NewTek’s NDI® technology has become the go-to standard for live video production, and for good reason. It offers a cost-effective and efficient way to transmit high-quality video and audio over a local network. While there is many expensive NDI hardware, NewTek made NDI Tools freeware.
Let’s take a closer look at some of the key features of NDI Tools:
NDI Studio Monitor
NDI Studio Monitor is a free tool that allows you to view and monitor NDI sources on your network. With support for resolutions up to 4K and customizable layouts, it’s a powerful way to keep an eye on your live video feeds.
NDI Screen Capture
NDI Screen Capture is a free tool that allows you to capture any desktop or application window and send it over your network as an NDI source. This is a powerful way to incorporate software demos, presentations, and other content into your live video feeds.
NDI Webcam Input
NDI Webcam Input is a free tool that allows you to make any NDI source on the network available as a webcam inside any application that uses a webcam, such as Skype or Zoom. It’s a great way to integrate high-quality video sources into your video conferencing workflows.
NDI Bridge
NDI Bridge allows users to securely share NDI sources between local or remote sites, anywhere in the world, making it easy to set up and manage. This allows live production teams to stay native in NDI, end-to-end, reducing complexity, cost, and latency across any distance and with any applications.
NDI Bridge delivers local convenience on a global scale as it handles all the complexity of remote sources, supporting all of the benefits of NDI, including alpha channel, KVM, PTZs, tally, metadata, and much more.
NDI Remote
NDI Remote is a software tool based on WebRTC to send NDI source image or video through WAN (Wide Area Network), so that connecters can view and monitor on the other side of the world. It is not the same way that you use local NDI protocol, which requires your devices all connected to the same network. By sending you connection line, NDI Remote is a great way to enable cloud transmission and live video production, so that you can directly manage the received NDI source on NDI Studio Monitor.
NDI Access Manager
NDI Access Manager is a powerful software tool that provides security and control over NDI sources on your network. It allows you to manage access to NDI stream by groups ensuring only same groups can receive and send the feed. With NDI Access Manager, you can manage large scale AV production with complicated network setup easier.
Now you have general idea of what individual tools work, lets dive in how we can better improve our production with NDI.