All In On NDI - Ethernet replaces HDMI and SDI for video production.

hello there my name is anthony baroccus with ib communications and today we're going to look at what is i feel the next generation of video production which is networked video we're setting up a three camera shoot here and we're going to be using three networked enabled cameras and ndi to do this entire production [Music] i have here just a small sampling of the hardware that is designed to use in the eye now ndi enables video and audio to go over a network like this ethernet cable right here there's no video cables but i'm able to see this camera on this tricaster and this vmix setup at the same time because it's shared across the network it's available to two completely different systems that's really hard to do with sdi or hdmi without adding splitters and distribution amplifiers ndi eliminates all of that moreover this camera has one cable to it it's powered over ndi so it's power audio ethernet and with bird dog it's even comms so you can communicate with an operator on a camera if you're using the bird dog system so what we're doing here today is we're going to be using the new tricaster 4k which has four ndi outputs on the tricaster itself and then we're going to be using three panasonic cameras and a new tech spark to grab the slides basically no video cables on this entire chute they're all designed for an active internet connection which is not always available our situation is that this is a corporate environment and in a corporate environment things are locked down meaning that there's no devices on the network that the it department hasn't already gone through and approved meaning you can't plug the camcorder into the network have it get an ip address and be able to see the ndi on the network it just doesn't work out of the box so to enable this we are using a standalone wi-fi enabled router that provides the dhcp the ip numbers for all the devices on the network and offers a gigabit network so that the data can pass between the devices and also incorporate any wireless devices into the same network now the cx350 being a network device and being able to deliver video over ip it is not just an ndi device so you need to go through the menu settings on the cx350 to first set it up to be seen on the network as you can see from this panasonic slide you need to go to the menu go to network and set it up so that it can be used on a lan wi-fi is not compatible with ndi it has to be a wired local area network next you need to go to the network function and specifically select ndi as the protocol that it's going to be using not some generic streaming directly to a destination lastly you need to go to the lan properties go to the ip v4 settings and make sure that it's set to dhcp which means it will accept an ip address from your network and that it is set to be a client as opposed to a server this way when you go back to your ipv4 settings you should see numbers provided from your router for the camera to appear on your local area network once you do all this now you go to a laptop on the local area network use the ndi tools studio monitor and then open up the cx350 selected as a source in the ndi studio monitor let's look at that i am selecting the cx350 right here which is right over here and we're going to say channel one and it says i need to register it so there's a register button down in the bottom right click on that visit the store to purchase the ndi license for the camcorder so we click on the store here we are panasonic hx upgrade for panasonic cameras and there's a lot of them here click on the 350 or the cx10 or whichever camera you have we want one add to the cart there we go total is 2.99 all right when you've done all that you proceed to check out you need to have a new tech account that these licenses will be applied to so if you don't already have an account you need to create one all right there it is installation guide if you have to read through the terms of service agree place the order now you can print a copy of your registration or if you just want to copy and paste the data you go into your account here's your orders you can view the order and the order will contain your registration code so we can copy that and then switch back over to here paste that in enable your camera is now licensed for use with ndi hx click ok and if i open up the shutter there it is and that is how simple it is to activate the panasonic camera here we are in the tricaster and you can see that i am talking to this bird dog camera right here talking to this camera right here it's it's receiving and again it is literally one ethernet cable providing power control and everything so i've got my presets down here for my pen tilt zoom camera and now i want to add the panasonic camera which is not in there so ndi is as simple as click the gear it'll see all the ndi and you can see cx350 channel one we'll click on that it'll take a moment to load up let me close this and there you go i can put that into preview as two i can take that live enter back to preview [Music] so that is the cx350 and like i said it is literally one ethernet cable and i'm plugged in because i'm going to be here a while or you could be on a battery and that's it there is usb in this camera however panasonic says that usb or wireless usb or wi-fi cannot be used for ndi hx however there is wireless ndi hx newtek makes the kinect spark this little device has ethernet which is not