Wirecast Live Streaming Software

Wirecast Live Streaming Software by Telestream
 
The most powerful, customizable live video streaming and production tools for Mac AND Windows. You can focus on your viewers, let Wirecast handle your stream.
 
Wirecast is:
 
Powerful: Turn your laptop into a professional production studio
Supports unlimited live camera sources
PTZ control and control surface integrations
Remote guests
Flexible: Complete creative control, with flexible features that elevate your stream
Layer-based compositing
ISO Recordings and virtual camera/microphone
Native support for over 12 languages
Easy-to-Use: Create engaging content and grow your audience
Built-in multistreaming with presets for YouTube, Facebook, RTMP, and more
Built-in chroma key, animated graphics, and overlays
Over 500,000 unique Stock Media assets preloaded
 
Pick between two plans that fits your needs:
Wirecast Studio
Wirecast Pro

Live Streaming has Never Been Easier.

Wirecast’s best-in-class production tools help you capture, produce, and stream, all in one place.

Capture

Unlimited Sources: Cameras, microphones, webcams, IP cams, or use our free wireless camera app for iOS.

Desktop, NDI and Web Capture: Capture a variety of IP sources or anything on your computer screen or other computers. Automatically detect NDI sources. Built-in web browser can display live web pages

Professional Audio: Multi-channel audio ingest, support for ASIO, WASAPI and CoreAudio compatible devices. Mix up to eight (8) independent audio tracks, and FX and processing.

Controllers: Use the majority of standard controllers.

Conferencing and Remote Production: Rendezvous peer-to-peer conferencing comes built-in to Wirecast.

Produce

Automated Production Workflow: Shot templates, hot keys, playlists and more powerful automation features to more quickly create content.

Social Media Integration: Built-in, moderated Facebook, Twitter/X, and Youtube comment overlays, integrated Facebook Polling, and live viewer counts keep you engaged and in touch with your audience.

Stock Media Library: Access to over 500,000 unique media assets directly in Wirecast. The Stock Media Library has videos, music, lower thirds, backgrounds and more.

Replay Scorecards, Clocks and Timers: Let your live viewers follow the action in the moment, and never miss an important play.

Stream

Unlimited Destinations: Stream to Facebook Live, Twitter/X, YouTube, Vimeo Live or any destination via RTMP or SRT (caller mode) at the same time.

ISO Recording: Archive each live video input to a clean, unmodified file, separate from your composited program recording.

Simultaneously Stream and Record: Great for archiving or off-line editing, record MP4 or MOV files to any drive.

Multiviewer: Monitor your sources with an up to 17-shot multiviewer grid.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS	MINIMUM	RECOMMENDED
Operating System	Windows 10 1809 or higher Windows 11 21H2 macOS Ventura 13 or higher	Windows 10 22H2 macOS Sonoma 14
Processor	Intel® 6th Generation* or newer CPU2 – or AMD Ryzen™ 1000 Series or newer CPU** Apple M1 or newer	Intel® 7th Generation* or newer CPU – or AMD Ryzen™ 3000 Series or newer Apple M1 or newer
Memory	8 GB of RAM	16+ GB of RAM Apple silicon: 16 GB of unified memory
Hard Drive	7200 RPM Hard Drive (HDD) for record to disk	Solid State Drive (SSD)
Graphics Card	Intel HD***, 2 GB video memory, DirectX 11 capable Apple Silicon: 8 GB of unified memory	Dedicated Nvidia GeForce, 4GB+ video memory, DirectX 12 capable Apple silicon: 16 GB of unified memory
Internet Bandwidth	Recommended: Total bitrate needed x 2 = Required upload bandwidth	Recommended: Total bitrate needed x 2 = Required upload bandwidth
Network Ports	You may want to check that the following ports are open for traffic on your network: 80 (HTTP/HTTPS) 443 (SSL) 1935 (RTMP) 2935 (RTMPS) 3478 (STUN/Rendezvous) 5349 (STUN/Rendezvous) 5353 (mDNS for NDI sources) 5960-59xx (NDI port range, 1 port per each NDI source in use) 7272 (****Remote Desktop Presenter) 49152-65535 (WebRTC Media/Rendezvous – selected at random). If you are behind a firewall, check with your streaming destination for any sites you may need to whitelist.	You may want to check that the following ports are open for traffic on your network: 80 (HTTP/HTTPS) 443 (SSL) 1935 (RTMP) 2935 (RTMPS) 3478 (STUN/Rendezvous) 5349 (STUN/Rendezvous) 5353 (mDNS for NDI sources) 5960-59xx (NDI port range, 1 port per each NDI source in use) 7272 (****Remote Desktop Presenter) 49152-65535 (WebRTC Media/Rendezvous – selected at random). If you are behind a firewall, check with your streaming destination for any sites you may need to whitelist.

* How to check the generation of your Intel processor
** May be insufficient for 1080p+ or 60 fps workflows.
*** Insufficient for advanced Multi-Viewer workflows.

**** Remote Desktop Presenter – Please use the Remote Desktop Presenter version 2.0.8, available as a separate download from Telestream: www.telestream.net/dtp.

PLEASE NOTE: Wirecast 9 and later versions have dropped support of HDV licenses/cameras. Please click here for additional information.

Features	Wirecast Studio	Wirecast Pro
Subscription Cost	Monthly: $41.00/mo Annually: $29.08/mo	Monthly: $54.00/mo Annually: $37.42/mo
NDI	✔	✔
Screen Capture	✔	✔
IP cameras and web stream input (RTMP, MMS, HTTP, RTSP, HLS, MPEG-Dash, and UDP)	✔	✔
Built-in destinations: Facebook, Youtube, Vimeo, Twitter, Churchstreaming.tv, Restream.io, Akamai, Wowza, Microsoft Azure, Twitch, and more	✔	✔
Add additional media: audio, video, graphics	✔	✔
Supported GPU-accelerated encoding	✔	✔
RTMP, SRT (caller mode), RTP multi + unicast	✔	✔
Remote Guests	2	9
Integrated Stock Media Library	✔	✔
Virtual Camera and Microphone Output	✔	✔
ISO Recording		✔
PTZ Camera Control		✔
Sports production tools		✔
Multi-track audio recording		✔
Multi-track audio routing		✔
1-17 slot multi-viewer output		✔

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