Ustream Producer

Ustream Producer is an application designed to help you broadcast live footage using a wide variety of devices, including, but not limited to the laptop's built-in camera, USB cam, Firewire-enabled DV or a converter box.

Following a quick and uneventful installation, you come face to face with a splash screen that requires you enter your credentials and select the appropriate output settings for the file that you are about to process. As you probably hinted, you need to create an account with Ustream in order to use the application.

The program sports a sleek and stylish interface that is fairly intuitive and easy to navigate, so it is unlikely that it can pose any challenges regardless of your experience with similar tools.  While the vast majority of the interface is dedicated to the preview area, you can add extra audio and video files in the dedicated master layer panels.

You can start your live recording right away or you can import media files that you need to enhance just as easily. Depending on the number of cameras you use, the tool enables you to have several live streams at the same time. The function can come in handy when you are creating a video where you need to prefer the audience views you explaining as well, for instance.

As previously mentioned, the program allows you to work with media created outside the application, such as photos, audio files and clips. The application supports various file formats along with several codecs, like H.264, DVC25, MJPEG, ProRes, AAC and PCM, for example.

Regardless of whether you are trying to capture video and audio from your applications and browser or want to enhance what you already recorded via extra effects, background music or audio samples, Ustream Producer might be worth a try.