Newtek VT5 BROCHURE

VT[5] comes in a choice of three different packages: VT[5]™ , VT[5] LIVE!™ and VT[5] LIVE SDI!

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VT[5] VT[5]LIVE] VT[5]LIVE SDI

LiveSet Technology I I I
LiveSet Constructor I I I
SpeedEDIT HD/SD resolution independent multi-format editing I I I
CG Designer (Character Generator) I I I
DDR (Digital Disk Recorder) I I I
RS-422 Remote control I I I
DV-Support (Requires IEEE-1394 interface) I I I

DSK (Downstream Key) I I I
Chroma / Luma Key I I I
Proc Amp ( colour & signal calibration) I I I
Video Scope (Waveform & Vectorscope) I I I
On-screen Video Monitors I I I

Video Paint (2D Paint, anim & compositing) I I I
LightWave3D [9] I I I

VT[5] 32-Bit PCI 66 MHz card I I I

1 in/out Component YUV or Y/C or composite I I I
1 in/out Unbalanced stereo audio I I I
Alpha out / preview out I I I

SX-84 switcher expansion module (6U breakout box) I I I

8 component or 8 Y/C or 24 composite inputs I I I
4 component or Y/C outputs I I I
4 composite program outputs I I I
4-Channels XLR balanced audio in/out I I I
12/8 RCA unbalanced audio in/out I I I
1 Tally / GPI connector I I I

SX-SDI switcher expansion module (2U breakout box) I I I

8 Serial Digital inputs I I I
1 Serial Digital Preview + 1 Program outputs I I I
5 Serial Digital routeable outputs I I I
Embedded Serial Digital audio: 1 input /1 output I I I
AES-EBU Serial Digital audio: 1 input /1 output I I I

RS-8 T-Bar 8-channel mixer remote I I I
SDI I/O I I —
Genlock I I I

24-month manufacturer hardware warranty I I I

Technical Support with Callback service (English & French speaking) I I I

I Included I Option — not applicable I included with SX-84 option I included with SX-SDI option

Note: The SX-SDI requires the SX-84 to operate - The SDI CARD is not compatible with the SX-SDI

™

«A revolutionary product, a summary of technology

Specifications subject to change without notice.

and genius in a single solution.

The best that a digital television would want for the

production of its content.»

Massimo Mazzanti

«... a unique product that combines the functions of

a live switcher with those of an edit suite.

All designed to work the way production

professionals really need».

Paulo de Andrade,

Digital Post Production

«It does the same work as other non-linear

products, faster, cheaper, better and with no fat!»

NBC’s Access Hollywood

«Thanks to the power and technology engineered

in NewTek’s VT, Mania TV! is delivering the next

revolution in television»

OUR CUSTOMERS SAY:

Visit http://www.maniatv.com to check out the world’s first

Internet Television Network! It’s got tons of new music

«...perhaps the best tool on VT is its image quality.
Along with [my co-workers on Soeur Emmanuelle:

An exceptional woman for France 5], I was suprised

by the superb quality of the images I achieved.

The colour correction... is particularly powerful and

gives excellent quality...»

Visual Effects Artist, Editor, Producer

«VT integrates my LightWave animations, video

capture, editing, 2D painting and After Effects all in

one. Time is money and this new system is the best

in the video industry at saving you time...

«You have exceptional hardware and software
working in concert to give you maximum creative
freedom. No one does this better than NewTek...»

Florida State University Media Production Program

CEO – Mania TV!

videos and short films!

François Boulene

Sailing Channel

Rich Helvey

Drew Massey

and money.»

Dan Ablan

AGA Digital

Robert Levine

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LightWave and LightWave 3D, TV-Studio-in-a-Box, VT[5],

VT, SpeedEDIT, CG Designer, Video Toaster, VT[5] Live! and

VT[5] Live SDI! are registered trademark of NewTek inc.

Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft. After Effects

and Illustrator, are registered trademarks of Adobe Systems

inc. Other products, pictures, company names shown or

mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective

Authorised Dealer

Live Switching - Titling - Internet Sreaming - Broadcast - Post Production - DVD Authoring - Real Time - Multiformat

companies.

