NDI TOOLS
NDI Core Suite
All the tools and plugins you need to set up, test, and manage your NDI workflow.
Our tools suite is free to download and has been designed to introduce anyone, from end users to professional installers, to the world of NDI connectivity. For more advanced users, it can be harnessed to supercharge your NDI workflow.
Key Features
Learn the basics or master your network
Our tools range from intuitive and straightforward to use by anyone experimenting with NDI for the first time to powerful, highly-customizable tools that can be applied in the most professional settings and workflows.
Connect remotely with NDI Bridge
NDI Bridge delivers local convenience on a global scale, enabling users to securely share NDI sources between remote sites anywhere in the world while reducing complexity, cost, and latency. This powerful tool also allows you to manage alpha channels, KVM, PTZs, tally, metadata, and more.
Plugins for your favorite creative software
Whether you need to transmit video over VLC, edit live-to-air with renderless playback on Adobe Premiere, or output real-time audio and video frame buffer from Final Cut Pro, our suite provides easy-to-use plugins that integrate NDI into the apps and software you already use.
Minimum requirements
Operating systems supported
- – 64bit Microsoft Windows 10 or later.
- – Mac OS 10.13 or later.
Processors supported
- – Intel or AMD CPUs with SSE4 or later.
- – Apple M1 Silicon CPUs.
Other recommendations
- – NVIDIA or Intel GPU.
- – 6Gb of RAM or better.
- – 1Gbit/s ethernet or better.
NDI Test Patterns
Calibrate your connections.
Send a reference signal to other NDI devices on your network to confirm connectivity and enable audio and video calibration.
Key Features
A wide collection of test patterns, including color bars, individual colors and IRE fields.
Selectable audio tones to ensure accurate color properties and appropriate sound levels, ranging from +4dBU (+0dBVU) to -40dBU (-48dBVU).
NDI Analysis
Analyze, debug, and improve your NDI connections.
Expert users employ NDI Analysis to examine the performance of NDI network connections and debug problems in any workflow.
Key Features
Get down to the detail.
Access complex statistics such as detailed information about the sources available on a network and their connection types, which is helpful for debugging systems or troubleshooting problems.
Keep track of your sources.
Locate NDI sources on the local network using a special version of NDI that receives all data from a source and provides information and diagnosis.
Extract your data in real-time.
Generate a CSV file that contains information about the timing of every frame captured, useful for further analysis.
Important information
NDI Analysis does not decode any data, meaning the CPU performance of the host machine has little impact on the results shown. The tool is designed to measure stream details as they might be received in an ideal receiving instance, where only upstream CPU performance, network, network infrastructure, and machine network performance affect the results.
NDI HX Camera
Bring your phone into any NDI setup.
The NDI HX Camera application turns any iOS or Android™ mobile device into an IP-ready live video source when connected to the same network as your NDI-compatible receiving device or production system.
Key Features
More flexibility and additional perspectives.
Introduce new camera angles and add vantage points to your coverage to bring completely new dimensions to your live broadcasts, webcasts, and presentations. Your everyday phone is instantly recognizable and compatible with other NDI-enabled devices.
Your mobile phone will fit all use cases.
For professionals working from home, NDI HX Camera turns a mobile device into a high-quality camera system, ideal for taking part in conference calls, bringing a source into your live production system, or presenting remotely in a webinar. For everybody else, the app turns their device into a webcam source compatible with popular platforms like MS Teams, Skype, Zoom, and many more.
Professional settings on your palm.
Navigate seamlessly through many settings and functionalities, including various bandwidth modes, optional grid overlay, autofocus, pinchable zoom, front and rear camera selection, on-screen connection meter, and tally display for preview and on-air status.
NDI Bridge
Securely share NDI sources between local or remote sites anywhere in the world.
NDI Bridge delivers local convenience on a global scale as it handles all the complexity of remote sources, supporting all of the benefits of NDI, including alpha channel, KVM, PTZs, tally, metadata, and more, reducing complexity, cost, and latency across any distance and with any applications.
Key Features
Local mode
Take all sources on your network or group and use NDI Bridge as a proxy. NDI Bridge intelligently processes and sends just the sources and streams that you need, making the most of your bandwidth.
