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The iDigitals Performance Series VT[4] Turnkey System is fully equipped with:
- Dual 3.6GHZ Intel Xeon 2MB L2 Cache 64-Bit Processors
- 2GB (1GB x 2) PC3200 DDR2 400 ECC Dual Channel Memory
- nVidia Geforce 7900GTX 512MB GDDR3 PCI Express
Professional Dual DVI Video Card
- 150GB 10,000RPM 16MB Cache Serial ATA System Hard Drive
- 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache Serial ATA 3.0Gb/s Media Hard
Drive
- 1.2TB (150GB x 8) 10,000RPM 16MB Cache Serial ATA
Striped Video Array
- Additional 64-Bit Slot Firewire Card
- V SERIES Black Aluminum ATX Full Tower Computer Case
- Logitech Pro Desktop Black Keyboard w/ Optical Mouse
- Edirol MA-20D –Digital Stereo Near Field Monitors
- OPTI-UPS Enhanced Series 1400VA 980W 8 Outlets UPS
- Digital Card Reader/Writer w/ Floppy Drive
- Two Dual Layer DVD Burners 16x
- USB 2.0, Firewire, 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet, Audio
- Microsoft Windows XP Professional With Service Pack 2
- VT[5]™ Live Bundle with VT[5]™, SX-84™ and RS-8™
- Professional Newtek Integration w/ 48-Hour Burn-In
- 2 Year Extended Parts/Labor Warranty
Note: All iDigitals system orders require up to 14 business days to complete, in order to build, integrate, test and burn-in each system for maximum performance.
For any questions concerning the systems and/or custom configurations, please call us toll-free at (800)463-1322, and ask for Robin.
Key Features
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Newtek VT[4] LIVE! |
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 VT[4]
NewTek's VT[4] is a professional live production system combining live switching, editing, 2D & 3D animation and streaming into a single integrated system. VT[4] LIVE! allows you to seamless mix up to 24 video sources (component, composite and Y/C). It also includes both balanced (XLR) and unbalanced (RCA) audio in and out. VT[4] offers live switching and audio mixing, with real-time output to video and the Internet. VT[4]'s powerful feature set meets any live or post-production challenge. VT[4] is designed for the video producer that wants to expand their services without breaking the bank. VT[4] will give the power, flexibility and functionality of a system costing more than THREE times more! Whether the project calls for a live CEO message integrated with pre-edited segments or a complex edit for broadcast television, VT[4] gives you all of the tools necessary to complete your next award winning project.
SX-84
 The NewTek SX-84 is the heart of the VT[4] LIVE! Switcher, offering component, Y/C or composite ins and outs, along with audio, preview, alpha channel, tally, GPI and machine control. There are 8 Video input rows, but that does not indicate the true flexibility of this rack-mountable beauty measuring 18 7/8” wide by 10 ½” high (or 5 rack-units high) and 1 ½” deep. This is a production switcher that saves you both time and money. All inputs can use whatever cameras you have at your disposal, and unlike most switchers, does not require cameras to be genlockable. VT[4] performs all this internally, with each input having its own dedicated genlock controls in software. This means less gear to haul to a shoot, less time in setup and less investment for you to produce a multi-cam production. There is even an input for house synch, so you can time VT[4] to the other suites.
RS-8
 NewTek appreciates that most Technical Directors prefer to switch by touch. Just for them, we engineered the optional RS-8 hardware, providing the ability to focus on the production rather than the computer. RS-8 provides a fast, flexible and familiar control solution that may be used in place of the mouse or computer keyboard for live switching or editing, in a layout instantly recognizable by video professionals world-wide:
- 8-input Program Bus
- 8-input Preview Bus
- T-bar
- Auto and Take buttons
- Auto and Take Downstream Key buttons
RS-8 works in tandem with the SX-8 Switcher Expansion module to offer great flexibility between composite, Y/C or component inputs and outputs, with high-quality, hermetically-sealed, magnetic-reed switches, as you'd find on any high-end switcher. Just as there are Auto and Take buttons for the transitions, there is a Fade and Take button for the selected Downstream Key device. For example, when you have a logo and need to do page peels, your logo stays in front during each transition. There are also DDR buttons to hot-select between cue lists or loaded CG pages. |
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Dual Processing |
