NewTek Announces Genesis™: New Video Production System For Worship

World’s First System Designed For Media Ministry Stresses Ease Of Use, Stability

San Antonio, Texas -- May 21, 2003 -- NewTek, Inc., manufacturer of industry-leading 3D animation and video products, today announced GenesisTM, the first video production system designed from the ground up for the needs of worship service media production. Drawing on NewTek's award-winning video and graphic production technologies, the needs of live production, editing and graphic creation are all addressed with a powerful turnkey solution designed for easy operation.

"The religious video market has a unique set of challenges” said Jim Plant, President and Chief Executive Officer of NewTek, Inc. "Tight budgets, volunteer staff, long live productions with lots of graphics, and a variety of projects from video projected during services, to video for shut-ins, to fund-raising videos. We’ve listened to what religious producers have told us, and we created a system designed to exactly fit their needs. We believe our new Genesis system will change the way churches present their message, and bring broadcast quality switching, editing and graphics to thousands of ministries around the world.”

The Genesis system meets live-production needs for worship services with an 8-input switcher for cameras and video decks. Genesis also includes hundreds of effects, animated backgrounds, graphics, titles, fonts, and other elements that will instantly give productions a professional polish. Plus, Genesis is compatible with other graphics software, from Adobe Photoshop to Microsoft PowerPoint. Genesis is versatile, with real-time video output of broadcast quality formats from Beta SP and D1 to DVCam and Mini-DV, as well as web-streaming.

“The NewTek system is unique as a video edit station in that it's also a TV control room enabling churches to create a broadcast quality production studio at a very reasonable price," said Tom Schmidt, of Broadcast Ministry Services. “In the past, we would purchase an analog component switcher and then begin to add monitors and waveform/vectorscope. Now, for the price of the switcher alone we get all the production tools plus an excellent non-linear editor plus much, much more.”

Genesis Includes:

• 8-input Live Switcher
• Professional Titling And Graphics Software with ready-to-use devotional content
• Easy to Use, powerful video editing
• Real-time keyer to display titles over video
• Real-time green screen production
• On-board audio mixer and On-screen Television monitors
• Flexible Output Options, From Broadcast Tape to DVD to Web Streaming

Pricing and Availability
To Be Announced; for complete information, see:

http://www.newtek.com/products/genesis/index.html

About NewTek
With headquarters in San Antonio, Texas, NewTek is a leading provider of full-featured video editing, animation and special effects tools including VT®, LightWave 3D® and Aura Video Paint™. NewTek launched the desktop video revolution in 1990 with the release of the legendary VT®. The company’s products are used worldwide on projects ranging from home video to feature film. Recent television and film projects using NewTek software include Firefly, Taken, Smallville, Birds of Prey, Star Trek: Enterprise, We Were Soldiers, Panic Room, Hart’s War, Driven, A.I., Oscar®-nominated Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius, Final Fantasy, Blackhawk Down, The Time Machine, Behind Enemy Lines and Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Director’s Edition DVD. 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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