Wirecast 11.0 – Stream live from the desktop.

November 3, 2018

Wirecast is an all-in-one live streaming production application that provides the required tools to capture video, encode it and broadcast it to multiple servers and platforms at the same time.

Support for a wide variety of camera models

You can use Wirecast with an unlimited number of camera inputs ranging from web cams to DV/HDV, SDI cameras to IP and web-based sources and wireless devices. You just have to plugin your device and Wirecast will automatically recognize it as a live feed.

The supported input sources include USB, Web cams, SDI, composite, S-Video, DV/HDV, Component, HD-SDI, HDMI sources, IP Cameras, ONVIF, Web stream source and screen capture sources.

What is more, you can use Desktop Presenter to broadcast your own desktop if you need to display Keynote or PowerPoint presentations, product demonstrations, online interviews or game streams.

Layer-based editing system

Moreover, Wirecast features support for up to 35 layers of live compositing. Hence, you can effortlessly place watermarks, background music and other visual elements over your webcast.

As expected, you can also add titles and lower thirds, with more than 30 built-in professional looking broadcast title themes. You just have to select the one that fits your content, type in the text and apply it to your broadcast.

You can also use well-designed transitions to switch from different sources and generate effects and transitions in real time.

Live stream

By using Wirecast, you can easily stream to multiple destinations using different bitrates at the same time. Thus, you can stream in both SD and HD to a live streaming service and even your own internal streaming server.

You can stream and or save your production to your Mac’s hard disk if you intend to archive the video or distribute it on-demand. Wirecast’s External Display Output feature helps you display your live Wirecast stream on an external monitor for your in-house audience.

What’s New

Version 11.0:

New Features

Re-engineered WebStream plug-in with much broader format, codec and network transport support. This is hosted in a new out of process architecture that protects Wirecast from any failure in the plug-in. This enables HLS and MPEG-DASH ingest
Configurable latency of all WebStream network devices
Improved discovery of ONVIF devices from the same vendor
Stinger Transition support. Through the new stinger transition configuration panel, you can setup movies to use as custom transitions. Support for Apple Animation, ProRes and CineForm alpha channeled QuickTime content
Added panel for configuring the build in & out animations used when the ‘Smooth transition is selected
The virtual camera driver for macOS has been rewritten for faster performance and better compatibility with host applications, including sandboxed apps
Added option to horizontally flip the video going to the virtual camera
Wondered what the Touchbar was for? Wonder no longer: Wirecast adds a quick shot switcher to the Touchbar

Improvements

On-going performance work: Wirecast 11 is speedier than ever, with quicker startup times, significantly faster drop shadow on macOS, and lower CPU on rendering. We’ll continue to build on this work with every release
PTZ support for VISCA over UDP for PTZ Optics & Lumens cameras. Other brands utilizing VISCA UDP may work but are not officially supported
New ‘Add Reference
workflow when adding a new shot or layer to control how sources are created
Support for Facebook Live Donations
Unlimited pagination for Facebook Live Groups and Pages
Enabled users with Publish permissions to post to Facebook Groups
Switched to the v5 API when publishing to Twitch
Added ‘Clear Menu
in the Recent Documents menu
Improved UI layout of Welcome window
Enabled copying the license number from Preferences to the clipboard
Changed the scale of the data-rate statistics to Mb/s if the data-rate goes over 10,000 Kb/s
Added support for TLS v1.2 for RTMPS on Windows
Indicate an expired support subscription in the Preferences
Lowered Telestream Cloud supported bitrates to 1.25 Mbps
Restrict custom canvas size to 1/20 ratio in either dimension
Change polling rate of Widget sources with text files to 1/10 of a second
Change the name of Web Display source to Web Page
Enable HTTPS login for Facebook (this affects any released version of Wirecast with the Facebook Destination)
Facebook Live
Portrait (9:16 Aspect Ratio) Encoding Setting

Fixes

macOS only: Virtual Camera does not work in sandbox apps
macOS only: Virtual Camera does not work in Skype for Business
Go button red dot is off-center
Adding a Screen Capture from the Add Source UI duplicates the source and uses excessive resources
Remove Ustream destination from Telestream Cloud supported destinations
Unable to use PTZ presets with Matrox capture cards
macOS only: Adding a matte causes the Live output to turn black
Newtek NDI Spark Tally lights always indicate a preview state
Crash when opening certain Wirecast documents with hotkeys
Windows only: Unable to stream using Windows Media Streaming
macOS only: Crash when editing an Audio Output device
macOS only: Small memory leak when opening windows
macOS only: Recording a Prores MOV file always drops frames at the start
macOS only: Multi-Track Input Mapper Track Labels are not aligned
Facebook Live: previously created Groups are no longer retrieved
Periscope stream resets after 2 hours
macOS Mojave: Search Text in Add Shot UI is white on white
XKeys 128 Preview and Live lights do not remain lit for Clear Layers
Unable to change Shot Source Properties without deselecting the shot
18 channel audio input devices were having their audio channels jump around
Change wording of "Charity’s Facebook ID
to "Facebook Charity ID
Audio Properties Layout does not display all elements in certain languages
Recording an ISO source with mono audio can create invalid recordings
Virtual Camera does not work with Polycom RealPresence Desktop on macOS
ISO Recordings fail to import into Adobe Premiere
Audio Mixer
Moving the audio levels will cause Wirecast to periodically become unresponsive with a Webstream source in the document on Windows
Closing a document with Multi-Viewer open can hang Wirecast on macOS
FX Names do not have translations
Webstream connection failure alert is not translated
YouTube destination should auto-select new created events
Crash when toggling NDI output quickly
Mapping a Keyboard Shortcut to "0
does not work
PTZ Controller Map Dot is not positioned correctly using HiDPI monitors on Windows
Audio Mixer remains open after closing a Wirecast document on macOS
NDI output does not work if started after an NDI source is added to the document on macOS
Only allow mono-spaced fonts for Clock Widget
Increase size of plus button on HiDPI displays on Windows
Long transition names break the playlist transition selector’s alignment on Windows
Unsaved changes to shot names should be saved when changing the focus from the shot name field
Multi-Viewer tally state is broken
Setting the canvas size to 9:16 aspect ratio hides the add shot button on Windows
Add a dot to document close window when there are pending changes on macOS
Wirecast crashes when adding a Web Display shot with a specific URL on macOS
User is not prompted to save document when closing a document after editing Source Properties
Highlighting the Welcome Screen document selection text obscures the selected the selected text
URI field is blank when adding an ONVIF Webstream source
Double clicking a source in the Add Source dialog copies the source name to the clipboard on Windows