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NewTek's VT[4]™ Integrated Production Suite is the culmination of years of planning and engineering for a set of production tools like no other. The Emmy®-winning company that created desktop video and defines the cutting-edge in production suite integration brings you the 21st Century technology solution you need to meet your production goals with more power, flexibility and affordability than you ever dreamed possible. VT[4] provides the world's fastest and most versatile editor, tightly integrated with everything you need for production, post-production, and graphics: live switching, real-time keying, titling, compositing, 2D video painting, 3D modeling and animation. VT[4] delivers all of this plus unsurpassed video quality with uncompressed component digital video and four-channel audio.

If you are a professional video producer, anywhere on the planet, you must allow yourself the pleasure to see the world's most powerful real-time, uncompressed, multi-format, multi-standard editing and live-production solution. VT[4] is designed to meet the highest broadcast specifications for a worldwide market:

• Native NTSC and PAL input and output
• Real-time standards conversion on the fly
• Comprehensive DVD authoring tools
• Serverless streaming at the touch of a button
• Display computer screens or PowerPoint ™as a switcher input
• Integrated genlock
• Real-time DV output
• Real-time audio and video filters
• Floating point audio, to eliminate distortion
• Four-channel audio in and out
• 3D audio positioning

VT[4] provides unmatched versatility and integration.

“... a unique product that combines the functions of a live switcher with those of
an edit suite. All designed to work the way production professionals really need."
- Paulo de Andrade; DigitalPostProduction.com

LightWave integrates with Aura Video Paint

Product Features

VT-Edit™:

• Ultra-intuitive interface
• Integrated Timeline and Storyboard editing
• Unlimited layering in real-time
• 3D control of position, size and rotation of layers in real-time
• Spline-based movement of all animations
• Unlimited undo, saved with project
• Real-time color correction
• No rendering of complex projects required
• Create subprojects within a project
• CG Post™ for moving text
• Real-time Targa sequence playback
• Multi-format and multi-standard editing
• Real-time playback of compressed and uncompressed clips
• Real-time FireWire in and out
• More than 500 real-time transitions
• Real-time slow motion and reverse
• Real-time chroma and luma keying
  
• Real-time high-quality scaling of graphics
• Real-time video and audio filters
• Real-time audio mixing of unlimited layers
• 3D audio positioning
• 12dB of audio headroom prevents digital distortion
• All performed in software

Live Switching:

• 8 Component inputs
• 8 Y/C inputs
• Up to 24 Composite inputs
  
• Unlimited DV inputs
• Real-time FireWire input or output
• Automated Audio Mixer
  
• 4 Component outputs
  
• 4 Y/C outputs
  
• Preview output
  
• 4 Composite outputs
• 3 RS-422 machine control ports
  
• Real-time chroma key
  
• Cue mode in Digital Disk Recorder
  
• 500+ digital transitions
  
• Dual GPI In / Out
  
• 8 Internal Tally light controls
  
• Background generator
  
• Internal Genlock

Audio Mixer:

• Mix 8 stereo live and 8 4-channel online audio sources
  
• 4-track audio: 4 discrete channels of audio in and out
  
• Talk-over, reduces mix levels for mic inputs to talk over
  
• 4 adjustable XLR balanced mic / line inputs with Phantom power
  
• 6 stereo unbalanced audio ins from live sources
  
• 8 stereo inputs from computer sources
  
• DV and SDI audio inputs
  
• Floating point audio with distortion-free audio levels
  
• EQ, balance, mute and mono for all 16 audio inputs
  
• Aux Mix: stereo aux send and aux returns for external sweetening
  
• Automated mixing: transition between audio presets
  
• Calibrated audio meters
  
• Audio-follows-video option
  
• Manage your output mix with Input Pass Thru
  
• PA Mix Out: for live PA or control room feed
  
• Balance on all inputs and outputs

Digital Disk Recorder (VT-DDR™):

