• 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-SD 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 exProt title templates for VT[5] or TriCaster™
• Title templates can be placed on Effects bus
• Render scrolls/crawls to any SpeedEDIT™ formats (HDV, etc)

Post Production:

• Integrates SpeedEDIT™, World’s Fastest 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 & 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

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-SD)
• DV input support
• Real-time FireWire input or output
• Automated Audio Mixer
• 4 Component outputs
• 4 Y/C outputs
• 5 SD outputs (with SX-SD)
• Preview output
• 4 Composite outputs
• 3 RS-422 machine control Prots
• 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 SD embedded audio (with SX-SD)
• 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 SD 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 imProt/exProt (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
• ExProt 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
• ExProt any title to upstream effects

IVGA:

• ImProt 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:

• World’s Fastest Video Editor
• SD and HD 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 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

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

VIDEO FORMATS:

• AVI
• MPEG-1
• MPEG-2 (program & transProt stream)
• HDV
• Apple® QuickTime™ (with alpha support)
• MPEG-4 (including iPod and PSP)
• Raw DV
• DVCPro 50
• DVCPRO HD
• Image sequences
• Output to Flash

GRAPHIC FORMATS:

• JPEG
• PNG
• Targa
• Tiff
• BMP
• WBMP
• PCX

AUDIO FORMATS:

• WAV
• MP3
• AU
• SND
• AIFF
• WAX
• DIF