Features ToasterVision/Scope
Keeping a close eye on your production is imperative, and NewTek makes it easy and affordable with ToasterVision™, which is one of the many tools standard issue with Video Toaster [2]. Right on your computer screen, open up Program, Preview and Key monitors, which will give you gorgeous video playback at 60 fields per second NTSC or 50 fields per second PAL. Sure, for critical output, you will always have dedicated full-time video output from the composite, Y/C or Component connection to your monitor, but there are times when you just want confirmation that all is well.

While carrying several monitors with you into the field may not be practical from a financial or logistical standpoint, ToasterVision gives you the luxury of several different sizes and even differing aspects just by right clicking on the ToasterVision module.

All Video Toaster modules are software-driven, and ToasterVision is actually a video overlay on your computer screen. Just like a real-world production monitor, you can view your output in underscan mode, to keep an eye on frame edges.

Quite unlike most physical monitors, however, is the ability to select Program, Preview, Program In, or Key views with the click of a button. Closing any ToasterVision monitor is as simple as clicking on the power button. Video experts, not computer people are responsible for the design of Video Toaster [2]. That is why NewTek offers you tools that make sense to anyone who has ever worked with real-world gear.

Need a couple different sizes? No problem, as any ToasterVision module can be half-res, full-sized, or occupy the entire screen, if you are running a dual-screen monitor display. ToasterVision is just more example of the kind of tools we give you to let you get right to work.

ToasterScope
Computer displays of your video are quite handy, but without some objective method of ensuring you are producing crisp, legal video, there’s no way of knowing if that gorgeous flesh-tone is what it appears.

Enter ToasterScope.
This 60 field-per-second display offers you the quantitative and quite necessary view to ensure what you think you see is truly what you’re seeing. Since computer monitors and even expensive production monitors can be out of calibration, professionals rely on Waveform monitors for real time monitoring of the incoming signal. Relax, knowing that you have composite or component monitoring of the video signal’s voltage in either waveform or vectorscope views. NewTek even thoughtfully provided an intensity knob for the ToasterScope’s display, just like the more expensive rack-mounted models.