VT[5]

DESCRIPTION
VT[5]™ delivers versatility in live production with up to 24 inputs along with hundreds of real-time transitions and 3D DVE’s, network-style live virtual sets, character generator, real-time keying and digital disk recorder for integration of captured video clips. In post production, VT[5] delivers streamlined editing, 2D video paint and animation system along with Emmy® Award winning LightWave 3D® for motion graphics and animation. VT[5] total video production control at your fingertips.

BENEFITS

Live Production

• Advanced NewTek LiveSet™ effects engine
• Completely integrated live virtual set system
• LiveMatte™ provides sophisticated keyer previews
• Optional LiveControl™ LC-11 switcher surface
• Optional TimeWarp replay and slo-mo controller
• Optional 8-input SX-SDI switching hardware
• Optional LiveText™ remote titling and graphics software
• Optional DataLink™ real-time linking and display of external scores or files
• Live streaming in Flash, Windows Media or VC-1 formats
• On-screen Video Monitor supports any resolution / aspect
• Monitor offers action safe / title safe overlays
• Still Frame option on capture panel
• iVGA Recorder captures remote client displays as video
• DDRs support different clip aspect ratios
• DDRs support file formats listed below, including Apple® QuickTime™
• VGA output to projector includes real-time image enhancement
• VGA supports remote applications, such as LiveText
• Record show in I-frame MPEG-2 with optional MP3 audio
• Clock now on main interface
• Create and export title templates for VT[5] or TriCaster™
• Title templates can be placed on Effects bus

Post Production

• Integrates SpeedEDIT™, Blazing-Fast Video Editor
• Improved file format support
• TriCaster™ Update 2.0 project support
• HDR and floating-point image support
• Supports all audio channels from 4-channel DV files
• Audio plug-in support for VST audio filters
• VST audio plug-ins included from Voxengo
• CG Post animatable Character Generator
• Real-time Print to Tape for DV with dropped frame alerts
• Control Tree spline nodes support ease-in, ease-out
• Easily change the fielding order of clips
• Improved color correction
• 3-band color correction
• 4-channel selective color correction
• Tool Shed Project Backup wizard Time-code burn-in tool for playback overlay
• Advanced new cross-fades
• Dip to color, with selectable colors
• Additive cross-fades
• Additional filters, including Black and white; Sepia

Miscellaneous

• Audio/Video drivers support Windows Media Encoder and Flash encoder
• AVI wrapper has been re-written to support more project features
• SpeedHQ™ codec supports
• 4:2:2 video with and without alpha channel
• 4:4:4 video support with and without alpha channel
• Complete multi-core and multi-CPU decoding
• Customizable UI colors in Preferences
• Significantly improved readability across all modules
• Windows Vista™ UAC support
• Standard (non-admin) windows accounts now supported

REFINEMENTS

Reliability

• Drivers no longer take any system resources when VT is not actually running.
• Re-written installer is more reliable, and does not need any path settings.
• Native support for MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, QuickTime™, DV, MJPEG decoding and encoding, reducing reliance on external codecs.

Performance

• Multi-threaded, taking advantage of multi-core and multi-CPU machines.
• Reduced memory usage for many core operations.
• Aggressively optimized for SSE2 instructions.
• Improved desktop visuals.
• File assets always exist for resolution, frame-rate, audio sample rate, etc...
• All modules fully support aspect ratio.
   

Live Switching

• LiveSet™ Effects Engine
• Live Virtual Sets - multiple angles and multiple focal lengths per set
• Upstream effects row
• 8 Component inputs
• 8 Y/C inputs
• Up to 24 Composite inputs
• 8 Serial Digital inputs (with SX-SDI)
• DV input Support
• Real-time FireWire input or output
• Automated Audio Mixer
• 4 Component outputs
• 4 Y/C outputs
• 5 SDI outputs (with SX-SDI)
• Preview output
• 4 Composite outputs
• 3 RS-422 machine control ports
• Real-time, advanced chroma keyer
• LiveMatte™ keyer previews of color, edge and spill
• Cue mode in Digital Disk Recorder
• 200+ digital transitions Dual GPI In / Out
• 8 Internal Tally light controls
• Background generator
• Internal Genlock

