NewTek
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Founded in 1985 in Kansas, USA, by Tim Jenison, NewTek produces video post-production and imaging tools for personal computers.
The company's first products included DigiPaint and DigiView, both for the Commodore Amiga personal computer.
The DigiView product added slow scan digitising capabilities to that platform, allowing images to be imported at low cost, before modern image scanning technology was widely available.
Although not as well known as the de facto industry standard applications from Electronic Arts, the DigiPaint product offered at release the unique capability of editing and painting on images in the Amiga's unique hold-and-modify high colour mode in real time.
The company found widespread fame with the release of the Video Toaster, an innovative system for low cost video post production. The company was featured in magazine articles in such mainstream publications as Rolling Stone Magazine and was featured on the NBC Nightly News. The fame extended beyond the product; the company's founder Tim Jenison and it's Vice President Paul Montgomery also were presented as new types of businessmen running a new and different kind of company.
Jenison and Montgomery eventually split, with Montgomery and most of NewTek's engineers leaving to help form a new company called Play, Inc., which later went out of business.
Now based in San Antonio, Texas, USA, the company is lead by Jenison, and former magazine publisher and ReplayTV exec, Jim Plant, who is the President and CEO. NewTek's current products include an updated Video Toaster system for Windows-based PC's, and the popular Lightwave 3D rendering, modeling and animation program, for which the company won an Emmy Award in 2003.
The company recently released TriCaster, a new product that merges broadcast video, graphics and presentations. TriCaster was announced at DEMO@15, where it was selected as a "Producer's Pick." It was then launched at NAB 2005, where it won several prestigious industry awards, including NAB's AIM (Award for Innovation in Media) award.
External links
- NewTek's Video Toaster website (http://www.videotoaster.com)
- NewTek's website (http://www.newtek.com)