PTZOptics will announce a TeleStream Wirecast Gear winner live on YouTube February 24th 2017

Philadelphia, PA – February 24th, 2017 – PTZOptics will announce the winner of a Telestream Wirecast Gear valued at over $5,000 on a YouTube Live exclusive at 11AM PST, 2PM EST. The contest will be open for free entry, with no purchase necessary, until the live show airs on YouTube Live. PTZOptics, the professional pan tilt zoom camera manufacturer, will interview Andrew Haley, the host of Telestream’s popular Facebook Live show “Wirecast Live”.

PTZOptics Interviews Wirecast’s Andrew Haley

Paul Richards, the Chief Streaming Officer, for PTZOptics says “We are extremely happy to be giving away such as valuable live streaming appliance from Telestream. The Wirecast gear features four HDMI inputs and includes the latest Wirecast 7 software.” Richards will be also be announcing the latest YouTube channel subscribers and reviewing the interesting comments generated by the contest.

Live Show Transcript

Paul Richards:  Hello, hello, Hello everybody, welcome to PTZOptics live, my guest is Andrew Haley, thank you for being here today.

Andrew Haley:  Thank you for having me.

Paul Richards:  Andrew I really appreciate you being here and we also have Tess Protesto.

Tess Protesto:  Hi

Paul Richards:  Tess is our social media manager she is going to give us some updates in a little bit here, but first I wanted to start as we always start our live shows by letting you know that we live stream every Friday at 11am Pacific, 2pm Eastern and if you hit that like button you’re are helping us actually donate to charity. We donate to the Susquehanna Casa a court-appointed court advocacy system that help children in need who are stuck in the court system, might not have a family or are somehow are in a Juvenile delinquency area and they help them get adoptions, get placed with family that can get them on a better start we donated over $20,000 last year and we are on the course to do $30,000 this year so it’s a really big project for us, I wanted to mention that…

Andrew Haley:  My mom is actually involved in our local causa so I’m very excited that you guys support that you guys support that.

Paul Richards:  Oh are you involved with your local casa as well?

Andrew Haley:  My family is. I personally I just go and support my mom, she is really involved.

Upcoming live shows and charitable donations

Paul Richards:  It’s a nationwide thing. There is local causa’s in every county usually and they do a great job and just by raising like 20 to 30 thousand, which is what we are going to do this year. That allows them to hire an additional court worker that can actually help up to 5 – 10 children get out of the court system and get placed in adoption so it’s a really great cause. Next Friday we are going to be talking with the tech buzz Stephen Haywood and he is going to tell us how he uses the wirecast gear and Wirecast to do remote broadcasting. He did a remote broadcasting in Leipzig, Germany just a few months ago, so that will be interesting. On March 5^th, we are going to be talking about the USDA Distances learning and telemedicine grant. The USDA, the United State Department of Agriculture has a $17 million dollar grant to help communities in rural area spread their message. So if you have a message that you need delivered from a rural area to connect people around the world with live streaming or video conferencing or communications we are going to talk about helping you win that grant from the USDA and to help spread your message, you have to be somebody who is either a non-profit, in the government, or for profit, but you have to have an education message that’s having a positive impact in the United states, this is a United states government grant. Next week we’ll be talking to Easy-Life, the following week we’ll talk to Tom Sinclair the host of streaming idiots and then Tess actually set up an interview with Mario Armstrong. Tess, who the heck is Mario Armstrong?

Tess Protesto:  So Mario Armstrong I believe is from good morning America, pretty excited to have him on the show, he’s starting a brand new live streaming show on the internet it’s called Never settle, I’m really looking forward to it because it’s like ultimate interaction between the viewers and the show itself you can be on the show you can interact while the show is happening, we are really excited for it and it’s kind of like a pop culture topic which I love as well so it’s going to be really fun I’m excited for that. Kicking things off over on this and we want to show some love to our new subscribers like we always do. So our latest 10 subscribers are Bryan Wittim, Christopher Cool, Super B and I don’t think I should pronounce the last name, just realizing that. Mr Grengesky, Rust Strenburg, Spade Chaddick, Maria. Again as I always say my little disclaimer on butchering names. Jason Backstar, Dan Murphy and Weber Park. Couple other things I just want to make note of, you may have noticed cause we got a couple questions on this past couple Monday’s we were not streaming to Facebook, we made an executive decision to just stick to streaming on YouTube on Fridays just so we can make the best show for you once a week, we just needed time to do our other work responsibilities, so we are no longer streaming on Facebook, we’ll do random streams for fun but we’re just sticking it to YouTube also don’t forget to join our Facebook user group because you get exclusive live-streaming information and hang out with me in the chat during the show. Back to you Paul.