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NewTek Inc.

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Virtual Studios

SDI switcher

HD/SD Editing

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VT[5]

Integrated Production Suite

VT[5] provides all the tools you need

for Live and Post-Production

Live video mixer with complete

integrated virtual sets, real-time

keying, titling, HD/SD Editing, 3D

animation, DVD authoring and 2D video

paint and animation.

With VT[5] your investment is 100% productive

- when it’s is not in use for live production the
VT[5] is equally at home for post production.

VT[5] switcher offers up to 32 inputs, complete

integrated LiveSet technology, multiple DDRs

and comes standard with SpeedEDIT - an

ultra-fast non-linear multi-format HD/SD

editor; CG Designer for titling; Video Paint;

LightWave 3D - the world-famous 3D package

can be used for anything from flying logos to

Hollywood-class Special FX and much more.

VT[5] is designed to deliver amazing video

production at an unprecedented price level.

Live Switching

More than 500 reversible DVEs (Fades, Wipes,

Curls, Trajectories, Rotation, Compression, Borders,

Chroma FX, Overlays and much more…)
2D and 3D DVEs Design
Up to 32 inputs using SX-84 and SX-SDI

expansion modules
16:9 wide-screen and 4:3 support
LiveSet™ real-time virtual studio environments with

multiple camera angles and focal lengths
Support for transitions between virtual sets
Live virtual studio environments with real-time

shadows, reflections, lighting and more
LiveSet Constructor utility to easily create up-

stream key graphics, virtual sets, fixed background

keys and more
Dual-channel upstream Effects bus for double-box

interviews
Luminance and Chroma keying.
Advanced new keying capabilities with full spill

removal and adjustable tolerance, smoothness and

edge manipulations
Key settings are stored per each camera input
Key preview before taken live
Garbage mattes
Integrated DSK with fade in/out
Titling, graphics, videos and animations directly

assigned to mixer buses
iVGA adds external computer (MAC&PC) displays

as a switcher input. Multiple inputs selectable

NEWTEK VT[5] FEATURES

interface
Dynamic mixer buses reconfiguration (no need to

recable the video inputs)
Save/load mixer configuration

Indicates features new to VT[5]

Titling or Character Generator
CG Designer

WYSIWYG editing
Interactive template based CG module
«Save As Title Template» feature to create the

«Live Title Templates» for VT and TriCaster
Display Program output within CG interface
Use any installed TrueType font
Save pages as 32-bit images or animations
Create and insert graphic objects (boxes, circles,

splines, images)
Instantly save or recall text styles
Powerful drawing tools

Digital Disk Recorder (DDR)

Multi-format, multi-standard on-screen tape deck
Play back a single clip or list of clips
Cue in/out clips to roll when triggered by Switcher
DDR can be assigned to the Downstream Keyer

(DSK)
Count up or count down project time or clip time
Operate multiple DDRs simultaneously
EDL import/export (Grass Valley, CMX, Sony, Excel)
Record program out to hard drive in DV and up to

uncompressed quality

Internet streaming

One button internet streaming
Windows Media encoder

External Controller

Control external RS-422 and DV decks from your

VT[5] desktop
Batch capture deck lists and configurations
Record allows user to enter time code generation

settings

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)
4 adjustable XLR balanced mic/line inputs with

Phantom power
8 stereo inputs from computer sources
3 band EQ, balance, mute and mono for all 16

audio inputs
DV and SDI audio inputs
6 stereo unbalanced audio inputs from lives

sources
Audio-follows-video capability
Automated mixing: transition between audio

presets
PA Mix Output: for live PA or control room feed

Indicates features new to VT[5]

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Signal correction
Proc Amp

Brightness, contrast, hue, saturation
U offset, V offset / U gain, V gain
More than 70 adjustable parameters
Calibrate computer sources as well as

analog sources

Auto calibration for 75 IRE bars, 100

IRE bars and video passthrough mode
(requires SX-84)

Video Scope

Monitor program or preview
Waveform of Y/V, Y, C, YUV or RGB
Vectorscope at either 75% or 100%

Chroma

Adjustable display brightness and tint.

