Live Production

It takes a special character to direct a live production. This is essentially video production on the fly, with no time for discussion. NewTek maximizes your capability by putting the most important live tools in front of you to switch, playback, monitor and adjust with minimum effort. VT[4] LIVE! automation takes that simplicity to the next level with sophisticated control over video and slo-mo playback, audio mixing, keying and more.

"My friends and associates in the film and video business have hundred-thousand dollar systems that can't do what VT[4] Live can do."
- Corey D. Kaup; Episcopal Church of the Epiphany, Decatur, GA

Live Switching

• 8 Component inputs, 8 Y/C inputs, up to 24 Composite inputs
• Unlimited DV inputs
• Real-time FireWire input or output
• Automated Audio Mixer
• 4 Component outputs, 4 Y/C outputs, preview output, 4 Composite outputs
• 3 RS-422 machine control ports
• Real-time chroma key
• Cue mode in Digital Disk Recorder
• 500+ digital transitions
• Dual GPI In / Out
• Background generator
• Internal Genlock
  

Digital Disk Recorder (VT-DDR™)

• Multi-format, multi-standard on-screen tape deck
• Compressed or uncompressed 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)

Audio Mixer

• Mix 8 stereo live and 8 4-channel online audio sources
• 4-track audio: 4 discrete channels of audio in and out
• 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
• And many more

Digital Disk Recorder (VT-DDR™)

• Multi-format, multi-standard on-screen tape deck
• Compressed or uncompressed 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)
  

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 and video pass-through mode (requires SX-84)

VT-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

VT-Vision™

• 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

Digital Video Effects

• More than 500 real-time transitions, all transitions reversible
• Expansions, wipes, curls, trajectories, fades
• ChromaFX, overlays, rotations, compressions, borders

External Controller

• Control external decks from your VT[4] 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