Save up to 100 positions with preview, connect USB joystick, game controller and Stream Deck. Control 4 NDI® and NDI®|HX enabled cameras with your Mac Silicon.
LiveSkills, announcing its support for software-driven IP workflows using NDI®.
Joining the industry’s largest IP ecosystem of products and the rapidly expanding number of companies enabling IP-based customer workflows, LiveSkills integrates NDI® and NDI®|HX into its software for monitoring and control NDI® sources in a standard Ethernet local area network.
NDI is a brand of the Vizrt Group and a royalty-free technology that allows video and audio sources to be shared bi-directionally across a network, eliminating the need for costly direct connections, expensive cable runs, and infrastructure upgrades while turning every source into a destination instantly available anywhere on the network.
With PTZ-Director software the user is able to control position, exposure and white balance of the connected NDI® and NDI®|HX enabled camera (white balance control depends on the camera type)
A user can connect a joystick, a game controller and Stream Deck to his computer to control ptz camera with hardware.
Requires MacBook, MacBook Air or Mac Mini Silicon with macOS 15.
We strongly recommend testing the app with free “PTZ-Director Connect” in the users production environment. „PTZ-Director Connect“ for one camera is available for free on our website here.
Download PTZ Director Connect for free here
PTZ-Director is compatible with NDI® and NDI®|HX. NDI® and NDI®|HX is a registered trademark of Vizrt group. Stream Deck is a brand of Elgato Corsair GmbH.
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The app was tested with PTZ cameras from different vendors, such Newtek, Marshall, Canon, Panasonic, Datavideo, Tenveo OBSBot and Mevo. For some cameras it might be necessary to install a paid upgrade if NDI® isn’t already available.
You can also use for free "PTZ-Director Connect", working with one NDI® enabled camera with all features, which operates for 15 minutes after starting. With it you can test the connection to your camera and your joystick or game controller as well as your Stream Deck. “PTZ-Director Connect” is available here on the LiveSkills Website.
All USB-HID joysticks are working, from high quality „APEM RS desktop” models to inexpensive gaming joysticks. APEM RS Desktop is a high end joystick, which we recommend.
Hikvision security joystick DS-1005K profile is also installed in the app, and although the joystick has only 7 steps resolution, you can use it to work very precisely.
Game controller were tested from main console manufacturers.
Not every camera provides control of all values via NDI® interface, this is due to the different levels of NDI® integration by the vendors. Some color, HDR, LUT and gamma settings are often only available on the camera’s local website. The user can open it directly in the app after selecting the desired browser one times in the app settings.
Some camera website can’t be displayed on Safari or internal web browsers, due to their optimization for other browsers like Chrome. We recommend selecting a browser in the app settings like Google Chrome or Firefox to open the camera website.
Working with NDI® enabled network can be challenging due to different setups with unmanaged / managed switches, Unicast / Multicast NDI®. We recommend to start testing with only cameras, router, unmanaged switch, Laptop running "PTZ-Director" and NDI® Unicast settings in the cameras. When your setup is working fine, you can add managed switches like Netgear or Ubiquity or other managed switches, if this is standard in your production environment.
We tested with simple Gigabit switches from Netgear, TP-Link as well as High End switches from Netgear and Ubiquiti.
PTZ-Director is compatible with NDI® and NDI®|HX. NDI® and NDI®|HX is a registered trademark of Vizrt group. Stream Deck is a brand of Elgato Corsair GmbH.
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