[David Anderson]

Been ramping up myself on Wirecast as I’m going to make a DVD out of a live stream. This is easy to do– in Wirecast, go to your Broadcast settings and add a new one. Select “record to disk” from the destination menu. You can then specify a destination (I’m sending to an ext drive) and set you encoder settings (I have mine set to h.264, 853X480, 2000k) since I’m doing 16X9. It creates a decent quality QT, for what I’m doing, OK to encode to MPEG-2. It is processor intensive to do this at the same time as encoding a stream, I’m using a quad core with 4G RAM and it works fine.

David C Anderson
ConstantNow

[David Anderson]

Jeff,

Thanks for the input. Should be doing a test later this week, I’ll have a Panasonic HVX-200, hooked to the MBP via Firewire, so hopefully same positive results….

David C Anderson
ConstantNow

[David Anderson]

Thinking I’ll be sending a 16X9 video as well. Can you tell me a little more about your setup? Hardware you’re using? As I mentioned I’m planning to send a 90 min program that a combination of one camera feed and an edited quicktime movie. I’m wondering if my MacBookPro is fast enough to handle this…. Running 10.6.1, 2.4G Core 2 Duo, 4 gigs of RAM. But wondering about the graphics card capability– Wirecast demo seems to start up fine, haven’t done a “real” test yet.

One thing I hadn’t thought of in my setup…. if I’m switched to the video running off the laptop, does Wirecast allow me to mix in the live audio narration from the host? The show would basically be his on camera intro, then cut to the video (which would have nat sound) with him narrating over top.

Make sense?

David C Anderson
ConstantNow

[David Anderson]

I actually spoke to the DP that shot it and he swears he shot standard 4X3, 29.97 interlaced video. Could something like digitizing the footage to the Avid using a preset to 23.98? Does that even make any sense?

David C Anderson
ConstantNow