VT[5] Live Bundle

The Live Bundle includes the complete VT[5] software suite, the VT Pro I/O card and the SX-84 breakout box. We suggest one of our turn-key systems to host your VT.

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 and a 2D video paint and animation system. VT[5] total video production control at your fingertips.

Live Production

• 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)

Post Production

• 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

More

• 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

SX-84 Breakout Box

The NewTek SX-84 is the heart of the VT[5] LIVE! Switcher, offering component, Y/C or composite ins and outs, along with audio, preview, alpha channel, tally, GPI and machine control.

There are 8 Video input rows, but that does not indicate the true flexibility of this rack-mountable beauty measuring 18 7/8” wide by 10 ½” high (or 6 rack-units high) and 1 ½” deep.

This is a production switcher that saves you both time and money.

All inputs can use whatever cameras you have at your disposal, and unlike most switchers, does not require cameras to be genlockable. VT[5] performs all this internally, with each input having its own dedicated genlock controls in software. This means less gear to haul to a shoot, less time in setup and less investment for you to produce a multi-cam production. There is even an input for house synch, so you can time VT[5] to the other suites.

Inputs

Each input row consists of a Y/C input, a Y, U and V BNC input. This allows connection of 8 component cameras to VT, which is something not available to producers at even twice the price.

Not many production facilities have that many component cameras for live switching, so the SX-8 allows you to mix and match inputs for incredible flexibility. Connect a component camera to input 1, then a Y/C camera to input 2, and then connect three composite video sources to the three BNC connectors on input 3.

When a Y/C source is connected, the BNC V connector is still free for a composite input.

This means you can connect inputs with the following combinations:

• 8 component inputs
• 1 component input + 1 Y/C + 19 composite
• 8 Y/C inputs + 8 composite inputs
• 3 Y/C inputs + 18 composite
• 24 Composite inputs…and so forth.

Audio inputs are also quite flexible, with 4 microphone inputs (with phantom power). Those same inputs can be switched to line-level for 4-channel balanced audio support. There are also 6 stereo pair of unbalanced inputs. Add to that an Aux Return input for any audio coming back from outboard devices, such as parametric equalizers, limiters or reverb units. NewTek gives you incredible flexibility at the greatest price available.

Outputs
Your choices are equally flexible on the way out of VT[5]. There are 4 rows of video outs, which allow you to send Program Out to several devices for display or recording. You can also send your output in component or Y/C and composite. VT[5] also provides an output for your Preview field monitor. That connection can be soft-switched to become a dedicated key out.

Audio outputs provide four balanced outs, 4 stereo pair of unbalanced outs and an Aux Send channel if you wish to perform a pre-fader manipulation of an audio input. The integrated audio mixer provides such handy live capabilities as a Talkover function for VJ’s and a mix-minus record.

DV(IEEE1394)
Although SX-84 is analog, many customers are interested in FireWire in and out. If you have a IEEE 1394 Firewire card installed in your VT[5] machine, you can bring in your DV camera as an input into VT[5] switcher. Real-time FireWire out is also available whether you are editing graphics in VT[5] or switching a show with VT[5] LIVE!

Control
With more than 100 connectors on this switcher expansion module, we have included inputs for controlling decks and external devices as well. SX-84 includes three independent RS-422 machine control ports to remotely operate your professional decks, as well as a serial connector and a Tally/GPI connection. VT[5] gives you complete control over hardware so YOU have control over your production.

More VT[5] Refinements

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)

ProcAmp:

• 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