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Ready, Set, Edit!
By: Heather Lavers, SNN Reporter
Roncalli Central High
Port Saunders, NF
Innovative, exciting, cool.
These are just a few words used to describe the NewTeck Video
Toaster System. This system incorporates three separate software,
for dynamite video editing and was presented during BEI Communications
presentation - Center Stage.
The first system used is the
Speed Razor, which was developed by In'Sync. The idea of this
is to cut video clips and sound bites into a feature length program
for commercial or personal use. Compared to the standard Adobe
Premier software, this technology is light years ahead. Bern
Hammond, Service Technician for BEI Communications Systems Ltd.
remarked, "It's like Premier on steroids."
NewTeck itself created the accompanying
software which is Aura VT and Light Wave VT. Aura is a program
to develop layered video effects that are mostly used for commercial
advertising and short company promotions. Light Wave technology
allows you to create your own three dimensional graphics to use
in your videos. According to Mr. Hammond, this software vis
being used in Hollywood and by several educational institutes,
such as Sheridan College.
When asked about the benefits
of this equipment Mr. Hammond said, "This is a very good
system, it is the only uncompressed video system that you can
get for under $150,000.00! This system is on the PC platform
and anybody with a background in any similar program can easily
pick up on.
Now the question that everybody
was asking...why is this system called a Video Toaster? Mr.
Hammond replied with a smile, "Quite simply, it is called
a Toaster because back in 1988, NewTeck had a program out without
editing qualities for its Comadore computers, then it came out
with a editing version called the Toaster Flyer. Unfortunately
back then it was too expensive to get amount of hard drive needed
to do video editing, so when we came out with this version, it
seemed logical to go with a name that people were already familiar
with, a name that people could trust. With the ever present
technology of computer editing settling into the major stations,
the Video Toaster brings this knowledge to smaller companies
to make everyone who uses this information on equal footing.
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