Perfect for sports broadcasts, live news shows or any production looking for that extra bit of professional polish using professional sources.Įach model of Wirecast Gear comes with Xeon Server architecture, up to five HD-SDI or four HDMI professional camera inputs and all the live video streaming production features of Wirecast Pro, the Stock Media Library*, and Switch Player, all in a compact, powerful hardware system.
Looking to up the ante just a bit? The Gear 320 offers all the perks of the 310 but with an SDI input upgrade for your professional camera setups.
With Wirecast Pro included alongside Gear's custom-designed hardware, it's a live event production switcher, live news production system, Facebook Live switcher and YouTube Live switcher - all in one box. Because we’ve already done all the work, there is no need to build your own system! Start streaming in minutes with an end-to-end system configured specifically for your needs. The whole thing was streamed via a mobile dongle attached to a fork handle stuck in the lawn outside the window, which is far faster than our rural copper connection.Wirecast Gear gives you an easy to use, fully configured live video streaming production system. There wasn't much room on my dining room table for anything else. A fifth laptop with a second monitor ran a backup instance of Wirecast in case the first failed.
The outgoing Wirecast programme sound was also fed into the second laptop via an audio mixer (with mic for talkback) and USB audio input device as a "show relay" so those "backstage" could follow proceedings.Ī fourth laptop with second monitor provided captions as Powerpoint slides on a green background for keying, fed into Wirecast over the network via Telestream's Desktop Presenter. We were all also following a shared Google doc live running order on a third laptop. In the most recent instance, a civic awards event, the second laptop was in the virtual "Green (Zoom Breakout) Room" where we kept all the winners "backstage" before moving them individually into the "Stage" Room which was being live streamed, moving them back again once their award had been presented, so there were only ever 6 people in the Stage Room and the host could easily see who was next up. Talks are pre-recorded, edited and played out between live Q&A sessions.įor some events a second laptop is also on the Zoom call showing Gallery View with HDMI out fed via a BMD Mini Recorder into Wirecast on the first laptop, allowing cutting within Wirecast between Speaker and Gallery views. The director can talk back to presenters via open built-in laptop mic, and because Zoom stops this from reaching speakers on the same device it never gets mixed into programme sound this is used by the director for counting in presenters off the back of title sequences and VTs replayed within Wirecast. Laptop speakers remain audible for monitoring Zoom call. Wirecast Audio Interface is set to second monitor to avoid feedback headphones are plugged into second monitor for spot checking outgoing stream sound. Wirecast Screen Capture>Select Window/Monitor is set to Monitor 1 (=second screen) and Choose Audio Device to Speakers/Headphones. Callers can be Pinned to the Second Screen while Wirecast window remains on top. Wirecast window is set to about 80% of screen width, so Zoom thumbnails are visible beside it.
The first laptop runs Wirecast and Zoom with Dual Monitors, Speaker View and Full Screen selected. I'm not using a switcher for Zoom streaming.