excited to see NDI applications and services progressing quickly, wiring panel for live streaming and 5g futures! :)

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I hunted this first today but I wanted to build on it a little bit because you can only have 1000 characters on the body post and I wanted to go into it a little bit more because I truly believe this is where a lot of video streaming and management will be done in the coming years — a lot of it potentially remotely as well, yep, you heard me right, REMOTELY.

if you wanna GEN up (inform yaself) about NDI technology you might wanna head over to Network Device Interface - Wikipedia to get a bit more information, I’ve put the most important things below.

• developed by NewTek, available to anyone with a royalty-free license
• designed to run over gigabit networks — 1080i at VBR around 100Mbit/s
• uses mDNS (bonjour/zeroconf) to advertise over a local network.
• already get some great NDI cameras NDI Cameras - PTZOptics

For me what’s most exciting is the ability to not only have a studio setup based around NDI equipment and management but the ability for local or even REMOTE management of the shots/cameras from across the internet as if it was a local network using cloud setups, that really extends the usefulness of the setup and I think actually for under £10k GBP you could build out a pretty sick multi camera system allowing for a team of two to deploy using one person and another person ‘phoning’ in to manage the shots and layout, pretty sweet.

The fact that you can just package together a gigabit switch (or higher) and have the cameras setup with one PoE cable means that management of the setup should be relatively easy too as long as the network feed assigned to your PoE feed has been carefully management by the network management.

we used to find that we were partitioned off into our own DMZ style amount of bandwidth, you would have to step through and make sure you can connect with the cloud and that you have plenty of bandwidth to manage from afar (of course, you can at least have a local backup of an iPad for the engineer if remote falls over for basic operation)

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All in all, this brings about a huge win for people wanting to deploy a professional live streaming setup (of course the venue will probably already have audio locked down) quickly and easy and I expect will even improve to allow much more interactive elements that can be done in the cloud and served up onto of the stream and then out to places like youtube/twitch etc.

Combine this with 5G networks and you can really see how integrating these low power camera systems that require just a PoE connection to work, local area network connecting into the cloud via something like a gigabit pipe with 5g/4g failover would really take productions to the next level, seems the future is coming fast where you’ll be able to literally be LIVE in IRL with high quality equipment, I’m excited to where this will bring next year and I’m very keen to get started with NDI HX equipment!

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