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NewTek has also made NDI® completely interoperable with the previous version. Today, NewTek is pushing 3.8, and soon they’ll be showcasing 4.0. All version of NDI® are forward and backward compatible. So, if you have an original 1.0 NDI® device that has never been updated, it will still work with your TriCaster today. If the device is reflected when using a direct connection, check the following in your workflow: Ensure the NDI® source and receiving device are on the same subnet in your network. If this is not possible, utilize our NDI® Access Manager tool to resolve.

These tools are free and open source – no extra licenses needed, as long as you have an infrastructure that supports NDI.

NDI Tools Index:

NDI Studio Monitor

View or display any number of NDI video sources across your network. Incredibly powerful and versatile, NDI Studio Monitor runs on any compatible laptop or workstation, and allows you to see any available NDI channel in real time, arrange multiple NDI channels for live monitoring, and deploy instances for a range of professional signage and display applications.

• Independently configurable video source, overlay, and audio per instance
• Launch, distribute, and manage multiple instances from a single device
• Support for control and configuration via compatible mobile devices
• Comprehensive support for multi-monitor video wall and signage installations
• Remote control of PTZ, recording, and configuration for applicable source
• Record NDI files directly from multiple instances NDI Studio Monitor^NEW
• Remote control via web server^NEW
• NDI output allows NDI Studio Monitor to act as a router and server for delivery to multiple outboard displays^NEW

NDI Scan Converter

Capture and present the full-screen display, any combination of windows, applications, players, and webcams, or a specific region of interest from any computer—anywhere on your network. NDI Scan Converter transforms any laptop or workstation into a multi-source IP video input device.

• Generate multiple live video sources simultaneously, with selectable audio
• Support for multi-monitor capture, with independent output at up to 60Hz
• Capture all of your system’s desktops in real-time, at full 60Hz or even games at 120Hz or above and with almost no CPU usage
• KVM (keyboard, video, mouse) remote control of any workstation running Scan Converter from NDI Studio Monitor^NEW
• Consumes minimal system resources, with no noticeable performance impact

NDI Virtual Input

Designate an available NDI source as the video input for popular software applications that support a webcam. With NDI Virtual Input, NDI sources are recognized as standard Microsoft^® Windows^® video and audio sources, making it possible to elevate your video communications without increasing the complexity of your setup.

• Compatible with Google Hangouts, GoToMeeting, Skype, Zoom, and more
• Supports full frame rate video and audio up to 1080p and 4K UHD at 60 fps

NDI VLC Plugin

Present video content and other supported multimedia to the network as IP sources directly from VLC Media Player. The NDI VLC Plugin encodes the output from each instance of the free player to NDI in real time, making media files of virtually any format available for use in your live production.

• Compatible with current and previous versions of VLC Media Player for Windows
• Makes content accessible without transfer, transcoding, or direct connectivity
• Supports encoding of multiple instances of VLC Media Player simultaneously
• Virtual PTZ control for pan and zoom control around VLC output^NEW

MOBILE iOS NDI CAMERA APP

NDI for Adobe Creative Cloud

Allows CC apps to output a real-time NDI feed which the Tricaster can use as a source.

Design then deliver Adobe Creative Cloud content directly into your workflow from any workstation on your network. NDI for Adobe Creative Cloud is the only software plugin for Adobe’s industry-standard creative tools enabling real-time, renderless playback and preview over IP—right from the timeline—simplifying review and approval, facilitating collaboration, and accelerating live-to-air editing workflows.

• Compatible with Adobe After Effects^® CC, Premiere^® Pro CC, and more
• Supports full-resolution, real-time video with audio and transparency
• Viewable from any NDI-enabled receiving device, anywhere on the network

NDI Import I/O for Adobe CC^NEW

Allows CC apps to import an NDI feed from the Tricaster in real-time. Also supports file growing. Mac and Windows.

Import your media files captured and recorded from NDI sources into Adobe Creative Cloud software applications from your local drives or across your network using standard storage systems. Once the NDI Import I/O for Adobe Creative Cloud is installed, all Creative Cloud applications that use video will recognize the NDI files as another media option. Simply apply media to your timelines for editing and animation projects. Because NDI files are time-stamped during recording, complex multi-cam editing is an effortless exercise.

