Using the Select Target Drive item will bring up a standard Finder file dialog box, allowing you to locate the drive you wish to test. One problem you may run into: if you select the startup drive, you may see an error message that Disk Speed Test can’t be run on the selected drive because it is read only. This isn’t a bug, just a bit of a logistics problem. Disk Speed Test is run with the same user privileges as the login account you're using, and the app doesn't have the ability to ask to raise permission levels by asking you for your password. The workaround is easy enough; when you wish to test your Mac’s startup drive, simply select your own home folder as the directory to be tested.
Blackmagic Disk Speed Test launches with a dialog sporting two rotary speed gauges, one for reads and the other for writes. Below those two dials, there's a checklist of features. When first run, Blackmagic Disk Speed Test writes a big block of data to the selected drive, testing the write speed, then reads it back and reports the results.
You should then be able to run the speed tests without issues. Blackmagic refers to the test size as the stress size.
It’s really just the size of the dummy file the app will use for writing and reading. The choices are 1 GB, 2 GB, 3 GB, 4 GB, and 5 GB.
The size you choose is important; ideally, it needs to be larger than any cache a hard drive may include in its design. The idea is to make sure the Disk Speed Test is actually testing the write, read speed to the platters of a mechanical drive or the flash memory modules of an SSD, and not the faster memory cache used in the drive's controller. Finally, if you're testing a Fusion drive, remember that a Fusion drive is usually not the best candidate for being the storage target for video recording or playback, since it's difficult to predict where the video files will be stored, on the fast SSD or the slow hard drive. Nevertheless, if you would like to measure the performance of your Fusion drive, use the larger 5 GB stress file size, and watch the speedometers closely. When you start the test, you'll likely see relatively slower write and read speeds as the first couple of tests are written to the slower hard drive. At some point, your will decide the test file is one you're using often, and move it to the faster SSD. You can actually see this occur on the write and read speedometers.
. NEW – Rewritten WebStream Plugin.
Re-engineered WebStream plug-in with much broader format, codec and network transport support. This is hosted in a new out of process architecture that protects Wirecast from any failure in the plug-in. This enables HLS and MPEG-DASH ingest.
Configurable latency of all WebStream network devices. Improved discovery of ONVIF devices from the same vendor. NEW – Stinger Transitions. Stinger Transition support. Through the new stinger transition configuration panel, you can setup movies to use as custom transitions. Support for Apple Animation, ProRes and CineForm alpha channeled QuickTime content. NEW – ‘Smooth Transition’ build in & out properties.
Added panel for configuring the build in & out animations used when the ‘Smooth’ transition is selected. NEW – Virtual Camera Improvements. The virtual camera driver for macOS has been rewritten for faster performance and better compatibility with host applications, including sandboxed apps. Added option to horizontally flip the video going to the virtual camera. NEW – – MacBook Pro Touchbar Switcher.
Wondered what the Touchbar was for? Wonder no longer: Wirecast adds a quick shot switcher to the Touchbar. On-going performance work: Wirecast 11 is speedier than ever, with quicker startup times, significantly faster drop shadow on macOS, and lower CPU on rendering. We’ll continue to build on this work with every release. PTZ support for VISCA over UDP for PTZ Optics & Lumens cameras.Other brands utilizing VISCA UDP may work but are not officially supported. MacOS – Adding more than one PTZOptics NDI connection to a single machine (regardless of the connecting application) can cause a crash in the application that is the second to connect. Workaround 1 – Disable Multicast.
Go to the PTZOptics camera admin webpage. Go to the Network Section. Disable Multicast. Reboot the camera using the System page. Workaround 2 – Use RTSP instead of NDI.
Use the newly rewritten WebStream plugin in Wirecast to connect to the RTSP stream. The URL for this stream can be found in your PTZOptics camera’s documentation or admin webpage.
Improvement – XKeys: pressing the Audio Mixer or Rendezvous button should close the window when it's open. Improvement – Add preview/live status indicators to clear layers. Improvement – Add ability to drag shot layers in the shot layers table. Improvement – Disable preview throttling for front most document when app is front most.
Improvement – Add drag image to shot bin on Windows. Improvement - Added option to run in 'Safe Mode' – Hold down the CTRL+SHIFT keys during launch - allows user to determine if clearing preferences fixes a launch problem without clearing preferences yet. Improvement - Allow 'Enter' key to add shot in add source UI. Improvement - Drag and Drop of File assets for Edit Panels Shot Layer Table. Improvement - If “Open last document on startup” is used and a document fails to load, a dialog appears on next launch to contact Wirecast support.
