Report highlights data gathered anonymously from our current clients who leverage Telestream’s advanced cloud-native solutions. These solutions specialize in handling complex video, audio, and caption conversions for various formats used in broadcasting, editing, and camera work.
Top 5 Tips for Hosting Engaging Live-Streaming Events
You’ve worked hard to promote your event and now viewers are joining the lobby. What can you do to craft engaging live-streaming events — or …
How to Connect to a MEVO Camera with Wirecast via RTMP MiniServer/NDI
Most live event producers these days have several cameras they use to produce a high quality live stream. One camera gaining in popularity is the Mevo ($399), …
How to add a MEVO Start camera into Wirecast live streaming software using NDI
Most live event producers these days have several cameras they use to produce a high quality live stream. One camera gaining in popularity is the …
Load Testing Origin Servers: a Stream Monitor Application
Written by Ken Haren, Director of Product Management for Cloud Monitoring Services Background In the past we’ve talked about how we’re entering the next phase …
Sherpa Business Integrations
Get more value out of your video content by connecting it with your other business systems. Understand your audience better and create more relevant messages …
Wirecast 14.2 is here!
Wirecast 14.2 is here and it has some new features and improvements that make it our most user-friendly version yet. With new templates and placeholders to save time setting up documents, …
BoxCast integrates with Wirecast for simple, high-quality live webcasts
Creating and distributing high-quality webcasts just got easier yet again with a new cloud platform option from BoxCast! Today, BoxCast announced it has integrated Wirecast …
FOX Sports’ FIFA World Cup™ Now Show Produced Live for Twitter with Wirecast
The live video streaming market is estimated to grow to more than $70 billion by 2021¹ and traditional broadcasters are taking note. When FOX Sports …
Tips and Tricks for Preparing Live Broadcasts
With the recent rise of live streaming, you’ve probably considered adding live broadcasts to your social media marketing strategy. However, although live streaming can be …
How to Produce Live Broadcasts From Your iPhone with Wirecast Go
Did you know that you can stream and produce professional live broadcasts using just your iPhone? Wirecast Go is a free app that allows you …
The Live Programming Life Cycle
Chances are, if you work in the broadcast or live streaming industry, you’re familiar with something called “The live programming life cycle.” But for those …
Lightspeed Live Capture 2.0: Advanced Tape Capture Features and RS422 VTR Deck Control
Are your video archives at risk? With decades of content sitting in tape archives, there is growing concern regarding the longevity of magnetically recorded tapes. …
Webinar – Unlocking Revenue and Savings in your Live Streaming Ecosystem
Today’s audience often expects to engage with live linear programming on their time. Ensuring that your shows are available and revenue optimized within each viewing …
Introducing Lightspeed Live Stream: Live and Live Linear OTT Encoding, Telestream Style
Live streaming is growing. We see more and more audiences consuming their live content on wider array of devices or online video platforms. The ability …
12 Steps To Streaming Professional Multi-Camera Productions To Facebook Live With Wirecast
Did you know that Facebook generates 8 billion video views per day and that people spend 3x more time watching live video than pre-recorded video? …
5 Tips for Promoting Your Live Streaming Event
Live streaming is here to stay, and as the phenomenon continues to increase in popularity, it has proven to be a useful way for brands …
How to Monetize your Facebook Live Content
The past year has shown significant growth in the live streaming industry. For many small businesses, Facebook Live has become a strategic aspect of their …
Disruptive Technology: Adaptive Bitrate Streaming (ABR)
It’s often said that change is disruptive, and that’s certainly true for the most significant media distribution development in recent memory, which is the advent …
Stream to Facebook Live directly from Wirecast!
Wirecast Now Enables Professional Quality Live Video Streaming to Facebook
The Mystery of Bit Rates – Paul Turner
Telestream’s VP of Enterprise Product Management, Paul Turner, is back for a investigation into the most used bit rate encoding methods. They can get a …
Wirecast at Wayfarers Chapel
Steve Smith, the Chapel Video Director at Wayfarers Chapel, is using Wirecast to bring a new experience to the lucky couples getting married at the …
Wirecast Webinar – Beyond the Basics
Wirecast Webinar The third installment of our recent Wirecast webinar series is up for your viewing pleasure! In our first two episodes we covered the …
How to Use Key Frames with Wirecast
Finding the perfect recipe for quality in your live stream can be tricky. There are many ways to manipulate your settings in Wirecast to help …
Setting Up Your Layers in Wirecast
Arranging Your Layers When streaming with Wirecast, the layers that make up your main shot list are extremely important. I like to think of them …
Telestream Webinar Series: Worship Edition Pt. 2
Training Your Volunteers to Stream Your Services Live Telestream and Wirecast are teaming up with churches across the nation, and the world, to help promote …
Telestream Webinar Series: Worship Edition
Worship Webinars Telestream and Wirecast are teaming up with churches across the nation, and the world, to help promote the live broadcast of religious services. …
10 Tips for Live Streaming
Live streaming is easy. Plug in your camera, hit record and send it to the Internet. Done and dusted…right? If only it were so simple. …
From “Project X” to Wirecast
Twelve years ago work started on a product that would help define the software-based live streaming industry. Two years later, in May, 2004, “Project X,” …
Streaming Live From the International Space Station!
