Now, it's easy to broadcast breaking news and live sports events in real-time to web audiences. For a fraction of the cost of traditional broadcast hardware, Wirecast software allows you to quickly and easily capture your live events, create professional video webcasts and go live instantly. Carry Wirecast on a laptop for remote newsgathering and production. It's easy to set up and use – there's no expensive hardware to maintain. All you need is a camera, a computer and an internet connection to stream your live news and sports broadcasts to audiences anywhere in the world.

This Norwegian new media news business uses Wirecast for live webcasting from both Windows and Mac laptops using Wowza streaming servers. "Wirecast provides a simple way to put graphics and watermark on the broadcasted stream and still have a clean feed in the recorder."

Today's fans are increasingly turning to the web for entertainment – from music, sports and interviews, to documentaries, movies, comedy and more. Now, anyone can easily capture live or pre-recorded video, audio, music and other media – and create professional video webcasts for sharing on personal blogs and websites or broadcasting to a global audience. With Wirecast, it's easy and affordable – all you need is a camera, a computer and an internet connection to create and stream your own beautiful productions.

The world's largest webcast, Live Earth, was powered by Wirecast, delivering on-demand footage to more than 10 million simultaneously online viewers. Live Earth was a monumental music event to combat the climate crisis. The event staged concerts in New York, London, Sydney, Tokyo, Shanghai, Rio de Janeiro, Johannesburg, and Hamburg.

With Wirecast, it's easy and affordable for any business or organization to broadcast live or on-demand video communications to customers, employees, press and stakeholders – for viewing on the web. At a fraction of the cost of maintaining traditional broadcast hardware, intuitive Wirecast software allows anyone to easily capture live video and audio, mix in other media such as slides, and add text or graphics to create compelling webcasts. You don't need to be a video professional. All you need is a camera, a computer and an internet connection to broadcast your video communications to any audience.

Petra Risk Solutions is a hospitality insurance business that uses Wirecast to create sales and training tutorials. "We love it because of the green screen feature."

Today's educators are embracing new media as a powerful communications tool for professional development as well a student instruction. Many educational institutions, science and exploratory museums are also turning to video to create documentaries and share life sciences in exciting new ways. Using Wirecast, anyone in these organizations can now create professional video webcasts for sharing live or on-demand via the web. It's easy and affordable – all you need is a camera, a computer and an internet connection to create your own professional video productions.

Traveling to far-off locations like the Antarctic, The Exploratorium's Ice Stories scientists use Wirecast as a portable broadcast production studio, carrying Wirecast's software on a laptop to remote locations for live webcasts.

Wirecast is the ideal tool to record and stream services via the web to remote audiences who are unable to join services at the house of worship itself. This revolutionary video production software tool replaces expensive TV studio equipment. Wirecast is easy to learn and use – and costs less than $500. Volunteers will be up to speed quickly with Wirecast, creating professional-looking productions. Services can be viewed live or recorded to disk for later viewing.

Van Buren First Assembly of God (VBFA) uses Wirecast to create live and on-demand videos of their services three times a week. This enables them to reach out to members who are unable to attend service due to health issues and business travel, for example. Live streaming also enables VBFA to reach out to members located in other parts of the country, as well as to potential members who would like to experience the service prior to visiting the house of worship.

VBFA wanted to provide top-of-line, live and on-demand services that would be unique and attract viewers. They needed a video production tool that would give them the same production capabilities as a local TV station, including a rich feature set and high quality. It had to be cost-effective and very easy for volunteers to use and maintain. Wirecast fulfilled these needs. It also allowed VBFA to display services live at various TV monitors throughout the building – enabling parents with children to leave the main service hall and follow the service from the lobby.

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Wirecast allows federal, state and local government agencies, organizations, departments and authorities to reach out and broadcast video communications via the web to audiences located anywhere. Wirecast provides an easy-to-use, rich video production tool that can be loaded on a laptop and used remotely to create professional-looking live and recorded, on-demand videos.

California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) uses Wirecast to conduct a variety of multi-camera, multi-graphic source webcasts, as well as press events, including for the governor of California. “Having the ability to switch cameras locally without a hardware switcher or being able to connect to the presenter's laptop displaying a PowerPoint presentation without a scan converter saves time and gear required on site. Also being able to add graphics and lower-thirds on the fly is outstanding. Providing the flexibility to encode and stream in Windows or QuickTime or run on a MAC or PC gives us the ultimate flexibility in webcasting.”.