Hello Everyone, Richard Evans here from NewTek with another Remote Production Tools Video
so one thing we've noticed at NewTek, ever since we've had to start social distancing from each other
is that it's kinda hard to find webcams out there.
for example people that are trying to communicate with their audience like teachers, doctors, etc
if you wanted to buy a webcam right now alot of retailers just simply don't have them anymore.
so the nice thing is you probably already have a camera in your pocket which for our iphone users this is going to be perfect.
so there's an application in the iTunes store called NDI HX camera
that's going to allow you to broadcast off of your phone to use that as a webcam source
into say a video conferencing application like go to meeting, skype, zoom, etc.
so there's a few steps involved in making this work let me show you how
ok so first thing you're going to need to do on your iphone is
we'll go and open up the app store
and in the search bar type in ndi hx camera
now you'll see two results for this the first one will be the ndi hx camera
this is the application I want you to focus on cuz this is the one you can use on any pc
beneath that you'll see the TriCaster camera
that ones going to be used specifically for use on a TriCaster
so we'll stick with the one on top NDI HX camera
now you see i've already downloaded that so I'll go ahead and download it again.
alright and go ahead and open it.
go ahead and give it access to everything you need
and there we go here is my NDI camera in action.
so now what I want to do is give your attention to the bottom right you'll see there is a gear icon here and if you click on that
you'll see a bunch of other settings have shown up to help us with setting this up.
so on the left you have your zoom controls
in the bottom left you'll see some brightness controls as well
you can also turn on your flash from here.
you can set up a grid
i'm going to skip this button in the middle
you can also mute your audio with the microphone icon. you can also swap it around to the front so you can see my face
and this icon gives you a low medium and high setting for broadcasting your video
so you can see this blue button here at the bottom that I'm pointing to.
as soon as you click that button you are now broadcasting to your NDI network wirelessly
so now the second step thing you're going to need to do is to download the NDI tools from NDI.TV
ok so step two of this process is going to be downloading the NDI tools application pack. so to do that just open up any web browser
and go to ndi dot tv
which is the landing page for all things NDI but go here to the top and click NDI tools
and this is where you can download a whole bunch of NDI applications absolutely free.
so go ahead and click download and follow the instructions which I won't bore you and do right now.
from here what I'm going to do is show you that we can bring in that signal coming from my phone
into this machine and then distribute that out any way I want.
first let me show you that I can get my video signal into the laptop using NDI studio monitor just to check
so NDI studio monitor this application let's you view NDI sources that are broadcasting over your network.
so let's clikc on the drop down on the top left.
and you'll see here my sources and there we go there's richards iphone and the NDI HX camera
which is already active so again you have to click that blue button on the ios application to make it start to broadcast
so go ahead and do that and let it negotiate and check it out
now I have my video signal coming off of my phone
and you can see the vu meters bounce here as well.
now using these applications the next thing I need to do is
basically convince my computer or my laptop that the signal coming from my iphone
is the signal I want to use as my webcam
so we can take advantage of all the awesome camera properties off the new iphone
and use that instead of the webcam on your laptop or if you don't have a webcam this will solve that problem immediately
so back on my laptop I'm going to run an application that's part of that NDI tools pack called Virtual Input
Now Virtual Input is a way for you to essentially trick your laptop or other device into thinking that the
NDI output of either a TriCaster or in this case my iPhone is the signal I want to use as a webcam.
so it's already running in the background here. Take your mouse to the bottom of the screen and click on this arrow
you'll see I have NVI Virtual Input running here so I'll right click on it
and again these are all the different sources that are broadcasting on my network
that I want to send and turn into an NDI signal
but I'm going to select my iphone
and let me open that up again and also make sure that my audio settings are looking good.
the next thing I want to do is go to Zoom
I'm going to use zoom in this example but a bunch of other applications will accept this like go to meeting, skype,etc
so whatever application you're using this is the theory of how to do it.
zoom just happens to be popular right now so I'll go ahead and show you on that.
so I have zoom open here. so to at least make sure I have the right video signal assigned to zoom.
I'll click on the settings icon in the top right corner and go to video
and right now you'll see it has the USB camera as my default and the quality I have off of this camera is not too great
but let's say you're on a device that doesn't even have a camera so how do we fix that? well kinda what we're doing right now.
so on the camera side of things click on this drop down and select NewTek NDI video and let it negotiate here for a second.
and now you'll see that I have the output of my iPhone which looks alot clearer.
alright so now let's go to the audio side of things.
and on the microphone side just make sure that you have the NewTek NDI audio selected there.
so you can see I already have my VU meters running coming off of my iPhone which is awesome.
and then from here all you have to do is start your meeting
I'll go ahead and start one and not invite anyone in particular
and there we go. so now I have a full fledged high definition video coming out of my iPhone and now into my laptop
which can be streamed directly to zoom. Again I'm using zoom for this example but you can also use skype or whatevers out there.
so that way you can still reach your audience and not necessarily have to wait to buy yourself a webcam etc. cuz you already have one in your pocket.
so again this is for our iphone users out there this will help you to reach your audience in a simple and easy way.
now for more video tools like this keep posted with NewTek
and I hope everyone stays safe out there and we'll talk to you soon.