NewTek.(Company Profiles)(Company Profile)

The Vision

NewTek, founded in 1985, set out with a mission to make it possible for anyone to realize the dream of creating broadcast television and film. The NewTek team, a group of frustrated filmmakers, has a passion for creating the highest quality production tools that make it possible and affordable for anyone to put their dreams on the screen.

The Tools

LightWave 3D[R], winner of the 2003 Emmy Engineering Award, combines a state-of-the-art photo-real renderer with intuitive and powerful modeling and animation tools, and is often used as a complete 3D production solution. LightWave[R] also includes a powerful scripting language, API and advanced integration with other popular production tools. These and other features make LightWave 3D[R] one of the most complete professional toolsets in the industry and, coupled with its affordable price, have catapulted it into use worldwide for broadcast graphics, games, print, web, as well as visual effects for film and television.

VT[3] Post[TM] provides real-time layering and effects for video and graphics in virtually any input standard or file format and operates internally in uncompressed D1 component video. NewTek's VT[3][TM] suites include integrated timeline and storyboard editing, paint, 3D modeling and animation, titling, keying, live-switching and much, much more. For live production, nothing matches VT[3] Live[TM] for live-switching for studios, events and public venues. Up to 24 inputs, a complete suite of virtual equipment in software, including monitors, decks, switchers, waveform/vectorscopes, audio mixer and more--VT[3] provides a comprehensive real-time toolset for all professional video production needs from network broadcast to web streaming.

The Results

Today, extraordinary artists use NewTek tools to deliver the best our industry has to offer. Television projects using NewTek's VT[3][TM] and LightWave 3D[R] have taken home Emmy and Visual Effects Society awards two years running, and in several recent years every nominee in the visual effects ...