Video Monitors

Fully fielded on-screen playback on

computer monitor
YUV video display
Monitor program, preview, key or DSK

buses
Display supports includes 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

Non Linear video Editing
SpeedEDIT

™

Resolution independent: output any frame-

rate, any resolution, any aspect ratio
Combine HD and SD clips on the timeline
Linked timeline and storyboard editing
More than 500 real-time transitions
Edits in native formats

NEWTEK VT[5] FEATURES

Native editing of HDV and DVCPro HD
Internally process all clips in HD with full-

res, real-time HD previews

Multi-format, mix AVI, QuickTime, Mpeg1,

Mpeg2…
MXF Support (depends on codecs)
WMV HD and VC-1 output
Unlimited Undo/Redo saved with project
Real-time slow motion and reverse
White Balance correction and real-time 3-

wheel color correction
4-band color selection
Real-time video and audio filters
Intelligent background rendering
Project backup tool
CG Post™ animated titling
Real-time 3D position, size and rotation
Spline-based control of all clip properties
Real-time TGA sequence playback
Real-time chroma and luma keying with

spill suppression
Real-time mixing of unlimited audio layers
3D audio positioning
Real time FireWire in/out and SD video

in/out up to uncompressed quality
VST™ Audio plug-in support
Optimized for Dual-core and Quad-core

systems

2D Video painting

Amazingly fast 2D paint and animation

engine
Paint over live video
Four-point pixel tracking
3D compositing
Stroke recorder
Instantly use a graphic alpha channel
Animate text along path

3D Flying logos and animation
design
Lightwave 3D

®

(optional)

Established industry standard
World-class rendering
3D titling
3D flying logo
Fast, versatile modelling tools
Character animation tools
Explosions and particles
Multiple cameras per scene
Easy import of Illustrator® / EPS data

INPUT/OUTPUT

8 component inputs
8 Y/C inputs
Up to 24 composite inputs

DV inputs and real time DV ouput (requires

IEEE1394 OHCI compliant I/O)
SDI video up to 8 inputs
Native program output to projector up to

QSXGA (2560x2048)
4-Channel balanced inputs switchable

between mic and line levels
6 unbalanced line inputs
Aux send and return
1 SDI program output, 1 SDI preview and

5 SDI routed outputs.
4 Component outputs
4 Y/C outputs
4 Composite outputs
1 Composite preview output / Alpha-

channel output
Audio AES EBU or Embedded - 1 input /1

output
4 balanced line outputs
4 unbalanced line outputs
2 control room outputs
3 RS-422 machine control ports
Tally light /GPI support

VT[5] Supported File Formats

Video Formats:

Avi, DV, RTV, Mpeg1, Mpeg2 Program

Stream, Mpeg2 Transport Stream, HDV,

Quicktime, Mpeg4 (including PSP and iPod

output), image sequences, Flash, WMV HD

and VC-1.

Graphic formats:

jpg, jpeg, png, tga, tif, gif, bmp, wbmp, pcx

(alpha-channel support for tga and png)

Audio Formats:

wav, mp3, au, snd, m3u, aif, aifc, aiff,

wax, dif

Type 3.3V / 5V half-length 32-bit PCI, 66 MHz

Video In/Out PAL composite, Component, S-Video, SDI

Digital format 8bit ITU-R BT.601

Analogue video connectors 15 pin high density

Time base corrector Internal. External unit not required

Analogue audio connectors 3,5 mm stereo

Digital video/Audio connector 90-pin digital video/audio bus

NEWTEK VT[5] HARDWARE SPECIFICATIONS

Genlock Syncs VT[5] to external sync.

Comb filter 2-line luma and chroma comb filters

Processor: Dual Intel or AMD processors that support SSE2 (Dual

Interface: An open 66MHz PCI slot for the VT[5] card is

Graphics Card: PCI Express-based graphics card w/ 64MB RAM per

System RAM: 2 Gigabytes or more of system RAM.

