1. Moving from cameras to the edit suite, NewTek also recently announced NDI for Adobe Creative Cloud, a software plug-in which enables users of Adobe Premiere Pro CC, Adobe After Effects CC and other Adobe Creative Cloud applications to send real-time video and audio to any NDI-enabled receiving product, such as production switchers or capture.
2. Equip your products and workflows for IP-based video production by downloading the NDI Software Developer Kit. This SDK provides the tools and resources developers and manufacturers need to integrate NDI, NewTek's innovative Network Device Interface technology, into their own systems, devices and applications.
3. NDI Studio Monitor. View or display any number of NDI video sources across your network. Incredibly powerful and versatile, NDI Studio Monitor runs on any compatible laptop or workstation, and allows you to see any available NDI channel in real time, arrange multiple NDI channels for live monitoring, and deploy instances for a range of professional signage and display applications.
4. NewTek NDI® (Network Device Interface) makes it easy to share high-quality video over a local Ethernet network. However, the NDI vision is vastly more exciting and important than any mere ’cable upgrade’. Consider how the Internet is much more than an improved way to move data from point A to.

Announced by NewTek at IBC 2015, Network Device Interface (NDI) is an open protocol enabling IP video workflows across standard fixed and wireless Gigbit ethernet networks. NDI is a bi-directional standard that allows video systems to identify and communicate with one another over IP, and to encode, transmit, and receive multiple streams of broadcast-quality, low latency, frame-accurate video and audio in real time. The NDI encoding algorithm supports all video resolutions and frame rates up to 4K and beyond, as well as multi-channel, floating-point audio up to 16 channels and beyond. NDI also includes tools to implement video access and grouping, bi-directional metadata, tally, and more.

So I've removed all Adobe apps, removed all ndi tools and downloaded latest versions and reinstalled everything. After Effects seems to work without issues now. I have Windows 10 aswell. Will see if same solution works for my workstation + Tricaster on monday. Today I only tested between my desktop and notebook locally.

Support for the standard has come from the likes of Adobe Pro Video, AJT Systems, Archion, Autocue, Evertz, JVC Professional Video, LiveU, Panasonic, PlayBox, and Vaddio.

With IP-video platforms evolving around SMPTE 2022-6, VSF TR-03 and VSF TR-04 standards (backed by AIMS, the Alliance for IP Media Solutions) and the Evertz-backed ASPEN standard, where does Network Device Interface fit into the broader IP ecosystem?

According to Dr. Andrew Cross, President and CTO, NewTek, “The best way I can describe it is there are multiple IP standards. At the top of the pyramid, you have AIMS and ASPEN, which are the two 10 Gigabit video, high bandwidth, over 10 Gigabit ethernet. And, what we saw was a need to make something that’s accessible for everybody else who wants to do video.

“If you think about it, once every office building anywhere in the developed world is wired for ethernet, it’s all going to be 1GigE. So, part of NewTek’s vision – and I think what’s going to happen in the industry – is that more and more people are going to want to do video but we want to enable them to work in the facility that they have, not need to rewire it, because the difference between a TV station and an office building is the TV station’s already wired for video.

“What we’re focused on is making a solution that just works for people wanting to do it on regular 1GigE. So, I would say we’ve got AIMS and ASPEN at the top of the pyramid and our goal is to fill from them on down.”

“If you take AIMS and ASPEN, while they really do serve the needs of broadcasters very, very well and I should say we’re collaborating with them, the problem is that the small guy in the basement is not going to be able to build something around them. So, that’s kind of the difference.

“I bring that up because we have to see ourselves as highly complementary to what they’re doing and we really don’t want to position ourselves as competitive with them at all. In fact, we are part of ASPEN and Evertz has done integration with NDI because it recognises that in a TV station you have the big studios and you have the small studios. Your small studios and your small plants are going to run something like what NewTek has, and the big studios are going to run theirs, and the video should be able to flow between them.”