Paul Richards:  Alright, thank you Tess. What we are going to do next is we are going to bring up… sorry I do produce pretty much all the show myself, Tess is starting to help me but the way our show goes is that, …by the way everyone stick around for the live give-away that’s going to be in the post-show at 2:25 Eastern, that’s 11:25am Pacific and we are going to start off, we are going to give Andrew 60 seconds to answer each question. Andrew tell us about an introduction to Wirecast.

Introduction to Wirecast

Andrew Haley:  Introduction to Wirecast. So Wirecast is a live streaming software it’s been around for about 13 years. It was first done in 2004 by a little group of guys in their garage and Telestream came in and said this is pretty awesome and bought it in 2008 and they actually came on-board and have continued to design it ever since. It was designed with idea to make live webcasting, live broadcasting the internet as easy as possible. They saw that this was coming in to its own and that people should be able to do this from their computers at home and so that was how the software was built and it’s what we continue to do really well today and we’ve just only gotten better every year and I think each new release has just kicked so much butt than the next one so it’s a really good time to get on board and there is just …that’s the face of it. Let’s you stream anywhere like we’re doing right now.

Paul Richards:  wonderful, everyone that I talked to know about Wirecast. You guys are pretty much like the guys in the live streaming space. Tell us about the Wirecast gear because this is something new for you guys.

Andrew Haley:  Okay, so Wirecast gear is something we’re really excited about and it’s basically a simple concept the idea came from the fact that every time people will call us and go “we love Wirecast, really interest in your software, but what computer should we buy? What computer should we run it on? what capture card should we use with our cameras” and so rather than spending a bunch of time answer this question, we still have a way to help you do that if you have a computer you want to use it with or a particular Mac or a Laptop, we can help you figure that out. But we also figured for those who don’t want to do that why don’t we just build a system that’s going to run Wirecast really, really well. So we spec out a machine, we contact manufacturers, we con-sourced all the components, we go the best of grid, of capture cards, storage, processing and everything that you needed and put it all in a really awesome form factor and now we sell it as Wirecast gear so basically it the gear that goes with Wirecast.

Paul Richards:  It makes a lot of sense actually.

Tess Protesto:  so I just want to real quick check audio. We’re getting some background noise, people are saying, I don’t know they are saying sounds like heavy breathing or something, they are saying it’s a little better now.

Andrew Haley:  It’s actually my microphone if I get too excited, I’m doing a desktop microphone you can see right here it’s just a blue-yetti and so if I’m not carefule you could totally be picking up everything. I’ll try not to be too excited.

YouTube Live Comments & Super Chat

Paul Richards:  It’s going to be tough not get excited about this next topic which is our YouTube comments that we received over the past few weeks. A lot of you out there I know are part of this. I don’t know Andrew I just kind of want to read a couple of this off and kind of talk about who and where and when people are using it. Chris Moss is saying: Live production and talks and concert. So we found out that a lot of this people here actually providing a live streaming service to others.

Andrew Haley:  Yeah, I think that’s extremely… I mean it’s a business right? So it could be a hobby, it could be like a dare on the weekends doing soccer games or it could be a church, somebody who is volunteering at their church or it could be someone who literally goes out and hires themselves out as a live event producer and we know a ton of people using wire cast for that. We worked with large companies like Freeman and other sort of professional companies that will go all over the country and send teams out and they’ll take boxes with Wirecast loaded on them to help produce everything from a conference on dentistry to… I’ve talked to people working at the UN doing national diplomatic assemblies so it could be just the other thing, we recently had a success story where John Legend was using Wirecast to stream live to Facebook with Pandora so it’s all over the spectrum.

Paul Richards:  Yes, I saw that and I was extremely excited about that. I saw that Mattie McPattern was involved in that along with Stephen Haywood

Andrew Haley:  The guy you are having on your show next week so you should talk to Stephen about that. Those guys are awesome. They are a great team and they can tell you all about that cause it was really cool story.

Paul Richards:  So you host a live show. It’s on Thursday’s right?

Andrew Haley:  Yeah

Paul Richards:  And I wanted to spend a lot of time on this, we got 2 maybe 3 point on this, tell us when did you start, what was the inspiration and I want to ask you about your recent and up-coming interviews that you’re conducting.