Audio Mixer

• Mix 8 stereo live and 8 4-channel online audio sources
• 4-track audio: 4 discrete channels of audio in and out
• Supports SDI embedded audio (with SX-SDI)
• 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
• Aux Mix: stereo aux send and aux returns for external sweetening
• Automated mixing: transition between audio presets
• Calibrated audio meters
• Audio-follows-video option
• Manage your output mix with Input Pass Thru
• PA Mix Out: for live PA or control room feed
• Balance on all inputs and outputs

Digital Disk Recorder

• Multi-format, multi-standard on-screen tape deck
• Compressed or uncompressed playback
• Detects clip aspect ratios for 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, video pass-through (requires SX-84)

Video 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

Video Monitor

• 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
• Display of Action Safe / Title Safe boundaries
• Underscan mode
• Zebra stripes for 75 IRE and illegal video
• Proc-Amp for matching computer display to reference video monitors

CG Designer

• WYSIWYG text and graphics editing
• Save projects or pages
• Display Program output within CG interface
• Use any installed TrueType™ font
• Create Title Templates
• Export Title Templates
• Assign a Title Template to any source in Upstream effects row
• Save pages as 32-bit images or animations
• Soft shadows
• Create graphic objects (boxes, circles, splines)
• Instantly save or recall text styles
• Powerful drawing tools

Title Templates

• Easy creation of live pages
• More than 80 styles
• Customize/create new templates in CG Designer
• Export any title to upstream effects

iVGA

• Import external computer displays as switcher source
• Queue up to 3 iVGA sources
• Client provided for Windows and Mac systems
• Software-based scan conversion to video resolution
• Dedicate iVGA output to connected projector

Digital Video Effects

• More than 200 real-time transitions
• Expansions
• Wipes
• Curls
• Trajectories
• Fades
• Overlays
• Rotations
• Compressions
• Borders
• More...

SpeedEDIT

• Blazing-Fast Video Editor
• HD and SD editing
• Real-time HD editing and previewing
• Resolution independent
• Frame-rate independent
• Fully multi-threaded for dual-core and quad-core machines
• SpeedHQ™ codec with 4:2:2 colorspace and alpha support
• Integrated Timeline and Storyboard editing
• Unlimited layering in real-time
• 3D control of position, size and rotation of layers in real-time
• Spline-based movement of all animations
• Unlimited undo, saved with project
• Real-time 3-wheel color correction
• 4-band color selection
• No rendering of complex projects required
• Create subprojects within a project
• VST Audio plug-in support
• CG Post™ for moving text
• Project Backup Wizard
• Time-code overlay filter
• Real-time Targa sequence playback
• Multi-format and multi-standard editing
• Real-time playback of compressed and uncompressed clips
• Real-time FireWire in and out
• More than 200 real-time transitions
• Real-time slow motion and reverseReal-time chroma and luma keying
• Real-time high-quality scaling of graphics
• Real-time video and audio filters
• Real-time audio mixing of unlimited layers
• 3D audio positioning
• 12dB of audio headroom prevents digital distortion

Deck Controller

• Control external decks from your VT[5] 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

Aura Video Paint™

• Amazingly fast 16-bit paint engine
• Paint over live video
• Four-point pixel tracking
• Color isolation
• 3D compositing
• Stroke recorder
• Wide range of text controls
• Instantly use a graphic’s alpha channel
• Animate text along a path
• Native DV support
• AVI and QuickTime audio support
• Apply Photoshop® filters to any animation
• VT[5] Supported File Formats

