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NewTek Tricaster Adds Mac Support with iVGA
Judging from the buzz surrounding it, the NewTek TriCaster is a great piece of kit. To borrow from NewTek's perhaps slightly hyperbolic praise of itself, the TriCaster "combines the functionality of a live television truck into a 10 pound, 1 cubic foot appliance" which runs about $5000. Basically, it allows you to produce streaming live video to the web at professional TV studio quality. Unfortunately, this marvel of video technology has hitherto not been compatible with the Mac, but NewTek has now released its iVGA software for OS X. iVGA "is a software application launched on a network-connected Mac. Any display on that Mac screen is sent across the network as a video input into TriCaster's live switcher, or, can pass through TriCaster, at full-resolution, to a projector." Given how important the Mac is for video work, it's surprising it has taken NewTek this long; in any case, I guess it's better late than never. Apparently, iVGA is a free download for owners of a TriCaster, but you need to be registered to download it.[Via MacNN]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
ephraimephraim said 8:54PM on 2-19-2007
"Unfortunately ... not been incompatible ..."
Maybe you want to re-read and re-write that sentence until it makes sense.
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Chris Barr said 11:30PM on 2-19-2007
Finally! We use this as the webcasting/video mixing setup at my church and it's a pretty good system, except that it's just a custom computer still running Windows XP. Occasionally you boot it up and it says "Tricaster cannot be run on this machine"....it IS a Tricaster! Then you double click the program and it opens fine. whatever.
Anyway, I'm excited about iVGA being out for OSX now. We use it on a Windows box and it's been very easy to use and it works great.
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Nick said 12:50PM on 2-20-2007
NEVER! BUY! NewTek! NOT EVER! I use there grabage every day at work. We have a $10,000 video toaster of theirs and I haven't seen in in 4 months cause its being "repaired" They can't seem to figure out why there hardwear cards keep "blowing resistors" We have had the computer checked several times and every time the hardware seems to be fine with the excpetion of the NewTek hardware card. Steer clear of this stuff. Its junk.
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SubGenius said 4:41PM on 2-20-2007
I wish there was something comparable to the Tricaster that ran on OSX instead of WinXP.
Avoid NewTek.
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