Scene transitions show the effect used when you switch between scenes.For recording or broadcasting, a Teams meeting your first task will be to mute the Desktop Audio and Mic/Aux Audio mixer, where you will adjust or mute different sources.These will then show in the preview, with audio for each source shown in the audio mixer where applicable. You will also add sources, including background images or text here. Sources, where you will add your NDI source from Teams.For example, if you want to switch between a full-screen presenter and two people side-by-side, you will configure two scenes. Scene list, containing arrangements of sources you can switch between during recording.Preview window, also used to arrange content.
Install both OBS and the OBS NDI plugin you can install both with the default options the installers offer before launching OBS Studio for the first time.Īfter launching OBS Studio, you will see the main window which is split into several sections (as shown in Figure 4): From the link, choose Go to download which and choose obs-ndi-4.9.0-Windows-Installer.exe. You’ll also need to download the obs-ndi Newtek NDI integration.
There are many guides on how to use OBS Studio, so we will just cover the basics here.įirst, download OBS Studio for free from the OBS Project website. Image #3 Expand Configuring OBS Studio to capture Teams NDI streams
Within the policy itself, scroll down to the Audio & video section and then switch Allow NDI streaming to on:
For example, if you want all users to use NDI, update the Global (Org-wide default). To do this, navigate to Meetings>Meeting Policies, then select the relevant meeting policy assigned to users you want to use NDI. We need to enable NDI in Teams, then we need to install OBS and the NDI integration add-in.īefore a user can enable NDI in Teams, you need to enable NDI streaming within the Teams Admin Center. To use NDI in Teams with OBS we need to perform several tasks. Enabling NDI streaming in Microsoft Teams Best of all, it is very easy to learn and use. If you aren’t looking to stream live and instead record meetings for wider consumption later, it also can record the meeting directly. It is capable of live streaming to common services including YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and you can use it with Live Events in Microsoft 365 instead of using Teams directly. OBS is free and widely used by video professionals and online streamers. NDI-out interfaces with a range of hardware and software, including professional broadcast consoles, OBS (Open Broadcast Studio), XSplit, Wirecast, and Streamlabs. For example, you might choose to have a custom background, company logo, and position each video feed in a particular place.ĭuring the recording or live stream, you might choose to switch between different scenes at appropriate times, such as when you want to focus on a particular speaker or switch the focus to shared content.
Using NDI-out, you can conduct your Teams meeting as normal and capture the video feeds into a separate piece of software capable of arranging the video feeds in a professional, customized way. However, neither of these options allow you to fully customize the way that the video streams are shown in the recording, or to live event viewers. With Teams, this enables you to improve the way you record or produce live events Teams has built-in meeting recording and Live Events functionality. When you have watched TV stations bring in remote guests from home and it doesn’t look like a Zoom meeting – the chances are they are either using the broadcast version, SkypeTX or Skype with NDI. This functionality has been available in Skype since 2018 and uses NewTek’s Network Device Interface (NDI) protocol, an open standard used to capture and transmit broadcast-quality video over a network. Improve how you record and produce live events in Microsoft Teams using NDI