And then a producer would come on Friday for the show and sometimes the producer wouldn't quite understand the full features of Wirecast and maybe bump their production and not know how to kind of retract or go back and fix that. Our third new feature was a large customer request for our house of worship education, sports, entertainment customers who would on a Wednesday, build out their Friday or Saturday production using placeholders, building out the lower-thirds, putting in all the titling, and the logos. So let's just say if there was a camera, a lower third, and a logo all in one shot, I could single out the camera and add the filter to that specific source so you could do the whole shot or particulars in that picture-in-picture. Video filters can be applied to the source itself or they can be applied to the every layer inside of that source. And sometimes I use a curves as well just for a little bump in saturation. I use these two cooling and these two warming most of the time. If you don't know how to make a cube file in Photoshop, reach out to Telestream, and we'll get these color filters out to you. So if I noticed that my video looks a little warm. But for producers in the professional world of color correction cards or warming cards, I can now go into Photoshop and I can actually create warming and cooling filters and bring these into Wirecast, and I can adjust the color temperature of my shot. So we can pull a live green screen, we can pull a live key, but they also have LUTs and if we go there, it's just adding a cover overlay. So we look at a video-this MP4 here in the demo-and we can go to Video Filters and add our filters. You can do it with Wirecast's video filters. You could use an actual white balancing card and balance out the color temperature of that camera, but say none of that is available to you. Each camera has its own image sensor with its own color temperature, and you can change that color temperature digitally. The #2 new feature-coming from my production background-is video filters. So the Virtual Assistant is probably, I'm going to have to say the #1 new release for Wirecast 16. Wirecast's Virtual Assistant is 1) a very robust walkthrough technical advice troubleshooting tool 2) it's support at the instant you need it. I was asking it random questions, and questions that I've answered multiple times for customers, and not only did the Virtual Assistant provide a clean, precise answer, but it was also more of an educational thing: "Check these things outside of Wirecast, like in this peripheral, or it may actually be in a driver or it may be actually be in the cable or connection." In the Virtual Assistant, we fed 10 years of workflows, troubleshooting, and technical advice into this machine learning/AI Assistant, and I threw the kitchen sink at it in testing. There isn't really any digging needed to go in and find what you need to scale, move, add, or adjust in your master layers of your production. The whole tool sits right in front of you. So, essentially, in the UI itself, as you're adding your camera sources or your visual sources, everything's here. You can look at each layer itself in the Shot Properties panel. In your preview live window, we use five master layers where you can add your logos, lower-thirds, PNGs, PSDs, obviously cameras, video playback-whatever you need to tell your story or for your live production. In the UI, you have a preview window and your live output, meaning that you can monitor your live output as you are looking over and composing or building out your next shot. And I have a few connected here today for this demo. It's really easy to connect your devices. SDI, USB, iPhone, NDI, IP, and a hybrid of those source-you can mix and match. For capture, Wirecast has done a phenomenal job of adding flexibility to HDMI. Wirecast is a cross-platform, Mac and Windows application that allows you to capture, produce, and stream. There are some features that were recently released that are game-changers in live streaming production. Telestream recently released Wirecast 16, which I have to say is our most feature-rich release to date, especially for longtime Wirecast users. This Telestream Wirecast demo was presented as a sponsored Tech Talk at Streaming Media Connect 2023.
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