• Wirecast™ Introduction
• Good presentations
• Usage Patterns
• Hardware
•   Overview
•   FireWire (IEEE 1394)
•   High Definition (HDV)
•   DV Cameras
•   Sleeping
•   S-Video / 2nd Display
•   Configure Devices
•   Device Manager
• Media Capabilities
• Titling Capabilities
• Logo Capabilities
• Broadcasting
• Editing Encoder Presets
• Desktop Presenter
• Media Management
• Menus
• Preferences
• Main Window
• Shot Editing
• Shot Element Panels
• Edit: Scene
• Edit: Title
• Edit: Media
• Edit: Effects
• Edit: Playback
• Edit: Motion
• Edit: Filter
• Edit: Chroma Key
• Acknowledgments

High Definition Video

Wirecast is the only webcasting system that can use HDV cameras in HDV mode. Although you can achieve extremely high quality video using HDV, there are some limitations to using them, mostly due to the resources they consume.

One Camera per bus

When your camera is in HDV mode, you will only be able to have one camera per bus.

Two HDV total, and only on higher end hardware

You will need a high end computer if you want to use more than one HDV camera with Wirecast. HDV images are so large that they will stress all components that are involved in your production: memory, video memory, video fill rate, bandwidth (on input busses) and so forth.

If you want to use several cameras, and only have HDV cameras on hand you may consider using your secondary cameras in DV mode.

HDV cameras in DV mode

If you switch your HDV camera to DV mode, your camera will act like a DV camera.

Although you won't get HDV quality, you will get much higher quality than your average DV camera, as most HDV cameras have very high quality CCDs int hem.