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2008

• LightWave Rendition™ for Adobe® Photoshop® is launched. It allows any 3D objects to be loaded and rendered in Photoshop®.
• TriCaster BROADCAST™ is released. This latest addition to the TriCaster product line includes SDI, six camera inputs, live virtual sets and double box effects.
• DataLink™, LiveText™, TimeWarp™ and LiveControl™ LC-11, accessories for the TriCaster product line, are released.
• TriCaster DUO™, a cost-effective, portable live production device that is specially designed for elementary and middle school video productions, is launched.

2007

• SpeedEDIT™, with HD editing is released.
• TriCaster STUDIO™ is shipped expanding the TriCaster line. This version adds six inputs and the industry’s first sub-$10,000 LiveSet™ live virtual set system.

2006

• TriCaster PRO™ is shipped adding component video, pro connectors and balanced audio.

2005

• TriCaster™ portable live production system, which puts the power of a live production truck into a box small enough to fit into a backpack that weights less than 10 lbs, is released.
• The National Association of Broadcasters recognizes TriCaster with an Award for Innovation in Media at NAB.
• Government Video Magazine presents NewTek with a Salute Award for TriCaster™ to recognize outstanding achievement in the advancement of the art and science of video technology.
• The 4EVER Group gives TriCaster™ a Product Innovation Award.
• TriCaster secures “Best of Show” Award at NAB.
• VT[4]™ LIVE! Receives the Media and Methods Magazine Portfolio Award.

2004

• Digital Video Professionals Association recognizes VT[3]™ as Best of Show for streaming hardware during NAB.
• The Alliance for Community Media names VT[3] Best Product of 2004.
• LightWave artists take home Emmy® Awards for Special Visual Effects for a Series and, in the category of Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Graphic and Artistic Design.

2003

• RS-8™, an eight-input hardware control surface is created.
• The National Academy of Arts and Science awards NewTek the 2003 Emmy® Engineering Award for LightWave 3D and its role in revolutionizing television special visual effects during the previous decade.
• LightWave users sweep both of the Emmy® visual effects categories. Once again, all nominees in the series category rely on LightWave 3D.

2002

• LightWave artists capture all five nominations and the win in the Emmy® Special Visual Effects for a Series category.

2001

• Both visual effects Emmys® go to LightWave artists.

2000

• LightWave is one of the effects tools used in “Gladiator,” the Oscar® winner for Best Visual Effects.

1997

• 3D artists at Digital Domain use LightWave® for the blockbuster movie, “Titanic.” The film wins an Oscar® Award for Best Special Visual Effects.

1995

• LightWave 3D®, a photorealistic 3D animation system for Windows, is launched.

1994

• Video Toaster® Flyer, an add-on board for the Video Toaster that provides quality nonlinear editing capabilities, is released.

1993

• The National Academy of Arts and Sciences awards NewTek an Emmy® for the ground-breaking Video Toaster.
• Foundation Imaging visual effects team that used the 3D component in Video Toaster to create the pilot of “Babylon 5” receives an Emmy®.

1990

• Video Toaster® is introduced. By providing all of the tools necessary to create broadcast-quality television in a single, accessible device, Video Toaster created the desktop video market.

1986

• DigiView, the first video digitizer for a personal computer, is introduced.
• DigiPaint is created to provide video painting capabilities within a computer system