This eliminates the need to clear preferences to exit the endless loop. Improvement – Lower default keyframe interval to 2 seconds. Improvement - Remove 540p settings from Facebook encoder presets. Improvement - Rendering performance increased by improving lock usage. This change improves responsiveness in the UI when modifying complex shots in preview.
NEW - NewBlue Titler Live - Complete titling suite with social media titling templates, sports templates, and much more. Overview:. Free live Facebook comments with Titler Live:.
Express – Free with Wirecast 8 Studio purchase. Present – Free with Wirecast 8 Pro purchase. Curate and push live comments from any web browser on your network. Animate comments as they fly in or out. Upgrade to Social or Complete to add Youtube and Twitter.
Updated, expanded, and improved Titler Live modules. Versions::. Express – Free with Wirecast 8 Studio – Includes templates for many common titling needs. Does not include Title Designer. Sport – Sports titles and graphics, scoreboards, integration with Sportzcast live scoreboard data sources. Social – Display social messages through high-end, animated designs from Twitter, Facebook and Youtube.
Even poll your audience in real-time, displaying results graphically. Present – Free with Wirecast 8 Pro – Everything you need to title and produce live shows, events, conferences, church streams, etc. Complete – All the above for a complete titling solution for any event. Improvements:.
IMPROVED - Facebook Logout option to clear security information. IMPROVED - Facebook Improve filtering of the With (Sponsor) field to display better results.
IMPROVED - Facebook Update hyperlinks in Advanced Options to a graphical icon. IMPROVED - Facebook Highlight first entry in search fields by default. IMPROVED - Facebook Improve readability of highlighted text for search fields on Mac.
IMPROVED - Facebook Improve responsiveness when switching events on Mac in 8.0 builds. IMPROVED - Facebook Add warning dialog to the 'Delete Event' button. IMPROVED - Facebook Test for stale URLs (i.e. NEW! Capture NEWTek NDI™ sources!. Fixed RSS feeds not working properly in the Text widget. Fixed a crash occurring as a result of using a large number of CEF sources (i.e. NEW! Periscope/Twitter streaming destination!.
NEW! Audio filters in the Audio Mixer. Dynamics, EQ, Delay and more! (Mac OS X & Windows). NEW! Added ability to stream to Facebook Live groups and events (Mac OS X & Windows). NEW! Added “Places” (AKA geo-tagging) to the Facebook Live (Mac OS X & Windows).
NEW! Added ability to stream 24/7 to Facebook Live (Mac OS X & Windows). NEW! Magewell capture card SDK integration (Windows). NEW! Added Hitbox.tv stream destination (Mac OS X & Windows). NEW! Duplicate Shot now performs a “deep copy” of sources and settings in the Shot. Mirror Duplicate will only copy the Shot Layer configuration. NEW! General stability improvements and decreased CPU usage!
(Mac OS X & Windows). NEW! GPU accelerated H.264 encoder via Intel® Quick Sync Video, NVIDIA® NVENC and Apple® Video Toolbox H.264 (see tech specs above for specifics) (Mac OS X & Windows). NEW! ISO recording from live capture sources – Wirecast 7 Pro only (Mac OS X & Windows). NEW! Added ability to update a single Replay Shot OR create NEW Replay Shots.
Restricted streaming to Facebook and a generic RTMP destination only to comply with Facebook livestreaming policies (Mac OS X & Windows). Fixed an issue where the stream was not being closed properly (Mac OS X & Windows). Only populate Pages for the Page Admin and Page Editor roles (Mac OS X & Windows). Fixed an issue where pressing Create stream could interfere with Stream Delay changes (Mac OS X & Windows). Improve the error message if the stream is restarted without creating a NEW RTMP endpoint (Mac OS X & Windows). Wirecast 7.0 is a major upgrade that encompasses many NEW features, enhancements and bug fixes across a spectrum of issues and functionality. NEW! Added Facebook Live as a destination.
(Mac OS X & Windows). NEW! Added Scoreboard hotkeys for Scandinavian languages.
(Mac OS X & Windows). Fixed Wirecast treating valid and invalid command line arguments as document paths. (Mac OS X & Windows). Lengthened authentication time-out for Stretch Internet destination. (Mac OS X & Windows).
Fixed encoder setting for Sermon.net reverting to default 360p. (Mac OS X & Windows). Fixed Unhandled exception error when adding Blackmagic Intensity Pro shot. (Windows). Fixed Fatal Application Error when Spanish is selected as default OS.
(Windows). Fixed bug preventing the year from being set in YouTube Events (Mac OS X and Windows). Fixed an issue where Wirecast would sometimes start up in Demo mode even when licensed (Windows). Fixed a crash that could occur when using BlackMagic capture cards (Windows). Fixed an issue where transitions were being applied across all Master Layers (Mac OS X & Windows). Added Verizon Media Services destination. (Mac OS X & Windows).
