Booth: SL8614
NewTek, manufacturer of video and 3D animation products, at
NAB will offer a look at the company's line of TriCaster portable video
production and live virtual set systems, as well as LightWave v9.5 3D and
SpeedEDIT, Newtek’s video editor.
Philip Nelson, NewTek Vice President of Sales and Video
Marketing, says a goal at NewTek is to drive live, longtail programming. “We’re
changing the entire economics of what it costs to do a live show,” he says.
“Before the economics, which included renting or buying a production truck,
limited what programming made it to air. But for $5,000 to $11,000 you can buy
the Tricaster and add supplementary content to the second and third screens. So
from a cost perspective it is very low risk.”
Tricaster is a family of video production and live virtual
set systems that offer live switching and audio mixing, with output to the
Internet. The Tricaster family includes the TriCaster, the TriCaster PRO, the
TriCaster PRO FX and the TriCaster STUDIO. Tricaster is the size of a shoebox,
and weighs just 10 pounds. TriCaster STUDIO weighs 16 pounds. All Tricaster
products allow VCR playback, live streaming, and video editing.
TriCaster, TriCaster PRO and TriCaster PRO FX take in three
video inputs while the TriCaster STUDIO can take in six camera inputs.
TriCaster PRO FX and TriCaster STUDIO both support 16:9
streaming video. Both TriCaster PRO FX and TriCaster STUDIO have an integrated
character generators and support virtual sets. NewTek’s Tricaster has been used
by FoxSports.com and the NBA Developmental League.
NewTek’s SpeedEDIT is Newtek’s video editing software that
can edit video streams from SD to HD. SpeedEDIT works smoothly with MPEG-2,
AVI, and QuickTime and allows all editing functions to be performed directly on
native clips within its unique timeline and storyboard interface. SpeedEDIT
performs many functions including ripple edits, clip replacement, segment
repositioning, 3D video rotation, color correction, animated titles and Targa
sequence playback.
LightWave v9.5, is a major update to its 3D application,
LightWave 3D. LightWave v9.5 includes many capabilities including an all-new
lighting system with improvements to animation, global illumination, rendering
and workflow.
LightWave v9.5 also has many new character animation
enhancements that include a new hair and fur system. LightWave v9.5 has a vary
of new features that include a new lighting system, a faster sampling system
for GI, as well as SDK Support for new GI functions and disk cache.
