Toaster to IP Series 4K With Todd Rundgren
By Jim Bask
When NewTek’s Video Toaster first arrived in 1990, it was a jaw-dropping moment as video professionals realized that you no longer needed an expensive SGI supercomputer to flip and spin video, create 3D animations, and other eye-candy video effects. The Toaster put a whole TV studio and post house on an Amiga computer for under $5,000.
Rock icon Todd Rundgren was so smitten that he pushed a daisy chain of 10 Toasters to render out his now-classic effects-laden music video of “Change Myself,” among other songs from his 1991 “2nd Wind” album. Later, when the first NewTek TriCaster® came out, Rundgren’s long-time recording engineer and production manager Chris Andersen stepped in to help him produce a series of live webcasts using the TriCaster to promote Rundgren’s latest tour.”
Fast forward to May 2017 when, just like old times, Andersen used the latest NewTek products to produce a 4K concert video of Todd Rundgren’s White Knight Tour that again pushed the creative boundaries of their video artistry. The concert took place on May 13, 2017, at the Ulster Performing Arts Center, in Kingston, NY, before a sold-out crowd.
Nevessa’s Unit Three production truck was equipped with NewTek’s 4K Video Mix Engine VMC1, 2-stripe Control Surface, and multiple NC1 I/O Studio Input Output Modules, all of which are part of the IP Series.
“4K video resolution beautifully captured the visually stunning show that Rundgren performed in front of two massive floor to ceiling onstage video walls,” said Andersen, senior producer and chief engineer of Nevessa Production Woodstock, a mobile video/audio and post production company, in Saugerties, NY….[continue reading]