Instead of needing huge hardware surfaces in a giant room to produce events, many functions can now be performed by a computer or laptop in the same room…or anywhere really, as long as they’re on the same network! This has really opened the opportunity for more and more professional production through high-end CG graphics, real-time playout, and source sharing…all over a local network. Now with NDI, each product has the ability to connect with most live video systems on the market.

Developers would need to go out of their way, sign exclusivity agreements and only work on certain platforms. Most systems for live video production in the past,both software and hardware, were fairly closed ecosystems. With the development of NDI you could see that it had been created to not only make IP video more accessible but to help bring more live video elements together. We were ALL IN with NDI and wanted full integration so we made it possible to both send and receive video sources including individual cameras! As we begun developing vMix for use with NDI I can remember having a moment thinking…hey this could actually work! It’s great quality, low latency video that can be delivered over the local network without any hassles! When NDI officially launched in 2015 we were excited to be apart of a new live video revolution. At first I remember being a little skeptical as my only contact with IP video was with cheap IP cameras that were unreliable and had extreme latency. Being able to create live video productions using video sources on the local network sounded almost too good to be true. Hey! I think we could just about put together an entirely NDI show! Let’s send some emails and see if we can do it!Īfter some correspondence we were able to secure the NewTek™ Spark Connect, NewTek PTZ1 camera, and the PTZOptics NDI|HX upgrade! Along with our existing BirdDog Studio, we we able to use 4 NDI sources in our production! One major upgrade to our studio that we did need was a PoE+ switch to run all of our new PoE NDI devices! We bought a Ubiquiti UniFi Switch 24-īack in 2014 when we first heard about NDI, we were pretty excited about the possibilities. I was sitting in the office in December and thought…

People have seen NDI as a cool way to transfer some titles or video but cameras and converters show people its full potential! NDI hardware lessens the equipment footprint of a production and makes each element of a production accessible to everyone on the same network, which is great for small and large productions alike. Having hardware products really cements the functionality of the standard in a working studio environment. In our last post we discussed how far NDI had come and how we now have access hardware based NDI solutions! We were super eager to get access to NDI based hardware so that we could start implementing it into our vMix HQ studio.

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