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.

¹ GearCare will take effect from the date of your Wirecast Gear purchase.

Version 13

New & Improved

• Main Shot Bin overhaul – We’ve done a complete refurbishment of our Main Shot Bin (that’s the layered area where you add all your shots.) We’re excited about a lot of under-the-hood improvements that reduced our code bloat, which you’ll have to trust us on. But what you will see is:
• Greatly improved responsiveness when selecting and reordering shots, resizing windows and scrolling. It’s now smooth like buttah.
• GPU accelerated live icons so you can see live previews of all your live shots, without hosing your system CPU.
• Refreshed and decluttered user interface – like Feng Shui, but for software.
• A bunch of other small but daring improvements like being able to reorder your master layers and more layer resizing options … oh, the power!
• Speaking of resizing layers: We’ve added a “Zoom Layers To' menu under 'Layout' so you can set all your master layers in one fell swoop. AND now you can resize all your layers at the same time by holding down the Shift or Alt (Win) or Shift, Option or Command (Mac) keys. PLUS! Extra added bonus: If you double click a layer divider, your layer will resize to its default height. Boom.
• You can now also drag & drop a shot by clicking anywhere in the shot, not just on the title.
• BlackMagic Designs and Direct Show source process separation– We have been working hard to improve the resiliency of Wirecast when dealing with sources. We have updated our code for sources, which for us makes it easier to maintain and support future source updates. You won’t see a lot of obvious changes yet in usability – but this helps us set the stage for future improvements.
• More efficiency - We're now allowing Blackmagic, DirectShow and Magewell sources to be more efficient – giving them access to GPU-accessible buffers for better performance.
• Added support for MJPEG video in DirectShow sources
• Stream to Facebook and other places simultaneously: Facebook recently changed their policy that allows you to stream to multiple destinations when also streaming to Facebook. We have enabled that in our application. So, stream away, anywhere!
• Facebook 1080p streaming: Now you can stream 1080p and up to 60fps to Facebook.
• Integrated Facebook Speed Test - New option in Facebook output settings "Optimize Connection" initiates a Facebook Speed Test to Facebook’s various regional ingestion servers to determine the best choice.
• And we now warn busy users that the Facebook Speed Test can take several minutes.
• PTZ control over NDI - This should allow all NDI PTZ cameras supporting movement controls over NDI to be fully usable in Wirecast. We have not tested every possible NDI PTZ device, but due to the standardization of NDI, all should work.
• We also added support for PTZOptics PT12X-ZCam, for which we added a message in the PTZ Control Window that this device does not support pan/tilt controls. (It only zooms).
• MacOS Dark Mode - We’re going dark. Or at least you can choose to now.
• Larger user camera in Rendezvous - When entering the Rendezvous landing page (to enter the username), now the camera appears in the middle of the page so the user can see themselves more clearly than the small view in the top-right corner. Once the Rendezvous session starts, the camera jumps back to the top-right hand corner.
• LinkedIn Live Error Tracking - We improved the error tracking when streaming to LinkedIn Live.
• Preference Pane additions - We’ve added more options to the preference pane to give you even more decisions to make, including the look of your shot display, turning GPU Accelerated Live Icons to “Highest Framerate”, “Reduced Framerate” or “Disabled”, and other settings that give you ultimate omnipotence (at least within your own Wirecast document).
• Streamlined Buy link - Clicking on the 'Buy/Upgrade' item under 'Help' now opens the web store directly instead of taking you on a leisurely walk-about through another page or two. We’re saving you time.
• Warm and fuzzy analytics invite - We made our analytics opt-in pop-up warmer and fuzzier. We really hope you'll help us by opting in to analytics!
• You probably don’t care, but we've enlarged the Welcome Window to make room for in-app videos to play in that window.
• During the trial period, it is now easier for you to find and press a purchase button.

