NewTek
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| NewTek, Inc. | |
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| Type | Private |
| Founded | Kansas, USA (1985) |
| Founder | Tim Jenison |
| Headquarters | San Antonio, Texas, USA |
| Key people | Tim Jenison, Founder Jim Plant, President and CEO Steve Doubleday, CFO Michael Kornet, CMO Andrew Cross,PHD, VP Engineering Philip Nelson,Jr., SVP Strategic Development Chuck Silber, SVP Worldwide Sales |
| Industry | Software |
| Website | http://www.newtek.com/ |
NewTek, Inc. is a San Antonio,Texas-based software company that produces live and post-production video tools and visual imaging software for personal computers. The company was founded in 1985 in Kansas, U.S., by Tim Jenison, a pioneer of desktop video.
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[edit] Products
The company's first products included DigiPaint and DigiView, both for the Commodore Amiga personal computer.
The DigiView, the first full color video digitizers,added slow scan digitising capabilities to the Amiga 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 and started the desktop video revolution 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.
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.
[edit] Current product line
- 3D Arsenal - A professional motion graphics creation system for video editors
- LightWave 3D - A professional 3D modeling, animation and rendering system
- SpeedEDIT - Professional non-linear editing system
- VT[5] - An integrated live and post production workstation.
- TriCaster - A portable live production, presentation and streaming system, based upon the VT
[edit] Company History
The fame of Video Toaster extended beyond the product; the company's founder Tim Jenison and its Vice President Paul Montgomery also were presented as new types of entrepreneurs 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, U.S., the company is lead by Jenison, and former magazine publisher and ReplayTV executive, Jim Plant, who is the President and CEO.
In 2005, NewTek founder, Tim Jenison was inducted into the San Antonio Inventors Hall of Fame as the "Father of Desktop Video".
[edit] External links
- NewTek's website
- Behind the scenes at NewTek
- Amiga Hardware Database - Descriptions and photos of NewTek's Amiga products.
