![]() ![]() You also can adjust the sizing, color, brightness, rotation, and drop shadow of any content, and control remote PTZ cameras. You can present all this content as-is or use chroma key controls to overlay them over a background. Web streams for which you have the necessary credentials.Input from webcams and other devices attached via USB.Screens from computers on the same network via Telestream’s free Desktop Presenter software.Smartphones and tablets on the same network via Telestream’s free Wirecast Go apps.Devices that connect via the Network Device Interface (NDI).Remote guests via WebRTC using a feature called Rendezvous.Wirecast can input videos from a very wide range of sources, including: Or, you can choose another shot on the same layer and press the transition arrow and the new content will replace the old. To remove it from the program output, click Clear Layer on that layer and then the transition arrow button. Or, you can configure the shot to go live when you click it, which I generally prefer. Then you click the transition arrow button to take it live. One key Wirecast strength is ease of use: You display a shot by clicking it on the timeline, which loads it into the preview window. The basic Wirecast interface shows shots on level 3 and titles on level 2, and the shot creation window on the upper left. In this fashion, the titles on layer two display over the videos and other shots in layer three.įigure 2. Like most timelines, Wirecast presents the video from the bottom up and layers on top of another display over the bottom layers. You see a simple project in Figure 2 (below), with multiple shots on the timeline on the bottom, a preview window in the middle top, and the program window on the right. Using WirecastĪs you probably know, Wirecast is a very highly featured program with extensive and flexible design, streaming, and recording functionality. I tested the Wirecast Gear 3 4K SDI system. For more on the various configurations, check out this spec sheet. Gear models with pricing and specificationsĪll systems ship with a 250 GB NVME M.2 drive and a 1 TB SATA 3 storage drive, both SSD. HD models come with the NVIDIA Quadro T400 graphics card and the 4K models with the NVIDIA Quadro T1000 both cards supply hardware-based H.264 and (soon) HEVC encoding.įigure 1. All fit into a desktop-sized chassis for rackmounting or operation on a desk or other surface. You see the various models and their pricing in Figure 1 (below). All of this is pretty convincing evidence that Telestream didn’t switch from Intel to AMD to increase its gross profit, but to improve performance. Most are gaming-related, but some come from content creators as well. ![]() The author later stated that AMD’s “Zen 3 has completely disrupted Intel's desktop PC chips at every price point it competes in, and we're excited to see what the future Ryzen 3 and APUs have in store.”Īt Amazon, I saw that the chip has a five-star rating with more than 10,398 reviews. The 5600X's performance in HandBrake, in both AVX-light x264 and AVX-heavy x265 flavors, is incredibly impressive as it trades blows with the more expensive 10700K.”Įncoding isn’t live switching, but it’s pretty intense processing. easily beats its nearest Intel competitor, the 10600K, across the board. I’m not familiar with AMD chipsets, so I jumped over to AMD’s site and found that the CPU is multithreaded and features 12 threads that run at up to 3.7GHz.Īt Tom’s Hardware, I learned that, in encoding-related tests, “The Ryzen 5 5600X. All come with the AMD Ryzen 5 5600x 6-core CPU running at 3.7 GHz with 16 GB of RAM running Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC version 21H2. Wirecast Gear 3 comes in four configurations: 1080p and 4K for both HDMI and SDI. However, ISO streams must be stored in either ProRes or x264, which is less efficient and unsuitable for more than one or two 4K ISO streams. As with previous Gear units, the NVIDIA-based H.264 codec requires very little in system resources, making it great for streaming and program output. In particular, the Gear unit I tested was very efficient for 4K mixing, making it a very solid platform for productions that are projected on-site and/or streamed. The newly released Wirecast Gear 3 combines a change from Intel to AMD CPUs and a rearchitected software engine that Telestream claims “uses up to 60% less computer resources than previous versions.” In this review, I tested the new version of hardware and software to its limits and came away very impressed. Telestream created Wirecast Gear to serve as a proven and capable Windows-based hardware platform for Wirecast, its live streaming production program. ![]()
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