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Technical Guide on Professional Live broadcasting Tools ( Both Hardware and Software )


As you plan to Live Broadcast of Your Events Over the Internet. you should consider combining any of the following Hardware and software.

For professional view, plan for and support unlimited number of camera inputs ( Minimum 2 Camera Setup ).

Hardware Devices 4 Professional Live broadcasting:

• Cameras with support for : USB, Thunderbolt, SD/HD, SDI, HDMI
• Microphones with support for : XLR, Echo Balancer
• Digital Audio mixers with support for XLR, Echo Balancer

Capture cards
• Preferable SDI plus HDMI Capture Cards.....Because it gives room for long length of cable 25m between Camera and the Capture Card

Reputable brands that manufacture SDI plus HDMI Capture card are: AJA, Blackmagic Design, Magewell, Matrox, Epiphan


Web Streaming Service you may consider:
• Screen capture with Desktop Presenter (local or remote)
• Ustream (Pro account)
• Livestream (Pro account)
• Youtube livestreaming (Pro & Free)


Software 4 Professional Live broadcasting
• Wirecast Pro 6.0 above
• Desktop Presenter Pro

Minimum System Requirements

Operating Systems consideration:
• Windows 7 SP1 64-bit, Windows 8.1 64-bit, Windows 10 64-bit
• Mac OS X Yosemite, Mac OS X El Capitan*

Internet connectivity Requirement:

Live Broadcasting over the Internet requires internet connectivity with HTTP/HTTPS port 80, and RTMP port 1935 open for streaming.
Remote Desktop Presenter requires opening port 7272.
For lowest quality (240p) streaming an upload rate of at least 650Kbps is required.
720p streaming requires an upload rate of at least 2500 Kbps.
1080p streaming requires an upload rate of at least 4500 Kbps.


Recommended internal CPU Hardware Specifications:

Processor Requirements:
Intel ‘Sandy Bridge’ Core i3 for 540p or lower streaming
Intel 'Sandy Bridge' Core i5 CPU @ 2.5Ghz or higher recommended for 720p

streaming @ 30fps :
Intel 'Sandy Bridge' Core i7 CPU @ 3.0Ghz or higher recommended for 1080p
streaming @ 30fps

Graphics Card Requirements:
Intel HD, NVIDIA GeForce, or AMD Radeon class graphics adapter that are both DirectX 9 and DirectX 10 capable.

Memory Requirements:
Minimum 4GB RAM, 2GB free hard disk space. Additional hard disk space required for recording to disk.

Hardware-Accelerated Encoding Requirements

• Intel Quick Sync Video encoding requires an Intel CPU with an Intel® QuickSync Video
core. List of Intel CPUs supporting QuickSync →
• NVIDIA NVENC encoding requires an nvidia GPU with Kepler architecture or newer.
NVIDIA only maintains a general list of supported GPUs →
• Apple Hardware Accelerated H.264 encoding requires a Mac with an integrated Intel
GPU.

General Recommendations:

• Solid State Drive or fast RAID array recommended for ISO Recording and Replay functionality. Actual data rates will vary depending on quality level selected for ProRes (Mac OS X) or MJPEG recording (Windows), as well as the resolution and frame rate selected.
• For Mac OS X ProRes recording please refer to Apple’s ProRes data rate specifications

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if you intend to setup your own Successful Live Broadcast service as a journalist, media practitioner or Event planner, you should consider

Setting up a Small Mini Bedroom Studio that can allow you to do the Following:

1. Livestream
2. Podcast
3. Online Radio
4. Have at least a 2 man Discussion Panel ( Interview and new publishing services )


To achieve this quest… we recommend the following setup:

2 camera setup (one internal web cam and another external cam)
1 professional microphone plus mic filter
1 Audio mixer
1 black magic intensity
1 computer with 3 USB port with core i5 above, 8 GB Memory, 500 GB Hard disk
Wirecast pro
High speed internet

With the above setup you will be able to stream your live production to the following social media network in real time

1. Twitter
2. Facebook and YouTube
3. Skype call integration
4. Mobile phone integration

Our recommendation is model after Super sport live fan club.

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What Makes the difference in the Wirecast 7.7 vs other version.

Wirecast 7.7
Fixes and Enhancements bugs on the old versions.

● New features Output your live program feed with the NewTek NDI™ protocol
● New features Support for the BlackMagic 4K Cinema Camera via Thunderbolt
● Fixed an issue preventing Virtual Camera Output from being used as a source in Skype
● Fixed an issue in the Scoreboard UI when using the Chinese language
● Fixed an issue where some 60 FPS encoder presets were actually set to 30 FPS

Wirecast 7.6

Fixes and Enhancements
● Capture NewTek NDI™ sources!
● Fixed RSS feeds not working properly in the Text widget
● Fixed a crash occurring as a result of using a large number of CEF sources (i.e. Titles)
● Fixed an issue where Toggle Broadcast for Twitter/Periscope was grayed out
● Changed Twitter/Periscope API for “Should Tweet” to “Should Not Tweet”
● Fixed a crash that could occur when a YouTube Event ended by closing an unsaved document
● Fixed an issue where a Facebook stream would restart after Stream Delay time has elapsed
● Fixed an issue where the cursor exits the Places field after each key stroke in the Facebook destination
● Added a better error message if Facebook prevents creating a stream due to broadcasting copyrighted
material
● Added more encoder presets for Facebook destination
● Display settings for previously scheduled Facebook events
● Fixed an issue where deleting an encoder from Periscope’s dashboard would break authentication until restarting Wirecast
● Fixed issues when performing Smooth transition via Keyboard Shortcuts set to Shots


General Recommendations:

Always use the latest version version of wirecast to enable you overcome bugs and limitations in the previous version.

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