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Bidirectional NDI Converter Box Options

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Jeffrey demonstrates the CND Live A1 bidirectional NDI box, showing its web interface with encoder/decoder modes supporting full NDI up to 4K60, HX2/HX3 modes at 1080p, OMT support, and features like eight-camera decoder setup, tally light, and PTZ control.

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39:16This is the A1. Is this backwards for you guys? No, that's right. It says A1. Okay. Okay. Okay. So CND live a one box, go through it really quick, but I'd have a full video out on there. This is a bi directional NDI box. So you can encode you can decode from here. Is this full NDI or NDI HX three? It is full NDI HX two or HX three.

39:41So no. No, no, it has full NDI. Full has one. Okay. Okay, HP, let me let me show you, it's easier to show you from here. So this is the interface that you get this web interface. So you plug it in and get the IP address. So there's two ways to actually three ways to do this. First of all, if you go to mode switch, and you you can do encoder and decoder, which is HXH, well, HB as they call it. And that's a 1080p. But if you go encoder, encoder only or decoder only, you can get up to 4k.

40:16And they are also supporting OMT. So you don't have to have an NDI box. And if you're if you're trying to go into OMT on vMix, and some of these other platforms, then you can switch it from there. I think I have this set up for encoder right now. Yeah, I forgot to switch it back. But the decoder, I'm going to do this really quick. Because it's really cool with the decoder,

40:40you have a lot of options on which camera you can you can actually set up up to eight cameras in the decoder and then send that out that way uh that's gonna take a second how do you you've played with the zowie but you own a zowie box as well right yeah we're just one right yeah how did you find that interface it looked kind of it felt kind of similar to that compared to the

41:05bird dogs and the mage wells um how did you find that because i've been meaning to buy one of these So I'm glad better you than me. You're the guinea pig. It's really nice. I mean, it's not. Let me just log in here really quick. Wrong password. Yeah, I know. Yeah, because we're doing an event this weekend, and I was going to bring my bird dog, but I got to update the firmware on it.

41:28And it's just they make it such a chore. So I'm actually probably just for this one. I'm just going to convert SDI to HDMI and use my existing converters. but I would love one of those. I can't log back in. What's going on? Hey. Oh, great demo. Cool. All right. Next question. Hold on a second. Hold on a second. There we go.

41:52You got it. We're live. I don't see the past. Okay. So here we go. Let's go back here. There's only Mickey and Courtney and Ryan, Roscoe and JB just watching you. Okay. You're back. Hey, guys. So anyway, so we have the encoder and we have the decoder. So as you can see, I got my ND eyes sitting right here so I can switch

42:11between my different channels. It's not, it's like having one of those old HDMI button things on the TV. So as you can see, it's not instantaneous, but if I, if I could switch to an output here, put it into something like a color box and the, or, uh, or a PTZ operator can say, okay, I got to switch over to this one so I can get to the, uh,

42:35so I can set it up right and go from there. So that's one of the great things. And, of course, going to encoder, you can set up a lot of things. Here's the HX side and then, like I said, what they're calling the HB side. So they're paying the license fee then because that HB costs them money. Yeah. It's a $550 box.

42:59Wow. I wonder how it compares to the science image stuff. Can you click on that connection right there? tcp does it do uh to the right up and to the right up right where you're right where you know no no right where you were back to the other right your other right connection down down right there tcp yeah are you okay so it's got rdp as well yeah yeah rdp and that's just like my bird dog yeah

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