Category: Television
Studio: WCBI-TV
News departments around the world are transitioning to tapeless, but many of them have not completed that transition due to the complexity and costs involved. WCBI-TV, a CBS and UPN affiliate in the mid-size news market of Columbus Mississippi, wanted to transition to tapeless, but do so in a way that was affordable and easy to use. WCBI’s Chief Engineer, Gary Savage explains that so many alternatives were not suited for news or over-priced, or both. “We looked at some solutions that were specific news-servers, but in our applications, that was not what we were doing. They started at $80,000.” Not deterred, he kept investigating options until he chose NewTek VT[4]. “VT[4] fit the bill at MUCH less cost. We got a powerful VT[4] turnkey workstation with plenty of SCSI storage for about $14,000.”

Category: Television
Studio: Paramount
Broadcasters and graphics artists live under constant stress of deadlines. As soon as one passes, another is looming large. That is certainly the case in daily television production. NewTek recently spoke to Adam Hayes, the lead animator for the graphics department of ET Insider, a division of Paramount/CBS, about his workflow when having to create numerous high-quality animations each day on short notice.

Category: Education
Studio: University of Wales-Lampeter
Specializing in the liberal arts, Lampeter has strong academic traditions in teaching and research dating from 1822. Located in rural Wales, an area of outstanding natural beauty, its modern Media Center houses a TV studio, adjoining sound studio, subtitling and digital editing facilities and a new multi-camera e-broadcasting unit centered around NewTek's VT[4].

Category: Education
Studio: Royal University College of Art Profile
The Royal University College of Art, in Stockholm, Sweden, teaches video production with the goal of fully acquainting students with the realities of professional production. The University required that production equipment be able to create and output absolute highest broadcast quality finished work, with the most flexible set of capabilities, and found that NewTek's VT fit the bill. NewTek recently spoke with Eberhard Höll, a professor at Stockholm Sweden’s Royal University College of Art, regarding how VT[3] and especially Aura VT are being integrated into art instruction at this prestigious University.

Category: Freelance
Studio: Deuce Bennett
Deuce Bennett has been in the family business that his father started for more than twenty-three years, and has worked on projects from Robocop and Problem Child to Walker: Texas Ranger, with a stint of 3D animating on the recent Oscar®-nominated Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, as well. Deuce became a VT user as an added service of the family business, which up to that time had involved blowing things up and making it rain, among other things. The family business happened to be special visuals effects, on cue, for the camera, in a variety of motion pictures and television shows. We caught up with him recently for a discussion about his experiences as a VT user.

Category: Television
Studio: We Three Multimedia
David Tichenal's and Dan Hong's California-based production company, We Three Multimedia, started producing cable commercials back in early 90’s. At the fledgling production house, Dan became one of the first producers to use NewTek’s nonlinear editor, the Amiga-based VT Flyer. Dan introduced David to the new system, and with this first taste of what was possible with computerized editing, after having long been a CMX editor, David was immediately hooked on the concept of nonlinear.