Fixes

• We fixed an error when attempting to authenticate to Twitch, caused by a change in the Twitch API.
• Fixed an issue that caused audio underflow/popping sounds when using certain Elgato capture cards.
• We made an adjustment to the way Wirecast responds to changes in properties – one result being that now when you stop and restart the clock widget, it will resume where you left off, instead of restarting at the beginning.
• Jetstream aka Streamzilla now shows up in Mac Output Settings without error.
• When you replace a shot with another source, it will not automatically display at a ridiculously large size.
• Now when you click on the "Enter full screen" button on the video in the Welcome Screen, it will actually display full screen.
• Fixed an issue where files were flickering when added as a Web Stream source
• A minor display issue – our cute little Cloud icon was being cut off when enabling Restream and Captions. Now it’s not.
• Fixed an issue where most SD video (720x480) from Blackmagic and other devices were coming in with improper scaling.
• We have more carefully isolated our media handling from other processes to help prevent crashes.
• Fixing some long-standing ‘jank’ where audio mute buttons would display on video-only sources and video mute buttons on audio-only sources. Just more housecleaning.
• Continuing with some housecleaning – We've done some additional clean up in the source settings tab of the Shot Inspector so it will only display the appropriate controls for audio-only and video-only sources
• The ISO filename no longer reverts to default after choosing a destination.
• We had some over-zealous capitalization on some messages we displayed. They are now proper English. The grammar police can rest easy.
• We added back the menu bar, which would mysteriously disappear when you opened the Advanced Rendezvous Audio Mixer on Mac.
• We spent way too much time debating whether it’s OK to display the copyright symbol as (C). No. And then we fixed it.
• Eradicated an egregious bug that would cause Wirecast to slow down or eventually hang when the audio properties panel was open. That was a doozy.
• Fixed a memory leak that occurred while looping Chroma Keyed video.
• Fixed a hang that happened if you took the very specific action to add a playlist shot, move it and then click at the top of Wirecast.
• Now when you modify the Source Properties of Blackmagic devices while ISO recording, your Preferences for the device will not become corrupt.
• We removed some unnecessary permissions for areas of Facebook that we weren’t actually using, and that have now been deprecated by Facebook anyway.
• Fixed an error that occurred on Windows when starting a Program Replay with a canvas size of 854x480.
• Related to the bug above – we fixed an indefinite hang that would occur on Windows when initiating Replay in conjunction with another Output while using an 854 x 480 Canvas.
• Now, on Mac, reducing your window size will not cause the Preview/Program windows to disappear.
• Fixed the Image Carousel – which is also fixed in 12.2.1, by the way.
• Grammarians rejoice! We’ve made more minor language changes to standardize the naming of items under the 'Window' menu.
• Fixed an odd bug that would cause an indefinite hang in certain documents when you hover the mouse over the Preview Window.
• Fixed a bug that didn’t let you assign a hotkey to a shot that's been duplicated.
• Instead of immediately starting camera / audio devices on startup, which wastes resources, we now wait until we actually need to use them to start them up.
• Fixed an annoying issue where dragging in unsupported media created a temporary shot which overlapped the clear layer icons.
• Squashed a crash that happens when opening a document from Explorer/Finder, completing the analytics dialog, then opening and closing the preferences.
• Fixed a licensing issue that, when deactivating a license and then immediately clicking Purchase, would open the Web Store instead of the more appropriate Product Catalog page.
• Almost not worth mentioning, because most people will never see this, but we re-aligned a logo on a page that comes up when a Wirecast Pro user clicks purchase. (All in the name of making every aspect of Wirecast supremely excellent.)
• When you upgrade from Wirecast One, your master layers will also upgrade accordingly. This wasn't happening, which could cause you to think you hadn't upgraded.
• Fixed a bug where setting audio channel to both L and R made you think you had to upgrade to Wirecast Pro. Sorry.
