Being able to add ad hoc text and live data sources to Wirecast is something that many people have been trying to achieve. Have seen scrolling text across the bottom of the screen added by creating a movie with an alpha channel (invisible) background and putting that on another layer over the top of the… Continue Reading
In this episode we look at configuring the two Blackmagic Design Intensity Pro cards along with the Blackmagic Design Decklink Duo for use with Wirecast, as well as demonstrating the Blackmagic Design HDMI to SDI mini converter! The installation went without a hitch and the Declink SDI ports need less configuring in Wirecast than the… Continue Reading
If you have read the two postings in the TTFN TV blog you will know that we are building what we think will be the ‘Ultimate’ Mac Pro based system for using Telestream’s Wirecast: Ultimate Mac Wirecast System blog post 1 Ultimate Mac Wirecast System blog post 2 Wirecast turns your computer into a video… Continue Reading
In this first episode of StudioTech – Audio Series, we demonstrate different types of microphone providing audio from each of them in turn. Good audio is probably the most important technical aspect of any production. If you are recording video, viewers will usually forgive you for the occasional poor video. But provide poor audio and… Continue Reading
There were three reasons for upgrading the Apple computing power from the current 24″ iMac: Graphics Performance – All the video studio software packages (Wirecast etc) use the power of the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) in the graphics adapter to do much of the processing work for video, as well as overall system performance. You… Continue Reading
The decision on what Video switching/mixing system to go with at TTFN has been made and we are going to build what we hope will be the Ultimate Telestream Wirecast system! While we don’t have the Blackmagic Decklink Duo (twin SDI inputs on a single PCI card) yet we have started commissioning the new Mac… Continue Reading
After much deliberation between the options (Tricaster or Mac/PC based system) we have just taken delivery of a new Mac Pro (2 x 6 Core 2.93Mhz) as the basis for our new video capture/streaming system. While the Newtek Tricaster would have been ideal the price difference was too high to currently justify.We may have been… Continue Reading
Today, as promised, Apple released the first version of the Mac App Store. This is made available as a software update to OS X. In this episode of Techcast Focus we take a quick first look at the store and provide our first impressions. Watch the video: Link to the Realmac Software Blog post as… Continue Reading
A new show for anyone who has, or is thinking of creating, video or audio recordings or podcasts. This exciting new show, launching in January 2011, will look at all aspects of what hardware, software and accessories you need to create quality audio or video shows, and how you can distribute them over the internet.… Continue Reading
There was a good question on the Telestream Wirecast Mac forum about whether Wirecast had the ability to automate the looping of shots. This was an idea that had crossed my mind a while ago when thinking of different ways that Wirecast could be used, perhaps as a security system. Have written a simple Applescript… Continue Reading
