Powerful, complex and expensive, but worth the price for people who need this level of sophistication.Vizrt’s 2019 showreel. For individuals or businesses who want to produce professional-quality videos of conferences and events, however, the sophistication of the NewTek Video Toaster 2 makes it well worth the price.
It's definitely not a program for novices. My tests weren't entirely problem-free, however: the character generator, for instance, crashed on me on several occasions. 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. 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.
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.
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 ($4499), 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' $259 Studio Version 7 can do some of the things that Video Toaster can do - for example, create transitions (such as fades) between clips. Among 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.
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