Hard Drives: Software-striped SATA drives for video storage and

RECOMMENDED VT[5] SYSTEM CONFIGURATION*

Operating System: Windows® XP Professional (SP2) or Windows Vista 32-bit

When upgrading from previous versions:

For high-definition editing and optimal performance of VT[5] LiveSet (tm)
technology (virtual sets) we recommend dual CPUs or multi dual-core CPUs
for the smoothest and fastest operation.
Owners of versions prior to VT[4], may need to consider upgrading their
NewTek hardware. For more information please contact your dealer or
NewTek Europe.

*As new technology becomes available, system recommendations may change and will be updated. Please refer to www.newtek-europe.com or www.newtek.com for the latest
information. Specifications are subject to change without notice .

core CPUs recommended)
Front-side Bus speed of 800MHz or higher.

recommended for best performance (Additional slot
needed for breakout cable)
Any IEEE 1394 FireWire card for DV and HDV capture.

display
DirectX 9.0c or higher
Latest graphics card drivers
Minimum screen resolution of 1280X1024 required.

playback
8 Gigabytes of storage for DVEs and content
System drive with 2GB of free disk space
DVD Drive.

Windows® Media Player 9 or higher
Windows® Media Encoder 9 or higher for streaming.

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VT[5]

(optional board) alpha channel out

(adapter cable with BNC connectors
included)

Firmware Field Upgradable

Genlock loop-through available on SX-84
subcarrier phase controls : vertical,
horizontal

RS-8™ T-BAR MIXER & TRANSITION CONTROLLER

Preview bus 8 input

Program bus 8 input

Controls T-Bar

Take and Auto transition buttons
Take and Fade DSK buttons
Effect selection knob
Speed adjustment knob
Digital Disk Recorder jog knob

SX-84™ SWITCHER EXPANSION MODULE (6U Breakout Box)

Video inputs 8 component or Y/C or 24 composite

Video outputs 4 Component or 4 Y/C program outputs

Genlock 1 Genlock in - 1 Genlock loop-through

NEWTEK VT[5] OPTIONAL HARDWARE SPECIFICATIONS

Audio in 4-Channel XLR balanced (switchable mic or line level , phantom

Audio out 4 XLR balanced - 8 RCA unbalanced (6 stereo pairs) - 2 AUX

Remote control 3 RS-422

Proc Amp control for each input (You may have inputs of differing
formats on differing rows, so you can have all three formats
feeding to the VT[5] at any time.) (Multiple inputs internally
synchronized; camera do not require genlock capability.)

4 Composite program outputs
Alpha out (can also display preview output)

power) - 12 RCA unbalanced (6 stereo pairs) - 2 AUX return

send - 1 PA Mix

SX-SDI™ SWITCHER EXPANSION MODULE (2U Breakout Box)

Video inputs 8 Serial Digital inputs

Video ouptuts 1 Serial Digital Program output

Audio inputs 1 Embedded Serial Digital audio input

Audio inputs 1 Embedded Serial Digital output

SDI Video in / out conforms to SMPTE 259M
Embedded Audio conforms to SMPTE 272M
Digital Audio in / out conforms to AES/EBU standards; 20-bit 48khz (2 channels)

Note: The SX-SDI requires the SX-84 to operate. SX-84 analog and Serial Digital
inputs/outputs are simultaneously active.

1 Serial Digital Preview output
5 Serial Digital ouputs (routed from the 8 SDI inputs)

1 AES-EBU Serial Digital audio input

1 AES-EBU Serial Digital output

SDI CARD

Type 3/4-length PCI card (requires free PCI slot)

Video input 1 SMPTE 259M Serial Digital

Video output 1 SMPTE 259M Serial Digital

Audio input 1 AES/EB Serial Digital

Audio output 1 AES/EB Serial Digital

Note: The SDI CARD is not compatible with the SX-SDI.

1 SMPTE 259M Serial Digital Preview or Alpha Channel out