Added Onstream Media destination. (Mac OS X & Windows). Fixed problems with Stream Delay when broadcasting to Twitch.tv. (Mac OS X & Windows). Improved quality when using the YUV color space on the GPU. (Windows). Fixed crash that occurred after repeatedly plugging in and unplugging USB cameras.
(Windows). Fixed occasional crash in text rendering code. (Windows).
Fixed occasional crash resulting from memory address truncation. (Windows). Fixed issue that prevented Wirecast 4 documents from being opened in Wirecast 6. Added support for YouTube default channels/streams. (Mac OS X & Windows).
Eliminated crash when YouTube event times were not in 30-minute increments. (Mac OS X & Windows). Fixed issue preventing MOV/MJPEG recording in 480p resolution. (Mac OS X & Windows). Fixed playback crashes due to unsupported AMD instructions. (Windows).
Users can now start a YouTube broadcast without having to go to the YouTube website. (Mac OS X & Windows). Added M4A to the list of files supported for playback.
(Mac OS X & Windows). Fixed problem authenticating to Limelight on Yosemite. (Mac OS X).
Improved emoticon support (Mac OS X & Windows). Fixed a crash when decoding the CineForm Intermediate codec. (Mac OS X & Windows). Improved support for emoticons when using Twitter integration and titles.
(Mac OS X & Windows). Can now use the number pad to trigger keyboard shortcuts. (Mac OS X & Windows). Now shot thumbnails are updated to correspond to the in point set on prerecorded media. (Mac OS X & Windows).
Fixed problem where the Output Settings window would jump behind the main window after YouTube authentication. (Mac OS X & Windows). Fixed run-time exception during offline activation. (Mac OS X). Auto section of Canvas size now takes the virtual camera output resolution into account.
(Mac OS X & Windows). Fixed YUV GPU conversion crash that occurred with some video cards.
(Windows). Now Twitter message will wrap using all titles. (Mac OS X & Windows). Now a user can hold down the Option key on Mac or the Alt key on Windows to prevent creating a playlist while performing a drag and drop on a shot.
(Mac OS X & Windows). Fixed a problem where text descenders were being cut off in certain titles. (Windows). Removed a small square that appeared inadvertently on the Twitter feed dialog on Windows 7 with Aero enabled. (Windows). Fixed problem playing some H.264 encoded mp4 files. (Mac OS X & Windows).
Now can go back on forth between Wirecast windows without having to click on a window first to activate it. (Mac OS X). Fixed issue where sometimes the channel drop-down default was not set automatically after authentication in the Output Setting window.
(Mac OS X & Windows). Now search in the Twitter feed is done on multiple words rather than an exact phrase only. (Mac OS X & Windows). Removed non working filters CICode128BarcodeGenerator and CIAztecCodeGenerator (Mac OS X & Windows).
Eliminated possible duplicate ONVIF camera entries. (Mac OS X & Windows). Now disallow odd Canvas dimensions. (Mac OS X & Windows). Numerous localization fixes. (Mac OS X & Windows). Now disallow positioning shots to the left of the Black shot.
(Mac OS X & Windows). Fixed problem with Swedish keyboard controlling the scoreboard.
(Mac OS X). Now the YouTube event description field scrolls horizontally on Windows. (Windows). Support for Axis M1031-W IP camera verified. (Mac OS X & Windows). Fixed issue with using an image as a custom mask that appeared in Wirecast 6.
(Mac OS X). H.264 360p is the NEW default preset for Sermon.net. (Mac OS X & Windows). Fixed problem with repeated disconnects when streaming with no audio. Added screen capture from iOS devices via Lighting cable. (Mac OS X 10.10). NEW!
Added dialog to schedule events on YouTube Live directly from within Wirecast. (Mac OS X & Windows). NEW! Added support for playback of QuickTime Animation files. (Mac OS X & Windows). NEW!
Images are now updated automatically if they are stored on local disk. (Mac OS X & Windows). NEW! Added keyboard shortcuts to toggle Live Preview Swap on and off. (Mac OS X & Windows). NEW!
The Audio Delay specified in the Audio Inspector can now be up to 10 seconds, up from 1 second, and is now specified in numeric terms rather than by moving a slider. (Mac OS X & Windows). NEW! Optimized H.264 playback to use approximately 25% less CPU. (Mac OS X & Windows). NEW!
Optimized CPU usage by Web Stream, Wirecast Cam, and Blackmagic sources to use up to 50% less CPU. (Mac OS X). NEW! Added a button in the Output Settings that refreshes the list of scheduled YouTube events. (Mac OS X & Windows). NEW! Implemented drag-able region in the title area of the shot so that users must mouse drag from the shot's title bar in order to perform drag operations.
