This is the base card and software for the VT[5] production suite.

Product Details

Combine this card and software with one of our edit ready workstations to build the perfect compressed/uncompressed digital/analog editing solution.

This product includes the full VT[5] software suite with SpeedEDIT 1.5 and Ulead DVD Workshop 2. Unlike the stand alone (software only) version of SpeedEDIT, this product offers realtime analog video and audio capture and output for accurate color control and monitoring plus true batch capture. Output projects to any DVD or tape recorder in realtime with no rendering, encoding or extra steps necessary.

NewTek VT[5]™ is an Integrated Production Suite from the Emmy®-winning company that created desktop video. VT[5] defines the cutting-edge in live production, bringing you the solutions you need to meet your production goals with more power, flexibility and affordability than you ever dreamed possible.

Who Benefits from VT[5]?

VT[5] is designed for the video producer that wants to expand their services without breaking the bank. VT[5] gives the power, flexibility and functionality of a system costing much more. Whether the project calls for a live CEO message integrated with pre-edited segments or a complex edit for broadcast television, VT[5] gives you the tools necessary to complete your next award-winning project.

New Features and Enhancements:

Post Production:

• Integrates SpeedEDIT™, World’s Fastest Video Editor
• Improved file format 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

Miscellaneous:

• Audio/Video drivers support Windows Media Encoder and Flash encoder
• AVI wrapper has been re-written to support more project features
• SpeedHQ™ codec support
• 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

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.

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

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
• 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

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
• 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

MPEG-2 support requires appropriate DirectShow player to be installed