TriCaster features include:

• Switching and preview of 3 composite or Y/C Cameras; connect up to 6
  
• iVGA(TM) network import of external computer displays
  
• XGA Projector output
  
• Virtual VCR and picture player (digital disk recorder)
  
• Live web streaming and recording
  
• Video editing

• Component video in and out
  
• Auto camera calibration
  
• Waveform monitor and vectorscope
  
• Balanced audio in and out with phantom power
  
• High resolution projector outputs – WXGA, SXGA, and more

• Animated graphics from the DDR can be keyed onto the video
  
• A full integrated CG with the possibility to create and save templates
  
• More drive space to store up to 20 hours of video
  
• WMV VC1 higher quality streaming and other great features!

What it is
NewTek TriCaster combines everything found in a television live truck into a
box small and light enough to fit into a backpack.

What it Offers
TriCaster offers simplified live switching and audio mixing, with realtime output to video, projector and the Internet for less than £4,000. TriCaster's user-friendly interface is in plain English instead of video jargon, meaning you don't have to know about video production to produce compelling presentations. Its quick startup and dedicated usage allow you to produce professional quality video within minutes of opening the box.

Who Benefits
Corporate communications, human resource and corporate training professionals can benefit from rapid setup on site and easy use. TriCaster is also perfect for educators, local access channels or anyone wanting to communicate live events.

Specifications:

Components

• Live Production
  
• Live Internet streaming
  
• Professional Titling
  
• Video Capture
  
• Network Input
  
• Media Editing
  
• Virtual VCR playback
  
• Picture sequencing
  
• VGA projector output
  
• Camera setup
  
• Colour Background creator
  
• Audio Mixer
  
• Headphone output

• 3 Camera inputs (composite or Y/C)
  
• 2 phono Mic inputs
  
• 1 Stereo RCA line input
  
• 1 Firewire video input
  
• 2 USB 2.0 inputs
  
• 1 RJ45 Network input

• 1 video output (Y/C or composite)
  
• 1 stereo RCA line output
  
• 1 VGA monitor output
  
• 1 DVI projector output
  
• 1 Internet Streaming output
  
• Storage
  
• 150 Gigabytes, for more than 6 hours of digital video storage

• Animated graphics from the DDR can be keyed onto the video
  
• A full integrated CG with the possibility to create and save templates
  
• More drive space to store up to 20 hours of video
  
• WMV VC1 higher quality streaming and other great features

The combination of the most complete professional toolset in the industry at the most affordable price makes NewTek’s LightWave 3D® the best choice for any 3D job anywhere. Designers and artists from Malaysia to Norway, U.S. to Australia, and everywhere in between are producing award-winning work and making a living with LightWave 3D. LightWave® fits the bill for any size business from a one-person shop to Hollywood special effects titans with hundreds of animators on staff. Whether you are watching television, browsing the web, reading a magazine, taking in a new movie at the theatre, or watching billboards and buildings go by on the highway on your way to work, you are encountering work produced or visualised using LightWave 3D.

LightWave 3D is the common denominator between an architect in Egypt who brings his building designs to vivid life, complete with furnishings, landscaping and people, a game artist in Croatia who produced the multi-award winning Serious Sam, and an animator in Dallas whose two-minute short gave birth to an Oscar-nominated CGI movie. Bring anything to life from buildings to characters with the broad range of tools included in LightWave right out of the box, ready to go.

LightWave’s tools are designed for fast productivity and easy, intuitive use. They are set in an interface that you can customise to your needs, so the tools you use most are right where you want them. Buttons are plainly labelled with the names of the tools so you know what they do instantly, not with cryptic icons that take months to decipher and memorise. Nothing in the industry is faster to learn, easier to use, or more productive. And no other 3D application offers a native renderer of world-class speed, power and beauty with virtually unlimited render nodes.

