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Fantastic chat guys, this was very informative even for somebody that has messing about with Cloud 3.0 for a little while now. You will always pick up something when listening to people discuss a topic they are passionate about. One note @BirdDog_Jon, is that is would be great if you added chapters to these videos so that people can find sections relevant to them quicker. Thanks again, and I look forward to watching the Central 2.0 chat!
That's going to make cabling sooooo much easier for new facilities - how long before monitor manufacturer's license the Birddog decode ? Being able to send back from a live unit to a studio this way will save a fortune for the links depts too.
When you team up our NDI hardware encode and decode functions with Medialooks or Sienna NDI Cloud you can send encoded NDI to anywhere in the world over the cloud and then decode it back out to baseband video at the other end. The world is getting smaller!
After using vMix to do Drag Racing live streams, I'm looking forward to moving our cameras off RTSP and on to NDI. Does the bigger of the Birddog units allow for timecode or genlock to be sent to the camera? (have asked this on the fb wall and eagerly waited for a reply :) )
Hey there, we will never be able to do Genlock as the hardware just doesn't support it (you need an extra BNC). As for timecode as of the new NDI 3.5 that was released this week it has now become technically possible and we'll investigate and evaluate if we can implement with a firmware update. Yes that is pretty vague but best info we can give at this stage. Keep in touch on our Facebook and email - hello@bird-dog.tv and we can keep you updated
Hey Nick, thanks! Price point is US$895. Studio NDI can work with Cat5e as well as Cat6 and both should be fine for distances around 100m/300ft. That distance limit is just from the BirdDog unit to the first network switch - you could then extend many km/miles with an optical link to the receiving end.