Live Streaming From Outer Space The meteoric rise of live streaming continues outside the confines of our beautiful planet! The International Space Station (ISS) has …
Wirecast 5.0.3 is here!
We are excited to announce the launch of the Wirecast 5.0.3 update, with 50 new fixes and enhancements! Most exciting for us are a few …
Broadcasting Sports on Any Budget
The Olympics are Coming! Starting in just over a week, the world’s best winter sports athletes will be congregating in Sochi, Russia for the 2014 …
Watch the Mobile Gaming Championship Streamed with Wirecast!
“There are console and PC gaming tournaments, but no one has created a highly competitive experience for mobile – until now. We expect millions around …
Wirecast Pro Rocks the 2012 World Latin Dance Finals!
Wirecast Pro and VS4 proved to be a rock solid, cost-effective solution that surpassed my expectations under very challenging and demanding live production circumstances. -Mark …
Streaming Media West’s Readers’ Choice Awards Picks Wirecast as The Best Webcasting/Presentation Solution
2 years in a row! Very proud of Wirecast and our epic Wirecast crew!
Wirecast for YouTube is Here!
Finally we can talk about it! YouTube announced some significant improvements to YouTube Live, and Wirecast for YouTube is one of them! YouTube Partners who …
Telestream Wirecast Wins Best Webcasting/Presentation Solution at Streaming Media West!
We couldn’t have done it without you! Big thanks for your votes from all of us — Telestream Wirecast has won the best Webcasting/Presentation solution …
Guerrilla Live Streaming Like a Boss: The Guide
The abundance of streaming options, some free, some not, have garnered great impact for the Occupy movement. Wirecast and other tools, are enabling technically-savvy protestors …
Extreme Sailing Series 2011 Introduces Live Coverage with Telestream Wirecast
I’ve had the pleasure of becoming acquainted with Wez Maynard (@Wez on Twitter) of OC ThirdPole. OC ThirdPole is a world-wide sport events company, marketing …
How To Effectively Light Your Green Screen
In the following video, I explore the basic principles for lighting a green screen and your subjects to get that perfect composition you’ve always wanted. …
Public or Private – Where’s the Line?
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in a world that is “always on”? Lately I’ve been thinking more about the …
Roller Derby Skates to HD with Blackmagic, Wirecast Streaming and ProRes Recording
Wirecast’s flexibility allows it be used in some very unusual configurations. That’s the nature of a program who’s strengths range from a software switcher to …
Wirecast & The International GT Open
We’re pleased to announce that Wirecast Pro, in conjunction with the Matrox Multi-Ingest video capture card, has been chosen by Ellegy to bring live coverage …
How to Add External Audio Sources Using the Shot Audio Icon
In this tutorial, we show how to use Wirecast’s Shot icon on the toolbar to add an external microphone to a particular shot. If you’ve …
Live Streaming to the iPhone with Wirecast
Derrick Freeman is an Instructor, and Video Streaming and Compression Consultant, for Freeman Compression. This tutorial covers how to configure Live Streaming for Apple’s iPhone …
Live Streaming, How You’ve Grown – 600% This Year Alone
I recently tweeted that according to comScore, Minutes of Viewed Live Stream Video have grown by 600%. Six hundred percent. I wish my stock portfolio …
Finding Chroma Key Backgrounds for Wirecast
The Chroma Key (Green Screen) functions in Wirecast are a great way to enhance your broadcast. They allow you to insert an image or video …
2-Way Interview with Skype and Wirecast
Many Wirecast streamers would love to take live video call ins or one on one guest interviews. Since the complementary Desktop Presenter doesn’t send audio …
Spotlight: Interview with SevereStudios Kory Hartman
Kory Hartman is part of SevereStudios, a midwestern company that tracks extreme weather events and has over 400 storm chasers around the US. He took …
Speed Testing on the Streaming Super Highway
Streams fall apart You’re all setup ready to start streaming. Wirecast Preview looks excellent. Everything’s behaving as it should. You’ve even done a quick test …
Creating Customized Graphics with Photoshop for Wirecast
The Streaming Room is pleased to present guest blogger Derrick Freeman of Freeman Compression: Creating customized graphics with Photoshop for Wirecast will benefit many that …
Microphones 101 For Your Webcast – Part 2
(This is the second part in the series, How to Produce High Quality Audio for Your Wirecasts for your Wirecast event) The first thing to …
Opening Doors with Desktop Presenter
Wirecast has some extremely robust features that are often overlooked. If you use Wirecast and don’t know about or have never used Desktop Presenter, this …
5 Tips to Ensure a Successful Stream
The Streaming Room is pleased to present Skip Rudolf, BitGravity‘s Senior Director of Marketing. Considering streaming an event live online? Make sure you do the …
How to Produce High Quality Audio for Your Wirecasts – Part 1
Someone once said “Good video with bad audio is worthless, but bad video with good audio still works.” I’m paraphrasing here, but it’s so true. …