VT[5] Card

SPECIFICATIONS

• General
  • TYPE: 3.3V / 5V ¾ length PCI Card
  • ANALOG VIDEO CONNECTORS: (3) 15 pin high density (adapter cables with bnc connectors included)
  • ANALOG AUDIO CONNECTORS: (1) 15 pin high density
  • DIGITAL VIDEO/AUDIO CONNECTOR: 90 pin digital video/audio bus
  • INTERFACE: PCI bus mastering
  • FIRMWARE: Field Upgradable
  • SUPPORTED VIDEO I/O FORMATS: Composite, Component, S-Video (Y/C), SDI, NTSC and PAL
  • DIGITAL FORMAT: 8 bit ITU-R BT.601
  • UNCOMPRESSED VIDEO: Yes
  • TIME BASE CORRECTOR: Internal. External unit not required
  • GENLOCK: Integrated; syncs either VT[4] or external house sync. Vertical, horizontal and subcarrier phase controls
  • COMB FILTER: 2-line luma and chroma comb filters including adaptive luma comb for NTSC
• Technical
  • VIDEO CHANNELS: 1 input, 1 output (Analog), 3 input, 2 output (Digital Connector)
  • AUDIO CHANNELS: 4 channels in adjustable mic or line level 4 channels out, line level
• Video Levels (In/Out): Composite: 1V p-p 75 Ohm
  • S-VIDEO
    • Luminance:1V p-p 75 Ohm
    • Chroma:286 mV p-p 75 Ohm
  • COMPNENT - BETACAM
    • Luminance: 714mV p-p 75 Ohm
    • R-Y, B-Y: 700 mV p-p 75 Ohm
  • COMPNENT - MII
    • Luminance: 700mV p-p 75 Ohm
    • R-Y, B-Y: 486 mV p-p 75 Ohm
• Video Performance
  • NOISE LEVEL: -58 dB
  • LUMINANCE FREQUENCY: 2 dB response (maximum variation to 4.2 MHz - multi burst):
  • DIFFERENTIAL PHASE (MODULATED 40 IRE RAMP): 1 degree
  • DIFFERENTIAL GAIN(MODULATED 40 IRE RAMP): 1.5 %
  • CHROMINANCE FREQUENCY RESPONSE (3 DB POINT) -CBWR=0/1 800/500 KHZ K FACTOR (K-2T): 1 %
  • LUMINANCE NON LINEARITY: +/- 2 %
  • MINIMUM IRE PASSABLE FROM INPUT TO OUTPUT (SUPER BLACK): 6.5 below black IRE
  • MAXIMUM IRE PASSABLE FROM INPUT TO OUTPUT: 8
• On Board Audio Performance
  • FREQUENCY RESPONSE: 20HZ – 20KHZ +/- 1 dB
  • HARMONIC DISTORTION (THD+N): < .05 %
  • DYNAMIC RANGE UNWEIGHTED/A WEIGHTED: >80 / >83 dB
  • AUDIO SAMPLE RATE: 48 KHZ
• Video Formats
  • AVI
  • MPEG-1
  • MPEG-2 (program and transport stream)
  • HDV
  • Apple® QuickTime™ (with alpha support)
  • MPEG-4 (including iPod and PSP)
  • Raw DV
  • DVCPro 50
  • DVCPRO HD
  • Image sequences
  • Output to Flas
• Graphic Formats
  • JPEG
  • PNG
  • Targa
  • Tiff
  • BMP
  • WBMP
  • PCX
• Audio Formats
  • WAV
  • MP3
  • AU
  • SND
  • AIFF
  • WAX
  • DIF

INCLUDED ITEMS

• VT[5] Card
• Installation DVD's
• Content DVD's
• Full Printed Manual
• Necessary I/O cables

REQUIREMENTS

• PROCESSOR:
  • Dual Intel or AMD processors that support SSE2 (Multi-core CPUs recommended)
  • Front-side Bus speed of 800MHz or higher
• INTERFACE:
  • An open 66MHz PCI slot for the VT[5] card is recommended for best performance (Additional slot needed for breakout cable)
  • Any IEEE1394 FireWire card for DV and HDV capture
• GRAPHICS CARD:
  • PCI Express-based graphics card w/ 64MB RAM per display
  • DirectX 9.0c or higher # Latest graphics card drivers
  • Minimum screen resolution of 1280x1024 required
• SYSTEM RAM:
  • 2 Gigabytes or more of system RAM
• HARD DRIVES:
  • Software-striped SATA drives for video storage and playback
  • 8 Gigabytes of storage for DVEs and content
  • System drive with 2GB of free disk space
  • DVD Drive
• OPERATING SYSTEM:
  • Windows® 7 (x32 or x64), Windows Vista 32-bit or Windows XP Professional (SP2)
  • Windows® Media Player 9 or higher
  • Windows® Media Encoder 9 or higher for streaming

When upgrading from previous versions:
For high-definition editing and optimal performance of VT[5] LiveSet™ 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 complete details follow this link.

*NewTek recommends the optimal system configuration. Systems with slower processor and drive speeds will work with VT[5], but some complex functions may not perform in real-time. Additionally, as new technology becomes available, system recommendations will be updated. Specifications are subject to change without notice.