Re: Toast, anyone?
My college had both vt3 and vt4. The vt3 is used in recording random things such as commencement and other various things. The vt4 was used in the tv studio for live productions (bad idea--explained later).
I love how the vt4 has exerything you could want to run a live tv program, from supers to ddr to aaudio board to the keyer. Thats a lot of power packed into one small box.
The only problem with all of this was the fact that in my current profession at a eral tv studio is that almost all of those jobs are given to seperate people to handle. THe fact is, there are just too many things to run on one computer with one person. This is why is should not be bought as a quick-fix to go from liner to non-linear. It definitely had a problem with crashing. The sad thing is that this computer was only used for this purpose (there were no other programs on it)
The vt3 is used in our cathedral and elsewhere on campus. We plug our cameras in via baluns, svideo, and cat 5 cable. At time we have had as many as 5 cameras plugged in like this and it has had acceptable picture quality. We have a seperate guy for mixing and then just run in one line for ease. We record to dvd and it does a decent job.
We have also had a lot of fun and challenges by taking an out and hooking it up to a projector for an oscar-like show completel with red carpet and other fancy things.
I am fairly impressed with its ease of use and the fact that it has mutiple random wipes. (my boss, however was not always happy with that feature)
I hope that vt5 keeps building on the good things that it has started and fixes the problems.
Its definitely a great thing to start on. But it is nothing like a real tv control room.
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