Real Time Remote Editing with Avid

Webcam video -- no hardware (via chat apps like Zoom)

• advantage: affordable
• disadvantage: 30 fps chat apps not optimized for 23.98 fps video

Zoom settings

• Enabling option to preserve original sound
• choose your source for both "Select a speaker" and "Select a microphone"
• all Zoom plans are 720p

stream direct from Avid Media Composer using NDI

• see: https://avid.secure.force.com/pkb/articles/en_US/How_To/stream-MC-video-NDI
  • and: http://causeandfx-tech.blogspot.com/2018/09/avid-media-composer-20187-ip-streaming.html
• within Avid version 2018.7 and higher you can send video to stream (button on timeline)
• need NDI software (free)
• can stream via Zoom or Skype and other NDI compatible chat
• "Open IO NDI is not available if you have Nitris DX or Mojo DX video hardware. You have to disable that hardware in order to access Open IO NDI"
  • "and the system rebooted. Media Composer must then be run in software mode."
  • "With the Nitris DX being EOL, I doubt the drivers have been updated to recognize the Open NDI option. The DX has a specific driver, unlike all other modern Open I/O's."

screen share via Zoom (no hardware)

• some report lag using this method
• others not: "Screen Sharing a video source in Zoom creates a lag of about 500ms. I think that is quite reasonable."

Webcam video -- using existing Avid hardware

Avid DNxIP $4499 CAD

• "send/stream content to any destination—anywhere"

Avid DNxID $999 US (used for Avid Media Composer)

• "use the output from the DNxID and run it in the input from the DNxID, then you will see the picture in Zoom"
• Avid Artist DNxID User's Guide

Webcam video -- using additional non-Avid hardware

BlackMagic Web Presenter $600 US

• see: https://sofimarshall.com/real-time-remote-editing/
• Blackmagic Web Presenter is fed video (and audio) from Avid via HDMI or SDI and sends back a web-cam compatible signal via USB that can be shared on Zoom chat
• audio from chat microphone and audio from Avid are combined using $99 Loopback software (sounds similar to SoundFlower)

Blackmagic ATEM Mini $435 CAD

• see: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/ca/products/atemmini
• similar to Web Presenter in setup but is HDMI input only (no SDI)
  • "USB webcam output of ATEM Mini connects to any computer and looks just like a built in webcam"

AVerMedia Live Gamer Portable 2 (GC510) $209 US

• AVerMedia Live Gamer Portable 2 is fed video (720p/23.976 works, 1080p/23.976 does not) via HDMI from Avid sends back a web-cam compatible signal via USB that can be transmitted via Zoom or FaceTime or Skype
• HDMI loops through the device back to client monitor
• device has microphone input; audio from Avid HDMI combines with that in web-cam signal
• Avid audio sounded bad (tinny) in tests
• see: http://storage.avermedia.com/web_release_www/GC510/GC510_Datasheet_20170218.pdf

Magewell HDMI to USB 3.0 Dongle $402.42 CAD

• HDMI in, web-cam out
• because there is no loop-through, an HDMI splitter would be needed if you needed to send HDMI to your monitor

HDMI Share via Zoom Rooms $49 US/month + hardware

• Zoom will detect HDMI source from these HDMI devices:
  • Magewell USB-HDMI $402.42 CAD
  • Inogeni 4k2USB3 (max res 1080p) $650.69 CAD
  • Logitech Screen Share $396.99
• requires Zoom Rooms $49 US/month
  • "Zoom Rooms a software-based room system that runs on a Mac or Windows computer, and uses an iPad, Android or Windows tablet as the room controller"

Direct video (to remote client monitor or webpage)

• advantage: compatible with 23.98 video
• disadvantage: higher priced encoders

Sohonet Clearview Flex $2000 US/month

• see: https://www.sohonet.com/clearview-flex/

Evercast $1000 US/month

• see: https://www.evercast.us/
• "kept dropping out at anything below 5mbps upload speed"

Makito from Haivision (price not listed)

• see: https://doc.haivision.com/MakitoXEnc2.3
• encoding box at editor's end and decoding box at producer's end connected to monitor
• one-to-one video transmission
• SDI input and ethernet port on editor's end
• HDMI output and ethernet port on producer's end
• configured via IP web interface

EPS Cinestream Server (price unknown)

• see: https://www.epscineworks.com/editorial
• SDI video from Avid sent to capture card on 2010 Mac Pro running Windows 7 Pro and OBS Studio software (was Adobe Flash Media Live Encoder 3.2) streaming to EPS server that hosts to EPS password protected web page.