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 The platform of choice keeps getting better. Designed for dual-processor server and workstation platforms, the Intel® Xeon™ processor gives you the freedom to focus more on your business, and helps you gain greater flexibility and lower costs. Put the Intel Xeon processor's latest platform innovations to work to accomplish more than ever before. Backed by breakthrough Intel EM64T technology, the [Value] server also provides 64-bit computing capabilities while also maintaining complete compatibility with 32-bit applications. This provides you with the flexibility to install and run all existing 32-bit applications at maximum performance, and at the same time be ready to handle 64-bit applications as they become available. |
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The i7525 with PCI Express represents an evolution in server solution technology. Using the Intel® E7525 chipset, and the latest Intel® Xeon™ DP processors with 800MHz Front Side Bus (FSB), the i7525 also provides a PCI Express x16 slot for high-end video cards, support for up to 32GB of Registered DDR2-400 (PC2-3200) memory with ECC, Serial ATA RAID, 1394a FireWire, multi-channel audio, and PCIe-based Gigabit Ethernet port. In short, the i7525 not only performs on demand, it has capabilities to fit any range of server needs. |
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Multi-Bus PCI-X Technology |
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 A compatible extension of the existing PCI Bus, the 64-bit PCI-X architecture runs at speeds up to 133 MHz, providing burst transfer rates above 1gigabyte per second. This critical I/O bandwidth is needed for industry standard servers running enterprise applications such as Gigabit Ethernet, Fibre Channel, Ultra3 SCSI and Cluster Interconnects. In addition to performance improvements, PCI-X also increases the fault isolation of the PCI bus by helping the operating system work more effectively with adapters to better manage error conditions. |
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PCI Express is an Intel bus architecture that doubles the bandwidth of the AGP 8X bus, delivering over 4 GB per second in both upstream and downstream data transfers. Some advantages of PCI Express over AGP are:
- Double The Bandwidth - PCI Express X16 slots have peak bandwidth levels of 4.0 GB/s (up to 8.0 GB/s bi-directional), compared to 2.1 GB/s of AGP 8x. While the extra bandwidth is always nice to have, even today's high-end graphics cards don't make use of the 2.0 GB/s which AGP 8x offers, so the extra bandwidth PCIe x16 offers is generally regarded as a feature which "future-proofs" the graphics card standard for the next few years.
- More Power - PCI Express can deliver higher amounts of power to the graphics card through its new motherboard connector, which means many PCI Express cards can run without dedicated power connectors. Four of the six cards we're testing today get all their power directly from the motherboard, whereas the two high-end cards still pull too much juice, and require a dedicated power connector in addition to the PCI Express connector power.
- Cleaner Designs - AGP was designed fairly quickly in the late 90's to alleviate a quickly escalating problem with graphics card bandwidth. PCI Express fixes many of AGP's longstanding issues by providing a much cleaner design with less pins, allowing for motherboard designs to be simplified.
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 The Performance Series VT[4] Turnkey System includes a high performance 36.7GB 10,000 RPM 8MB Cache Serial ATA150 Hard Drive as the system drive, which features a 10,000 RPM rotational disk speed and 5.2 ms average data seek times. These drives utilize a data transfer rate of 1.5 Gb/second (150 MB/s). This surpasses today's mainstream ATA performance by 50% or more, with a clear roadmap for future performance increases. In a system combining multiple devices, such as a RAID configuration, SATA offers the advantage of additive device performance, devoting full bandwidth to each drive in the system.
The Performance Series VT[4] Turnkey System also includes a high performance 300GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache Serial ATA150 Hard Drive as the storage drive, which features a 16 MB buffer, the first increase since the industry upped the bar to 8 megabytes nearly three years ago. A large buffer and its accompanying firmware is much the opposite of command queuing- read-ahead and write-back optimizations shine in highly-localized scenarios.
The most important facet of the VT[4] Turnkey System is the video drive.
It requires ultra high performance throughput as we have integrated eight
Serial ATA generation II hard drives in a striped software video array. Each
of the drive has 16MB of cache for fast and responsive video
capture/playback.
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Technical Specifications
VT[4] LIVE!
