VT[5]™ delivers versatility in live production with up to 24 inputs along with hundreds of real-time transitions and 3D DVE’s, network-style live virtual sets, character generator, real-time keying and digital disk recorder for integration of captured video clips. In post production, VT[5] delivers streamlined editing, 2D video paint and animation system along with Emmy® Award winning LightWave 3D® for motion graphics and animation. VT[5] total video production control at your fingertips.

• Advanced NewTek LiveSet™ effects engine
• Completely integrated live virtual set system
• LiveMatte™ provides sophisticated keyer previews
• Optional LiveControl™ LC-11 switcher surface
• Optional TimeWarp replay and slo-mo controller
• Optional 8-input SX-SDI switching hardware
• Optional LiveText™ remote titling and graphics software
• Optional DataLink™ real-time linking and display of external scores or files
• Live streaming in Flash, Windows Media or VC-1 formats
• On-screen Video Monitor supports any resolution / aspect
• Monitor offers action safe / title safe overlays
• Still Frame option on capture panel
• iVGA Recorder captures remote client displays as video
• DDRs support different clip aspect ratios
• DDRs support file formats listed below, including Apple® QuickTime™
• VGA output to projector includes real-time image enhancement
• VGA supports remote applications, such as LiveText
• Record show in I-frame MPEG-2 with optional MP3 audio
• Clock now on main interface
• Create and export title templates for VT[5] or TriCaster™
• Title templates can be placed on Effects bus
• Render scrolls/crawls to any SpeedEDIT™ formats (HDV, etc)

 

• Integrates SpeedEDIT™, World’s Fastest Video Editor
• Improved file format support
• TriCaster™ Update 2.0 project support
• HDR and floating-point image support
• Supports all audio channels from 4-channel DV files
• Audio plug-in support for VST audio filters
• VST audio plug-ins included from Voxengo
• CG Post animatable Character Generator
• Real-time Print to Tape for DV with dropped frame alerts
• Control Tree spline nodes support ease-in, ease-out
• Easily change the fielding order of clips
• Improved color correction
• 3-band color correction
• 4-channel selective color correction
• Tool Shed Project Backup wizard Time-code burn-in tool for playback overlay
• Advanced new cross-fades
• Dip to color, with selectable colors
• Additive cross-fades
• Additional filters, including Black & white; Sepia

 

• Audio/Video drivers support Windows Media Encoder and Flash encoder
• AVI wrapper has been re-written to support more project features
• SpeedHQ™ codec supports
• 4:2:2 video with and without alpha channel
• 4:4:4 video support with and without alpha channel
• Complete multi-core and multi-CPU decoding
• Customizable UI colors in Preferences
• Significantly improved readability across all modules
• Windows Vista™ UAC support
• Standard (non-admin) windows accounts now supported

 

Reliability

• Drivers no longer take any system resources when VT is not actually running.
• Re-written installer is more reliable, and does not need any path settings.
• Native support for MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, QuickTime™, DV, MJPEG decoding and encoding, reducing reliance on external codecs.

 

Performance

• Multi-threaded, taking advantage of multi-core and multi-CPU machines.
• Reduced memory usage for many core operations.
• Aggressively optimized for SSE2 instructions.
• Improved desktop visuals.
• File assets always exist for resolution, frame-rate, audio sample rate, etc...
• All modules fully support aspect ratio.

Live Switching:

• LiveSet™ Effects Engine
• Live Virtual Sets - multiple angles and multiple focal lengths per set
• Upstream effects row
• 8 Component inputs
• 8 Y/C inputs
• Up to 24 Composite inputs
• 8 Serial Digital inputs (with SX-SDI)
• DV input Support
• Real-time FireWire input or output
• Automated Audio Mixer
• 4 Component outputs
• 4 Y/C outputs
• 5 SDI outputs (with SX-SDI)
• Preview output
• 4 Composite outputs
• 3 RS-422 machine control ports
• Real-time, advanced chroma keyer
• LiveMatte™ keyer previews of color, edge and spill
• Cue mode in Digital Disk Recorder
• 200+ 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
  
• Supports SDI embedded audio (with SX-SDI)
  
• 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

• Multi-format, multi-standard on-screen tape deck
  
• Compressed or uncompressed playback
  
• Detects clip aspect ratios for 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, video pass-through
  (requires SX-84)

Video 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

Video Monitor:

• 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
  
• Display of Action Safe / Title Safe boundaries
  
• Underscan mode
  
• Zebra stripes for 75 IRE and illegal video
  
• Proc-Amp for matching computer display to reference video monitors

CG Designer:

• WYSIWYG text and graphics editing
  
• Save projects or pages
  
• Display Program output within CG interface
  
• Use any installed TrueType™ font
  
• Create Title Templates
  
• Export Title Templates
  
• Assign a Title Template to any source in Upstream effects row
  
• 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

Title Templates:

• Easy creation of live pages
  
• More than 80 styles
  
• Customize/create new templates in CG Designer
  
• Export any title to upstream effects

iVGA:

• Import external computer displays as switcher source
  
• Queue up to 3 iVGA sources
  
• Client provided for Windows and Mac systems
  
• Software-based scan conversion to video resolution
  
• Dedicate iVGA output to connected projector
  
• Digital Video Effects:
  
• More than 200 real-time transitions
  
• Expansions
  
• Wipes
  
• Curls
  
• Trajectories
  
• Fades
  
• Overlays
  
• Rotations
  
• Compressions
  
• Borders
  
• More...

SpeedEDIT:

• World’s Fastest Video Editor
  
• SD and HD editing
  
• Real-time HD editing and previewing
  
• Resolution independent
  
• Frame-rate independent
  
• Fully multi-threaded for dual-core and quad-core machines
  
• SpeedHQ™ codec with 4:2:2 colorspace and alpha support
  
• 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 3-wheel color correction
  
• 4-band color selection
  
• No rendering of complex projects required
  
• Create subprojects within a project
  
• VST Audio plug-in support
  
• CG Post™ for moving text
  
• Project Backup Wizard
  
• Time-code overlay filter
  
• 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 200 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

Deck Controller:

• Control external decks from your VT[5] 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
  
• 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
  
• VT[5] Supported File Formats

Video Formats:

• AVI
  
• MPEG-1
  
• MPEG-2 (program & transport stream)
  
• HDV
  
• Apple® QuickTime™ (with alpha support)
  
• MPEG-4 (including iPod and PSP)
  
• Raw DV
  
• DVCPro 50
  
• DVCPRO HD
  
• Image sequences
  
• Output to Flash

Graphic formats:

• JPEG
  
• PNG
  
• Targa
  
• Tiff
  
• BMP
  
• WBMP
  
• PCX

Audio Formats:

• WAV
  
• MP3
  
• AU
  
• SND
  
• AIFF
  
• WAX
  
• DIF