Newtek LightWave 3D 9.0 Printed Manuals
LightWave v9 English 3-manual set (Modeler, Layout, Surfacing & Rendering)

Special LightWave v9.3 Bundle Offer

Includes: LightWave v9.3.1 Full Version: Program Disk (32-bit and 64-bit Windows PC, Mac) and content DVD (3rd-party samplers, new content, PDF manuals in English, demo videos) USB DUO Key (for Mac & PC) + LWCAD 2.5* from W-Tools - a must-have set of modelling tools + LightWave 9 Defined - a comprehensive training DVD which describes how to use LightWave 9 for Special Effects, Motion Graphics, Technical Animation and more (DVD Video).

Upgrade version Includes: LightWave v9.3 Upgrade: Program Disk (32-bit and 64-bit Windows PC, Mac) and content DVD (3rd-party samplers, new content, PDF manuals in English, demo videos) + LWCAD 2.5* from W-Tools - a must-have set of modelling tools + LightWave 9 Defined - a comprehensive training DVD which describes how to use LightWave 9 for Special Effects, Motion Graphics, Technical Animation and more (DVD Video).

Special offer valid until further notice, while stocks last.

*Downloadable product

What is VT[5]?
NewTek VT[5]™ is an Integrated Production Suite from the Emmy®-winning company that created desktop video. VT[5] defines the cutting-edge in live production, bringing you the solutions you need to meet your production goals with more power, flexibility and affordability than you ever dreamed possible.

What VT[5] Offers
VT[5] offers live switching, live virtual sets, web streaming, realtime keying, titling, the world's fastest SD & HD editing and video painting. All this is tightly integrated with everything you need for production, postproduction, and graphics. VT[5] delivers all of this, plus unsurpassed video quality with uncompressed component, SDI, digital analog video with four-channel audio.

Who Benefits from VT[5]?
VT[5] is designed for the video producer that wants to expand their services without breaking the bank. VT[5] gives the power, flexibility and functionality of a system costing much more. Whether the project calls for a live CEO message integrated with pre-edited segments or a complex edit for broadcast television, VT[5] gives you the tools necessary to complete your next award-winning project.

SX-SDI
NewTek advances the state of live production with SX-SDI™, the newest VT[5] hardware that provides 8 serial digital inputs and outputs.

Serial Digital Interface, or SDI, is a standard for broadcast quality video, capable of transmitting uncompressed digital component video across a single coaxial cable with television facilities, with audio embedded in the same signal.

In addition to live switching of 8 digital sources, SX-SDI also serves as a signal router, with the ability to assign any of the serial digital inputs to any of 5 digital outputs.

Further flexibility is provided on the audio side, with support for embedded digital audio selectable from any SDI input, as well as AES-EBU audio in and out.

While the SX-SDI adds additional inputs to VT[5], it does not limit the capacity of the SX-84 analog switcher. This means an SX-SDI added to a VT[5] LIVE! system continues to provide component, Y/C and composite in and out in addition to the digital connectivity.

SX-84
The NewTek SX-84 is the heart of the VT[5] 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 6 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[5] 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[5] to the other suites.

Newtek Video Toaster [5] Upgrade 1: Software Only
This Upgrade is for any VT Pro Card owner who purchased their card after September 2004.

VT Pro cards started shipping from October 2004 - for cards purchased in September 2004 please contact Newtek Europe to check the card model.

Newtek Video Toaster [5] Upgrade 2: SX-SDI
Any VT Pro Card owner who has purchased since February 2006 can buy an SX-SDI Upgrade at this price.

The SX-SDI option requires the SX-84 to be connected serially and a VT Pro card with the latest revision (Rev. G7)

Newtek Video Toaster [5] Upgrade 3: Free VT[5] Software Upgrade direct from Newtek Europe
Any VT Pro Card owner that purchased after 1st February 2006 is entitled to this upgrade free of charge.

To be eligible it is your responsibility to ensure that you have registered with Newtek Europe and they have a valid shipping address for you. These free upgrades will be dispatched in the next 2-4 weeks direct from Newtek Europe; it’s your responsibility to ensure that they have valid registered information for you within this period.

Please Note: Planet PC will not be handling any logistics/queries RE these upgrades and customers should make contact with Newtek Europe directly.

