Ndi tools mac os

NDICam 4+

Mark Gilbert

Designed for iPad

• • #89 in Photo & Video
• • 4.3 • 3 Ratings

• • $9.99

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The Original NDI Camera, it uniquely supports NDI HX2 alongside full NDI for more flexible bandwidth, multi-lens and NDI Discovery Server. Also works on M1 macs !

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NDICam is the original NDI iOS camera built by NDI broadcast infrastructure developers GallerySienna, mature and feature rich, uniquely with both Full NDI and NDI HX2 modes.

The NDI (Network Device Interface) protocol connects to professional vision mixers and other devices, and delivers a high quality, low latency connection. NDICam is compatible with VMC, TC1, TriCaster, VMix, Wirecast and dozens of other professional IP video systems which support NDI.

— Simple to use — nothing to configure on your iOS device
— Switch between front and rear cameras during broadcast
— Auto Focus, AF Lock and Tap to Focus
— Auto Exposure, AE Lock and Tap to Expose
— Illumination light on/off
— Audio Mute Control
— Manual Naming of NDI Stream source
— 4 quality / performance levels to suit your device and network, plus NDI HX Option
— Pinch to zoom (where zoom is supported)
— Auto-lens mode for multi-lens cameras
— On screen live / preview tally plus optional use of camera flash as talent tally (with red gel cover).
— Option to prevent iOS device sleep
— Select 25FPS or 29.97FPS standard rate.
— Choice of Full NDI or NDI HX2 compression modes (HX2 at 2 to 20 mBit)

Front and Rear cameras can be selected at the touch of a button and NDICam features a 4 position quality vs frame rate slider to deliver optimum video suited to the quality of your wifi connection and your iPhone’s processing performance. Depending on your iOS device, compression mode selected and Wifi network performance NDICam supports up to 1080 full HD resolution.

Control of flashlight, touch to focus, focus lock, pinch to zoom and audio enable are also included. You can even use the phone’s torch as a Tally Light, by covering it with a red gel.

Note: Depending on the performance of your iOS device and your WIFI network, you may not see full frame rates when operating at maximum 1080 resolution with a full HD camera. Using HX2 mode will help if the bottleneck is your WIFI network.

Note: NDI is a high bandwidth protocol designed for local area Gigabit networks. In order to see good results you will need a fast, uncontested wifi connection. If you see slow frame rates, try improving the wifi environment, with a better router, less interference, directional antenna or maybe switch to 5GHz if you are on 2.4GHz. Use HX2 mode for lower bandwidth requirements.

NDICam is also compatible with wired ethernet connections to iOS devices which can help deliver smooth video compared to a poor quality Wifi network. Good results have been seen with lightning to ethernet adaptors.

You can now specify an NDI4 discovery server in the application settings. Note that you will need to restart the app for any changes to take effect. Specifying a discovery server will disable the standard mDNS (Bonjour) advertisement for the NDI Cam source, so your iOS device must be able to reach the discovery server one the network. If you experience problems — delete the Discovery Server entry and restart the app.

NB: NDI HX2 mode requires an NDI 4 compatible receiver.

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NDI ® I/O in VDMX Visual Performance Software

September 24, 2018 by Chuck Baker

VIDVOX has added NDI ® support to VDMX, popular professional VJ and visual performance software for the Mac OS, and published tutorials on how to use NDI sources and output NDI streams.

Professional VJ and live multimedia visual performance applications for live events and entertainment are among the adopters of NewTek’s NDI, bidirectional IP technology for transport of video, audio, metadata and communications. By far the leading IP standard for video production, NDI is now in hundreds of products in the hands of millions of users. The ability to integrate any networked device as a source or a destination (or both!) without complicated and expensive video conversion devices and video cabling cuts costs, simplifies the connections and multiplies the creative possibilities for visual performance professionals.

