What Are The Free NDI Applications and Where Do I Get Them?
By Jim Bask
NewTek provides several NDI applications for all NDI users at no charge. Some are watermarked trial products, but for this article we will look strictly at those that are fully-functional free applications. These will assist anyproduction workflow that uses products that are NDI-enabled. Such workflows include NewTek IP Series, TriCaster and 3Play, of course, but today there are NDI-enabled video production systems and software from many other manufacturers as well.
Some of the free tools are applications that provide a subset of the functions of professional editions that are available. The others are free-standing tools built around the NDI protocol, and provided together in the NewTek NDI Tools Pack.
NDI Tools Pack Applications:
NewTek NDI for Adobe Creative Cloud:
Allows users to send full-resolution, real-time video with audio and transparency from Adobe applications across the network, saving valuable time by eliminating the need to render and upload. Content designed in the Adobe Creative Cloud suite, including Adobe Premiere® Pro CC and Adobe After Effects® CC, can go to any NDI-enabled receiving device—directly from the application timeline. This can streamline the review and approval process, and also allow Adobe applications to directly contribute content to live productions.
This is the latest free application to be added to the NewTek NDI Tools pack….[continue reading]