Wirecast controller for mac#
Wirecast controller software#

They provide a few layouts with the program to get you started and have some user-submitted ones available for download as well. The iPad becomes the blank slate that control a variety of programs with very little extra work.

Wirecast controller software#

Control a software mixing board from the stage? No problem.

Need a remote editing deck for Final Cut X? Done. What's nice about this solution is that you could just as easily use the iPad and this program to become a wireless controller for many other pieces of software. The app connects to your computer wirelessly using VNC to send the commands. A more elegant solution I found was a $2.99 app for the iPad called Custom Keypad which allows you to build your own layout of buttons on the iPad and map them to corresponding keyboard shortcuts. You could use a wireless bluetooth keyboard to control all this, but you're still probably going to be looking down a lot to find the keys. Combine that with making sure 'Autolive' is selected and when you press the commands the shots will switch on the fly. Then by holding the Option key and pressing the corresponding number on the keyboard the shot will be activated. The trick is to name each shot with a number at the beginning, for example '1 Main Camera' or '2 Remote Skype Video'. Wirecast has built-in keyboard shortcuts to switch between your 'Shots'. Plus, that requires a dedicated person to an offscreen role, and we're a small group of people just starting to play with these tools.

A dedicated person in a 'Producer' role would solve this, but they're not always going to know what you want to put up on the screen and the timing. One thing that we've found, however, is that when broadcasting it is difficult to focus on changing shots without having your audience see the top of your head constantly as you fumble with the Macbook Pro.

Wirecast controller for mac#

The system that powers both the streaming and recording (as well as applying layers and effects like the Green Screen dynamically) is Wirecast which is a really powerful and elegant piece of software for Mac or Windows. The more we play with these tools the more we realize how powerful a low-cost video streaming solution is to the idea of a distance-learning classroom. Recently we at DTLT have been cutting our teeth on live video production through the Summer of Oblivion ds106TV series and more recently with DTLT Today.