Watch the video from the tutorial on NDI inputs above, and view the text portion of the tutorial, loaded with additional tips, here:

You can view the text-and-images tutorial on NDI output from VDMX here:

Mac NDI Resources

NewTek offers a free NDI Tools pack for Mac and Windows OS systems with several utilities that can put any available computers to work in your production workflow.

Free NewTek NDI Tools for Mac OS include:

• NDI Video Monitor — Make any system a monitoring station to view any available NDI sources on the network
• NDI Scan Converter — Make the entire desktop or specific application windows NDI streams on the network
• NDI for Adobe Creative Cloud — make the real-time timeline playback from your Adobe application available as NDI (Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe After Effects)
• Access Manager — Organize and manage NDI streams on the network

Applications compatible with Mac OS X or later. NDI for Adobe Creative Cloud requires Adobe Creative Cloud membership and access to compatible Creative Cloud applications.

Vendor Sienna also provides some free and commercial NDI tools for Mac OS, Ubuntu, and iOS.

The free Sienna toolkit for Mac OS includes:

• NDI Monitor — Essential Desktop Monitor for NDI Video and Audio. This special version includes support for NDI HX
• NDI Signal Generator — Generate NDI Test signals and measure performance
• NDI ScanConverter LITE — A free lite version of Sienna’s NDI ScanConverter for desktop streaming over NDI

Windows NDI Resources

If your visual performance live production suite also includes Windows systems:

Free NewTek NDI Tools for Windows include:

• NDI Studio Monitor — Make any system a multiview monitoring station to view any available NDI sources on the network; control NDI PTZ cameras
• NDI Scan Converter — Make the entire desktop or specific application windows NDI streams on the network
• NDI Virtual Input — Use external NDI cameras or sources as though they are your system’s built-in camera or video source
• NDI VLC Plugin — Make any system a NDI-enabled media server with the free VLC Media Player application
• NDI for Adobe Creative Cloud — make timeline playback from your Adobe application available as a real-time NDI stream (Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe After Effects)
• NDI Access Manager — Organize and manage NDI streams on the network
• NDI Test Patterns — Make and Windows system a test-pattern generator for a video production suite.
• NDI HX Driver — make any Windows system able to see and communicate with NDI HX sources on the network (NewTek Connect Spark, NewTek NDI PTZ1 Camera)

Applications compatible with Microsoft ® Windows ® OS. NDI for Adobe Creative Cloud requires Adobe Creative Cloud membership and access to compatible Creative Cloud applications. NDI VLC Plugin requires VLC Media Player for Windows.

Learn more:

Online Demos now available. CLICK HERE to learn more.

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NDI HX Camera 4+

NewTek

• • #81 in Photo & Video
• • 3.2 • 117 Ratings

• • $19.99

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The official NDI® Camera. Turn your phone or tablet into a live video production camera.

NDI® (Network Device Interface) is a low latency IP video protocol developed especially for professional live video production, and is supported by an extensive list of broadcast systems from many manufacturers.

NDI® HX Camera turns your iOS imaging devices into high-quality wireless a/v sources for NDI-enabled broadcast systems and software on the same network. Your device’s output is automatically recognized by NDI-enabled* video systems, ready to be mixed into live shows or even for use as a web camera when used in conjunction with NDI® Tools (ndi.tv/tools).

* Note: Requires support for NDI v.4 or better.

Basic Features
• Easy to use
• iPhone and iPad compatibility
• Front/rear camera selection
• Auto Focus, AF Lock, or tap to focus
• Auto Exposure, AE Lock
• Manual exposure compensation
• Light on/off (on supporting devices)
• Audio mute
• Optional grid overlay

Advanced Features
• HI Bandwidth (up to 4K), medium (up to 1080p) and standard (640×480) modes
• Simple pinch zooming
• Automatic NDI device recognition
• Connection notification and tally (on air/preview) displays

Support
• Knowledge Base Articles https://support.newtek.com/hc/en-us/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=iphone&commit=Search

• NDI Forums https://forums.newtek.com/forumdisplay.php/360-NDI-%28Network-Device-Interface%29

What’s New

Now serializing the bandwidth setting. Bug fixes.

