WireCast for Beginners Video Series: An Introduction To Live Broadcasting and Video Streaming
For many educational podcasters and school districts, the opportunity to produce a high-quality live video that can be streamed to any number of outlets is extremely desirable. In this WireCast for Beginners Video Series: An Introduction To Live Broadcasting and Video Streaming, we are going to take a look at one of the more popular broadcasting applications, Telestream Wirecast, and demonstrate how it can be useful in your studio or school building. If you have any questions about this application or would like to ask a question, please leave us a comment below or tweet to us @PodcastingToday.
One of my favorite apps to talk about is Wirecast from Telestream. I discovered Wirecast back in 2012 while searching for solutions to live broadcast my TechEducator Podcasts. Since then, all of my broadcasts have been recorded through this amazing software.
If you are looking to bring live video streaming into your educational podcasting studio or film club, please continue reading our WireCast for Beginners Video Series: An Introduction To Live Broadcasting and Video Streaming.
Best In Class Award Winner
It is with great pleasure that we award Wirecast and Telestream with our Best In Class Award for Outstanding Video Streaming Platform! Not only is Wirecast one of my most used applications, but I bet that if you give it a try in your school, church, or organization, it will quickly become one of your most used apps as well.
Learn How To Use Wirecast Today!
To help you better understand how Wirecast can be used for your particular needs, I have put together a three-part video series taking you from a beginner who has never used any type of broadcasting application to a power user that introduces custom graphics for your live streaming projects.
I hope you enjoy this in-depth video tutorial. We would love to hear from you about your experiences with Wirecast or with any questions you may have. Please leave us a comment below!
Also, if you are interested in learning more about live broadcasting, or starting your own podcast, please check out Educational Podcasting Today for more information!
In this video tutorial, we take an in-depth look at the brand new Wirecast from Telestream. Wirecast is the best live broadcasting solution for both MAC and PC users and it is the software platform that TeacherCast has been using since 2012.
In this video, we cover:
- 00:00 – An Introduction to Wirecast
- 01:12 – The Introduction Screen
- 01:30 – Why is Andrew AWESOME???
- 01:50 – New Features of Wirecast 9
- 03:22 – A Guided Tour of Wirecast 9
- 03:35 – Preview and Live Windows
- 04:10 – Understanding Video Layers
- 04:33 – Adding Video to our Project
- 09:00 – Working with Live Videos in your Project
- 09:45 – Adding Audio
- 12:45 – Working with the Video Screen to Create Effects
- 16:30 – The Wirecast Audio Mixer
- 21:25 – Duplicating and Setting up Additional Video Shots
Welcome to Part 2 of our TeacherCast Introduction to Wirecast. In this video, we will be learning how to properly set up our Wirecast application as well as learning how to properly export and Livestream to content delivery networks like YouTube Live, Facebook Live, Periscope, and many more.
Please check out the links to our other videos in this series in the links below.
In this video, we cover,
- 01:27 – Resizing Video Windows
- 02:10 – The Preferences Menu
- 02:54 – General Settings
- 05:25 – Performance Settings
- 06:04 – Keyboard Shortcuts
- 09:20 – Recording and Streaming
- 09:30 – Output Settings
- 10:14 – Record to Disk
- 11:50 – RTMP to YouTube
- 13:23 – Streaming to Facebook Live
- 14:00 – Streaming to Twitter/Periscope
Welcome to Part 3 of our TeacherCast Introduction to Wirecast. In this video, we will be learning how to create videos using Canva, a popular online graphics application and importing those graphics into Wirecast to be used as bugs or lower thirds.
Please check out the links to our other videos in this series in the links below.
In this video, we cover,
- 02:00 – An Introduction to Canva
- 05:35 – Inserting Graphics into Wirecast 9
- 06:00 – Working with Layers and Graphics
- 06:40 – Adding Lower Thirds and Text
- 07:50 – Adding Logo Bugs
In Conclusion
Since 2012, The TeacherCast Educational Network has made its29 way through the educational broadcasting stream through the assistance of Telestream Wirecast. The features are extremely robust and each year they continue to push the envelope of desktop broadcasting by adding additional features. No matter if you are looking to record in your studio or broadcast live from an athletic or performing arts event, Wirecast is certainly an application that you should take a look at.
For more information, please visit www.EducationalPodcasting.com.
Is Wirecast Version 9 Right For You?
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Easy to Set Up
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Professional Quality
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MAC and Windows Compatable
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Quick and Professional Support
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TeacherCast Recommended
Summary
If you are a podcaster, religious organization, school district, or musical organization interested in streaming live video quickly and easily, the NEW Wirecast Version 9 is my recommendation. Wirecast is one of the applications that not only do I use just about every day for live broadcasts, but I have also included it in my workflow when doing screencast tutorials and chromakey presentations on location. Through Wirecast, you can quickly set up a video shot with multiple cameras and tie them into local or external audio sources for a television-style visual production that rivals anything you see on cable TV today.
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