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NewTek has added another tool to their list of NDI tools, and this one is powered by NVIDIA GPU power, making it perfect for high quality, pristine streaming especially when it comes to eSports and virtual game streaming.

The tool in question is the NDI Screen Capture HX application. This is perfect for live presentations with on screen resources, video game streaming, eSports and more.

Check out some highlights from this article from NewTek to learn more.

Bergen, Norway and San Antonio, Texas—December 15, 2020—NDI^®, part of the Vizrt Group along with the NewTek and Vizrt brands, today announced the NDI^® Screen Capture HX app for NVIDIA GPUs. NDI Screen Capture HX works in collaboration with NVIDIA GPU–based PCs to capture screens and make them available as an NDI source on the network, eliminating the need for expensive video capture cards when sharing or streaming content from another computer.

NDI Screen Capture HX is optimized for NVIDIA GPUs, thereby removing all reliance on a PC’s CPU when capturing a screen. This delivers pristine video over the network, at resolutions up to 4K and frame rates up to 120Hz without compromise.

“Our mission is to make IP video easy to use and fun for anyone to make a great show,” said Dr. Andrew Cross, Head of R&D for the Vizrt Group. “Offering full NVIDIA GPU-accelerated support for NDI allows gamers to use applications like OBS Studio, XSplit, TriCaster^®, or any of the thousands of applications that support NDI.”

“NDI is helping gamers, creatives and enterprises tell stories online using the ground–breaking capabilities of NDI Screen Capture HX,” said Gerardo Delgado, Senior Product Manager at NVIDIA. “Using NVIDIA GPUs, Screen Capture HX delivers a real–time, no–compromise solution for network–driven content creation.”

NDI Screen Capture HX also allows users to run a PowerPoint presentation on one machine with embedded transitions, animation, audio, or movies included and use it on another machine as part of a live presentation, production, or web stream. The tool will also allow users to remotely control one machine using another on the network with full frame–rate video, even on 4K displays, with full support for moving keyboard, mouse, touch surface, clipboard, audio and video between machines.

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The Atomos Connect 4K merges your camera shots with the social media audience at the highest quality possible and with its plug-and-play USB connectivity it works great on any PC or Mac and with every streaming software solution available today including Zoom, Skype, Teams, and more! Atomos gave the Connect 4K the title of “a convenient, reliable, and affordable bridge between professional 4K video capture and high frame rate UVC streaming over USB.”

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To connect your camera and/or capture card to Wirecast follow these simple steps:

Adding a capture card and camera

1. If you have an external capture card, plug it into your computer using the appropriate USB, Thunderbolt, HDMI or SDI connection. If it’s an internal HDMI or SDI card in your computer, go to the next step.
2. Now, connect your camera to your capture card and turn your camera on
3. Open Wirecast and click on the plus (+) icon in your desired Wirecast layer to prompt the dropdown menu. Select Capture Devices and click on your connected capture card in the dropdown menu
4. If adding multiple camera, repeat steps
   **If your camera feed does not show up, you may need to change the format of your video. To do this, select the capture card within the layer and go to the System Device Properties tab on the left-hand side of the window. Here you can adjust the video format to allow the camera feed to appear.

Adding a USB connected camera, such as a webcam

1. Plug your USB camera into your computer and turn it on
2. Open Wirecast and click on the plus (+) icon in your desired layer to prompt the dropdown menu. Select Capture Devices and click on your connected USB webcam in the dropdown menu.
3. Click on the USB webcam feed in your layer to edit the video settings and the recording framerate in the system device properties on the left-hand side of the window.
4. If adding multiple camera, repeat steps

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I have the droid you’re looking for!

Okay, so maybe it’s not a droid. But I have the tech you’re looking for. Many people don’t even realize it’s possible to convert HDMI to USB, but it is. And while it’s not quite as simple as plugging your HDMI™ camera into your laptop (that won’t work!), it’s easier than you think.

