NewTek Ships TriCaster Portable Live Production Suite

TriCaster is the first affordable product to allow mixing of graphics, live video, recorded video and computer sources

Las Vegas, NV, NAB, Booth SL1949 – April 18, 2005 -- NewTek, Inc., manufacturer of industry-leading 3D animation and video products, today announced the release of TriCaster™, a portable LIVE production suite which provides a comprehensive toolset designed to appeal to corporate presenters, educators and media ministry users. The easy-to-use interface of TriCaster™ is designed without using video jargon, allowing users who aren’t video full-time video professionals to produce quality live presentations, web casts and video. With over 200 transition effects, PowerPoint support, template driven titles, real-time switching, and editing, TriCaster allows the user to bring dynamic live elements to their presentations within minutes of opening the box. In addition to allowing users to produce presentations that have the impact of live television, TriCaster allows simultaneous distribution to Video, Internet and Projectors.

"Until TriCaster, desktop video and presentation have been considered two separate worlds ," said Philip Nelson, Senior Director of Video Marketing. " TriCaster will revolutionize the presentation market by allowing presenters to deliver their message in more dynamic and memorable ways and at the same time, deliver this message to a larger audience through video, projectors and the Internet."

TriCaster Features Include:

• Portable live presentation from a compact box less than one cubic foot and only 10 pounds
• iVGA™ gives you the functionality of high-end scan converters by allowing you to integrate full motion screens from remotely connected computers.
• Numerous CG templates for easy creation of titles
• Live streaming to the corporate Intranet or the Web without licensing or per-seat fees.
• Keying, to mix your graphics with live video
• Virtual VCR cues digital video clips and plays them back the instant they are selected for live output, boosting the production value of your presentations
• Integrated real-time video editing allows for on-site changes and client approvals
• XGA projector output ensures that your graphics are presented at the highest possible resolution and that video is up scaled to match.
• Output to video, S-Video or composite
• Archive presentations to hard drive for later playback, editing or on-demand streaming

Pricing and Availability
TriCaster™ is available for a suggested retail price of $4995US. For more information or to purchase, call NewTek Sales at 1-800-843-8934. NewTek is previewing TriCaster™ at NAB Convention, Booth #SL1949, Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV.

About NewTek
With headquarters in San Antonio, Texas, NewTek is a leading provider of full-featured video editing, live production, presentation, animation and special effects tools including LightWave 3D®, winner of the 2003 Primetime Emmy® Engineering Award, TriCaster™ and VT[4] TM. NewTek launched the desktop video revolution in 1990 with the release of the legendary Video Toaster®. The company's products are used worldwide on projects ranging from home video to feature film. Recent television and film projects using NewTek production tools include Sin City, The Aviator, Flight of the Phoenix, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Aliens of the Deep, "I, Robot", Spiderman 2, The Last Samurai, Battlestar: Galactica, Firefly, Smallville, Star Trek: Enterprise, Access Hollywood and Entertainment Tonight, Recent game titles include Doom III, Unreal Tournament, Serious Sam for XBox, Age of Mythology, Civilization III, Dead to Rights, Baldur's Gate II, EverQuest and Escape From Monkey Island. Website: http://www.newtek.com

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