VIDBLASTER - http://VidBlaster.com
Welcome to VidBlaster, the state-of-the-art video production tool to create anything from a simple home video to a live HD television broadcast. Imagine having a virtual TV production switcher at your fingertips. Cut or dissolve cleanly between multiple cameras while being able to incorporate pre-recorded video, audio and graphics. Enhance your video production by including overlays and multiple video effects. Click one button and your production is streamed live to services like Ustream, Livestream and Justin.tv, or any other Windows Media or Flash Server. VidBlaster features a fully modular design and a highly advanced multi-threaded architecture to take advantage of today's multi-core processors, including the new Intel i7. VidBlaster will put live video production at your fingertips!
- VIDBLASTER HOME VERSION - VidBlaster Home supports up to 7 modules, a typical configuration can consist of 2 cameras, 2 players, audio, program video and a streamer. VidBlaster Home is ideally suited for home enthusiasts, gamers, small businesses and faith-based organizations.
- VIDBLASTER PRO VERSION - VidBlaster Pro supports up to 25 modules, easily enabling a multicam setup with simultaneous streaming and recording, while allowing plenty of video players, overlays and video effects. VidBlaster Pro is typically used for professional productions, corporate meetings and live events.
- VIDBLASTER STUDIO VERSION - VidBlaster Studio allows up to 100 modules, including the Preview monitor and Video Switcher. The Studio edition enables you to setup a professional and extremely versatile control room, and is therefore often used by the demanding professional as well as television stations.
WIRECAST - http://www.telestream.net/wire-cast/overview.htm
Wirecast is a live production tool that allows everyone to easily broadcast live events and create professional webcasts from any location – all you need is a computer and an internet connection. With the intuitive and fully integrated streaming capabilities, Wirecast makes it easy for anyone to share live experiences and build a global community. Wirecast lets you stream multiple live cameras while dynamically mixing in other media such as movies, images, sounds, etc. Features including Chroma Key (blue/green screen), transitions and built-in titles allow you to create beautiful, professional broadcast productions for live or on-demand distribution on the web.
BOINX TV - http://www.boinx.com/boinxtv/overview/
BoinxTV turns your Mac into a TV studio for creating Live to Disk, Live to Internet and Live to Stage video. Record stunning studio shows, podcasts, sports events, concerts, interviews, sermons, seminars and more using your Mac and multiple cameras. BoinxTV is designed for * broadcasters * video podcasters * education * corporate communicators * event organizers BoinxTV makes it easy to record live shows minimizing post-production. The Input Feed video from cameras, audio from microphones, pre-recorded video footage, graphics, audio effects and much more into BoinxTV. Learn more... Live Production An extensive set of more than 50 layers in BoinxTV lets you switch cameras, add media files, lower thirds, crawlers with text from RSS feeds and station logo, switch cameras and much more, all in real time, while recording. Learn more... Live to Internet The video that BoinxTV creates in real time is output in real time on the screen. There are two solutions for getting this output live on the Internet: * Software With Steve Green's CamTwist you can grab the output from the screen and provide it as a video source to the Flash based web services such as uStream and Stickam or to the Apple QuickTime Broadcaster. Watch the How-to to learn more about this method. * Hardware With the hardware solution, the burden of encoding the video for streaming is offloaded to an external device or a second computer. BoinxTV provides the video in full screen mode on the secondary display. The DVI signal and the audio from the built-in audio output are fed into the encoder hardware. This creates a plethora of options, from conversion to SDI with a Matrox MXO or high quality encoding with the Adobe Flash Media Encoder on a Windows computer connected with a Epiphan DVI2USB device to a low cost solution with a Epiphan VGA2USB device and the web browser based flash encoders of the video platforms on a spare Mac mini. You can think of BoinxTV as a PowerPoint for video on steroids. Using BoinxTV to drive the screen on stage is a powerful way to open up a whole new experience for the audience. Increase audience value Integrating speaker and presentation on a single screen not only gives more meaning to the message, people in the back rows see better and feel closer to the stage. And with BoinxTV, you don't need an overdraft for this. Put more on the Stage One of the speakers couldn't make it as promised but is available for a brief statement. "Live via Satellite" becomes "Live via Skype" and is suddenly much more affordable. BoinxTV broadens your options on what you can put on stage. Real Time updates and Audience participation If you use RSS feeds or databases, your presentation can automatically update to reflect the most current data every time you give it. Let the audience participate via chat or Twitter. All this and more is now easier and cheaper to achieve. Artistic freedom There are lots of filters available to be applied to video sources in BoinxTV enabling almost unlimited artistic effects that allow you to put on a great show.