• Fixed numerous minor layout issues in media source properties panel.
• When you upgrade from Wirecast One, you'll now be able to access Wirecast Studio or Pro help and User Guides.
• Now, you can’t reorder a shot on a layer to be before the special Clear Layer shot.
• When you create a Twitter shot, it will no longer automatically be added to Layer 3. You now can choose.
• Fixed a rare crash that could occur when quitting and not saving a document.
• We re-enabled UI keyboard navigation on Mac, so you can again tab between controls.
• NDI and Webstream sources will now display at full refresh rate in the multi-viewer.
• Updated the XKeys 128 Controller SDK, so that it works correctly on macOS Catalina.
• We prevented multiple calls to Facebook when it is the most recently selected destination, to reduce load time of the Output Settings dialog box.
• Changing the opacity and subsequently hiding and showing the layer in the Shot Layers tab no longer reverts the opacity back to 100%. Opacity now stays the same as whatever it was set to previously…as it should.
• Fixed an issue on Windows where mattes were not being applied to NDI or Webstream sources.
• MacOS 10.15 is requiring applications to be “notarized”. Part of this update is to enable “hardened runtime” which adds additional protections to the application. We have done this.
• Added an error message to indicate when an Elgato device is in use by another app or fails to start.
• Increased wait time and publish attempts for LinkedIn Live broadcasts, which could fail due to the latency introduced when using it with Wirecast Live Captions or Wirecast Restream.
• Now when you click on the info button to learn about our usage data policies, it takes you to an actual page - not a 404 error.
• The preview video no longer freezes when you open source properties, so you can see changes being made live, which is of course the purpose of the preview window.
• Fixed an issue that caused signal degradation for NDI Sources with Live Icons enabled.
• Fixed an embarrassing oversight that caused a coder-level label to display when setting Exposure Levels settings in PTZ Controls.
• Fixed issue that would cause "Use backup server" and "Automatically Start Event" to become unavailable in certain cases, when streaming to YouTube.
• Fixed a bug that would cause audio to not be restored when reconnecting to NDI Sources on Windows.
• Fixed an issue streaming RTMP to specific URLs on macOS Mojave.
• Fixed some more odd license behavior when you select "Buy Wirecast" then close the purchase window on macOS.
• Fixed an indefinite hang that occurred on Windows, when using a machine with a dual GPU setup and changing the graphics adapter then clicking restart.
• An issue was fixed by Facebook that was causing an inability to switch to live from preview when using the Facebook Live – with User Code destination.
• We changed the default encoder to x264 for Livestream.com.
• Fixed a variety of scaling issues that occurred primarily when NDI or BlackMagic sources were added.
• When Mac users tried to use Rendezvous with a Studio or Trial license, we did not serve up the proper pop-up window to explain next steps. We do that now.
• Fixed a rare crash on Windows. Yah – that.
• Improved the handling of alpha PNG files to more efficiently decode these files when played in Wirecast.
• For users on Windows 10 Creator Studio with DirectX12 installed, our installer doesn’t fail for you now.
• We now don’t put dark text on a dark background in the name of selected shot in the Shot Layers panel on macOS. #easiertoread.
• Fixed an issue where .wcst documents could not be opened if they contained Cyrillic characters.
• You can no longer change the default encoder presets by creating a new encoder preset with the same name.
• Selecting a shot with the touch bar caused shot properties sliders/buttons/etc. to be greyed-out and unusable unless you tapped on that shot again in the touch bar. This was not intended. So, we fixed that.
• We’re happy to report, we have significantly improved the way in which Wirecast plays ProRes 4444 clips on Windows. We're seeing 2-3x less CPU usage, depending on the file.
• Removed some old DX9c code – just cleaning up.
• Ricoh Theta V video was coming in upside down. Now it’s not.
• YouTube viewer statistics now will continue to update after streaming for more than an hour.
• Fixed a long-standing issue that would result in missing media errors when trying to copy a shot from one document to another, if both documents are open at the same time.