• Multi-format, multi-standard on-screen tape deck
  
• Compressed or uncompressed playback
  
• Play back a single clip or list of clips
  
• Cue clips to roll when triggered by Switcher
  
• Real-time transitions between clips
  
• Count up or count down project time or clip time
  
• Operate multiple DDRs simultaneously
  
• EDL import/export (Grass Valley, CMX, Sony, Excel)

Proc Amp:

• Brightness
  
• Contrast
  
• Hue
  
• Saturation
  
• U Offset, V Offset
  
• U Gain, V Gain
  
• Track Preview function
  
• More than 70 adjustable parameters
  
• Calibrate computer sources as well as analog sources
  
• Auto Calibration for 75 IRE bars, 100 IRE bars and video pass-through mode
  (requires SX-84)

VT-Scope™:

• Full-frame data
  
• 60 fields-per-second
  
• Monitor Program or Preview
  
• Waveform of Y/C, Y, C, YUV or RGB
  
• Vectorscope at either 75% or 100% Chroma

VT-Vision™:

• Fully fielded on-screen playback
  
• YUV video display
  
• Monitor Program, Preview, Key / Aux or DSK buses
  
• Display supports for 4:3 and 16:9 aspect
  
• Zebra stripes for 75 IRE and illegal video
  
• Proc-Amp for matching computer display to reference video monitors

Character Generator:

• WYSIWYG editing
  
• Save projects or pages
  
• Display Program output within CG interface
• Use any installed TrueType font
  
• Save pages as 32-bit images or animations
  
• Soft shadows
  
• Create graphic objects (boxes, circles, splines)
  
• Instantly save or recall text styles
  
• Powerful drawing tools

Digital Video Effects:

• More than 500 real-time transitions
  
• All transitions reversible
  
• Expansions
  
• Wipes
  
• Curls
  
• Trajectories
  
• Fades
  
• ChromaFX
  
• Overlays
  
• Rotations
  
• Compressions
  
• Borders
  
• Much more

External Controller:

• Control external decks from your VT[4] desktop
  
• Supports multiple RS-422 and DV decks
  
• Interfaces with batch capture deck lists and configurations
  
• Jog and shuttle support
  
• Record allows user to generate time code settings

LightWave 3D®:

• Established industry standard
  
• World-class rendering
  
• Fast, versatile Modeler
  
• Powerful scripting language
• Advanced character Animation tools
  
• Particles
  
• Explosions
  
• Numeric entry (and math in input fields)
  
• Unlimited points and polygons per object
  
• Multiple cameras per scene
  
• Unlimited images
  
• Unlimited surfaces
  
• Easy import of Illustrator® data

Aura Video Paint™:

• Amazingly fast 16-bit paint engine
  
• Paint over live video
  
• Four-point pixel tracking
  
• Color isolation
  
• 3D compositing
  
• Stroke recorder
  
• Wide range of text controls
  
• Instantly use a graphic’s alpha channel
  
• Animate text along a path
  
• Native DV support
  
• AVI and QuickTime audio support
  
• Apply Photoshop® filters to any animation for faster compositing.

VT[4] is also engineered to work flawlessly with other tools in your production pipeline. A rapidly growing number of producers using After Effects®, combustion®, Digital Fusion®, 3ds max®, and more are discovering that NewTek's VT[4] provides an incredible boost in the productivity of their other tools. With native framebuffer support for these and other applications, you have instant feedback on what your shots, graphics elements, and composites will look like at broadcast time. Try this faster workflow and you may well discover that you are ready to retire your current system.

NewTek's VT[4] LIVE!™ Integrated Production Suite adds up to 24 inputs with a hardware switcher controller, component, y/c and composite inputs and outputs, balanced XLR inputs and outputs with line and mic selectability, 3 RS-422 deck control ports, genlock input and pass-through, RCA audio inputs and outputs, 2 auxiliary send and 2 return, and more. There is quite simply no comparable Integrated Production Suite available.