NDI™

Produce your shows in a completely new way—using sources from all over your network, not just what’s physically patched into your SDI video router. NewTek NDI is an open standard anyone can implement to connect video equipment across a network. Your production switcher, capture system, media server—any NDI-enabled device on the network—can see and access content from all other devices, allowing more sources than ever before to be used for live production.

Forget about investing in completely new facilities, networks, or signal infrastructures. NewTek NDI is built on a sophisticated foundation that can send and receive vast amounts of information using a familiar standard: the Ethernet-based LAN. With NDI’s unprecedented encoding efficiency and performance, your network can accommodate multiple simultaneous, high-quality, ultra-low latency video streams.

If affordable, everyday IT systems can communicate with each other, sending and receiving data across a network, why should video production over IP be any different? NDI is more than an IP-based replacement for SDI, sending a one-way signal to a switcher. It’s a bi-directional standard, not only enabling you to share video and audio over IP, but to send and receive multiple input and output signals between devices on your network—making a completely connected facility entirely possible.

Future-proof your production environment, taking advantage of technology advancements, while protecting your current investments. Compatible with existing SDI and IP-based technologies, and independent of changing specifications and formats, NDI will also support integration with ASPEN, SMPTE 2022, and other emerging standards. And with a license-free SDK, developers and video producers can make any of their computer-based production devices IP-ready, joining hundreds of companies that have adopted NDI and incorporated it into solutions that are currently in the hands of more than one million users.