The Unofficial Guide to NDI - IP Video Production (Udemy.com)

I think it was a very good informative course however, it felt like a commercial for PTZ optics the entire time. I understand the instructor probably has a relationship with the company, which is fine, I just wish it was a little more separation. Overall a great course to get your feet wet with NDI. Would take more courses from the instructor. Thank you very much for the time and effort put in.

Nice and relaxed NDI introduction and presentation. Useful synthesis before the release of NDI 6 (HDR support, improved remote connectivity) that should also in between positively impact the color grading experience.

I really enjoyed learning about NDI, from the basics to its more complex applications. Mind-blowing and really exciting features that I didn't know before this! Can't wait to start diving in and using NDI Tools:)

Paul is very knowledgeable. There are a few items which are dated. (e.g. not finding info on Pizzaz NDI2HDMI product online - perhaps obsolete now that solutions from other providers such as BirdDog with their 4K Family are available)?

The course was good but in the beginning there was too much talk about everything NDI could do. The one thing that frustrated me was all the talk about what NDI could do but nothing about what the NDI source was until much later in the course. I was beginning to think it's a sales gimmick to get people to buy NDI without knowing what the NDI source was. Protocol can be software but it can also be other things to. Until further along in the course I didn't know whether it was software or equipment itself. It could have been mentioned sooner in the course with the comment of "we'll get more into that later. Other wise it was a good course.

This was done by the same people who produced a terrible wirecast masterclass course. It almost put me off when I first saw them. BUT this is very well done. Stays on topic and production values are very good making it easy to watch.

Purchased PTZ Optics cameras along with a PoE switch that was not a gigabit swithch. Was not pleased with the video quality over IP. Wish I had purchased a gigabit switch and set up NDI rather than IP. This course will set me on the right path.

The course is definitively giving a good insight into the new IP video production era. What I personally don't like, is that the course is not really a course but a collection of live streaming sessions on the subject. I would prefer structured and specially recorded videos building the course curriculum. Also when you are speaking IP video, there are automatically two huge other components: audio and especially network knowledge. There was no discussion specifically about audio. And hearing the discussions about IP and network, it's pretty obvious that none has really an in-depth clue (limited pretty much at consumer level). But if you want to deploy serious IP video production, you better also have serious network knowledge (what is a switch, what is a router, what is a wireless access point). Is IP video production possible via wireless LAN ? No doubts with professional hardware. And none has to be a millionaire to afford 10Gbit switches/routers and 2.4Ghz or 5Ghz ac wireless access points each capable of 800 Mbit/s. It would also be a good idea to know codecs used today (generally H.264 but H.265 is much better, however uses much more resources for encoding). There is a lot of discussion about the ideal computer but none is speaking about the graphic card. But in photo or video production, the graphic card is key - because most of the workload can be done by the GPU (graphical processing unit) instead of the CPU (this is called hardware acceleration via GPU). None also spent a word discussing IPv6 in networks. All is still based on IPv4. Locally on LAN, this is still not a big issue but for example in Europe, there are first providers not assigning you IPv4 addresses anymore and all is based on IPv6. But IPv6 is a very different kind of animal. Where you formerly had Unicast and Multicast in IPv4, everything works much different in IPv6. Are cameras and software ready for IPv6 ? No idea, because none spoke about it but I will do some research on it.

Overall I found this course to be a great introduction into NDI and IP Video Production. This is one of those courses that people have to spend their own time to investigate all the software and technology involved. Well, time to play with all these cool new toys! Thanks NewTek and PTZ Optics.

The course is great and very informative but it is mostly theory, it would have been good to include sections where you also show the hardware part with actual examples showing the cabling needed, the power, controls capabilities, etc... (i.e. A video about a studio setup with PTZ cameras and connecting them to a switcher via NDI)