A range of other upgrades will be available soon for owners of VT card models released prior to the VT Pro card (September 2004). As these become available we will add them to our product list.

Triade-in prices include shipping & admin charges.

Welcome to the next revolution in live broadcast. Welcome to the world of TriCaster STUDIO™.

Virtual sets, up to six cameras, real-time chroma keying and multiple upstream effects – welcome to the newest addition of the TriCaster™ family, TriCaster STUDIO™.

TriCaster STUDIO extends the excitement of live broadcast production via projector, television and Internet with more power and capabilities than ever before. The result is an advanced production studio powerful enough to be utilised in network environments yet still portable and small enough to fit in a backpack.

The ultimate portable production package awaits you in TriCaster STUDIO™ which extends capabilities with 6 inputs instead of 3, offering multiple upstream effects, advanced switching and virtual set support.

What are Virtual Sets?
Virtual sets can be as simple as a photo with the host or anchor keyed over the background. This can also be quite elaborate, with the talent interacting with the room’s environment, such as reflections across the floor or desk. Virtual sets can be a post-production process, where recorded footage of the talent is rendered into the room, but this is very time intensive, having to shoot and then composite each shot.

How do live virtual sets differ?
While several companies offer software packages providing virtual sets as a post-production tool, the realm of live virtual sets has typically been quite expensive, with systems costing $50,000 and more, depending on the amount of specialised hardware required. TriCaster STUDIO provides portable, live production, and allows all six inputs to have its own camera angle in the room. Like most virtual set systems, you can cut between angles, but STUDIO lets you fade or perform 3D transitions between angles.

NewTek has dramatically improved your access to affordable virtual sets with TriCaster STUDIO™. Unlike simpler live solutions, STUDIO brings realism into your virtual set with reflections, video walls, refracted glass and more – in real-time.

Why are Live Virtual Sets important?
Cue the talent and broadcast your show. Virtual Sets give you the flexibility to use expansive, professional sets and even though your location may have limited space. The scaling capabilities within TriCaster STUDIO let you push the talent into a wide-shot without trucking to the back of the room. This boosts production quality without requiring a sound stage and floor staff.

Features:

• Live Switching of 6 cameras
  
• 16:9 wide-screen support
  
• Dual DDR playback
  
• Keyable DDRs
  
• 500 video transitions
  
• Titles
  
• Audio mixing
  
• iVGA™ graphics import
  
• Timed Picture playback
  
• Live keying
  
• Live Windows Media® and VC1 Streaming
  
• Simultaneous AVI and WMV record
  
• Professional video editing
  
• Supports AVI, MPEG-2, QuickTime® and more
  
• Render output to DVD, iPod® and PSP®

• High quality, hermetically-sealed magnetic-reed switches
  
• High quality, Panasonic rotary encoders
  
• Speed control
  
• Effects selection
  
• CG page selection
  
• 8-bit stepping for 256 discrete transition levels on T-bar
  
• USB 1.1 or 2.0 compatible connection

Planet PC’s Media Composer Editing Workstations incorporate the latest HP xw8600 workstation & NewTek VT[5].

NewTek VT[5] is an Integrated Production Suite from the Emmy-winning company that created desktop video. VT[5] defines the cutting-edge in live production, bringing you the solutions you need to meet your production goals with more power, flexibility and affordability than you ever dreamed possible.

Specification:

TriCaster BROADCAST™ with SDI support delivers enhanced efficiency and reliability. With audio embedded with the video signal you can depend on a fast, professional setup. Whether you rely on a team or operate on your own, TriCaster BROADCAST makes it possible for you to deliver your network quality program to video, projector and web stream with a full range of professional tools including six camera inputs, live virtual sets, double box effects and much more.

