Wave Issue 0203 2/02/02 Article 4-01

***Video Toaster [2] Delivers Real-time, Uncompressed Editing for
Video Producers using Intel's Pentium 4 Processor
(January 31)

NewTek, Inc., a manufacturer of 3D animation and video production
products, announced today that the just-released Video Toaster
[2], NewTek's TV Studio-in-a-box, is designed to take full
advantage of the processing power and memory bandwidth of the
Intel Pentium 4 processor.

Video Toaster [2] is a software-based video production suite
designed to take advantage of the latest advances in personal
computing technology. In combination with Intel's Pentium 4
processor, Video Toaster [2] allows off-the-shelf computers to
process multiple streams of real-time, uncompressed video for
editing, live switching, or streaming to the Internet.

As a software-only system, Video Toaster's PCI capture card sends
frames of uncompressed video in and out of RAM as fast as
possible, and Video Toaster is greatly assisted by the Pentium 4
processor's fast and wide SystemBus. As CPUs have increased in
speed, overall system improvements have been rather marginal
since bus speeds have made only fractional improvements. The
Pentium 4 processor is based on a complete architectural re-
design: Intel tripled front side bus bandwidth, the pipeline for
data between the computer's memory and the central processing
unit, from 133MHz to 400MHz. Unlike word processing applications,
video, 2D animation and 3D graphics show commensurate increases
in performance with processor and system bus speeds. NewTek's
implementation of Video Toaster [2] maximizes the use of this
wider memory pipeline.

Suggested system requirements for Video Toaster [2] are a Windows
2000-based system with a Pentium 4 processor at 1.5 GHz or
better, Intel 850 chipset, 512 MB of PC800 ECC RAM, 20GB ATA-100
7200 RPM System drive, Adaptec 19160 Ultra-160/M SCSI Controller,
4 Ultra-160/M SCSI 10,000 RPM Drives striped as a video RAID, and
an nVidia based GeForce or Quadro2 graphics card.

www.newtek.com.