Aiming to help this flow of video, NewTek recently introduced NewTek Connect Pro, a multi-purpose software tool designed to connect the IP video formats of new and existing video production hardware and software, allowing them to work together. As well as NDI, ASPEN and SMPTE 2022, Connect Pro also supports streaming IP formats found in cameras from JVC, Panasonic, PTZ Optics, Sony, and Vaddio.

According to NewTek’s Andrew Cross, “Our call with NewTek Connect Pro was to create the converter box of all the standards in the IP world and so we built something where you can come in with, for instance, existing cameras.

“One of the ironies of all of this discussion about IP is that most cameras can do IP today. You watch JVC cameras, your Panasonics, your Sonys, all of them will do a transport stream out. It’s just in the wrong format for all this new IP stuff, so we allow it to cross convert from those into NDI. We allow you to bring in SDI capture cards, HDMI capture cards. It can cross convert between any of these things.”

Moving from cameras to the edit suite, NewTek also recently announced NDI for Adobe Creative Cloud, a software plug-in which enables users of Adobe Premiere Pro CC, Adobe After Effects CC and other Adobe Creative Cloud applications to send real-time video and audio to any NDI-enabled receiving product, such as production switchers or capture cards, across a standard ethernet network.

“One of the great things about the IP world is that, in some ways, we have standardised on one thing which is the cable and the packets that go over it,” says Andrew Cross. “And, while we’re all talking about all these different formats you can have a single ethernet cable and it can do NDI, ASPEN and AIMS all at the same time. We’re virtually standardised in a way we haven’t ever before, but one of the great things about having that is it means that people can use the right technology for their needs.

“If you think about the internet, there’s not one technology. You can use PNGs or JPEGs or java script and python, and the cool thing about the Internet is that, by having these different technologies, people can choose the thing that serves their needs the best. And, I think the same has got to be true in our space. We hope to change the discussion from one about formats into one about how we solve problems. That’s our goal with it and we’ll find out, but I know our customers have a need for it so that’s going to be exciting.”

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Newtek announced their “Network Device Interface” (NDI) protocol back in 2016, as a way to transfer HD video signals in real-time over IP networks. It was designed to replace SDI transmission and routing of high fidelity video signals, usually within a facility. SDI was used to connect tape decks, computers, and monitors to routers and switches, which would direct and process the signal. The vision was to replace all of that coaxial cabling infrastructure with IP based ethernet packets, running on the same networks and cabling that were already needed to support the data networks. NDI is a compressed alternative to the SMTPE 2022 and 2110 standards which require much more bandwidth for uncompressed video routing over 10GbE. NDI uses its own codec to compress video around 15:1, allowing it to be utilized over existing Gigabit networks. There is also an “HX” variant of NDI that utilizes a lower bitrate H.264 based level of compression, optimized for higher resolutions and wireless networks.
There are now a variety of products, both hardware and software, that utilize NDI to communicate between different stages of a workflow, usually targeted towards live production. But the software tool-set that has been developed to allow those workflows, offers a number of other interesting options, when used slightly out of its intended context. Newtek offers the basic NDI software tool set as a free download on their website, and it includes, among other things:
NDI Studio Monitor-allows monitoring and recording of any available NDI stream on the network, and can overlay streams together with other modifications, and re-transmit to the network.
NDI Screen Capture-captures the images from your desktop display(s) and outputs them as NDI channels on the network. Also supports KVM control over that channel on Windows.
NDI Screen Capture HX-captures the images from your desktop display to a more compressed NDI HX stream, via GPU based NVENC for better performance, with KVM option.
NDI Virtual Input-Converts any NDI source into input as a webcam on your system, allowing that source to be streamed over video telecommunication apps.
NDI for Adobe Creative Cloud-plugin that allows application output from Premiere Pro, After Effects, or Character Animator to be transmitted as an NDI stream. Also allows import and editing of files from captured NDI streams.

