Hello everyone it's your boy richard evans with another edition of NewTek
Tuesday Tutorials and today I'd like to show you how to
take advantage of the built-in NDI capabilities inside of Microsoft
Teams. Now Microsoft Teams is chock full of
capabilities, but it's also used for video conferencing and it has
built-in NDI support so you can take individual
caller signals from a group chat and then route them
into NDI enabled devices like a TriCaster to produce your show.
Now once connected you can then use those signals as if those callers were
right in front of your camera in your studio and embed them into say
double boxes picture-in-picture effects and more.
Now this opens up a whole new world of possibilities
for remote productions. It's not hard to pull off but there are
a few steps so let me share this whole new world with you.
Okay so how we're going to be able to use Microsoft Teams within a
TriCaster setup is you'll need to have a separate machine like a laptop like i'm
using now for example and run Microsoft Teams off of that so
what we'll need to do within Microsoft Teams
is turn on NDI. And to do that you're going to need to run Microsoft Teams as
your administrator. So go ahead and right click on that and
then run as administrator. If you don't run it as an administrator
this option might not show up. This is something that tripped me up when I
first tried to get this up and running so just
fyi. Just run Microsoft Teams as administrator.
We'll go ahead and let this load up, all right so now we are in Microsoft
Teams. Now I'm blurring out my screen here so
you don't see all my messages that I have going on here
and to access the settings to turn on NDI you'll go to the very top of
Microsoft Teams and click on your profile
and then select settings and in this pop-up is where you're going
to have your different options for the settings for Microsoft Teams.
And when you run it as administrator this option will show up.
Under permissions click on that
and then you'll see here at the bottom you can now use NDI
to send out your calls. So let's go ahead and do that I'll turn
NDI on, all right and now let me go ahead and make a call
to some of my friends here.
Alright so now we have our Teams call coming in
now let's go ahead so we just have two calls coming in for the time being so
what I now want to do is move over to the TriCaster and show you how to route
these calls into the interface. So we're here in the
TriCaster TC1 interface and I'm going to bring my
caller number one into input number two here so we'll go ahead
and click on the icon for that
and under input under our sources check this out so I'm going to go now go
to my tablet which is what my Teams call is currently
broadcasting on. and now you'll see check this out I have
options to send different channels from Microsoft Teams
to my specific inputs. So let's go ahead and
do these one by the time so I have Lennie is my caller number one so you'll see it
even has the names next to them here so when you make the call it will connect
the names. so we'll go ahead and put Lennie there first.
Alright cool and if we look back over on to the laptop side of things
check this out so these videos that are coming into my
laptop screen or currently in a square format because
of how I have this particular uh the the settings
for the constraints for my monitor are set up
but back on the TriCaster interface you'll notice that it is a full 16x9
aspect ratio which is pretty cool so it's not doing any scan conversion or
anything like that it's just bringing those those feeds in
automatically okay and now let's go ahead and do the same thing over here in
input three and under our source drop down we'll go
ahead and select my tablet again and we'll select Chris Craddock and
number two and boom now we have all of our sources
coming in. Now I can just treat these sources
like I would any other broadcast I can switch between them
throw them in virtual sets etc kind of thing.
So now we have our calls coming in through Microsoft Teams and they had
coming into our input number two and three
but the next thing I want to show you is the audio side of things because this is
a little bit different. So normally you would see here at the
bottom under my our audio mixer that I have these two
different channels of audio coming through
but it's going to be sending in the entire output
of Microsoft Teams audio to these channels.
So you basically are having both of those calls coming in
into one individual channel so we don't need to have all of these channels
bringing in audio here so I can mute one of these
and now I have all the audio from both inputs two
and three coming in on input number two so that I can process it
and route it accordingly so just keep that in mind NDI support for microsoft
teams gives you another way to connect to remote callers
use it exclusively or use it in conjunction with Skype TX or
Live Call Connect with the TriCaster 2 Elite to create some really dynamic
results also important note your system
administrator may need to enable NDI output for your
entire organization for this feature to be available so please keep that in mind
also when your callers are brought into the tricaster they will receive a
message that their feed is being broadcasted or recorded so just
let them know that before you start your show just as a courtesy.
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