Vidblaster Vs Wirecast

[JDavidPugh]

All I can say is wow.......

I wish I had found this site/forum before my experience with the pompous dick@@@@ owner of VidBlaster.
This guy is some piece of work.......... I invested $1000 in purchasing his software only to be treated like a 2 year old
by him on the Forum when asking questions about the software, bugs, features, etc..
I guess Forum means "only as I see fit" according to the law of Mike on the VidBlaster site....

Sadly, this is your only means of obtaining any support and patch fixes as the numerous bugs in this software are repaired.
For my latest attempt to join in a forum discussion of one of this modules this is the result.

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So not only am I a paying customer, I am an ignorant paying customer........Interesting........
I may have thought it at times but have never had the guts to say that to one of my customers.....
I don't think I would be in business long........

So now as a paying customer I am without tech support and denied access to a patch to correct several bugs I found, reported, and offered solution guidance on.

Unfortunately for me, at this point, I cannot comment to the favorable attributes of Wirecast.
I can only enlighten you with my experience with VidBlaster which has not been a pleasant one.

The software is decent but the licensing structure and features are limited without a $2000 investment of which you buy features now that may or may not be available in future updates.

Simple common features such as adjusting camera settings are buried deep in menus with elaborate key schemes to access which are also by the way undocumented in any of the manuals. Which according to a snarky message from Mike were "Undocumented for your own good". Seriously? Camera Settings? Oh that's right.......I am a two year old.......

Why would one feel the need to bury camera image exposure settings in a program supposedly geared toward quality image broadcast?

Part of our purchasing decision was based on the ability to have a pseudo-hardware switcher setup utilizing the Novation Launchpad as advertised by Vidblaster.

After purchasing the software (which was rushed in an attempt to get a broadcast online) we now discover that this was specific only to the Novation Launchpad (No Longer In Production) is the only unit supported in the integrated package within VidBlaster. Not the Launchpad S or the Launchpad Mini which are the currently available units from Novation. If you are planning on implementing this feature utilizing VidBlaster search the pawn shops for a controller first. As of now I have struck out in finding one.

VidBlasters only redeeming feature is the presence of Tom Sinclair. My mistake was purchasing directly from Mike and not through a reseller like Tom. Tom has tried his best to answer question albeit in the form of PM's and emails as apparently you dare not ask a question on the forum without fear of repercussion.

Mike is non-appreciative of his customers and will not be receiving another penny of my money...

My recommendation is that unless VidBlaster offers you some feature that is just totally irresistible and other vendors cannot offer the same or even marginally the same..........Save your money........Dealing with Mike is just not worth it........