Wirecast Gear 230

Live video production simplified!

Wirecast Gear gives you a fully configured live video streaming production system that is affordable and easy to use. No need to build your own system. Telestream have done all the work. You can start streaming in minutes, with an end-to-end system configured specifically for your needs.

Comes with four HD-SDI or HDMI professional camera inputs and all the live video streaming production features of Wirecast Pro, in a compact, powerful hardware system, Wirecast Gear is a unique blend of performance, ease of use and affordability. Just plug in your cameras and start streaming.

Versatile, convenient design

Extremely durable and portable. No moving parts except for the fan. Sits on your desktop or can be mounted in a 19” rack setup with optional ears and rails. Take in your backpack on location, or use in a permanent studio setup.

Fully configured, ready-to-use system

Don’t worry about building your own Live video streaming system - we built one for you. Wirecast Gear comes with everything you need to start streaming to Facebook, YouTube, Twitter or any destination on the web in minutes. Plug in up to 4 cameras in the HD-SDI or HDMI inputs, and you’re ready to go. Comes with seven USB 3.0 ports, three display ports, and fully loaded with Wirecast Pro and NewBlue live titling software, plus Switch - our advanced media player.

Impressive features

From ingest of live sources to an encoded live stream, Wirecast Gear handles it all. Wirecast Gear has a versatile and convenient footprint, more powerful live video streaming production features.

Powerful live production

Wirecast Gear pre-loaded with Wirecast Pro, Telestream’s award-winning live video streaming production software. Wirecast lets you switch between multiple live cameras while dynamically mixing in other media such as remote live guests, screen captures, movies, images, and audio tracks. It’s powerful production capabilities include features such as fully-feature audio mixing, dynamic transitions, instant replay, playlists, built-in titles, chroma key, virtual sets, live scoreboards, clocks, timers, and more.

Hardware-accelerated encoding

When you're ready to stream, Wirecast’s built-in encoding engine allows you to stream high-quality H.264 video and AAC audio over RTMP, RTP and Windows Media protocols for maximum flexibility. Stream to multiple destinations simultaneously and record. Using the hardware-accelerated Quick Sync encoding, you can easily stream or record high-quality video while using fewer resources.

Add Wirecast GearCare for peace of mind

Wirecast GearCare is a powerful upgrade that extends Warranty and Support on a Wirecast Gear system to three years. Included is full Wirecast Premium support for direct access to Telestream technicians, Next Day Air advanced replacement if your system fails and access to the latest versions of our software. Learn more.

¹Based on H.264 1080p 29.97fps medium quality. Higher or lower quality settings will affect total video storage.
²System drive is 250GB on all systems.

Version 11.1

New Features

• NEW – Facebook Live Polling
• Enables the creation and embedding in Facebook live streams of audience polls
• Text of questions and up to four answers can be written within the Wirecast user interface
• Results of the poll are dynamically displayed for viewers

Fixes

• Wirecast selects the Microsoft Basic Render Driver as the Video Adapter on Windows
• ISO recordings fail after certain periods of time
• Titler Live playlists do not work correctly
• Streaming to Sunday Streams does not work on macOS Mojave
• RTMP metadata has incorrect frame rate on macOS Mojave
• RTMP output does not work with fractional frame rates on macOS Mojave

V 11.0

New Features

• NEW – Rewritten WebStream Plugin
  • 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
• NEW – Stinger Transitions
  • 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.
• NEW – ‘Smooth Transition’ build in & out properties
  • Added panel for configuring the build in & out animations used when the ‘Smooth’ transition is selected.
• NEW – Virtual Camera Improvements
  • 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.
• NEW – MacBook Pro Touchbar Switcher
  • 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

Known Issues

• MacOS – Adding more than one PTZOptics NDI connection to a single machine (regardless of the connecting application) can cause a crash in the application that is the second to connect.
  • Workaround 1 – Disable Multicast
    • Go to the PTZOptics camera admin webpage.
    • Go to the Network Section.
    • Disable Multicast
    • Reboot the camera using the System page.
  • Workaround 2 – Use RTSP instead of NDI
    • Use the newly rewritten WebStream plugin in Wirecast to connect to the RTSP stream.
    • The URL for this stream can be found in your PTZOptics camera’s documentation or admin webpage.

10.1.1 (Mac)

• macOS Mojave 10.14 Known Issues
• Stream Delay does not work
• RTMP Metadata does not show Keyframe Frequency
• OnFI Timestamps do not work
• Meridix and UStream (IBM Cloud) Destinations do not work (workaround is to use RTMP Server Destination)

Fixes

• Fixed – Crash when starting a stream on macOS Mojave
• Fixed – 480p Canvas Size does not work on macOS Mojave
• Fixed – Scoreboard sources do not work on macOS Mojave

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