RTV File format

[Bushmsn]

Hello


I have two questions. Is there a way to play RTV'S without Toaster software installed? I would like to play uncompressed video for output for a small cable channel. But I only have one VT for now. What I am hoping to do is use Scheduler or something like it to play a loop. No surprise here I am trying to do it cheap. Also having my VT at home allows my to get more done. I will be getting a second Vt in the future which will be at the cable companies office. So if you any advice for using the VT as the main output thay would be appreciated.

[JReble]

Not really, but I'd suggest you're best bet would be to render everything to DV avi files and play those back on any number of cheap software applications and/or simple hardware that provides analog out and a playlist or looping timeline of clips. That really easy and doesn't have to use all that hard drive space for little reason. Uncompressed for editing is great, but there's little need to use uncompressed video for playout. DV should be fine and it can be handled by windows media player and everything else.

Oh and, you don't need VT to work at home. A copy of SpeedEdit would work fine.

[wvp]

If your source material is DV (majority of cameras are these days) then their is no real reason to use RTV - your just taking up a lot of space with no real improvement. RTV is good for maintaining analog sources and if you were to do renders on top of renders.
While you could certainly use SpeedEdit say at home to edit and a VT at the office be aware that the current VT (4) cannot read SE files, VT5 "should" (it better!) be able to.

[ScorpioProd]

Plus, it has even been stated by Newtek that RTV is really just a legacy format anyway. It was great in its day, but Newtek has moved toward non-proprietary formats since then.

[KHS-TV]

Plus, it has even been stated by Newtek that RTV is really just a legacy format anyway. It was great in its day, but Newtek has moved toward non-proprietary formats since then.
Does that mean they're moving away from NT25 as well?

[SBowie]

In SE, NT25 has been updated, and is called SpeedHQ

[KHS-TV]

In SE, NT25 has been updated, and is called SpeedHQ
SpeedEDIT can still use NT25 videos from VT[4], though, right?

[SBowie]

Yeah, I think so.