VT[3] … Integrated Production Suite

Revolutionize your work with NewTek's VT[3]™, the one complete solution for all your video production needs. VT[3]™ provides a fast and versatile editor, tightly integrated with everything you need for production, post-production, and graphics: live switching, real-time keying, titling, compositing, 2D video paint, 3D modeling and animation and live Internet streaming. VT [3] delivers all of this plus unsurpassed video quality with uncompressed component digital video.

For the serious professional video producer …
VT[3]™ provides the world's most powerful and mature real-time, uncompressed, multi-format, multi-standard editing and live-production solution. Without rendering or converting files, VT[3]™ gets the job done quickly. In addition, VT[3]™ smoothly integrates into any production pipeline, with support for all of the major 3D and 2D motion graphic packages, including LightWave 3D®, Digital Fusion®, 3ds max®, combustion® After Effects® along with support for DVD authoring packages, WindowsMedia Encoder 9, and much more ...

For Digital Video …
VT[3]™ provides impressive support for today's Digital Video, whether using multiple DV streams in a live production, or real-time editing of numerous DV clips in an edit session. Once edited, DVD authoring in your favourite application is made easier with the VT[3]™ project codec, allowing you to instantly export your whole project as an AVI file, without rendering or consuming precious storage space.

VT [3] Integrated Production Suite overview

• Ease of use - designed for professionals who need to get work done on time and on budget
• Complete suite of virtual equipment created in software - monitors, decks, switchers, waveform/vectorscopes, audio mixer and more
• Integrated timeline and storyboard editing
• Multiple layers in real-time - as many as your system can handle - not limited by the software
• Real-time keyframeable color correction and blur
• Multi-format and multi-standard editing, with standards conversion on the fly in real-time
• Real-time playback of compressed and uncompressed clips
• Native DV support, component, Y/C, and composite I/O
• Real-time 3D transitions, slow motion and reverse, chroma and luma keying
• 2D video paint with pixel tracking, filters, more
• LightWave 3D, world-class 3D graphics and animation
• Optional SX-8(TM), up to 8-component or 24-composite input Switcher
• Optional RS-8(TM) Switcher Control Surface
• Optional SDI I/O
• Stream live events or finished productions to the Web in real-time

What's New in VT [3]

• Mix and match any combination of uncompressed, compressed and DV, play resulting project in
  real-time, instantly.
• Full 3D control of layer position and rotation, with shadow, color correction and other effects.
• Spline-based control of all parameters in VT-Edit™ allows virtually every characteristic of a project to be animated.
• VT-Edit Project Codec allows use of VT-Edit projects in any application that supports AVI files, without rendering or conversion.
• Default file format is AVI file for storing project data. This works fully with the VT-Edit Project Codec, placing
• VT-Edit project data into the AVI file.
• Enhanced DV Support.
• DV cameras attached to the system are automatically patched into the Switcher.
• Native DV playback using an optimized codec and native YUV decompression and compression.
• DV is recorded directly, without decompression/recompression.
• Record analog sources to compressed DV in real-time.
• Unlimited number of attached DV devices supported.
• DV deck control.
• VT-Vision™ onscreen monitors can be colour calibrated to match reference video monitors.
• Over 100 new VT-Script™ commands.
• Per-channel proc-amp can be used to correct computer sources as well as analog sources.
• Import and export of EDL (Grass Valley, CMX, Sony, Excel) in VT-DDR and VT-Edit.
• Batch Capture with frame-accurate capture, Recapture, Print-to-Tape.
• Per frame time code support.
• Deck manager with presets.
• Character Generator - Fully redesigned with major interface and workflow improvements.
• Complete justification, alignment, ruler, grid and guide snapping tools.
• Flexible layering and grouping controls.
• New gradient editor and gradients bin.
• Per-page undos and redos.
• Improved font rasterization.
• Details View within Storyboard, allowing you to enter project settings in a spreadsheet-like mode.
• Tool Shed™ - Provides a common plug-in environment to offer high level tools and save user settings
  (grouped in Tool Chest™) for VT-Edit.
• Zebra stripes for 75IRE and illegal video.
• Auto Calibration for 75IRE bars, 100IRE bars and video pass-through mode (requires optional SX-8).
• Interactive graph of all the animateable variables of the currently selected clip