

If you want to overcome these limitations you can purchase license to “Wirecast Studio for YouTube” for $199. The composite presentations, called “layouts”, are limited to a small handful of presets that cannot be tweaked.
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The most crippling aspects of the free Wirecast Play software are as follows: However, UStream has their own version that they also give away. It’s restricted to only transmitting a stream to YouTube. For example, it emulates a webcam, which makes it possible to use with many different programs or services. It’s limited in what can be done relative to the paid versions. Wirecast Play is the version that You Tube gives away. The licensed versions vary in capabilities, running from $195 to $995, but there’s also a free version called Wirecast Play for those who wish to experiment. It happens that I use a licensed copy of Wirecast Studio ($495 list) that is available for both Mac and Windows. It basically emulates a video production switcher, allowing the selection between multiple video sources, including USB-attached cameras, capture cards, locally shared screens, or screens shared on a networked computer, etc. Wirecast is by far the most popular professional software production tool of this sort. More professional tools of this sort may cost a few hundred dollars. There are a few different programs that fit this role. You can use a software-based production tool to handle a variety of video sources right within your computer. There is in fact a middle option, which is the approach that we’ve be using for the VoIP Users Conference. While both are valid options, what he describes represents a rather dramatic leap from $0 to thousands-of-dollars. He then makes a great leap to using an external video switcher to allow live switching between multiple video sources. My current favorite is the Logitech C920. A good quality, external webcam can provide much better quality video. This is a great point, and well worth noting since an internal webcam tends to be quite lame. The author starts with the ultra-simple idea that a user with a laptop can select an internal or external webcam as the video source. This article, based upon a SlideShare document with a few additions, is a bit on the thin side. Not too long ago one of their team posted an article on Using Multiple Cameras with GotoMeeting, Skype, Webex or Zoom.US. I’ve been watching this company for some time as they seem to have a better than average grasp on USB attached webcams for applications beyond the desktop. Conference Room Systems (CRS) is an aspect of Haverford Systems, a Philadelphia area A/V sales & integration company.
