Guide to Using Epiphan Pearl-2 and Zoom Rooms NDI
By Adam Noyes
Zoom Rooms are a great way to bring an NDI feed into your Zoom video conference. Devices like the Epiphan Pearl-2 can help up the quality of the video feeding into your Zoom Room, and subsequently increase engagement.
Check out this video from Epiphan to learn more:
Check out some highlights from this article from Epiphan, below, to learn more about Zoom with NDI can achieve.
What’s possible with Zoom NDI
With Zoom Rooms NDI and Pearl-2, you can:
- Ingest up to three clean (no Zoom UI elements) participant sources from Zoom Room via NDI in up to 1080p
- Create custom layouts including one-ups, two-ups, and three-ups with your guests, and mix and switch between them
- Stream to multiple destinations at once, including content delivery networks (CDNs) and webinar platforms
- Record your production locally, including ISO recording
- Add production elements like motion graphics, titling, and logos
- Output the production back into Zoom for confidence monitoring
- Remotely produce polished virtual events
- Create more video in house, faster and with less effort
What you’ll need
Here’s what you’ll need to make NDI-powered Zoom Rooms production possible:
- A Zoom Rooms license
- A computer system running Zoom Rooms app
- NDI use enabled in Zoom Rooms
- An NDI-capable encoder like Pearl-2
How to configure Zoom Rooms NDI with Pearl-2
Watch the following video or follow the steps below to set up video production with Zoom Rooms NDI and Pearl-2.