power over ethernet unfortunately it takes 12 volt in has hdmi in hdmi out there's also an sdi model and audio and audio out and wi-fi so if you wanted to you could take your hdmi out of here since this is hd only the spark connect is hd only that you can by that i mean not 4k it's not a 4k ndi coming out of the the panasonic camera and this is not a 4k device so if you're dealing with just hd then you could just as easily put that in a hot shoe mount take your hdmi run it into the spark and away you go you'd be completely wireless uh need a battery obviously 12 volt battery for the spark but there are camcorder batteries that are big enough and have 12 volt out in addition to the power for the camera so you could power both devices from a big battery on the back here or use two batteries and that way you'd be perfectly free to roam around get footage at an event and wirelessly bring it back into the system back here i have another camera set up this has the bird dog studio so it tells me this is camera one right on the camera this can obviously face the talent and then they know which camera to look at camera one camera two camera three because to them it's just a bunch of cameras now in addition to that this has comes coming out of the headset so i've got my headset here and i can be in communication with the network because i'm running comms on software on a windows machine and i have a headset plugged into the laptop and i'm able to right here call that up and i see all of the what the camera feeds are and i'm able to talk to them and listen to each camera or all the cameras in addition to that when this camera is called up on my vmix let's call this up in preview it's going to tell me this camera is getting ready to be taken live and then when i do take it live you've got tally so that is all happening over ndi comms tally video feed this is both sdi and hdmi and both have a loop through and through the menu system you can actually configure what this studio does now do you want to use this for a camera to come into your mixer or do you want to send your program output somewhere else you can do that you can select this so that the hdmi output of this is actually coming from ndi and you can send the signal to this as a stage monitor as a overflow monitor and that is a lot of flexibility again putting all of the video on the network makes that possible and even the panasonic which we were looking at before one of the nice things is you've got a little record indicator tally on here and on the front well it just so happens that when you call that up on the computer the tally light on the camera goes on and if i take it off a program it goes off i put it on program it goes back on so both the operator and the talent know when this camera is live that's again part of the ndi specification even on the panasonic you don't even need a third-party piece of hardware to make that happen on the panasonic lastly you can control pan tilt zoom zoom cameras with dedicated hardware this is a bird dog controller there are other controllers out there as well but again i want you to notice that this whole controller and all the cameras you can talk to it's one cable this is power over ethernet powering the device and all of the communications back and forth and of course there's a headphone jack in here because being a bird dog piece of equipment you can run comms out of this box too so the director can sit operating on their computer have coms right next to them they can talk to cameras they can talk to stage they can talk to pan tilt zoom operators they can talk to graphics and that all happens over ndi so this is just a quick look at a little bit of what ndi has to offer from communication to tally and of course video and audio across the network there's also multicasting where you can send one camera to multiple sources now right now this is sending two streams to two different devices but if you're going to send it to a lot of places you can set up what they call multicasting on ndi and that will send one stream and split it out onto all those devices so you're not overloading the network with a bunch of different streams all going around another interesting feature is over here on my vmix system i'm actually looking at the output of my tricaster system so that that way you can have one person switching a feed and then take a pre-graphics feed send it to another machine and you can fix you can mix a completely different output with different graphics say in two different languages you've got someone doing titles in english somebody doing titles in spanish perfect for international sports so that flexibility it would be you'd need a whole rack of hardware just to be able to move those video signals around and reroute them and patch them and with ndi that is all just on the network this has been a little overview an introduction to just some of the capabilities of ndi from cameras to control to mixing pan tilt zoom wireless sending one destination to multiple places running audio tally it's it's it's really we're just scratching the surface as to what this can do and how people are going to leverage it in the future ndi is in version four there are going to be future versions that add more capability more flexibility and features we haven't even thought of till then my name is anthony baroccus from ayuba communications thanks for watching [Music] you

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Published: Thu Jul 30 2020