The Wirecast Live Show

Andrew Haley:  So I kept telling people we started in June of last year but apparently I’m wrong at that I think we started closer at April and so we’re just coming up on a year now. The reason we started was because we had recently launched the Facebook live, Facebook approached us and asked us if we wanted to integrate with their new third-party live API and we were like “yea, of course.”  So we did that. We put it in Wirecast 6 and we started streaming and my Job was just to show people that you can do this now in Wirecast and it’s super easy and that got us on our regular cadence which as you know, doing your own show that it’s really helpful it’s a great way… something we’ve been thinking and talking about for a while as a way for current Wirecast customers or new customers to come find us, to join a community like Tess is doing there and just have a place to ask questions, to share comments and just kind of hang out every week so we just started with that idea and it’s grown from there and it’s become a key part of our marketing out-reach and customer support strategy, it’s been great and now my job is just to make sure to have actually interesting things every week for people to come find and talk about.  So I try to still keep the focus on Wirecast to do something Wirecast specific or if you want to learn something new, every week I’ll do a tutorial but we also bring on people way outside of my real hours to try to find out how to share knowledge or information so you know, the one sort of unifying aim is that everybody has to somehow be involved in live streaming but other than that we’ve covered everything.

Paul Richards:  You’ve had some big names on the show especially in the YouTube world, you had Derrick …I forget his last name now.

Andrew Haley:  Daryl Eves, he’s great, you should go back and watch that show if you haven’t seen it.

Paul Richards:  I saw that show it was incredible. Who are the biggest names you’ve had. Who are the most exciting people you’ve had and what’s upcoming, what’s down the pipeline.

Andrew Haley:  Yes, so we’ve got some good names, we are constantly finding more and more people that are using Wirecast, so we’ll continue to try to bring them on and just sort of touch base with them. But up till now I’ve been very privileged interview a bunch of people and some of my favorites where Guy Kawasaki who sort of big marketer and has writing a lot of bestselling books, he’s great, I had a great time interviewing him. Derral Eves of course is amazing, really looking forward to interviewing Mary Smith. A lot of the social media and internet marketers are very familiar with Wirecast or our stream flow product so we constantly run into them and ask them to come on the show. But of course we are also going to try to get out of just the marketing and internet world and start going into other areas, so I would really like to interview say like the head of the US medicine department, they are using that to supervise live stream surgeries or teaching others students to do live stream surgeries, I’d like to start interviewing some concert of live event specialist, so we’ll try to branch out as we go on and I haven’t really had anyone from the house of worship or church market or anybody that is doing that on the live show, we’ve done some webinars, but I’d really like to bring some of them into…. So there a ton of stuff we can do and I’m looking to continuing to impact the show with the best of the best people we can find.

Paul Richards:  So you live stream mainly to Facebook, I think I saw you doing Facebook and YouTube now but you really one of the leaders in the Facebook space.

Facebook Live Streaming Updates

Andrew Haley:  Yeah, so Facebook was what our focus was but yea we’ve added YouTube. It’s a challenge like you were kind of saying at the beginning of the show to try to simulcast, run the comments on all three platform, stay up to date, you need to have like 3 sets of eyes and 8 hands and it can get tricky. So we are going to try and continue to simulcast and eventually we’ll be doing it on our webpage, a dedicated web-page on our site so that people can always find it there or any past archived shows. But yea I’d say Facebook will continue to be our primary …if we were to go to a desert island with one platform we’ll probably pick Facebook at this point because that’s where we started and we want to stay there for now. But of course YouTube is a really big partner of ours as well and we really value them.

Paul Richards:  Okay, I want to ask you about new features now. Is there anything new in Wirecast that people should be excited about or something that’s coming out soon that we should all know about?

Andrew Haley:  yeah, I can give you…. I think it’s safe? Right now, we are about to launch the next update for Facebook, for Wirecast 7.4 so you should look for that very soon, any day now and it’s going to allow you to start scheduling your live events so it’s funny how Facebook approached this, YouTube started with scheduling and then added the live now channel streaming. Facebook did it the reverse, it was like start screaming Live now and now you can schedule, so it came with the scheduling later, so they’ve just introduce the idea of scheduling fairly recently and now it’s in Wirecast and you can schedule the live events, you can schedule as many as you like as long as they are no further than a week away and Facebook is also pretty strict on how they, you know if you are not live within 10min of when you are supposed to be live, your event gets cancelled.

Tess Protesto:  we didn’t experience that luckily.