Ratings and Reviews

Heats up both iPhone 6s and X

I used the app on both an iPhone 6s and an iPhone X. It does look much better than a webcam, specially the iPhone X because of the camera. It was simple enough to connect it to OBS as well; however, I had some challenges:

1) Both phones heated up too much when running the app. The iPhone 6s even issued a warning and shut off itself which I never saw doing before. Therefore this avoided me from using this app to replace my webcam, which is why I gave it three 3 stars, because it’s a free app I didn’t give it a lower rating.

2). The WiFi generates a delay between the audio and the video, so I had to tune it on the OBS mixer, it took several tests, but it was ok. The real problem was that the next day the delay was different so I had to readjust the settings which was annoying. There should be an option to use the cable from my point of view.

Again, since the app is free I didn’t want to give it a lower rating and I’m hoping the heating up issue can be fixed with an update. I want to try a different application which allows to connect the cable since I’m just looking to replace the webcam with the iPhone 6s. Unfortunately I’m hesitant because the other apps cost money and they have bad reviews.

Was working great, started to get choppy

I was using this to connect my iPhone 11 to OBS on my Mac to record 1080p. I’m also planning to use this to stream. The video recording that came out was nice and smooth for the most part. However, today the video seems to be choppy. I tried using another app called EpocCam to connect to OBS also through NDI and the connection was much more smooth — and there was a lot less latency from what I could monitor on my phone to what OBS was monitoring — it was almost instant. The issue with EpocCam is it was not recording audio. Although I am recording audio separately from video, I use the iPhone audio in order to sync up the video after the recording. I am wondering if this choppiness was introduced because of the most recent update. my internet speeds are well above 200Mbps albeit on WiFi. I can’t really explain why just two days ago the app was working much better than now. Can anyone from NewTek help out? Otherwise the app and functionality are great. I do wish they would add ultra wide support for the iPhone 11 though.

Color coded borders are cool

I’ve been using this every day since April. It is rock solid good stuff!!

Recently, I have added camera operators — not just setting up 3 static shots. The operators noticed that when using this app to send video to Wirecast, the border around the image changed. Blue connected, Green in preview, Red the image is live. I love it, that really helps them out.

There are red covers you can put over the flash on the phone because some video software can turn on the flash when the camera is live. I don’t know if this would be a Wirecast feature or an NDI app feature to enable turning on the flash. Being able to signal to the front of the camera that it is live would be useful to let people know what camera to talk to.

App Privacy

The developer, NewTek , indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

Data Not Collected

The developer does not collect any data from this app.

Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More

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NDI Monitor 4+

Display NDI Streams with Audio

Mark Gilbert

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Display low latency NDI Video and Audio streams on your iOS device Supports Full NDI and NDI HX2 (but not NDI HX1). Now with NDI5
From industry leaders Sienna.

NDI sources on your local subnet are presented in a pop up menu to select, when you tap on the screen. If you enter additional ‘NDI Access’ IP Addresses from other subnets into the system prefs panel for NDI Monitor, those NDI sources may also be accessed.

Notes: A very stable WIFI connection, or a wired ethernet connection are required for smooth playback of NDI Streams. Using a directional WIFI antenna and using the sweet spot of your wifi can help. If you experience glitching of audio or dropped video frames, the problem is very likely a wifi connection which is insufficiently stable to support smooth NDI video to iOS — in this case please try a wired ethernet to lightning adaptor.

You should not expect perfect performance when selecting Hi Resolution NDI — which is offered as an experimental mode for users with very fast devices, on very fast, clean network connections. In some cases you may see great results in hi res.

There are preferences in the System Settings app for NDI Monitor to setup application options. You can also use the app NDI Scanner as a stream selector — it will open NDI Monitor when you click on a selected stream.

NB. This app does not support NDI | HX1 format streams — only full NDI format and NDI HX2

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