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
- 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
- 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 (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
Character Generator:
- WYSIWYG editing
- Save projects or pages
- Display Program output within CG interface
- Use any installed TrueType font
- 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
Digital Video Effects:
- More than 500 real-time transitions
- All transitions reversible
- Expansions
- Wipes
- Curls
- Trajectories
- Fades
- ChromaFX
- Overlays
- Rotations
- Compressions
- Borders
- Much more
VT-Edit™:
- Ultra-intuitive interface
- 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 color correction
- No rendering of complex projects required
- Create subprojects within a project
- CG Post™ for moving text
- 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 500 real-time transitions
- Real-time slow motion and reverse
- Real-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
- All performed in software
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
LightWave 3D ® :
- Established industry standard
- World-class rendering
- Fast, versatile Modeler
- Powerful scripting language
- Advanced character Animation tools
- Particles
- Explosions
- Numeric entry (and math in input fields)
- Unlimited points and polygons per object
- Multiple cameras per scene
- Unlimited images
- Unlimited surfaces
- Easy import of Illustrator ® data
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[4] Supported File Formats
Video Formats:
- .avi
- .dv
- .rtv
- .mpeg
- .mpg
- .mpe
- .mpv
- .m1v
- .mp2*
- .mpa
- .mpv2
- .mp2v
Graphic formats:
- .jpg
- .jpeg
- .png
- .tga
- .tif
- .gif
- .bmp
- .wbmp
- .pcx
Audio Formats:
- wav
- .mp3
- .au
- .snd
- .m3u
- .aif
- .aifc
- .aiff
- .wax
- .dif
MPEG-2 support requires appropriate DirectShow player to be installed
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New Features
LightWave 3D® 8.5
NewTek is pleased to incorporate the latest 3D feature-set for those customers
using VT[4] with LightWave [8]. There have been more than 250 optimizations
since version 7.5, with numerous new features added:
- Fixed the ‘cannot create path’ warning when clips folder is deleted
(4.6c)
- Hardware support of OpenGL 2.0
- New multi-shift tool with editable history
- Photoshop-style texture blending modes
- Improved dynamics
- Easier integration of third-party file formats.
- 78 new hotkey combinations, including Caps Lock+Letter, Alt+Letter,
- Shift+Alt+Letter, and Shift+Ctrl+Letter combinations.
- FXMonkey
FX Monkey has been added for easier creation of logos and motion graphics.
FX Monkey is accessed in Layout > Plugins > Additional > FXMonkey.
NewTek25 Codec
NewTek includes an optimized codec for compressed capture, NewTek25. This 25Mbps
audio and video compressor/decompressor will capture video at 4:2:2 color space
while also using fewer system resources than the standard Microsoft DV codec.
New to version 4.6 is support for the YUY2 FourCC identifier. The benefit is
easier recognition of this video from other Windows applications. Further, this
inclusion allows you to load the NewTek .avi directly into Windows Media
Encoder.
Expanded multi-monitor support
VT[4] version 4.6 now offers the ability to span the workspace across several
monitors, and VT-Vision monitors can be placed on the last monitor, even without
the VT[4] desktop. This setting is changed in Preferences (shown above).
iVGA™ Client
The NewTek iVGA client, released in version 4.5 has been further improved,
with an option for ‘underscan’ for video sources. When selected, this prevents
iVGA from resizing the external display to fit within the action safe boundaries
VT-Edit Gamma Control
By popular demand, NewTek has added Gamma controls in VT-Edit. This provides
the ability to modify the contrast of any selected clip, image or title in the
project.
Audio Mixer Skins
Version 4.6 adds several new audio skins which fit more comfortably within
the ‘rack mount’ paradigm used on the VT[4] desktop.
MXF Support
Version 4.6 now adds support for VT-Edit to read files based on the Material
eXchange Format (MXF). MXF is a "wrapper" format that supports a number of
different streams. Users must install the free Snell & Willcox MXF Desktop for
download at http://mxf.snellwilcox.com/ (free registration on their site is
required before downloading). Since this relies heavily on Snell & Wilcox’s MXF
reader, NewTek does not provide support for this feature.
Version 4.6 Optimizations
- Reduced network broadcast traffic when using iVGA on a network that has
a large number of individual domains or workgroups.
- General CPU usage improvements across all modules. The largest impact
will be in WinRTME and with VT-Visions. The total VT "idle" CPU usage has
dropped about 2% on most machines.
- NewTek Codec supports "YUY2" FourCC, allowing files written with it to
be read directly into Windows Media Encoder.
- All computer sources, including DV, can be selected on the DSK.
- Audio Pass-thru now clamps to 0db
- Update to RS8 firmware.
- Improved proc-amp default settings for older VT cards.
- Better multiple monitor support. The interface can now expand across all
screens but the last one, but still have VT-Vision on the last monitor. This
allows for configurations with more than 2 monitors to be used.
- iVGA has added an "overscan" setting for video output.
- Gamma control added in Control Tree for better management of clip color.
- New Preference setting for managing disk bandwidth. This allows more
video streams to be played and recorded on some disk and machine
configurations.
- Improvements to "filtering" of file types in file selectors.
- Additional skins for some useful audio mixer sizes.
- Improvement to PAL / NTSC performance. When you are now in PAL mode
there is no way for NTSC to be displayed on output.
- Major improvements to the handling of SDI, particularly when digital
audio is also connected,
- New VT core, 1A6
- Title templates support lower resolution background images.
DDRs
- Added new keyboard shortcut (Shift + ‘ ) to toggle between List and
Selection modes.
- Improvements to the performance of "Cue" modes.