Bridge mode
NDI Bridge allows you to securely connect two entirely different NDI networks – anywhere in world with full management of all audio and video streams automatically, no matter how many sources. Using just one publicly available IP address as Host, any number of networks can connect and share sources; allowing teams of any size to connect from anywhere on the planet.
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NDI Remote
Connect over the web with just a link.
Securely connect with multiple remote contributors to receive their video and audio over the internet by simply sharing a link.
Key Features
Receive video from any mobile device anywhere in the world into virtually any video software application.
Talkback is now available – remote NDI receivers easily stream live audio back to the sender.
Camera selection and desktop sharing are available with Screen Capture*
Quickly add sources using TURN servers – makes testing easy and simple using the NDI demo TURN server.
NDI Router
Route NDI sources as custom inputs to selected outputs.
As the name suggests, NDI Router enables users to route NDI sources as custom inputs to selected outputs with just a simple click, making it easier than ever to manage and control inputs and outputs without having to supervise each stream independently.
Buttons can be given bespoke names and styles, and users can even preview the source assigned to any destination.
NDI Audio Direct
Audio Direct is a set of audio plugins that allows virtually any audio software application to take advantage of NDI.
— Users select, receive, and generate multichannel audio with extremely high quality and near zero latency.
— Major enabler for easy audio-over-IP and supports workflows both on premises and in virtual or cloud environments.
— Audio Direct provides both the input and output plugins with selectable level control, allowing users to better conform to the requirements of their studio software and systems.
NDI Studio Monitor
View or display any number of NDI video sources across your network.
Incredibly powerful and versatile, NDI Studio Monitor runs on any compatible laptop or workstation, and allows you to see any available NDI channel in real time, arrange multiple NDI channels for live monitoring, and deploy instances for a range of professional signage and display applications.
— Independently configurable video source, overlay, and audio per instance
— Launch, distribute, and manage multiple instances from a single device
— Support for control and configuration via compatible mobile devices
— Comprehensive support for multi-monitor video wall and signage installations
— Remote control of PTZ, recording, and configuration for applicable source
— Record NDI files directly from multiple instances NDI Studio Monitor
— Remote control via web server
— NDI output allows NDI Studio Monitor to act as a router and server for delivery to multiple outboard displays
— NDI screensaver to add movement to your monitors
NDI Screen Capture
Share your computer’s desktop video and audio to any other device on your network with NDI.
Capture and present the full-screen display, any combination of windows, applications, players, and webcams, or a specific region of interest from any computer—anywhere on your network. NDI Screen Capture transforms any laptop or workstation into a multi-source IP video input device.
— Generate multiple live video sources simultaneously, with selectable audio
— Support for multi-monitor capture, with independent output at up to 60Hz
— Capture all of your system’s desktops in real-time, at full 60Hz or even games at 120Hz or above and with almost no CPU usage
— KVM (keyboard, video, mouse) remote control of any workstation running Scan Converter from NDI Studio Monitor
— Consumes minimal system resources, with no noticeable performance impact
NDI Access Manager
Manage the visibility and accessibility of NDI systems and sources on your network.
NDI Access Manager allows you to organize your NDI channels into groups, choose which groups are available to your device, and select which groups can receive your NDI channels—making it easy to determine the availability of NDI channels across your network.
— Configure NDI channels as public or private on your network
— Group NDI systems, devices, and applications to preference
— Connect to and access NDI channels on other networks via IP address
— Advanced tab allows preference for TCP or UDP connections, multicast operation, and optional discovery server support
NDI Webcam
Use any NDI video and audio signal on your network as a webcam source.
With NDI Webcam Input, NDI sources are recognized as standard Microsoft Windows video and audio sources, making it possible to elevate your video communications without increasing the complexity of your setup.
Key Features
Multiple video inputs
Designate up to four unique NDI sources as video inputs for popular software applications that support a webcam.
Full compatibility
Compatible with Google Hangouts, GoToMeeting, Skype, Zoom, and many more popular videoconferencing and streaming apps.
High performance
Maximize your workflow by accepting video sources up to 4K at 60 fps and automatically convert them to resolutions suitable for popular software applications.