NewTek
Founded in 1985 in Kansas, USA, by Tim Jenison, NewTek produces video post-production and imaging tools for personal computers.
The company's first products included DigiPaint and DigiView, both for the Commodore Amiga personal computer.
The DigiView product added slow scan digitising capabilities to that platform, allowing images to be imported at low cost, before modern image scanning technology was widely available.
Although not as well known as the de facto industry standard applications from Electronic Arts, the DigiPaint product offered at release the unique capability of editing and painting on images in the Amiga's unique hold-and-modify high colour mode in real time.
The company found widespread fame with the release of the Video Toaster, an innovative system for low cost video post production. The company was featured in magazine articles in such mainstream publications as Rolling Stone Magazine and was featured on the NBC Nightly News. The fame extended beyond the product; the company's founder Tim Jenison and it's Vice President Paul Montgomery also were presented as new types of businessmen running a new and different kind of company.
Jenison and Montgomery eventually split, with Montgomery and most of NewTek's engineers leaving to help form a new company called Play, Inc.
Now based in San Antonio, Texas, USA, current products include an updated Video Toaster system, the popular Lightwave 3D rendering and modeling program, and other paint and digital animation software for the broadcast industry.
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