PTZOptics® Hosts Program on NewTek™ NDI™™ for IP Camera Control & Color Grading

Philadelphia, PA – This week PTZOptics® will host Jim Davis from DVS Direct on a YouTube Live exclusive talk show to discuss the latest NewTek™ NDI™™ for IP camera controls and camera color grading features. Jim Davis is the CEO and owner of DVS Direct a Elite  NewTek TriCaster® dealer. NewTek is world reknown as the leader in software-driven video production, live streaming and broadcast solutions. Viewers of the live stream can enter to win a NewTek Connect Pro license on the live show giveaway at http://ptzoptics.com/giveaway

This exclusive live talk show will be held February 17th, 2016 at 11AM PST, 2PM EST on YouTube Live. “NewTek NDI™ has changed the industry for professional video production and live broadcast,” says Jim Davis “We are excited to review the latest NDI™ features, IP camera control for PTZOptics and color grading techniques live on YouTube.”

Paul Richards the show host will be demonstrating the latest live streaming courses available from PTZOptics along with social media updates from Tess Protesto.

PTZOptics hosts a live show on YouTube every Friday at 11AM PST, 2PM EST. You can learn more about DVSDirect at their website available at http://DVSDirect.com. DVSDirect supports some of the industry’s top video production solutions including: Blackmagic, NewTek, Wirecast, Streamstart and PTZOptics.

Show Transcript:

NewTek NDI™ – IP Camera Control & Color Grading

Paul Richards:  Hello everybody, Paul Richards here with PTZOptics I have with me Jim Davis, Jim, how are you doing today?

Jim Davis:  I’m doing awesome.

Paul Richards:  And Tess is joining us as well, Tess is going to give us a social media update in a little bit but first of all I wanted to thank Jim Davis so much for being here from DVS direct an elite NewTek partner here to really get us up to speed on some of the latest NewTek NDI™ integrations including IP camera control for the PTZOptics cameras, Color grading, which is something that is so important in really high professional broadcasting and Jim I really have the video that you did showing the lowest latency of NDI™ with your flash light and I’m going to show that too. So we’ve got that as well but just to kick off the show I want to let everyone know we live broadcast every Friday at 11am Pacific, 2PM Eastern and if you hit that like button you are actually helping us donate to charity. We donate to the [charity organization name] last year it was over $20,000 and just by hitting that like button …up to $250 which we still have never hit that level yet but maybe we will one day. This month we did Osprey video we talked to stream Monkey and today we’re talking to DVS direct. Next Friday we are giving away a wire-cast gear a $5000 value. You have to be watching live to claim any of the prices and today we’re giving away the NewTek connect pro-app, $1000 value. If you haven’t joined our Facebook user group, go over to Facebook.com and check that out, it’s a great place to learn about the industry and Jim let me ask you on this streaming poll here where do you think we are? How far along is live streaming right now?

Jim Davis:  I think it’s at the beginning.

Paul Richards:  Just at the beginning?

Jim Davis:  Yeah, it’s just starting to really take off.

Live Streaming Market Analysis

Paul Richards:  Interesting, this is a kind of early adaptor stage, so are we past the early adoption? Is it majority yet? Or we still have a long way to go.

Jim Davis:  I still think we have a long way to go, I think we’re just hitting the tip of the ice-berg right now.

Paul Richards:  I read somewhere that video communication including live streaming last year was somewhere in the neighborhood of $12 billion and by 2020 we are looking at roughly double the size if not more and that’s just video communication that’s not even all broadcast but let’s go ahead and ask Tess to give us a little social media update. How are you doing today Tess?

Tess Protesto:  I’m doing great, thanks for having me here Paul once again. To kick things off over at the social media side, we want to give a shout out to our ten most recent subscribers on YouTube, Paul’s going to pull up the link for me here and I’m going to read them out to you. We have Tushar Dutta, MrBestnyc, Jose Hernandez, Muhammad Yahya, Johnathan Perez, Pixel Studio TV, Kami Shah, Brian Baulch, Jude Clarke and Ryan Erickson.

Paul Richards:  Thank you everybody we always appreciate having new guys.

Tess Protesto:  Yes, thank you guys here we also want to pull up one of our favorite comments from this week from YouTube, thank you Kyle, he said “NDI™ is changing how we produce our morning announcement new show.” That obviously is really relevant for today so thank you for that comment.