• Compatible with Adobe After Effects CC, Premiere Pro CC, and more…
• Supports full-resolution, real-time video with audio and alpha channel
• Enables synchronized multi-cam editing

MOBILE iOS NDI CAPTURE APP

NDI Access Manager

Manage the visibility and accessibility of NDI systems and sources on your network. NDI Access Manager allows you to organize your NDI channels into groups, choose which groups are available to your device, and select which groups can receive your NDI channels—making it easy to determine the availability of NDI channels across your network.

• Configure NDI channels as public or private on your network
• Group NDI systems, devices, and applications to preference
• Connect to and access NDI channels on other networks via IP address
• Connect to and access NDI channels on other networks via IP address
• Advanced tab allows preference for TCP or UDP connections, multicast operation, and optional discovery server support^NEW

NDI Test Patterns

Send a reference signal to other NDI devices on your network to confirm connectivity and enable audio and video calibration. NDI Test Patterns includes a variety of test patterns and audio tones to ensure accurate color properties and appropriate sound levels.

• Available patterns include color bars, individual colors, and IRE fields
• Selectable audio tones ranging from +4dBU (+0dBVU) to -40dBU (-48dBVU)

NDI|HX Driver

Enable any compatible device to connect to and receive the output from video products with the NDI|HX extension, such as NewTek Connect Spark^™ and the NewTek NDI PTZ Camera, as well supported third-party NDI|HX cameras.

• Compatible with systems, devices, and applications supporting NDI
• High-efficiency transfer optimized for limited bandwidth environments
• Suitable for WiFi, remote, and large-scale networks

Newtek announced their “Network Device Interface” (NDI) protocol back in 2016, as a way to transfer HD video signals in real-time over IP networks. It was designed to replace SDI transmission and routing of high fidelity video signals, usually within a facility. SDI was used to connect tape decks, computers, and monitors to routers and switches, which would direct and process the signal. The vision was to replace all of that coaxial cabling infrastructure with IP based ethernet packets, running on the same networks and cabling that were already needed to support the data networks. NDI is a compressed alternative to the SMTPE 2022 and 2110 standards which require much more bandwidth for uncompressed video routing over 10GbE. NDI uses its own codec to compress video around 15:1, allowing it to be utilized over existing Gigabit networks. There is also an “HX” variant of NDI that utilizes a lower bitrate H.264 based level of compression, optimized for higher resolutions and wireless networks.
There are now a variety of products, both hardware and software, that utilize NDI to communicate between different stages of a workflow, usually targeted towards live production. But the software tool-set that has been developed to allow those workflows, offers a number of other interesting options, when used slightly out of its intended context. Newtek offers the basic NDI software tool set as a free download on their website, and it includes, among other things:
NDI Studio Monitor-allows monitoring and recording of any available NDI stream on the network, and can overlay streams together with other modifications, and re-transmit to the network.
NDI Screen Capture-captures the images from your desktop display(s) and outputs them as NDI channels on the network. Also supports KVM control over that channel on Windows.
NDI Screen Capture HX-captures the images from your desktop display to a more compressed NDI HX stream, via GPU based NVENC for better performance, with KVM option.
NDI Virtual Input-Converts any NDI source into input as a webcam on your system, allowing that source to be streamed over video telecommunication apps.
NDI for Adobe Creative Cloud-plugin that allows application output from Premiere Pro, After Effects, or Character Animator to be transmitted as an NDI stream. Also allows import and editing of files from captured NDI streams.

This software tool-set offers a number of interesting workflow possibilities, for remote groups, or just individuals working between multiple systems, or even on a single system. Basically NDI sources take video data from an application, compress it into the NDI protocol, and make it available to other resources on the network. NDI receivers or viewers take that data stream from the network or another application on the local system, and display it or make it available in another program. NDI Virtual Input is a receiver tool that allows nearly any application that supports web camera input to utilize a live NDI feed. NDI Screen Capture turns your GPU output into an NDI feed that is available to any NDI receiver. The Creative Cloud plugin turns your Adobe application into an NDI source. The Studio monitor can be both, processing and displaying NDI feeds that are coming in, and becoming an NDI source of the resulting data.

