These days one can very easily end up with a lot of media content in a lot of formats. Making that content conveniently available to your productions is something that NewTek NDI can help with, particularly in conjunction with a free utility called VLC Media Player for Windows, from VideoLan. VLC can play pretty much any format, and has a host of useful capabilities; NewTek NDI VLC Plugin, supplied with the free NewTek NDI Tools Pack, converts VLC playback to NDI in real-time on a stock PC, making the content instantly production-ready for your NDI-enabled switcher and other production tools. Previously, special video output cards would have been needed to get this content ready to go into a switcher; now it just takes an Ethernet cable.
