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Avid Media Composer 2018.7 - IP streaming for free!

Media Composer 2018.7 has brought native support for Newteks NDI... Support for NewTek® NDI Video over IP Avid Media Composer now includes support for transmitting NDI streams directly from the application when enabled. Similar to a client monitor, anytime you play or scrub footage others on your network will be able to see the stream using an NDI player. By default, NDI will broadcast only to your local subnet. But what does this mean to you and I? What's NDI? NewTek’s NDI - Network Device Interface - technology allows devices, and applications to connect and communicate over a standard IP network, specifically 1GbE, to share video and audio. This technology has been heavily adopted in the production world but can also be utilised in the edit process through the use of specific I/O hardware, for example, the  AJA Kona IP  or IO IP and with the release of 2018.8 Media Composer you can use the Avid Artist DNxIP  unit too. But if you want to allow people to view y