NewTek Tricaster Adds Mac Support with iVGA

Judging from the buzz surrounding it, the NewTek TriCaster is a great piece of kit. To borrow from NewTek's perhaps slightly hyperbolic praise of itself, the TriCaster "combines the functionality of a live television truck into a 10 pound, 1 cubic foot appliance" which runs about $5000. Basically, it allows you to produce streaming live video to the web at professional TV studio quality. Unfortunately, this marvel of video technology has hitherto not been compatible with the Mac, but NewTek has now released its iVGA software for OS X. iVGA "is a software application launched on a network-connected Mac. Any display on that Mac screen is sent across the network as a video input into TriCaster's live switcher, or, can pass through TriCaster, at full-resolution, to a projector." Given how important the Mac is for video work, it's surprising it has taken NewTek this long; in any case, I guess it's better late than never. Apparently, iVGA is a free download for owners of a TriCaster, but you need to be registered to download it.

[Via MacNN]