This makes it much easier to generate high end tutorials and other screen capture content, combined in real time for streaming, instead of editing them together in post. You can easily switch between the application UI and the program output when demonstrating a software function, or using Character Animator to generate an avatar of your webcam input, for gaming streamers.

There are also applications to utilize NDI on other devices, like HX Capture and HX Camera for iPhone, streaming their screen or camera feed as an NDI source over the WiFi connection, and NDI Monitor TV allowing you to view NDI streams via an Apple TV 4K. One of the key benefits of NDI is the widespread support, allowing otherwise incompatible products to pass images between each other.

Newtek sells a variety of products that enable and leverage NDI workflows, from their Spark SDI interfaces to their Tricaster production switching solutions. There are also other vendors like BirdDog and Magewell that make their own NDI based hardware products, and companies like SIenna and vMix that have NDI integrated into their software. It is also supported in applications like OBS, which I have been using it with. OBS supports bringing in any NDI feed as a source for your program, and can also output its own NDI feed of the mixed stream.

Newtek Ndi After Effects Doesnt Work

I do very little work in real-time, but used to use SDI to capture NLE output for quick encodes, and could use NDI for real-time encodes of my Character Animator projects. Setting NDI as the output in Mercury Transit, and recording that stream in NDI Studio Monitor allows real-time recording of anything you can play back in real time in Premiere Pro, After Effects, or Character Animator, with alpha channel support. It can even overlay the output from one program over another, so I could composite my Lego puppet over a screen capture or Premiere playback output in real time.

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The Virtual Input function is especially interesting to me, in light of the fact that so many people are working remotely now, which I have been doing for a while. Usually my boss and I, who are thousands of miles apart, just pass projects back and forth, that link to duplicate media. And I use VNC over a VPN to operate his system when needed, which offers limited collaboration. But the ability to combine NDI output from Premiere Pro with the Virtual Input, allows me to stream the output from my timeline to my boss over Skype, for instant feedback of changes I make to a clip or sequence. He is seeing a compressed version of the output, but I have easier access to the software UI and better responsiveness than when using VNC.

And combining a number of these functions with OBS, and possibly a second system, I could make some great software tutorials in real-time. Scan Converter allows my display output to be sent to a second system on the network, combined with a Character Animator render of my mini-figure avatar, and my Premiere or AE output, using the NDI output for Creative Cloud, a live stream can be cut together from those sources. This could theoretically be done on a single system, with at least two displays, one for the demoed app and the other to control the switching and streaming, but NDI allows it to just as easily be run from a second system. And I could dedicate a third system to Character Animator if needed, and NDI would allow me to seamlessly link it in as long as they are all on the same network. Gaming streamers use a similar setup on Twitch, but NDI makes that much easier than it otherwise would be.

An even more interesting application of a number of these utilities would be to combine them across locations. I am looking at producing a live animated podcast of sorts, with someone else who would be remote. They would run their puppet in Character Animator, and output over NDI to a Virtual camera, that would be their source in Skype or Zoom. This is how you animate yourself for video calls, but we can take it a step further. If I connect to a call with him, I should then be able to screen capture his feed via Region of Interest, to an NDI feed on my system. Once I have his puppet and background as an NDI feed, I can do the same thing in Character Animator with a puppet of my own, and output it with no background as a separate NDI feed. I can then composite those two sources in Studio Monitor, or OBS for more flexibility, and stream or record the result. The outcome of all this, is that he and I discuss something as if we were on a teleconference call with each other, and an animated video of both of us in the same frame is created live, all through the magic of Character Animator, the internet, and NDI.

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So it is easy to see that the flexibility of NDI opens all sorts on interesting workflow possibilities to explore, in a variety of different applications. I am super excited to see where it leads, as new developments are released, and more applications and features are supported.