- De-fielding of DDRs in pause mode when selected in the preferences. (Not
selected by default.)
VT-Edit
- Added .wmv edit support. If you rename a .WMV file as .AVI, it will now
be read by VT-Edit. This is unsupported and some files might not work.
- Added MXF playback support, so MXF files can be dropped into VT-Edit.
For this to work, you need to install the "Snell and Wilcox MXF Desktop".
You also need the correct "codecs" installed on the machine in order to play
the file. This is unsupported and some files may not work.
Improved Scrubbing performance.
When inheriting a clip, if the destination clip does not have an alias, but
the source does, then the alias is inherited.
- In VT-Edit, clip borders now disappear when their width is animated to
"0.00”
- Audio levels are no longer "clamped" in the range -40 ... +10 in control
tree. Rather you can manually enter audio volumes of any range.
- Improved caching of temporary files, so audio clips won’t cut out
halfway through
- Better "rounding to frame boundaries" when working with transitions in
the Storyboard.
- Frame precision of DV compressed audio significantly improved.
- Storyboard croutons now repaint properly when audio streams are
disabled.
- Storyboard croutons won’t lose their "previews" with certain undo
operations.
General Improvements
- Audio positioning skin disabled states work properly
- Rare combinations of program and preview rows now properly set.
- Improved utility croutons when you have complex combinations of
different utilities on the timeline.
- Significant improvements to Genlock performance.
- Tally light follows the correct row at all times now.
- On startup, VT will no longer show Y/C inputs in black & white
- DVE names now display properly in the switcher upon startup.
- Alpha output improved when "Alpha DSK" or "Alpha Main + Alpha DSK" are
set, with DSK disabled.
- DV output black levels corrected in rare cases.
- Scroll-lock now works correctly in text boxes.
- Alt+numeric keypad now works correctly in text boxes.
- Single pixel borders display properly when VT-Vision is on the second
monitor.
- If codec incorrectly sets all alpha channels to 0 for all pixels and all
frames, we now interpret this as 255. otherwise some clips become invisible.
- Improvements in support for Unicode text.
- VT-Visions won’t show "No Video Signal Present" message if no frames are
seen.
- Switcher patches perform properly across complex skin changes.
- Corrected errors with some DVEs.
- Many other minor optimizations
NewTek is very interested in hearing your impressions of VT[4] in general,
and receiving feedback on version 4.6. Please send suggestions, feature requests
and even a brief explanation of how you use VT[4] in real-world environments to
vidfeatures@newtek.com We love to hear from you, as many of the features VT[4]
implemented are because of user feedback.
Again, thank you for your purchase of NewTek products, and hope it brings you
enjoyment, increased creativity and prosperity in the days ahead!
The NewTek Video Team
Questions, feature
requests and more are encouraged by dropping an e-mail to NewTek. It’s
vidfeatures@newtek.com
Note: If you have registered VT[4] with NewTek Europe,
you must download this update from the NewTek Europe
web
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VT4, SX-84
Switcher, RS-8 Hardware Switcher Interface, Aura and LightWave 8
SX-84
breakout box, with 8 component, 8 Y/C, or up to 24 composite
sources.
With the SX-84
Switcher option, up to 24 cameras and decks can be connected for live
switching, giving students maximum creativity and control. You can also
save some of your department's budget for other equipment, as SX-84
synchronizes, genlocks and time-base corrects all inputs. This offers a
tremendous savings of both setup time and money.
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RS-8 Switcher control surface.
The RS8 is a hardware switcher
surface for the VT 3 or 4. It allows for an external switch of up to 8
inputs using VT. Features include 8 programs buttons, 8 preview
buttons, T- Bar DVE control, DSK fade and take buttons, DDR 1 and 2
selection buttons, variable effects speed control knob, effect advance
control knob to advance through the effects in the DVE bank, jog
control over selected ddr control knob - great for advancing through
overlays for use in DSK, and more.
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VT4 I/O card for component, Y/C or
composite capture and playback.
Whether you are editing uncompressed or
for DTV output, signal quality is imperative. NewTek's SDI option
allows you to send VT's pristine D1 video output in real-time in an
absolutely lossless, uncompressed state to any SDI-capable capture
device or tape deck using a single coaxial cable. For users of Digital
Betacam or Digital-S equipment, this is the perfect solution, providing
a direct digital connection between your source or master tapes and VT.
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All the software you'll need is included, and
has been specifically developed for live production. You get:
- Production Switcher
- Hundreds of 2D transitions and 3D
DVEs
- Character Generator
- Digital Disk Recorders
- Internet Streaming
- Per-channel Proc Amps
- Monitors & Scopes
- NTSC & PAL
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