Heading to BIRTV, Your Thoughts on the Professional Course, Our Feature in NewsCastStudio, and a Community Spotlight

Welcome to the July edition of the Connected Community newsletter!

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👋 BIRTV 2025: See you in Beijing!

Mark your calendars for 23 to 26 July at the China International Exhibition Center. We will be at Booth 3002, in Hall 3 (with our partners at Vizrt)! If you're heading there, here’s what to look for:

- NDI 6.2 Showcase: Dive into receiver discoverability, real‑time monitoring, and the brand‑new Discovery tool.

- Live Educational Session: Join Dr. NDI, Roberto Musso, and the NDI team for an in‑person deep‑dive into NDI workflows setup, optimization, and real‑world case studies (accreditation credits included!).

- Official NDI T‑shirt: Grab our limited edition Mandarin‑designed tee, only at Booth 3002.

- Meet the Team: Roberto Musso (Technical Director), Charles Dobson (Business Development), Ray Wei (TAM) and more will be on hand to answer your toughest integration questions.

🤔 What are you most excited to experience at BIRTV? Let us know in the comment section.

🎓 Two Months of the NDI Professional Course

We launched the Professional Course at the end of May, and the feedback from our community has been phenomenal:

"Just completed the NDI Professional & Basic Certifications, that cover everything from essential utilities, core networking with complex, multi-switch/subnet deployments, multicast to even Dante & NDI (cohabitation. So much here that can help to demystify things. If you work with NDI in Broadcast and ProAV it can certainly help to give the expertise to navigate both worlds."

Mark Hall, National Product Marketing Manager

"Just earned my NDI Professional Certification from NDI. It goes deeper than just plug-and-play, covering larger NDI networks, multicast setup, and the NDI Discovery Server. If you're building or supporting IP video systems at scale, this is a strong foundation."

Christian Frink, Product Manager

"This certification represents my deep understanding of Network Device Interface (NDI) technology and its application in modern video production workflows. Throughout the certification process, I gained invaluable knowledge in areas like video over IP, network infrastructure, multicast management, and NDI tools, which will allow me to implement more efficient and scalable video production systems."

Karen Ghevondyan, Technical Operations Lead

In just 60 days, over 70 learners have earned their NDI Professional Certificate, complete with AVIXA credits (3.5 RUs) and lifetime access to the course's updates.

Ready to join them? 👉 The course is available here for all Connected Community users.

📰 Inside the July NewsCastStudio Issue: NDI as the IP Video Standard

NewsCastStudio have just released their July issue, and NDI was positioned as the optimal IP video standard for ProAV users. From planning large‑scale broadcast studios to optimizing corporate live streams, here's what you can find in your reading:

- NDI’s Technical Edge: An in‑depth breakdown of how NDI’s IP‑native transport slashes cabling complexity and delivers sub‑millisecond latency, perfect for dynamic corporate studio setups. 

- Network Design Best Practices: A step‑by‑step guide to VLAN segmentation for NDI traffic, plus a sample diagram showing how to leverage NDI Bridge to extend your studio across multiple campuses with rock‑solid reliability. 

- Case Studies & Real‑World Deployments: Discover how leading enterprises, from Sharp HealthCare's future-proof training center to TeleVantage Corp's digital signage network, are utilizing NDI to demonstrate its scalability, cost efficiency, and ease of integration.

- Expert Insights: Broadcast engineers discuss the decision between NDI and SMPTE 2110 for corporate environments, focusing on the balance of bandwidth, quality, and IT approval.

📖 Grab your copy in print or flip through it digitally: Corporate Production: Laying the Foundation

📥 Or download it here.

👥 Community Spotlight: A Pawsome Party Magic with NDI 6.2

For a Paw Patrol–themed birthday party, our community member Elias Puurunen transformed a simple Logitech Mevo and Manfrotto Super Clamp into an NDI 6.2–powered marvel. Live video was streamed seamlessly into Multiview for NDI, where custom Paw Patrol borders (think Chase, Marshall, and Skye) were overlaid and swapped on demand via a lightweight HTML control page that sent HTTP POST commands. 

When guests tapped “Print,” a ten-second countdown began before a bespoke NDI utility (orchestrated through Discovery and built with NDI 6.2) captured a frame and sent it directly to a Canon photo printer. Meanwhile, FullView for NDI displayed the live booth feed on the party’s big screen, also managed through Discovery for seamless control.
This proof-of-concept highlighted NDI 6.2’s true strength: unified discovery and control across multiple receivers, without wrestling with disparate APIs.

 
Mission accomplished when the kids printed their first batch of Paw Patrol pics! 🐶👮

✍️ Have your own workflow experiment or POC? Tag us on your social media post, or send us your NDI story for a chance to be featured next month!