This software tool-set offers a number of interesting workflow possibilities, for remote groups, or just individuals working between multiple systems, or even on a single system. Basically NDI sources take video data from an application, compress it into the NDI protocol, and make it available to other resources on the network. NDI receivers or viewers take that data stream from the network or another application on the local system, and display it or make it available in another program. NDI Virtual Input is a receiver tool that allows nearly any application that supports web camera input to utilize a live NDI feed. NDI Screen Capture turns your GPU output into an NDI feed that is available to any NDI receiver. The Creative Cloud plugin turns your Adobe application into an NDI source. The Studio monitor can be both, processing and displaying NDI feeds that are coming in, and becoming an NDI source of the resulting data.

This makes it much easier to generate high end tutorials and other screen capture content, combined in real time for streaming, instead of editing them together in post. You can easily switch between the application UI and the program output when demonstrating a software function, or using Character Animator to generate an avatar of your webcam input, for gaming streamers.

There are also applications to utilize NDI on other devices, like HX Capture and HX Camera for iPhone, streaming their screen or camera feed as an NDI source over the WiFi connection, and NDI Monitor TV allowing you to view NDI streams via an Apple TV 4K. One of the key benefits of NDI is the widespread support, allowing otherwise incompatible products to pass images between each other.

Newtek sells a variety of products that enable and leverage NDI workflows, from their Spark SDI interfaces to their Tricaster production switching solutions. There are also other vendors like BirdDog and Magewell that make their own NDI based hardware products, and companies like SIenna and vMix that have NDI integrated into their software. It is also supported in applications like OBS, which I have been using it with. OBS supports bringing in any NDI feed as a source for your program, and can also output its own NDI feed of the mixed stream.

I do very little work in real-time, but used to use SDI to capture NLE output for quick encodes, and could use NDI for real-time encodes of my Character Animator projects. Setting NDI as the output in Mercury Transit, and recording that stream in NDI Studio Monitor allows real-time recording of anything you can play back in real time in Premiere Pro, After Effects, or Character Animator, with alpha channel support. It can even overlay the output from one program over another, so I could composite my Lego puppet over a screen capture or Premiere playback output in real time.

The Virtual Input function is especially interesting to me, in light of the fact that so many people are working remotely now, which I have been doing for a while. Usually my boss and I, who are thousands of miles apart, just pass projects back and forth, that link to duplicate media. And I use VNC over a VPN to operate his system when needed, which offers limited collaboration. But the ability to combine NDI output from Premiere Pro with the Virtual Input, allows me to stream the output from my timeline to my boss over Skype, for instant feedback of changes I make to a clip or sequence. He is seeing a compressed version of the output, but I have easier access to the software UI and better responsiveness than when using VNC.

And combining a number of these functions with OBS, and possibly a second system, I could make some great software tutorials in real-time. Scan Converter allows my display output to be sent to a second system on the network, combined with a Character Animator render of my mini-figure avatar, and my Premiere or AE output, using the NDI output for Creative Cloud, a live stream can be cut together from those sources. This could theoretically be done on a single system, with at least two displays, one for the demoed app and the other to control the switching and streaming, but NDI allows it to just as easily be run from a second system. And I could dedicate a third system to Character Animator if needed, and NDI would allow me to seamlessly link it in as long as they are all on the same network. Gaming streamers use a similar setup on Twitch, but NDI makes that much easier than it otherwise would be.

An even more interesting application of a number of these utilities would be to combine them across locations. I am looking at producing a live animated podcast of sorts, with someone else who would be remote. They would run their puppet in Character Animator, and output over NDI to a Virtual camera, that would be their source in Skype or Zoom. This is how you animate yourself for video calls, but we can take it a step further. If I connect to a call with him, I should then be able to screen capture his feed via Region of Interest, to an NDI feed on my system. Once I have his puppet and background as an NDI feed, I can do the same thing in Character Animator with a puppet of my own, and output it with no background as a separate NDI feed. I can then composite those two sources in Studio Monitor, or OBS for more flexibility, and stream or record the result. The outcome of all this, is that he and I discuss something as if we were on a teleconference call with each other, and an animated video of both of us in the same frame is created live, all through the magic of Character Animator, the internet, and NDI.

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So it is easy to see that the flexibility of NDI opens all sorts on interesting workflow possibilities to explore, in a variety of different applications. I am super excited to see where it leads, as new developments are released, and more applications and features are supported.