Teams NDI

[fgolman]

Looks like it's imminent:

https://www.bing.com/amp/s/news.yaho...150049620.html

Fritz Golman
Museum of Broadcast Communications

[dhodlick]

This is really, really cool. ACS is shifting to pretty much 100% virtual workforce and I am being asked to do a lot more with Teams. Right now, I use an offboard PC to feed the TC the Teams content so this is a most welcome development.

[SBowie]

This is really, really cool. ACS is shifting to pretty much 100% virtual workforce and I am being asked to do a lot more with Teams. Right now, I use an off-board PC to feed the TC the Teams content so this is a most welcome development.

We're pretty pleased, too. This will be great for workflow, but also helps entrench NDI's 'pole position'.

[Red Dog Records]

My understanding (as I desperately try to find the link where I read this) is that Teams will output a separate NDI stream FOR EACH PARTICIPANT!
This could be really great, if we can still do a bit of tweaking in regards to bandwidth allocation for quality purposes.

Exciting news!

Andrew

[Red Dog Records]

Found the link: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/micr...microsoft-365/

details:

Broadcast events and create studio productions from a virtual stage in Teams—With so many organizations working remotely, and travel at a record low, how do you recreate the magic of an in-person presentation or interview for an all-remote audience? Introducing new Network Device Interface (NDI) support and Skype TX interoperability for Teams. It offers a more advanced set of production options for both public and private, customized, high-scale broadcasts.

Coming soon, NDI for Microsoft Teams will transform a Teams meeting into a virtual stage by converting each participant’s video into a discrete video source that can be used in the production tool of your choice: OBS, Wirecast, Xsplit, StreamLabs, and many more. This functionality enables you to use Teams meetings in other ways, including hosting a professional broadcast.

Someone from NewTek needs to remind Microsoft that you are a long-time partner and they should AT LEAST MENTION YOU in this article!!

[SBowie]

... they should AT LEAST MENTION YOU in this article!!

I confess that did seem a rather unfortunate omission.

[Red Dog Records]

Is anyone beta-testing this feature? Is it working, but not released...or just an idea and still vaporware?

[stp_productions]

For what it's worth Skype for creators currently will allow you to output NDI streams for each person in a group call for the active speaker. The audio is not isolated per speaker which is the biggest downside I did some quick tests a while ago and it worked out. One thing I wanted to test was if the audio the local machine gave back to the call was in the mix or not. If not you could at least create a mix to send to skype with any sound effects/ddr audio etc + program video feed.

[Red Dog Records]

Thanks STP. that is great news.
Hopefully the Teams integration will offer a few more adjustment options. Not that hope is a strategy or anything...