Category: News

  • Simple Slideshow & Border Overlay features added to the NDI Image Viewer

    Back in late 2023 I was helping a friend to produce a Christmas edition of a live stream in which he wanted to include a “review of the year”, illustrated by photographs. I was using the Magewell Director Mini for camera switching, intro & outro videos and other graphics, but it doesn’t have a simple…

  • Frame Grab feature added to the RTx app

    New in v1.2.6.34 is a frame grabbing feature which can save in BMP,GIF, JPG or PNG image formats. The Frame Grab Settings dialog lets you choose the format, how the file name is constructed – including an editable base name, date & time – and the path to which the images will be saved. Frames…

  • Work-in-Progress “Proc Amp” feature for the RTx utility

    Version 1.2.5.33 of RTx includes a hidden new feature currently being worked on, which users are welcome to try (it’s on the Downloads page now). Please send feedback either here or via the Facebook group. You can see how to access and use the Proc Amp in this YouTube video.

  • NDI® Tone Generator

    As a little “stocking filler” for Christmas 2021, I’m releasing the very first NDI utility that I originally created, in April 2016, albeit with a small number of modifications since then. I use it internally for testing purposes, for troubleshooting NDI audio issues that involve signal levels or multi-channel audio, or just when I want…

  • October 2021 refresh versions

    All the ZEN NDI apps have been recompiled in Oct-2021 using the NDI® v5.03 SDK, in some cases with other fixes & updates, and are available on the Downloads page. As to what difference using NDI 5 will make, I really don’t know, since I haven’t changed anything significant in the source code, just recompiled…

  • What’s new in v1.4 of the NDI Router

    There are three main new features in v1.4 of the ZEN NDI Router, multiple instances, clearing outputs and editing NDI output names. 1) Multiple instances allows several copies of the router to be run simultaneously on the same PC, potentially extending the numbers of NDI sources and routed outputs which can be switched. Each instance…

  • Coming soon

    It will take a while before this site is fully built to act as a home for the ZEN NDI Software utilities, starting with a simple Downloads section and then expanding to include documentation and videos, plus other NDI related items.