hello everyone and welcome to another edition of NewTek Tuesday tutorials my
name is Richard Evans and today I want to share something very exciting for the
Mac users out there we now have NDI virtual input available
on NDI.TV now NDI virtual input allows you to convert any NDI video
source that's on your network and turns that into a webcam feed to enhance any
of your social conferencing applications let's dive in and take a look alright so
I'm gonna start off in the TriCaster tc1 now in this video today I'm going to
give you a demonstration of how to use NDI virtual input to supply video to a
zoom call now the same theory can be used for any other social conferencing
application I'm just going to use zoom today because it's a good example so
normally when you start a zoom call a zoom the application itself is going to
use your webcam to supply your video and audio to your audience
but using NDI virtual input we can send the video and audio of any NDI enabled
device to our zoom meeting and have a much cooler broadcast than just a grainy
webcam alright so within the TriCaster here
just want to show you some of my settings I'm going to open up my output
configuration and letting you know that my mixed number one is set to pro
program video and master audio all right so now let's move over to my Mac and
first thing I want to show you is where to download virtual input so just open
up a web browser and visit our NDI landing page at NDI TV and from here
this is where you can view all things NDI but we're going to focus on these
NDI tools so click on NDI tools at the top of the screen here scroll down the
page a little bit and we're looking for these NDI tools 4.5 which is the current
one at the time that I filmed this particular video click on download and
then you'll see in the middle here are the NDI tools for mac which now includes
indiaia virtual input array so from here just go ahead and click on download
it'll ask you to fill in some information here and then once you've
done all of that just go ahead and click download and you can install
the dmg files to install all of the fabulous free NDI applications
available to you all right now I already have NDI virtual input running sorry
installed here so let's go ahead and click on that alright and I'll go to the
top of the screen screen here to configure it so NDI virtual input
I'm going to click on sources from my drop-down now is where I can go to
select the output of any n di enable device to supply video via virtual input
so I'm going to select my TriCaster tc1 mix number one which I just showed
you that I have configured all right so now I'm going to move over to my PC to
just start a zoom call alright so this will be the the caller number one here
so starting off right away you can already see we're running into a problem
this webcam looks terrible over the saturated color is very grainy etc
that's just the device that I'm on so using NDI virtual input we can
fix that pretty quick so what I'm going to do next is I'm going to invite my Mac
to come over and join this call so I'll click on invites and this gives me all
the information that I need to do that so I'm gonna move over to my Mac and
start up zoom and first thing that I want to show you is where to select NDI
virtual input as the source to supply video and audio to your call so it's by
defaults if I click on settings here and go to video by default it wants to use
your webcam like I'm doing now so I'm using my FaceTime HD camera but check it
out I can click on this drop-down and select NDI video and check this out now
I can bring the output of my TriCaster over here which is awesome and also you
can configure your audio as well from here so like your microphone for example
I can click on this drop-down and instead of using my built-in microphone
I can bring in my nd I audio so it'll sound a lot better off a crisp and clean
microphone that I have here alright so we got that set up now let's join that
call that is setup on my PC I'll join and let me fast-forward
through this I'm just gonna put in the meeting code
all right so now I am need to be in accepted into my zoom meeting here so
let's go ahead and admit that
and now check it out now I'm sending the output of my TriCaster to my zoom
meeting instead of my webcam off of my microphone so I can go through on the
TriCaster in switch between different sources etc and supply a high-quality
feed of video to my zoom call which is awesome so as you can see this is a
great way to enhance your social conferencing applications like your zoom
meetings Skype calls etc so for more information please talk to your local
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