Paul Richards:  We really appreciate all the comments that we get out there on social media and we’re going to be bringing in the most relevant comments every single show so especially if it pertains to the live show, so now Jim, it’s time to bring you into the lighting round are you ready for that?

Jim Davis:  Okay, Give it a shot.

Paul Richards:  Okay Jim, just 60 seconds to get to know you a little bit better here, tell me are you a Coffee or a Tea drinker?

Jim Davis:  Definitely Coffee.

Paul Richards:  I knew it, How about are you a Mac or a PC kind of guy?

Jim Davis:  PC all the way.

Paul Richards:  How about on the mobile side? IPhone or Android?

Jim Davis:  Android.

Paul Richards:  Tell me what’s your favorite book?

Jim Davis:  Probably Grapes of Wrath is a really good one.

Paul Richards:  Ah, such a good book, that’s a classic, how about your favorite movie?

Jim Davis:  Field of Dreams

Paul Richards:  Field of Dreams – if you build it they will come.

Jim Davis:  That’s it, yeah, every time I see that movie I get choked up.

Paul Richards:  If you could go back into 24hours of history to watch anytime, anywhere, anyplace, where would you go?

Jim Davis:  I’d probably go back to listening to Lincoln give his Gettysburg address.

Paul Richards:  Oh that’s a cool one. Great, well I’m sure most of you have seen this show before but just if you haven’t we’re going to give Jim 60seconds to answer this question that we have on our list and Jim the first one will be …just give us an introduction who is DVS direct?

NewTek Reseller History/Background

Jim Davis:  Well, DVS direct, we are system integrators we build TV studios. we’ve been doing this pretty much since the birth of desktop video, we were actually one of the original NewTek resellers back in the days of the Amigo computer for anybody who remembers that and NewTek basically invented the whole concept of desktop video and then we just went from there with the back in the early days with the non-linear editing systems, with matrix, RT systems, just kept growing as the market changed, we changed with it ended up where we are today.

Paul Richards:  Wonderful, and you really are somebody that you can actually find a lot of great videos about online which I always appreciated. We are going to try and show a little bit of your video, this is just a little preview it’s not quite right to jump to this but tell us, what is new with NewTek because you are a NewTek elite dealer and you kind of have the inside track somethings you might not be allowed to talk about but tell us, what’s new, what kind you talk about that’s like kind of the latest and greatest from NewTek

Jim Davis:  Well I don’t know if the latest and greatest would probably be NDI™, I mean there is probably some new stuffs that we’ve done that I’m not aware of because I’m not that into NewTek channel but some of the new apps for NDI™, some of the other manufactures they are supporting NDI™ now, it really becoming almost a universal standard which is what I find really exciting about it so we’re going to probably talk about a few of  this things here a little bit later but I would say just NDI™ in general is probably a game changer.

Paul Richards:  Definitely, and that seems to be the thing that most people are talking about. Give us a little introduction to the NewTek NDI™ and I’ll take you at full screen because I have a feeling you are going to start showing us some of your cool stuffs that you’ve got over there.

About the NewTek NDI™

Jim Davis:  So NDI™ stands for Network Device Interface and what it is, is a way to route video full broadcast quality video with very little or any latency across the gigabyte network. In fact here we are doing that right now I have the tri-caster that I’m using as my main switcher and I’m seNDI™ng that to another computer that’s running a product called NDI™ transmit and that’s running video to your web conferencing system, the zoom system. We also have our system over here running NDI™ connect which right now I have to browse the web page for the IP camera, here is your video coming back to me, your system now we are getting video feedback, but all this stuff is coming back into the tri-caster using NDI™ so it’s a very powerful system we’ve got a couple of schools using it right now where they are actually bringing video from across the campus instead of hauling the switchers to the auditorium they will just take one of NDI™ connect boxes to the auditorium, hook their camera’s up to it, route the video back. I think we are just seeing the tip of the ice-berg and a lot of people who don’t yet understand what NDI™ really can do once they do they are going to realize what you can accomplish with it.

The NewTek Connect Pro App

Paul Richards: Wow, and you are going to show us today some of those features including the NewTek connect pro. You showed me this a couple of days ago running in auto-color and how powerful that can be, can you show us that?

