Newtek Ndi After Effects Doesnt Work

Yes, I have VMIX, After Effects and NDI running like it is described in this official video from VMIX: BUT!: This may work fine in a cozy environment at home if you want to play a bit around or make a nice youtube video, but it is nothing for the real world in a live production. Run reliable NDI sending and receiving applications, such as NDI Test Patterns and NDI Video Monitor (also included in the free NDI Tools download), on the same machine. This approach bypasses the local network infrastructure. If they fail to connect, then the problem is either your NDI group configuration or software-based local firewalls.

These tools are free and open source – no extra licenses needed, as long as you have an infrastructure that supports NDI.

NDI Tools Index:

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.

Independently configurable video source, overlay, and audio per instance
Launch, distribute, and manage multiple instances from a single device
Support for control and configuration via compatible mobile devices
Comprehensive support for multi-monitor video wall and signage installations
Remote control of PTZ, recording, and configuration for applicable source
Record NDI files directly from multiple instances NDI Studio Monitor^NEW
Remote control via web server^NEW
NDI output allows NDI Studio Monitor to act as a router and server for delivery to multiple outboard displays^NEW

NDI Scan Converter

Capture and present the full-screen display, any combination of windows, applications, players, and webcams, or a specific region of interest from any computer—anywhere on your network. NDI Scan Converter transforms any laptop or workstation into a multi-source IP video input device.

Generate multiple live video sources simultaneously, with selectable audio
Support for multi-monitor capture, with independent output at up to 60Hz
Capture all of your system’s desktops in real-time, at full 60Hz or even games at 120Hz or above and with almost no CPU usage
KVM (keyboard, video, mouse) remote control of any workstation running Scan Converter from NDI Studio Monitor^NEW
Consumes minimal system resources, with no noticeable performance impact

NDI Virtual Input

Designate an available NDI source as the video input for popular software applications that support a webcam. With NDI Virtual Input, NDI sources are recognized as standard Microsoft^® Windows^® video and audio sources, making it possible to elevate your video communications without increasing the complexity of your setup.

Compatible with Google Hangouts, GoToMeeting, Skype, Zoom, and more
Supports full frame rate video and audio up to 1080p and 4K UHD at 60 fps

NDI VLC Plugin

Present video content and other supported multimedia to the network as IP sources directly from VLC Media Player. The NDI VLC Plugin encodes the output from each instance of the free player to NDI in real time, making media files of virtually any format available for use in your live production.

Compatible with current and previous versions of VLC Media Player for Windows
Makes content accessible without transfer, transcoding, or direct connectivity
Supports encoding of multiple instances of VLC Media Player simultaneously
Virtual PTZ control for pan and zoom control around VLC output^NEW

MOBILE iOS NDI CAMERA APP

NDI for Adobe Creative Cloud

Allows CC apps to output a real-time NDI feed which the Tricaster can use as a source.

Design then deliver Adobe Creative Cloud content directly into your workflow from any workstation on your network. NDI for Adobe Creative Cloud is the only software plugin for Adobe’s industry-standard creative tools enabling real-time, renderless playback and preview over IP—right from the timeline—simplifying review and approval, facilitating collaboration, and accelerating live-to-air editing workflows.

Compatible with Adobe After Effects^® CC, Premiere^® Pro CC, and more
Supports full-resolution, real-time video with audio and transparency
Viewable from any NDI-enabled receiving device, anywhere on the network

NDI Import I/O for Adobe CC^NEW

Allows CC apps to import an NDI feed from the Tricaster in real-time. Also supports file growing. Mac and Windows.

Import your media files captured and recorded from NDI sources into Adobe Creative Cloud software applications from your local drives or across your network using standard storage systems. Once the NDI Import I/O for Adobe Creative Cloud is installed, all Creative Cloud applications that use video will recognize the NDI files as another media option. Simply apply media to your timelines for editing and animation projects. Because NDI files are time-stamped during recording, complex multi-cam editing is an effortless exercise.

Compatible with Adobe After Effects CC, Premiere Pro CC, and more…
Supports full-resolution, real-time video with audio and alpha channel
Enables synchronized multi-cam editing

MOBILE iOS NDI CAPTURE APP

NDI Access Manager

Manage the visibility and accessibility of NDI systems and sources on your network. NDI Access Manager allows you to organize your NDI channels into groups, choose which groups are available to your device, and select which groups can receive your NDI channels—making it easy to determine the availability of NDI channels across your network.

Configure NDI channels as public or private on your network
Group NDI systems, devices, and applications to preference
Connect to and access NDI channels on other networks via IP address
Connect to and access NDI channels on other networks via IP address
Advanced tab allows preference for TCP or UDP connections, multicast operation, and optional discovery server support^NEW

NDI Test Patterns

Send a reference signal to other NDI devices on your network to confirm connectivity and enable audio and video calibration. NDI Test Patterns includes a variety of test patterns and audio tones to ensure accurate color properties and appropriate sound levels.

Available patterns include color bars, individual colors, and IRE fields
Selectable audio tones ranging from +4dBU (+0dBVU) to -40dBU (-48dBVU)

NDI|HX Driver

Enable any compatible device to connect to and receive the output from video products with the NDI|HX extension, such as NewTek Connect Spark^™ and the NewTek NDI PTZ Camera, as well supported third-party NDI|HX cameras.

Compatible with systems, devices, and applications supporting NDI
High-efficiency transfer optimized for limited bandwidth environments
Suitable for WiFi, remote, and large-scale networks

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.

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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