TriCaster BROADCAST provides the full range of professional broadcast tools with SDI support. Whether you work with a team or operate on your own, TriCaster BROADCAST is easy to set up, portable and provides all of the following system benefits:

• NewTek LiveSet™ technology makes it possible for you to turn a very small space into a larger than life network-style studio
  
• Quickly connect and mix six serial digital cameras to provide full camera coverage of any venue
  
• Small footprint allows live production setup in small spaces
  
• Optional LiveText™ character generator allows remote control over show titles
  
• Dual virtual VCRs that can be played on cue for perfect cut-ins every time
  
• Either virtual VCR may be used to overlay scrolls, crawls and motion titles
  
• Lock titles and graphics upstream to any input,
  
• Total flexibility with operation in either six-camera or three-camera mode. Switch six cameras with shared preview or three cameras with a dedicated preview for each
  
• Record, broadcast and stream either 4:3 or 16:9 productions
  
• Multi-format live clip playback
  
• TriCaster auto-detects and compensates for aspect on playback
  
• iVGA™ imports up to three displays, Mac and PC, as inputs for your TriCaster live production
  
• VC-1 streaming support
  
• Digital BNC video connectors provide increased durability and reliability for your camera hook-ups
  
• Four balanced XLR or phone jack audio connectors for professional audio mixing
  
• Simultaneously record full-screen .avi while archiving your web stream
  
• Easily cut to video using the on-board VCRs at any time without needing another person to cue them up

• High quality, hermetically-sealed magnetic-reed switches
  
• High quality, Panasonic rotary encoders
  
• Speed control
  
• Effects selection
  
• CG page selection
  
• 8-bit stepping for 256 discrete transition levels on T-bar
  
• USB 1.1 or 2.0 compatible connection

NewTek SpeedEDIT™ is a resolution-independent video editor designed to work quickly and efficiently on any video project, from web streams to Standard
Definition (SD) to High-Definition(HD). SpeedEDIT™ works smoothly and natively with MPEG-2, AVI, QuickTime and most popular video formats in either SD or HD. Enjoy realtime, full resolution on-screen HD previews with FireWire output to camera or deck.

Rather than emulating the "old school" film-cutting workflow found in most
nonlinear editors, NewTek streamlines the editing process by eliminating many unnecessary steps. SpeedEDIT™ allows all editing functions to be performed directly on native clips within its unique timeline and storyboard interface. This avoids the time-wasting steps of transcoding or pre-trimming content. SpeedEDIT™ further accelerates your editing process by dynamically linking Storyboard and Timeline, which allows the performance of many common functions in fewer steps. Ripple edits, clip replacement, segment repositioning, 3D video rotation, colour correction, animated titles and Targa sequence playback are just a few of the everyday tasks that SpeedEDIT™ performs faster than any other professional editor.

See Adobe Acrobat pdf datasheet (left) for the SpeedEDIT Quickstart Guide.

Now Comes with FREE Training DVD:

Basic Training for NewTek SpeedEDIT by Class On Demand

Special offer until further notice

This is a miss-ordered item. It's in it's original packaging in good condition and has only been opened once.

The combination of the most complete professional toolset in the industry at the most affordable price makes NewTek’s LightWave 3D® the best choice for any 3D job anywhere. Designers and artists from Malaysia to Norway, U.S. to Australia, and everywhere in between are producing award-winning work and making a living with LightWave 3D.

LightWave 3D 8 fits the bill for any size business from a one-person shop to Hollywood special effects titans with hundreds of animators on staff. Whether you are watching television, browsing the web, reading a magazine, taking in a new movie at the theatre, or watching billboards and buildings go by on the highway on your way to work, you are encountering work produced or visualised using LightWave 3D.

Comes with full printed manual.

Please Note: No warranty on this item. No warranties, refunds or exchanges are given on Stock Clearance Software or Literature.

(this is a stock clearance item)

TriCaster features include:

• Switching and preview of 3 composite or Y/C Cameras; connect up to 6
  
• iVGA(TM) network import of external computer displays
  
• XGA Projector output
  
• Virtual VCR and picture player (digital disk recorder)
  
• Live web streaming and recording
  
• Video editing

• Component video in and out
  
• Auto camera calibration
  
• Waveform monitor and vectorscope
  
• Balanced audio in and out with phantom power
  
• High resolution projector outputs – WXGA, SXGA, and more