There are a variety of reasons why people are looking for HDMI recorders or ways to bring their HDMI source into a computer. Some people simply want to use their PC or laptop as a large screen for their camera, or as a “TV screen” for a device that doesn’t have a display. Others want to record or stream the content from their HDMI source. All these options are possible with Epiphan’s USB-based HDMI capture cards. Get exactly what you need with our driverless Epiphan AV.io HD and Epiphan AV.io 4K USB video capture cards. Or for customers who need 100% lossless, perfect capture with full control over color space (usually for medical and industrial applications) we have DVI2USB 3.0.

Get started right away with AV.io 4K and AV.io HD

If you’re like most people and want to get going as fast as possible, our AV.io family is exactly what you need. AV.io 4K converts 4K UHD signals from HDMI to USB at 30 fps. And both AV.io HD and AV.io 4K capture 1080p video at 60 fps, with only 1-2 frames delay in transferring the data over your USB bus. In addition to video capture, these cards also capture embedded HDMI audio. So whether you’re capturing a game console like PS4 Pro or Xbox One S, capturing a laptop, a 4K camera, video camera, embedded device, or a DSLR, you’ll have top quality, low delay audio and video capture. Our AV.io family video capture cards are simple to use. Connect your source to your AV.io HD or AV.io 4K, then connect the USB cable to a USB port on your computer. Use built-in tools like Windows Camera, or any video capture tool of your choice (including VLC, OBS, or QuickTime) to view, record, and stream your video. Use it with Windows, Linux, or Mac OS.

Our HDMI to USB solutions just work

There are a few things we consistently hear from happy AV.io HD and AV.io 4K users who’ve used competing products in the past:

• The product just works
• The aluminum casing is satisfyingly weighty
• They find the products are designed well for repeated and extended use
• Their computers aren’t working as hard as they do with competing products
• Capture quality is fantastic and has very little delay

Don’t just take my word for it, watch as reviewers gush about AV.io 4K!

Let’s look at some of these points in more detail to understand how our HDMI to USB converters work and how they differ from some others in the same field.

Raw video capture means less work

Why do our customers find that their computers aren’t working as hard when capturing HDMI with an Epiphan capture card? This has to do with raw video capture. Other video capture solutions compress your video into a container like H.264 or Motion JPG so it’s small enough to fit across a USB 2.0 bus (a medium with a maximum data transfer rate of 60 MB/s). When it arrives on your computer, the CPU and/or GPU need to work to decompress this image, then re-encode it with your encoding settings. And with this type of pre-compressed video, it’s never possible to get back the full detail that was lost in compression. By contrast, our AV.io family of HDMI capture cards send raw pixel data across to your computer over USB 3.0 (max transfer of 640 MB/s). When your software receives this stream, it doesn’t need to decode it, so there’s less heavy lifting.

Raw video capture means better quality

Furthermore, when the data signal isn’t compressed, you get better video quality. With video signal that is uncompressed and visually lossless, you’re in charge of what to do with it next. If you want, you can use defaults from your encoding software, or if you prefer, you can tweak it to optimize your video. The key point is – you have options. You can record it, preserving all that detail for post-production editing, or upload. Or you can encode for streaming at a bitrate that matches your network capacity. The beauty of raw data capture is that the choice of quality isn’t taken away from you.

So get out there and start capturing from HDMI to USB!

Now that you see how easy it is to capture HDMI over USB, the possibilities are endless. All you need to get started is AV.io HD or AV.io 4K. Author: Brigitte Gagné from Epiphan.com/blog

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• EEVBlog: https://www.youtube.com/user/EEVblog
• Waheed Tech: https://www.youtube.com/user/Waheedomar2
• Tech of Tomorrow: https://www.youtube.com/user/techtomo…
• Rasmurtech: https://www.youtube.com/user/rasmurtech
• SkiWithPete: https://www.youtube.com/user/skiwithpete
• Nitsan Simantov: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCY8I…
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• MadRecoil: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn0u…
• EposVox: https://www.youtube.com/user/EposVox

The Epiphan AV.io SDI allows you to capture video from professional cameras and production equipment via SDI straight to your computer. It’s perfect for recording and live streaming high-quality broadcast video.