The absence of a Mac version speaks volumes.  My guess is that there are a fair number of MS Windows APIs used.  The SAM bus is slow and it lacks an Intel based chip.

But, I can't quite even figure out what VT5 even does.  It seems to be a live video switcher, not exactly something that might be of interest to a sizable number of people.

The economics of porting to the same are very bad, there's slightly over a thousand, the cost of porting would be in the range of several thousand US dollars per SAM machine made.

It isn't going to happen.  Newtek isn't a charity...

The VT for pc uses windows and directX, the Host CPU power and the power of the AGP or PCIE graphics card to do the video effect transitions. There has never been a mac version becuase of the non standard Qaurtz graphics engine or whatever it's called. Too risky, another api to program for. Apple could simply make the toaster unsuable with a software update. Remember Apple competes with NewTek for the desktop video marketplace.

Just look at what happened to the Matrox RT2 dv external adpater for MAc. A great unit compatible with final cut, accelerated transtions, realtime DV editing, outout to a second VGA and NSTC monitor. It extended the uses of an entery level G4 quite well...As apple updated osX compatiblity was not insured leaving many with a $1500 doorstop, forcing folks to purchase a mac with DUAL g4's or better for realtime effects.

I use SPEEDEDIT on my macbook unibody runningXP. It's essentially VT5 without the live switching.

Best situation would be for someone to port the code on openvideotoaster.org to work with the new card. We suggested this years ago. Too many hooks to Windows API in VT[5] codebase to port to any other OS.

With technology today you I'm sure can make a toaster VT4000 class device live on just one chip. Maybee an FPGA or something. If you look at the VT4 for pc there are Altera chips on it, I think thats an FPGA or an maybe it's what'scalled an AISIC (if I remember corretly, probably wrong).

@Crom00

Yup, the Amiga Video Toaster 4000 redone in one FPGA chip would be awesome.

I've never seen the modern NewTek video editing tools, how do they compare with Final Cut, Vega, Premiere or Pinnacle?  NewTek is not a name you'd associate with video editing if you didn't have an Amiga background...

Newtek's Crown jewel these days seems to be the Tricaster. They're popping up quite a lot.

As far as editing is concerned Final cut, Avid, and Adobe Premiere are Kings. Just like 3dsMax and Maya are kings of the 3DWorld.

Still, Lightwave and the modern Video Toaster pop up everywhere. Unfortunatley, more often than not mentioning NewTek get you that "oh yeah... that company.." remark. Yet anything Apple touches appears to become blessed.

SpeedEDIT was VTEdit unbundled from the Video Toaster. It's called SpeedEDIT becuase it's fast in that you don't have to transcode any video, (supports most every video format PC and MAC) wheras Final Cut, Avid, Preimiere have to transcode the video into another codec for use in their editors.

Even so, SpeedEDIT is marketed as another tool for editors to add to their arsenal, not a Final Cut killer.