• Wirecast™ Introduction
• Good presentations
•   Overview
•   Lighting, lighting...
•   Audio
•   Broadcast Settings
• Usage Patterns
• Hardware
• 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

There are a few very key elements to making a good presentation even better.

• High quality audio input

  Make sure you have good audio A great looking video with poor audio input will sound unprofessional.

• Good lighting

  Make sure you have good lighting. Poor lighting can make an excellent look horrible. If you are going to do chroma keying this may be the most important part of your setup.

• Always uses the best quality camera you have

  Even if your viewers are going to see only 176x144 (G3 Mobile) an HDV camera is going to give you much better quality than a USB camera.

Why is this?

When video is saved to disk or sent over the network, it needs to be compressed.

The compression process is done by encoders ("codecs") which are optimized to work with clean input data.

This means that if the audio or video is muddy to start, it will be muddy after compression. Some codecs may even highlight poor input because the algorithm is built to look for differences.

Your goal should be to give the best quality audio and video to the compression process as possible.

In Wirecast, this means to make sure that what you see in the Live area is the best you can make it look. Wirecast takes exactly what you see in that area and sends it to the codecs.