Jim Davis:  Sure! Auto caller is available in NDI™ connect pro, in the tri-caster advanced edition systems and in the 3play440 and 4800, so I’m actually going to show it to you here on the tri-caster just because it’s easy for me to do that. But if you look here when I open up the  …and this is really simple if you noticed first of all my cameras I’ve irshed them down a bit and the reason for that is to kind of keep the camera’s from blooming and if anybody understands what it is when you bring the camera and you bring in video that’s too hot and you exceed the dynamic rate of the imager, you start getting a blur like along my forehead, you’ll start getting really hot spots so I want to bring the video down a little bit and then using auto caller I’m going to open up the auto caller window real quick it’s basically  just a one click and see what happens to the video now it becomes much more I guess vivid for the best description, let me put that camera up on there so you can see the difference. So if I turn off auto-caller…

Broadcast camera color grading / matching

Jim Davis:  And I turn it back on. the other thing that you can do is that you see this option for multi-cams, I’ll turn that on then I will go to my second camera and you see again it’s kind of dull and then I’ll go ahead and turn it all, turn on auto color, turn on multi-cam, now what’s really cool about this is matching without any effort on my part, it’s bringing those camera very close, close enough that if you want to spend hours tweaking the camera’s and getting them mashed up together, you could. What is really interesting about this is this are two completely different cameras, one is your PTZOptics 20xzoom camera, the other one is a Sony HXR-NX5, so completely different imagers completely different cameras but using auto-color I can get them pretty close and so it’s just a really, really powerful tool and easy to use and so with the NDI™ connect pro that somebody is going to win today, you can have that functionality and plus since it is NDI™, that will work with any application you want to use it with. You could use it with vMix you could use it with stream stars, I think stream stars supporting NDI™, any apps that  is going to bring in NDI™, that processing is happening at the NDI™ connect end so you don’t need a tri-caster to use it as well is what I’m trying to say

Paul Richards:  Well, that’s important. So we talked about the connect pro app, you’re doing the auto-coloring which seems to be so super simple of course we can do more advanced stuff as well. Can you tell us about IP camera control which seems to be a new feature for PTZOptics that NewTek just slipped in there, I didn’t even know they had it until a couple days ago.

IP Camera Control in the Tricaster

Jim Davis:  That came in, in its standard edition build back in November and advanced edition build recently on the 25^th of January I think so it’s real simple to set up. First thing we are going to do is take a look real quick cause there is some information you need if you look at this, this is the webpage for the PTZOptics camera and if you look there is a third port number, PTZ port, you need to get that 5678, so once we get that …and if you look at the IP address,

it’s 10110240 for this camera so all we have to do now and let me bring up that window, there we go, so what we are going to do here is go to the PTZ’s tab which I’ve already got it set up and select PTZOptics Ethernet, enter the IP address, enter the port number and you are ready to go, so now once we have that setup, we can just basically run the camera by just selecting different pre-sets in the user interface or I can set up a new one if I wanted to I can either control It using the controls here, let me zoom it around.

Paul Richards:  Very nice.

Jim Davis:  Or I can just use the remote and do it that way, then if I want to set a new preset I just hit the little camera button here, Now that’s memorized, what’s really interesting about this that I kind of found out when I was playing with it is this presets are stored in the camera, so if I load a new session even though I don’t have the setup I can open up the PTZ control and it will go to all this presets just like they are set right now which I was kind of surprised about. Like I said it’s very simple to set up, very easy to use and if you go back to one of my other videos when we talked about the Visca control is also this small video in using the control surface to control the camera with the little joystick and everything and that will work the same here, if you want to, you could actually control the camera on the fly with the control surface, so that’s …really its nothing to it. it’s just that NewTek finally implemented it so we are able to use it and this make my live a lot easier because doing IP control is much simpler than running RS232 cable to try to do this to the control.

Paul Richards:  yeah, I mean that makes it about …oh well we won’t compare them with anyone else, they did it, they did a great job. What is the NDI™ transmit App?

