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APPENDIX B. THIRD PARTY SOLUTIONS
B.1 O
VERVIEW
Our development partners have prepared a wide array of powerful hardware and software solutions for
use with NewTek live production systems.
The information that follows is not exhaustive, and your system integrator of NewTek support channel is
always able to provide much more up to date and comprehensive information. Nevertheless, we wanted to
give you a little taste of what’s available.
Likely that you will find more than one product in the pages that follow that fills your particular workflow
and pipeline requirements, and perhaps others that inspire you with creative possibilities. Certainly those
offering solutions related to your needs will also doubtless be glad to both field questions and hear your
suggestions.
B.2 G
RAPHICS AND
C
ONTENT
Just as 3Play and TriCaster can interact, sending both audio and video signals as well as control commands
between network connected systems and software, many third-party developers leverage various SDKs to
provide extensive communication and data exchange capabilities throughout the NewTek ecosystem.
Likewise, network tally can be supported in this manner.
Many products directly supporting AirSend™ respond to the commands detailed earlier in this chapter
(Section 8.1). Third-party developers are also able to define their custom commands for execution within
the NewTek Macro system (the documentation supplied with your third-party product details custom
commands of this type). Alternatively, some third-party products use other available methods of
communication with NewTek systems.
A brief introduction to solutions from some third-party providers belonging to the NewTek Development
Network available at the time of writing follows below. Generally the solutions mentioned in this section
provide graphics, animation and video transmission, supplemental external control, or a combination of
both.
B.2.1 AGF MULTIMEDIA
CharacterWorks is a character generator and motion graphics application based-on a state-of-the-art, real-
time, multi-core, GPU-based, Full-HD, true 3D rendering engine, with smooth output over the network to
NewTek live production systems.
CharacterWorks supports playback of HD image sequences, dynamic text with embedded animations and
data from shared external sources in real-time, all in an affordable, integrated package. Supported sources
include Twitter, XML (including RSS) through XQuery, and external databases through ODBC/SQL
(including MySQL, Access, Excel).