Vidblaster Vs Wirecast

[JDavidPugh]

I use multiple shot instances of the presenter (local and remote) to capture a single window with different "crop" settings to capture different portions of a single window into unique shots.......

I am quite sure with a little creativity you could get the effect you want........

I think the key here is remembering the Master Layers as well..........as you can "build up" the shot similar to the way you have to use the PIP modules in Vidblaster currently to build the shot you are using now.....

Same effect......just different methodology........

I do agree however that click and drag cropping/resize cropping would be a nice feature to add to Wirecast!

But do not remove the sliders.......they are great for "exact" cropping to remove windows borders etc......from screen captures...

After reading this I wanted to clarify how I am doing this with remote.....

I capture the whole window in the remote..........Then I use different "shots" of the remote with different crop settings to part out the screen into the information I want at the time.

Another useless tip that I have come across is the use of the Nvidia NView Desktop manager....
I have created several virtual desktops to keep the real estate on the main desktop clear when doing captures......
Once I set up the capture for a screen I send it to a virtual desktop where it is free from items popping up over it.....

The trick here is that the capture has to be initiated on the Default desktop (The one where you are running Wirecast). If you do not do this Wirecast will not "see" the application so that you can start the capture with the presenter. Once you have started the window capture send it off to another desktop where it will continue capturing as normal leaving your main desktop free to do with as you wish without interrupting the capture screen.

The real beauty of this is the ability to freely resize the captured screen closer to the size of the actual broadcast area so that artifacts/aliasing are minimized due to rescaling for broadcast.