There was a time when going tapeless was a completely unheard of idea, and now it is the industry standard. NewTek believes that its new NDI technology could be just that, and they predict that it will revolutionize video production and storytelling by allowing for an easier and more affordable way to convert HDMI and SDI signals into IP signals.
On The New Screen Savers, Leo Laporte and Robert Heron talk with Dr. Andrew Cross, the president and CTO of NewTek (the folks behind the TriCaster). He is the chief architect of the video over IP system: NDI (Network Device Interface). He also shows us their brand new NDI native pan, tilt, zoom camera and And, the Connect Spark box which converts SDI or HDMI signals to WiFi.
SAN ANTONIO – July 12, 2017 — NewTek today introduced the world’s first PTZ camera that is truly plug and play.
NewTek today announced NDI version 3, the third generation of its royalty-free IP video technology. This new version provides numerous advanced features and performance improvements while maintaining full forward and backward compatibility.
New Consumer Product Line from NewTek
Introducing a whole new way to bring IP video into your production. The NewTek NDI PTZ Camera and Connect Spark converters make it fast and easy.
NewTek helped us get to compressed IP with NDI. Now they are providing a bridge to uncompressed IP with NC1 Studio I/O IP.
NDI was added to Wirecast so you can import and export video from other software to other software.
Rob Chickering is both a well-known radio engineer respected in his profession, and a pioneer in the growth of visual radio, wherein a radio show is live-streamed to more fully engage audiences. Chickering relates the transition of the legendary Kidd Kraddick in the Morning show: from a simple webcam to using a traditional switcher and multiple cameras, then finally to a fully produced live-streamed program using TriCaster® both for the live segments and to add pre-produced video segments from the DDRs during breaks. TriCaster also enabled them to replay the completed show on a loop the rest of the day, making it available to new viewers, anywhere in the world, on Ustream.
The quest for a standard for uncompressed HD-SDI video over IP is resolving down to the forthcoming SMPTE 2110 standard.
Amitrace production expert and systems integrator Faraz Ahmed provides a tour of the production capabilities of the NewTek TriCaster® TC1 in this recent webinar.