This helps prevent inadvertent movement of shots. (Mac OS X & Windows). NEW! Local Desktop Presenter Window Capture now tracks the location of a Window being captured rather than capturing a static screen region.
(Mac OS X). NEW! Added an option to capture a screen region with the Local Desktop Presenter. (Mac OS X & Windows).
NEW! Now larger fields on the Thin Pipe scoreboard. (Mac OS X & Windows). NEW! Now display a microphone icon under the Live window when audio is being outputted via the Virtual Microphone feature. (Mac OS X & Windows).
NEW! Users can now drag-and-drop media onto the ‘+’ button in the shot bin to add media to a layer. (Mac OS X & Windows). NEW! Added hotkeys for activating and deactivating Master Layers.
(Mac OS X & Windows). NEW! Added a Just Text title to allow cleaner display of text-only titles. (Mac OS X & Windows).
NEW! Added all system audio devices to the Change Audio right click menu regardless of if they already exist in the document. (Mac OS X & Windows).
Fixed an issue where Wirecast was not prompting to save the document right after NEW camera/audio/Desktop Presenter shots were added to the shot bin. (Mac OS X & Windows). The Audio Inspector will now be reopened automatically on launch if it was open at shutdown. (Windows). Fixed a problem in the Shot Editor where pressing “Reset Position” on a shot constructed with templates would make the source invisible.
(Mac OS X & Windows). Fixed a problem in the Shot Editor where cropping and then resizing an image caused it to resize. (Mac OS X & Windows). Fixed an issue where Wirecast would retrieve the incorrect times for YouTube Live events. (Mac OS X & Windows).
Fixed an issue where adding an audio input in the Audio Inspector caused a video transition to trigger in the Live window. (Mac OS X). Now limit the default resolution of web cams to be 1080p. (Mac OS X). Fixed and issue that cause hidden Master Layers to become visible when changing the canvas size. (Mac OS X). Fixed issue where the stream attributes were not initially displayed when Web Stream connected to a stream.
(Mac OS X & Windows). Fixed issue where scoreboards were displayed as squished, stretched, or offset. (Mac OS X & Windows). Fixed issue where Web Stream repeated last audio sample received if the connection was lost. (Mac OS X & Windows). Fixed issue where Local Desktop Presenter window didn’t not keep focus when windows is moved (Mac OS X & Windows).
Camera Preview frame rate is now saved when document is saved. (Mac OS X & Windows). Fixed issue where Preview playback controls and countdown clock were not enabled when displaying a video whose filename contained an image file extension.
(Mac OS X & Windows). Fixed an issue where transitioning from one source to another produced choppy audio. (Mac OS X & Windows). Fixed an issue where the selected transition was only applied to the last queued shot when sending shots on multiple Layers live. (Mac OS X).
Fixed an issue that caused static popping when adjusting the delay slider for live inputs in the Audio Inspector. (Mac OS X). Fixed an issue where trying to open Web Stream configured with a malformed URL caused a crash. (Windows). Fixed issue where Wirecast didn’t retain the contents of Preview asset upon saving and reopening a document. (Mac OS X & Windows). VS4 and MXO2 DirectShow inputs are now not displayed as possible sources in Wirecast.
Please use Matrox’s Wirecast source plugin to connect to these devices. (Windows). CTRL-click on touchpad once again functions as right-click.
(Mac OS X). Fixed issue where Blackmagic Outputs did not display the proper check box when outputting various formats in 'Demo Mode' (Windows). Fixed an issue where the Shot Editor and other secondary windows did not open on a second monitor when Wirecast’s main window was on a secondary monitor. (Mac OS X & Windows). Fixed an issue where the initial selection for USB Webcam Audio Settings did not take.
(Mac OS X). Fixed problem where application locked up when the Configure button in the Source Settings dialog was clicked more than once. (Windows). Fixed issue where Wirecast was forced into the background if users clicked on a shot while the Audio Inspector was open (Mac OS X & Windows). Added “NEW Playlist” item to the Edit menu.
(Mac OS X& Windows). Fixed issue where the cursor would become stuck as a resize icon when moving above the Shot Bin. (Mac OS X).
Fixed issue where Zoom Slider didn’t function if the trim points were set too close together in the Preview Window. (Mac OS X & Windows). Fixed issue where the document did not load if its name contained an apostrophe.
(Windows). Fixed problem where thumbnail sizing in Playlist windows and Layer windows were was not persisted when the windows were reopened. (Mac OS X & Windows). Fixed an issue where iOS devices were sometimes not being detected on congested networks due to a timeout. (Mac OS X & Windows). Fixed issue where License and Serial Number were displayed as white text on white background when focus w.