VT[4] version 4.5 download

Thank you for upgrading your NewTek VT[4] for your production and graphics projects. NewTek is pleased to provide you with the latest software for VT[4]. Version 4.5 enhances the integrated Production Suite with a combination of new features, fixes and several stability improvements. For new features and a complete list of fixes, refer to the addendum in your VT[4] documentation folder.

Please send feature requests to vidfeatures@newtek.com.

NewTek Europe has provided an easier system for online registration, and the ability to register over-the-phone with Customer Services. If your VT[4] is already registered, installation of this Service Pack will not affect that. If not, you will need to register VT[4] to download the VT[4] version 4.5 update.

Downloadable Update Installation Instructions

VT[4] version 4.5 downloadable update is an executable file (extension .exe). You can download the appropriate file to wherever you choose on your hard drive. Once you have downloaded this file, navigate to the folder where you placed the file, and double-click on the file to execute the installer. You can install this new version over any existing VT[4] / VT[4] SP1 installation.

IMPORTANT - PLEASE READ

Before installing VT[4] version 4.5, back up any personal content located in the VT[4] folder on your hard drive.

To download this update, you will need your VT[4] serial number. Once you have supplied this information, you will have access to VT[4] version 4.5.

There is a new Registration process that was implemented with VT[4]. If you have already registered VT[4], no further registration action is required. If not, you will need to register VT[4] to download the VT[4] version 4.5 update. NewTek Europe has provided an easier system for online registration, and the ability to register over-the-phone with Customer Services.

Download VT[4] version 4.5

 

New features

iVGA

iVGA is one of the new collaborative tools in VT[4] allows you to bring in desktop imagery from other computers across a local network. NewTek’s iVGA technology is integrated into the live switching component using the VGA tab on the 8 or 16-input switcher. If you are using the 24-input switcher, iVGA and all the other tabbed functions are available as stand-alone modules in the Start menu.

Projector Output

New to VT[4] version 4.5 is projector output directly from your graphics card. This allows you to blend incoming iVGA sources with the switcher’s graphics and video signals. You can also route external computers to the scaler and projector, by-passing the software scan-converter, and sending the full XGA resolution signal straight to the projector.

Note: For this new feature, the minimum recommended specification for the graphics card is an nVidia 5700 or better, but NewTek engineers have created a small utility to at least verify your graphics card has Shader 2.0 support. You can download this test utility here.

Title Templates

The Title templates module is an easy-to-use template-based system to quickly create professional titles and add your own customised graphics and logos on screen. Templates are provided in both lower third and full-screen pages of varying style.

LightWave 3D® 8.3

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 bug fixes since version 7.5, but some of the principal fixes and features include:

Fixes
PSD Exporter (major bug fix)
EPSF Loader Enhancements (polygons can now have up to 16383 points)
Vector Blur Enhancements
IK Booster Enhancements
 
New Features
New Hypervoxels modes (Blending Mode and Relative Particle Age Gradient)
PLD (Pixel Lattice Deformation) Antialiasing
Reconstruction Filters
Sub-patch UV Map modes
Text Layers Tool (great for quick 3D text creation)

NewTek compressed video codec

NewTek is pleased to include in version 4.5 an optimised video compressor/decompressor (codec) for capture and playback on any Pentium 4-based computer. The NewTek Video Codec [NT25] is a 5:1 compressed capture, similar to DV Video. This compressor, however, is superior to DV video as it captures in a higher color-space of 4:2:2. This codec also requires less CPU processing during capture than regular DV video. This codec has been added to the Capture, Batch Capture and Render panels.

Storyboard scrolling

An addition to storyboard functionality is storyboard scrolling. When selecting or playing clips in the timeline, the storyboard refreshes the view to reveal this selection in that window as well.

Clamp to legal colors

Version 4.5 now has an additional feature that will prevent your video from exceeding ‘video legal’ standards. The maximum video level is clamped at 100 IRE, and the minimum is either 0 IRE or 7.5 IRE, depending on the video standard that VT[4] is running (NTSC, Japanese NTSC or PAL).

Fixes

New Drivers

With version 4.5, NewTek has released a major re-design of the underlying real-time media engine that drives VT[4]. This has resulted in numerous benefits, including lower CPU overhead, much faster cutting between live sources, and the ability to perform a program-row punch of a live show without any hesitation between sources.

Improved RS-8 detection

In some instances, the RS-8 would turn off, and not be detected by the system. NewTek has found and fixed this issue in the version 4.5 RS-8 drivers.

Optimised resource and memory usage

Version 4.5 reflects the continuing work of NewTek to make this software production suite run faster, using as little memory and processor overhead as is possible. VT[4] should now be more responsive for all users, but most especially for those running marginal systems (a single Pentium 4 2.8Ghz or a dual Xeon 2.4 Ghz).

Additional fixes

  •  CG no longer crashes during delete operation
  •  CG Post Italic controls in Control Tree fixed
  •  Deleting CG still pages with control tree in top pane won’t crash
  •  CG Post no longer stutters with 2 DDRs playing
  •  Locking aspect ratio in CG text mode fixed
  •  Dragging a CG page into VT-Edit crash is fixed
  •  CG Player taking focus away from switcher fixed
  •  Cut and paste from Word into CG Designer fixed
  •  CG Size Numerical Values now unlimited
  •  Cloned CG pages no longer change text position when project is saved
  •  CG post files in VT project now works with TMPGEnc
  •  Scaling of the CG interface no longer changes workspace aspect
  •  Backspacing in CG to remove text no longer crashes
  •  Sizing shape in CG Post won’t cause crash
  •  Changing CG Player pages won’t crash
 
  •  PAL DV output fixed
  •  PAL Genlock fully functional
  •  DV type 1 and TMPGEnc fixed in PAL
  •  DV removed as a DSK source since it lacks alpha
  •  Rear Vu meters now work in 4-channel mode
  •  4-channel DV audio now goes out FireWire live
 
  •  Drag-and-drop no longer locks up VT-Edit
  •  Timeline scrolling lock-ups fixed
  •  No more Edit in/out-point sluggishness with ripple on
  •  Editor play button won’t remain on after playing a bmp file
  •  Crash fixed when cloning or drag/drop from one editor to another
  •  Fixed VT-Edit with Y positioning problem
  •  Tool Shed project report fixed
  •  Inheriting clips with markers now fixed
  •  Snap strength adjustment removed from Preferences
  •  Numeric setting of fades less than 1 second fixed
  •  Timeline indicator in Negative time space moves correctly
  •  GIF images now correctly sized
  •  Long Timeline crashing Render Panel fixed
  •  Clearing an undo will restore still frame to its previous size
  •  Control Tree Undo restores proper image size
  •  Blue borders work properly in Tool Shed
  •  Graphic Equalizer channels reverse fixed

For the complete list of fixes, see the 4.5 addendum installed in the VT[4] Documentation folder.

We hope you enjoy the many advanced features found in VT[4].

 

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