Newtek NDI™ Transmit App

Jim Davis:  Okay so NDI™ transmit, we’re probably going to get feedback when I do this, you can see there your conferencing software coming back to me and I’m going to run over here to this mouse on this other computer over here and here we go. Okay, so I don’t know if you can see that but all my NDI™ sources are available here and when I select one that’s automatically going to be fed as a webcam into any application that’s looking for a webcam input so basically you can take any NDI™ source and use it with any application you know? Conferencing application or any other thing that uses the webcam as a video input and you can see all my different NDI™ sources available are here that I can route to you just by selecting them, so it’s a real simple app to use but that’s what NDI™ transmit does.

Paul Richards:  That’s interesting, so that’s a cool little app it’s kind of like the external feature in wire-cast and vMix.

Jim Davis:  Right, exactly, also we are using the NDI™ scan converter to bring this monitor feeds in, so it’s kind of like what Martin calls his application, I think it’s Desktop Capture. It kind of works the same way but one nice thing about NDI™ scan converter is that you could capture the whole desktop or you could just capture maybe a web browser only or PowerPoint only and everyone of this when you set them up will become separate NDI™ feeds back into your tri-caster so theoretically you could have a PowerPoint and a web stream coming in as two separate NDI™ inputs into the tri-caster of the same computer, does that make sense?

Paul Richards:  yeah, I know it does seems a little [16:45]

Jim Davis:  It’s mind boggling, trust me, I get brain freeze and I deal with this stuff all the time and I still get brain freezes with the potential for this. One of the other things I like to mention about NDI™ is I kind of look at it as an equalizer because with NDI™ I can now inter-work with anything, I don’t have it running right now but it can setup my vMix system, I can share inputs from the vMix system with the tri-caster or vice versa or any application like stream star, the current version of stream star supports NDI™ now, so any of this products that have NDI™ built into them can share their inputs between each other and I’m hoping, I don’t know we talked about this the other day, I’m not sure yet about wire-cast but I’ve been asking everybody I know that uses wire-cast to put that feature request into Tele-stream, add NDI™ capability to wire-cast because it’s a great equalizer, we also have graphics application, new blue, character works, Clarion, all this different systems, this major graphic systems Visa-RT is another one, all are now supporting NDI™ as a possible way to bring video into any switcher that supports NDI™ as an input.

Paul Richards:  So we are getting a ton of questions here Jim and we’ve got two minutes till we are going to roll the credits so you want to cover this Q-start auto script or?

Jim Davis:  we can talk about it, I don’t have it up and running right now in the system, basically Q-start from auto script is a tele-prompter package and I believe the last time I checked they were giving it away for free so if you go to the auto script webpage you can download that, register it, once you register it you can use it and they build NDI™ connectivity into that so you can take your tele-prompter feed as an NDI™ input into your NDI™ enabled switcher which they might be a reason you might want to do that.

Paul Richards:  Very interesting. The last question before we go to the post show where we are going to do the give-away, tell us about the future, do you have like a few nugget of wisdom you want to share with us about where you think NewTek’s going, where you think the industry’s going, where’s your company going?

Jim Davis:  So you know first of all, NewTek has a very wise policy about not talking about future development for a good reason so I can’t really speak to that. In general, I think as this become more widely adopted, you are going to see more people generating their own content, I think the key is figuring out how to monetize it as folks get into this business and try to figure out how to monetize what they are doing on YouTube or Facebook or whatever. As far as the future of it, everybody talks about 4K, I’m not really excited about 4K to be honest with you because by the time you get done streaming and you output everything it’s not truly what I call 4K, the people argue with you about that but there is a lot of really cool applications like Day-to-video has a new video out that will take a 4K camera and generate four 1080i streams out of it so you can take one camera lock it down wide and then bring out camera segments I don’t know if you saw that product, that’s a really cool product, you can probably do that with vMix too, I think I saw somebody talking about that, they brought a 4K camera in and then they would cut out segment of the camera feed and then send them out as 1080i outputs, I haven’t played with that yet, I was thinking about that the other day about an inexpensive way to do that in vMix because vMix does support 4K so just get a 4K camera or 4K capture card bring it in if you can figure out a way to segment different part of that and send them out as separate NDI™ outputs that be pretty cool, I don’t know if that will work yet.

Paul Richards:  That is very interesting. Let’s give the chatroom a moment to chew on that I’m going to roll the credits and I just gave $1 to that super chat on YouTube to give a little monetization for you Jim, I’ll talk to you in a moment, see you in the post-show guys.

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