Wirecast™
version 2.0
May 10, 2005
Preferences — Performance

Performance settings are a part of the Preferences Window. The preferences window can be opened by selecting "Preferences" in the "Wirecast" menu.

Disabled drop shadow drawing in windows

Controls whether drop-shadows are drawn in Wirecast windows.

This feature has no affect on what your viewers see with Wirecast; This only affects what you as a user of Wirecast can see.

This affects performance of the application because it takes CPU to draw the drop-shadows.

If your machine is having trouble broadcasting your stream (the CPU is high), try Disabling drop shadows.

default: off.

Low Quality interpolation for icons

Controls the quality of the icons as drawn in Wirecast.

This feature has no affect on what your viewers see with Wirecast; This only affects what you as a user of Wirecast can see.

This affects performance of the application because it takes CPU to draw higher quality icons.

If your machine is having trouble broadcasting your stream, (the CPU is high), try Disabling drop shadows.

default: off.

Video Display Rate

Defines how many frames per second Wirecast will generate frames.

If you want very smooth transitions, you can use 60, but this will also require a higher end machine.

default: 30