Facebook Live Event Scheduling in Wirecast

Andrew Haley:  Yeah, so that’s a new thing that apparently they are very pretty strict on that so it’s going to be a really cool feature for people because now you don’t really necessary have to be right now… we’ve also re-designed the way the Facebook output looks so it’s easier to understand, there is helpful links you can find, we’re taking advance features like the sponsored branded content, advertising content into a different window and we’ve also added some ambient streaming in there as well so if you want to just start streaming but not get it recorded, go for a 24hr live camera on stage you know higher camera’s get made or something then that will be a different type of stream, so that’s all the stuff we’re adding, there is also a bunch of other stuffs that’s kind of in the works but I don’t think it’s made it into 7.4 yet, and then we’ve of course constantly fixing bugs and making thing run better so they’ll be a lot of that in this update as well.

Paul Richards:  Cool. Well, the last thing I have on my docket here is “What does the future hold?” I guess, you’ve got this brand new Wirecast gear, I know you guys are going to be at NAB which is the big National association of broadcaster show, we’re going to be both on that show so it’s a great chance for companies to see PTZOptics and Wirecast kind of at the same show we’re in the same hall, we’re both in the south hall and the National association of broadcasters in Los Vegas is second of third week in April. But do you have any other shows  people should be looking for you at or you got something new coming out at NAB or anything like that in the future we should talk about.

2017 NAB Show (National Association of Broadcasters)

New Telestream products will include Vidchecker and Lightspeed.

Andrew Haley:  yeah, so NAB is in planning stages right now. This show is going to be a little different for us from previous NAB’s we’re going a lot of different stuff there, so definitely check out the booth there, it’s going to be really, really cool, I think and a little bit different, we recently acquired a company called Vid-checker, which does quality checking on all your videos automated so you don’t have to re-submit it, let’s say you are submitting it to iTunes or Netflix you don’t want to get like “Hey this sucks, you need to do this again.” It does all that, saves you time. So we’ll be a pretty big presence and our products are going through… we’re coming out with some new stuffs that we really want to talk more about, like we have this new sort of amazing enterprise class live streaming device and appliance called light speed live stream and capture and it basically takes what we are going here as if this was the content that you wanted to stream out live and make it scalable to the point where you can stream this and be your own CDN you can serve up as many streams, you can package them, you can completely control the quality however you want, you can also capture every single frame that’s coming in and then sending into the transcoding for it to be repackaged or re assembled at advertising captions, everything you need to do through the vintage and sort of post-production, transcoding workflow are all in one box so it’s a really, really awesome stream so you’ll be finding out a lot more about that I’ll be putting out videos and things like that around that. It’s definitely for more than just content and streaming YouTube, it’s really a level for companies that need a really high, High-ends encoders and streaming.

Telstream’s latest product: Lightspeed

Paul Richards:  Now would you consider that more of a Telestream product as opposed to a Wirecast product?

Andrew Haley:  yeah, so Wirecast is a sub-brand of Telestream, it’s a product that we make Wirecast and Wirecast gear so one thing that people often confuse Wirecast with is that they think it’s a company in on itself, it’s really a product that Telestream makes. Often find, even if you go to our Facebook page you’ll find that its Telestream Wirecast, if you go to say NAB you’ll not going to find a Wirecast booth, you’ll go to the Telestream booth and then go to the Wirecast demo stations. So yeah, Wirecast itself there will be some more Wirecast products in that product family line but it definitely does not in itself produce its own product, it’s not a company that stands alone…

Paul Richards:  Maybe we should have you come on or someone come on the show as a Telestream employee and give us the extra parent level overview but anyway we’ve got about 5mins till the giveaway is launched, so you’ve got 5min to go ahead and enter that contest, thanks for sticking around. You do have to be watching live in other to win. So what we are going to do is we’re going to pull 10 winners and the top one is the winner of the Wirecast gear, if they are not here after three minute, we are going to go the next one and then the next one. But all 10 of you guys are going to win something, everybody else gets free wire cast gear virtual sets with complete PTZOptics package and Andrew as you know we have a free pack of Virtual sets for all Wirecast users which I believe is www.ptzoptics.com/landing/wirecast.html well I’ll have to figure that out, I’ll put it in the chatroom but everybody gets free virtual sets, only one person wins the Wirecast gear and only 9 people get the complete all 20 virtual sets that we offer. So let’s roll the credits and let’s go to the post show.

And that’s all folks, tune in next Friday on YouTube and don’t miss our new Facebook Live show airing at the same time Mondays. Have you joined our new Facebook user group? Stick around for a brief Q&A session where we answer your questions live.

Enter to win here – http://ptzoptics.com/giveaway

The live show will be available live and on-demand on YouTube at this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEIDKLm0Vck

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