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NDI is fantastic, having dealt with racks of gear for switching and video distribution before I get excited about the possibilities every time I play with it. D

NDI is fantastic, having dealt with racks of gear for switching and video distribution before I get excited about the possibilities every time I play with it. Dedicated hardware for bridging NDI to input and output devices is also appearing. It's a lossy solution (the video is compressed, unlike SDI/HDMI) but for live productions I'd definitely be willing to use NDI throughout (cameras -> switching -> recording/projection/streaming). So long as they keep NDI Tools free. It would be great if they could also eventually build in some of the functionality of Dante (NDI is something like Dante but for video) since the Dante software toolkit is very much not free. I think Newtek has been on the right track.

EricE 5y ago
Birddog has a great selection of dedicated NDI hardware that we found to be rock solid. Indeed, we use three of the Flex 4K Out boxes to three projectors doing alpha blending to form a single virtual screen via ProPresenter and it works great! Especially since someone donated an M1 Mac Mini, not realizing it only supported two traditional external monitors. With NDI we could have an external monitor for the operator display then let ProPresenter generate three virtual monitors via NDI. We can send differently formatted "screens" via NDI to our OBS computer for streaming too - different configurations of lower thirds for texts, full screen mirroring of the main presentation display - whatever we need. NDI really works a treat and I will NEVER go back to analog video again! We also use the Birddog NDI PTZ cameras for streaming and some crude IMAG too - it's amazing how well NDI works.