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The saying goes that good things come to those who wait. And I am happy to say that NewTek has finally returned to the race – now with a killer engine, new tires and a driver who is ready to recoup the lost positions. Video Toaster 2 takes over where the original Toaster left and adds all the features a modern nonlinear editing must have plus a lot more. The new Toaster is not only completely different from the original. It’s a unique product that combines the functions of a live switcher with those of an edit suite. All designed to work the way production professionals really need. [an error occurred while processing this directive]
I could start by listing features but that doesn’t say much about a product like this. Everyone else offers tons of features. What’s truly exciting about Video Toaster 2 is what you don’t see. It’s what it does behind the scenes. It is almost like having a television crew doing things for you in the background while you focus on your end of the production. Who cares about which tape format you use when you have a great videotape operator to take care of that for you? Who cares about matching sound formats when you have an audio engineer who is handling that? And the graphics department certainly delivers the necessary images in the formats you need, anyway. That’s what this product is really about. While NewTek accurately claims that it replaces tens of thousands of dollars in equipment, I personally find it more accurate to say that it gives you an invisible crew to take care of the details, letting you fully concentrate on your job.
Video Toaster 2 accomplishes this by taking care of everything for you. Just drag anything into the Timeline Editor and it figures out what should be done. You don’t have to drag audio into the audio tracks or video into the video tracks or graphics into the overlay tracks. Just drag them into the timeline and the software will handle it properly. Best of all, you can forget about formats as well. Video Toaster 2 doesn’t care if the video uses DV compression or it’s uncompressed. You just drag the clip into the timeline and it becomes video. It’s as simple as that. And if one clip is compressed and the other one isn’t, it doesn’t care. It handles it all in the same project, absolutely transparently, in real time, with no need for prior conversions. Mix and match any format you want. If a video clip has synched audio, such as in an interview, Toaster 2 will treat both the audio and video as a single unit. But it lets you play with the elements separately, if you so desire. Just the way editors have always done traditionally.
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