NewTek

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Founded in 1985 in Kansas, USA, by Tim Jenison, considered by many to be the father of desktop video, NewTek produces live and post-production video tools and visual imaging software 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.

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 switching and 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 its 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 leaving to help form a new company called Play, Inc., which later went out of business after Montgomery's untimely death.

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.

In 2005, NewTek introduced TriCaster, a portable 10 lb. box 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 over a dozen prestigious industry awards, including an Emmy Nomination and NAB's AIM (Award for Innovation in Media) award. At NAB 2006, NewTek announced a PRO version of TriCaster which also won NAB AIM for Content Management.

The company's current product line consists of the following products:

1. 3D Arsenal - A professional motion graphics creation system for video editors

2. LightWave 3D - A professional 3D modeling, animation and rendering system

3. SpeedEDIT - The world's fastest professional non-linear editing system

4. TriCaster and TriCaster PRO - A portable live production, presentation and streaming system

5. VT[5]Live - An integrated live and post production workstation.