Facebook Stream Key: What It Is and Why You Need It
Like many social media platforms, Facebook makes it simple for those with sufficient bandwidth to upload videos or do live video streaming. There’s a relatively …
Category: Wirecast Tips & Tricks
Tips and trick to use Wirecast
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 …
Best Practices for Setting up Shot Layers in Wirecast
One of the most powerful features of Wirecast is the ability to composite very complex shots using different layers. For example – you might want …
Where to Find Background Music
When you want to use music in your screencasts, unless you create it yourself or get explicit rights from a composer, you will generally need …
5 Simple Ways to Create Live Scoreboards in Wirecast
Learn 5 simple ways to create live scoreboards in Wirecast for your sports events.
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 …
How to Add Facebook Live Comments to Your Wirecast Live Stream
Did you know that we include a free copy of NewBlueFX Live Titling software with every copy of Wirecast 8? This means you can now …
How to Connect a Camera or Capture Card to Wirecast
Setting up your first live stream can be overwhelming. There are a ton of variables that need to be considered before going live. One of …
How to Live Stream to Multiple Destinations with Wirecast
Already live streaming? Why not stream to multiple destinations (and record) all at once? Streaming to multiple destinations is an effortless way to grow your …
Webinar – Streaming to Multiple Destinations with Wirecast 8.1
Join Andrew Haley, Product Evangelist for this hands-on webinar where he will discuss streaming to multiple destinations at the same time with Wirecast 8.1. Plus, live …
How to bring a guest remotely into Wirecast with Zoom
A useful tool to master in Wirecast is the ability to interview guests from a remote location during a live broadcast. Remote interviews enhance the …
3 Steps To Successfully Leverage Facebook Live
Did you know that 80% of people polled would rather watch live video than read a blog post? This may seem like an odd statistic …
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 …
Wirecast Beginner Tutorials
Live Streaming with Wirecast A very quick post this week. We have recently put together a series of short tutorials to get you started on …
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 …
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. …
Wirecast and Twitter: The Perfect Team
Bringing Twitter into Wirecast What is the single most important part of broadcasting with Wirecast? Your audience. Even with top of the line equipment and …
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 …
Wirecast 5 Workflow Tutorial
Happy December Wirecasters! Here’s a great tutorial created and produced by Stephen Heywood of The Tech Buzz. In this video, Stephen demonstrates some basic and …
Wirecast Helps: Bringing Chat Clients into Wirecast
Many of us live streamers do talk interview shows in which the participants are not in your studio. Whether you’re interviewing guests or taking calls …
Multiple DV Cams on Wirecast Using a Macbook Pro? WHAT!
Hey guys, some of you know me as The Tech Buzz, and I will be posting from time to time some of my awesome findings …
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 …
3 Tips for Great Lighting for Video Production
Throughout the years, we’ve had quite a few great basic audio tips posts. Many people say that without great audio, you can’t have a great …
Maximizing Desktop Presenter Quality in Wirecast
When configuring your broadcast, bear in mind that any changes in video size or dimension, will cause compression and loss of quality. To ensure the …
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. …
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 …
Use Audacity for Audio Effects
I love it when I come across handy products that I can use to help improve my screencasts. Audacity is the latest tool I’m happy …
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 …
Background Music and Sound Effects – Free is Good
Has it been almost a year since I wrote my post on where to find background music for your screencasts? Evidently so, but I recently …
Where to Find Stock Video Footage
I recently started a video project and thought, “If I only had some footage of the ocean, this would be perfect!” OK, I live 3 …
Oh Shoot, What Cameras to Choose!
If only computer inputs were plentiful and camera outputs simply matched those inputs. Each camera type has its own set of benefits and liabilities and …
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 …
The Art of Webcasting
There are many important aspects that go into streaming a live broadcast. I often have people asking: “Which settings should I use to broadcast a …
Studio Soundproofing
Chris Meyer of Pro Audio Coalition wrote a couple of very interesting articles tracking his adventures in improving the audio in his studio. The first …
Recording Skype Interviews by Ryan Bollenbach of Mograph TV
Bonjour, my name is Ryan Bollenbach and I’m the founder of Mograph TV. I created MGTV based on my passion towards the world of motion …
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 …
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. …
When Rejection and Insensitivity are Good Things by Andy White
Andy White has been regularly producing podcasts, for clients large and small since 2006, including Internet Marketing, which is regularly in the featured list under …
Tips for Great Sounding Audio
Most of us are not audio experts. Frankly, I’m happy when I can turn on a microphone and get sound from it. But, when you …