In this tutorial, we show how to use Wirecast’s Shot icon on the toolbar to add an external microphone to a particular shot. If you’ve ever wanted to use audio from a sound board or small mixer in your live stream, this is a very handy thing to know.  “On camera” microphones are acceptable for more »

We’re pleased to highlight Steve Garfield and his blog post on livestreaming with Wirecast.  Steve is a video blogger and author of Get Seen: Online Video Secrets. He just finished livestreaming Hill Holiday’s #TVNext Summit on January 28, 2011.   Steve does a great job of covering all the topics. He covers preparation (like lower thirds), more »

(This is the second part in the series, How to Produce High Quality Audio for Your Wirecasts for your Wirecast event) The first thing to understand about microphones is that they are only as good as 1), the quality of the microphone, 2), the quality of the sound source and 3),  how they are used. more »

Someone once said “Good video with bad audio is worthless, but bad video with good audio still works.” I’m paraphrasing here, but it’s so true.  One reason that Youtube originally thrived, much to the dismay of broadcast engineers, was that the audio was pretty good, even though the early video was often fuzzy, blocky and more »