Schools Using Visual Communicator

For those considering educational uses of Visual Communicator, remember you can create much more than just school newscasts.  Hundreds of educators are using it for classroom projects as well, in various curricular areas like Foreign Language, Social Studies, Science, Technology, etc.
Here is a perfect example of a Social Studies unit that focused on the Presidential inauguration in February 2009:
http://blogs.schooltube.com/robz/2009/01/video-messages-to-president-obama.html
Learn more at our sites for VC users:
http://www.SchoolTVmadeEasy.com
http://www.TeachMeVC.com
http://www.AskMrZshow.com
http://www.AskMrZblog.com

I have decided to ditch Visual Communicator as an option.
Apart from the poor support, I have tested the Trial version and it would not make sense to use the application in its cirrent form.
In a ten minute period using 2 cameras as a test, the application froze and crashed four times. Not acceptable as reliability is crucial.
The test was done on a Windows 7 64 bit machine with 4 physical Xeon Quad core 3GHZ processors and 32 GB RAM with a 2GB Graphics card, so performance was not the issue.
the application is just not stable.
I am getting better support and results from both Wirecast 4 and Cutfour.

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    The test was done on a Windows 7 64 bit machine with 4 physical Xeon Quad core 3GHZ processors and 32 GB RAM with a 2GB Graphics card, so performance was not the issue.
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