Congratulations to
the teams at zoom, and NDI for building a native
support for NDI in zoom rooms. Check this out. The ability to output NDI
have the speaker view, a thumbnail view,
a gallery view, and up to three NDI outputs
natively with zoom rooms. Let's check it out after this. So what is a Zoom Room? Well, Zoom Room is different than
the regular zoom meeting client that maybe you
run on your phone, or your computer,
whether it's a Mac or PC, a Zoom Room is a
dedicated room appliance. And it costs about $500 a
year to have that software run on whether you're using like a Mac Mini
as popular, or maybe a Windows computer. And you run that Zoom
Room meeting environment, in a really usually
a room, right. Where you have a controller
like a touchscreen controller to control everything
in your meeting space. It gives you wireless
presentation capabilities, you can run meetings and
webinars via the zoom rooms. And now you can output the
video from your Zoom Room on your local area
network using NDI. So what is NDI? Well, NDI stands
for network device interface. And it's a very popular IP video
production protocol that works with hundreds of
different software and hardware systems that allow you to
send video over your local area network. I just recently finished a book
called the unofficial guide to NDI, which you can download
for free to learn more. I highly suggest you do
because it's a game changer, especially now that it's natively
integrated into zoom rooms. So how does all this work? Well, first of all, you should
log in to your zoom account, and go down to room management. This is where the zoom
rooms are located. We go down to the Zoom Room
we are testing out today, which is our studio Zoom Room. And we're going to go inside and we're
just going to go ahead and edit the studio. And what this allows you to do is
look at all of the different settings. Then we're going to go
into the meeting settings. And if we scroll down all the way to
where NDI is kind of towards the bottom, we can enable NDI. Now one thing I'm going to go
ahead and do is enable 1080 P, if you haven't done that already,
I would definitely do that. You can see we've enabled
1080 P that will help out. And in the meeting advanced area,
this is in the advanced area, we also have far end camera control in
there, so we can control our PTC cameras. And then allow network device
interface usage is checked on. We also have an option
to do separate audio. So I'm going to go ahead and I'm going
to keep everything enabled the way it is. I don't need to
separate my audio. Once that's on, I will show you the
zoom interface to start using NDI. So to demonstrate
the NDI output, what I'm going to do is I'm going
to go ahead and launch a meeting. And I'm actually going to use my
smartphone to demonstrate this here. If we click Change view, we get
the options for outputting NDI, on our local area network. So I can choose from
speaker, thumbnail or gallery and add that as a live output
on our local area network, which we can then bring into software
like OBS, Wirecast, vmix, a Tricaster, hundreds of different
software solutions and hardware solutions like
a magewell NDI decoder, which will allow
us to, let's say, show the speaker view on a
television connected via HDMI, and also connected to
our local area network. So I'm just going to go ahead
and add a live video output. And I'm going to choose
the active speaker. Now that's live on my
local area network, and I'm going to show you how to
bring that into Vmix right now. So here's where the beauty of the NDI
output from zoom really comes into play. Whether you are using OBS,
vmix, Wirecast, a Tricaster you can bring that video into
a video production software and start to use it for live streams,
Video Productions, adding lower thirds, custom graphics, and you can really do
some amazing things, even virtual sets. So what I'm going to do is I'm
just going to hit add input, and I'm going to search for all
the NDI video inputs on my network and we have multiple different
NDI cameras out here available, but in this list, we have our Mac Mini
which is hosting our zoom session. Now I'd like to just add
one more little view here. How about a gallery view to a
second, NDI output here, boom. And that will also now be
available on my local area network. So let's bring in our first view
again, we can have three NDI outputs, which is the main video
coming from the Zoom Room. Then I'd like to add a second video source,
which is going to be our-- here comes. The second video
source from there. So you can bring in
multiple video sources. You can look at things in
gallery view, in thumbnail view, this is really simple,
simple, easy to use stuff. I love the partnership
here between zoom and NDI, making things easy, but
incredibly powerful. This is a game changer. Let us know what you think about
this in the comments below. Thank you to everyone who has
subscribed to our channels and our members on YouTube
you guys make this all happen. Wow. Let us know in the comments below
how you're going to use zoom with NDI. This opens up NDI to
millions of users of zoom. And I really hope zoom
follows Microsoft Teams and builds this type of functionality
into the true meetings client. So this can be run on any
computer without a Zoom Room. But still, I think that the Zoom Room
functionality is incredibly powerful, and I can't wait to hear how
everyone's going to use it. Alright guys, I'll see you
guys in the next video.
