Vol.08 Let's connect NDI BRIDGE [NDI WORLD] -PRONEWS: Digital video production Web magazine

The long -awaited NDI BRIDGE release

The BRIDGE (which allows you to connect to other NDIs beyond the Internet), which was delayed in the public, was released with a full release.

Let's look at it immediately.

(01) NDI BRIDGE is provided only by Windows and cannot be installed on Mac.However, the benefits of NDI beyond the network can be received.

(02) When using HEVC (4K), you need to install the codec on Window.The fee is 120 yen including tax.

(03) On the host side, a port -forward setting (5990 is standard) is required for the top router.If this area is difficult to security due to internal use, or if you are not familiar with the network, the threshold is high.In this environment, I tried Xeon's workstation (SoftBank line) on the host side and i7 PC on the JOIN side (NURO line).

For NDI BRIDGE, it is important to connect the power of the PC and the network to the network.If you only have a connection experiment, you can use a laptop to WiFi, but if you use it for work, I would recommend choosing a wired connection workstation.

(04) The quality setting of the encoding can be selected from NDI (120Mbps) to HX (24Mbps to 4Mbps) for local.Of course, BRIDGE can communicate inside the Internet instead of multicast.

(05) Set the information on the Host side to the Join side.

(06) If there is no mistake in the setting itself, it will be connected without a mistake.

(07) If the join button becomes blue Leave, the connection is completed.

Test using a PTZ camera

Connection of 1Cliant is possible on the host side.Let's display the color bar with TestPartterns on both sides.

(01) I tried to activate the HOST side of Canon's new NDI compatible PTZ camera.

(02) The biggest feature of the Canon CR-N300 is that there are three points of linking (bread, tilt, zoom) in preset movement.Even if you move at a large angle, the camera transportation is comfortable.And it's fast.Fine adjustments move finely, but the speed of preset movement is top class.The foocus speed is also wonderful, and it will be useful on site.

(03) In addition to normal SDI and HDMI, NDI output is installed.

(04) Let's immediately check with the NDI app VideoMonitor.From the join client side, you can check the CR-N300 (PTZ camera) in the i7 -bridge.

(05) From now on, you can use not only Windows but also on Mac.

(06) If the opponent is a PTZ camera, the NDI standard control screen can be used.

(07) It's strange to see a camera that controls from remote.

In addition, it is possible to control the KVM (keyboard, video, mouse) that can control the other side PC remotely.

(08) Studio Monitor (Windows) enables mouse operation and keyboard input while viewing the KVM screen using ScreenCapture (Windows) on the screen.Unfortunately, this is not available on Mac.

In recent years, when sharing a PC screen of many telecans and pressing a play button, it will be possible to operate the PC with remotely.Easy to manage multiple PCs greatly expands the width of NDI signal monitoring in Studio Monitor.

(09) By the way, Studio Monitor (Windows) allows you to launch multiple screens at the same time, but Video Monitor (Mac) can only start up.This is inconvenient, so I thought about workarounds.As you can see, multiple screens can be launched simultaneously by copying the app itself.

As you can see, you can see that multiple Video Monitor is active in the Mac.

(10) The side of the camera is about 8m.The color bar side is about 1m.You can check that multiple video materials are exchanging.

(11) From the left, "screen from JOIN", "Your output", "PTZ screen", and below, Test Patterns, Strmingbridge, and NDI Bridge are lined up.

From the top left, "screen from Host" and "Your output" are lined up, and Test Patterns and NDI Bridge are lined up below.

Let's connect NDI BRIDGE

Atem Mini EXTREME Super Sauce is NDI BRIDGE HOST screen in the upper right, the lower right is the Internet and another NDI BRIDGE JOIN administrative screen is imported by Streamingbridge and watching it at the same time.

After confirming the communication between the two bases, I tried the possibility of connecting three bases with a friend living in Nara.

Let's Bridge NDI BRIDGE

With this simple preparation, the potential of NDI BRIDGE, which can simply realize complex bidirectional IP transmission, is amazing.Why don't you try it?

Onorin (Yasuo Koto) | 47 years involved in profile video.Spend the news and sports news as a photographer on the earlier television where television coverage was replaced by film to video.Later, he was interested in production and was in charge of the production of travel programs.He also works on motor sports relay programs to promotional images of manufacturers and large exhibitions.He feels the potential of videos brought by casual video equipment in IP video distribution on the Internet, enlighten the smaller and simple systems, consulting for content holders, organizations, and videos for individuals.He presides the school.

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