Additional Notes

• The time has come to drop support for older DV cameras, since we don’t test them anymore and they are difficult to even find nowadays. Consider official support for these dropped.
• Windows 7 users: Note that Wirecast 13 will be the last release that supports Win7. You’ll see a message about this in app but consider yourself warned.
• We removed the ability to create a Twitter shot directly from the top nav bar. Don’t worry, you can still do it from the Add Source (+) button in the Shot Bin area.

Known Issues

• On Windows 7, system devices that deliver planar YUV display green video. The workaround for these devices is to set the color space to RGB.

Version 12.1.1

Fixes

• Fixed – Microsoft Stream destination filter rejects valid custom domains
• Fixed – QR Code does not work
• Fixed – Rare crash with certain Blackmagic devices on macOS
• Fixed – Removed CEF from YouTube destination authentication workflow
• Fixed – Rendezvous Guest stops receiving video after changing the camera or microphone
• Fixed – Rendezvous Guest tally lights do not work
• Fixed – RSS Feeds do not work
• Fixed – Unable to change active shot with AppleScript

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.
• Windows 7 – Certain 4K/UHD H.264 video files in the Stock Media Library are not supported.
• Animated PNG movies from the Stock Media Library can experience poor playback or dropped frames

Version 12

New Features

• NEW – Stock Media Library
  • Now included with every active support subscription, the new Stock Media Library adds a growing database of over 500,000 unique, high quality media assets to your projects.
  • A new custom-built portal gives you direct access to transitions, motion backgrounds, royaltyfree backing tracks, and videos from right within Wirecast.
  • Select the new Media Files category in the Add Source dialog and choose Stock Media Library.
• NEW – Stinger (Custom Transitions) Playback Speed Controls
  • Spice up your stinger transitions using the new Stock Media Library, which contains transition files.
  • New speed controls allow you to adjust the timing of your stinger transitions, and an additional transition bank gives you more options for live production.
• NEW – Rendezvous Audio Mixing
  • In the Rendezvous dashboard, you can now create a custom audio mix to be sent to your Rendezvous guests.
  • Studio license level will allow you to select the devices to mix.
  • Pro license levels will grant you the ability to select individual channels from audio devices to be mixed.
• NEW – QR Code Generator Source
  • Want to give your audience quick access to a custom link within your stream? Just create a QR code that your audience can scan! Copy your link into the new QR Code Generator and Wirecast will create a scannable image to broadcast to your fans.
  • Select the Overlays category in the Add Source dialog and choose QR Code Generator.

Improvements

• Improvement – Add ability to configure the number of transition banks in the Preferences
• Improvement – Add ability to continuously read a text file in the Text Source Properties
• Improvement – Allow users to configure the playback speed of Stinger Transitions
• Improvement – Display the Facebook Page of Scheduled events in the Facebook Destination Output Settings
• Improvement – Enable NVENC High Profile in Encoder settings
• Improvement – Expose all options in Facebook Live Polls
• Improvement – Update CEF to version 3578
• Improvement – Update to NDI SDK v.3.8

Fixes

• Fixed – Add better error messaging when the GPU does not support Direct X 11
• Fixed – Adding a Direct Show audio device to the document causes duplicate sources to appear in the Rendezvous Dashboard
• Fixed – After attempting to activate an old license, any subsequent invalid license activation attempts show an incorrect error message
• Fixed – Audio from Multi-Channel Sources is not heard in the Rendezvous call when sending the Live Output audio track
• Fixed – Build-In/Build-Out elements don't move proportionally
• Fixed – Certain stinger transitions can appear doubled and stretched
• Fixed – Change Audio right-click menu text is hard to read text
• Fixed – Change the wording for missing Stinger Transitions
• Fixed – Changing the playback speed of a stinger transition pauses it without updating the pause/play button
• Fixed – Clicking X in the Add Source Dialog adds any selected sources to the document on Windows
• Fixed – Clock System Fonts missing font picker dialog
• Fixed – Crash when adding a Stinger Transition on Windows 7 with an AMD GPU
• Fixed – Facebook Scheduled events list fails to be read properly in some cases
• Fixed – Fixed bad alignment in Teradek StreamReader Properties page
• Fixed – Hang when selecting a Stinger Transition then immediately using the transition
• Fixed – IP camera frame glitch
• Fixed – Midi controller volume slider control skips from 99% to 101%
• Fixed – NDI detection is disabled when disabling IP Camera discovery
• Fixed – Opening a new document during a stream caused Wirecast to Crash after disconnecting from a Rendezvous Session
• Fixed – Periscope Destination Schedules Event and Tweets even if Destination is Disabled
• Fixed – PTZ IP Port field does not update after switching to a PTZ profile that uses a required IP port
• Fixed – Random crash during a Rendezvous Session
• Fixed – Random crash when a document has disconnected sources
• Fixed – Random hang when switching sources
• Fixed – Rare hang that can occur on Windows
• Fixed – Remove Facebook donation button from Profiles (not supported by Facebook)
• Fixed – Remove Shutdown when not live from Clock and Solid Color sources
• Fixed – Security Warning Preventing Facebook Live Authentication on certain 4G networks
• Fixed – Streaming to Ustream causes a hang on macOS Mojave
• Fixed – Switching Destinations from Facebook User Code While Authenticating Disables OK Button
• Fixed – Telestream Cloud Restream output out of sync when started after another output
• Fixed – Unable to capture video from Osprey 900 series capture cards
• Fixed – Unable to create a Scheduled YouTube Event
• Fixed – Unable to delete Scheduled Events on Profiles
• Fixed – Unable to stream to certain RTMP servers on macOS Mojave
• Fixed – Unable to use ScreenFlow screen record with record PC audio selected while running Rendezvous Session
• Fixed – Virtual Mic audio distortion in Zoom
• Fixed –Unable to remove Live Output from the Rendezvous mix

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.
• Windows 7 – Certain 4K/UHD H.264 video files in the Stock Media Library are not supported.
• Animated PNG movies from the Stock Media Library can experience poor playback or dropped frames

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

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