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1. #VIDEO TOASTER TRANSITIONS MANUALS#
2. #VIDEO TOASTER TRANSITIONS GENERATOR#
3. #VIDEO TOASTER TRANSITIONS SOFTWARE#

It’s definitely not a program for novices. The character generator, for instance, crashed on me on several occasions. My tests weren’t entirely problem-free, however. And the program is modular: you can set it up so that you have only the components you need on screen, and you can save different layouts for different tasks.

#VIDEO TOASTER TRANSITIONS MANUALS#

Fortunately, it comes with an excellent set of manuals and tutorials. Its interface is designed to look more like a TV studio than a computer program, which can be confusing for users without TV video-editing experience.

#VIDEO TOASTER TRANSITIONS SOFTWARE#

The software does take a bit of getting used to. This capability makes it a good choice for an event where, for example, you’d like to show live video with captions on a big screen and then transition to a pre-recorded video of a new product demo or a speech from someone who can’t be there (as is done at the Oscars). The system also can create transitions and effects on live video (or a combination of live and recorded video), which none of the software-only products can do.

The Video Toaster 2 performs transitions in real time, which is helpful if you’re working on a long video. But adding a transition using only software can be time-consuming - from a few seconds to many minutes - and if you don’t like the result, you have to start over. Teamed with NewTek’s optional SX-8 Switcher ($5895), the Video Toaster 2 can switch between live video from up to 24 different cameras, and audio from any of nine different sources, with the click of a mouse.Ĭheaper video editing programs such as Pinnacle Systems’ $298 System Studio 7 can do some of the things that the Video Toaster 2 can do - for example, create transitions (such as fades) between clips.

#VIDEO TOASTER TRANSITIONS GENERATOR#

However, this is one robust and capable product.Īmong its many features are a program for editing pre-recorded video over 300 digital video effects a video painting program for special effects a character generator (for making captions, credits and the like) a digital disk recorder and a 3D rendering program for creating your own animated logos.

With the Toaster 2 itself costing $8578, you’d need to spend about $7000 more on PC hardware (if you don’t have it already) to get a complete package up and running. NewTek recommends that you use 10,000rpm SCSI drives in a striped RAID array. The Video Toaster 2, which consists of a PCI card and software, requires a PC with at least a 1.5GHz Pentium 4 processor, 512MB of RAM and Windows 2000. In my tests of a shipping unit, the system managed to make good on that ambitious claim, although it does demand significant PC processing power.

Want to make professional-looking videos for a fraction of what you’d pay a production company? Take a look at NewTek’s Video Toaster 2, billed as a TV studio in a box.