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Teams NDI status?
Hi AskMP
Nothing on the Microsoft 365 roadmap currently
The official build announcement states coming soon
The book of news actually states June, see article 2.1.5
https://news.microsoft.com/build-2020-book-of-news/
With new Skype TX interoperability for Microsoft Teams rolling out in May and NDI support available worldwide in June, customers can use Teams to create online conferences, interviews, press briefings, entertainment and other productions. They also can reach audiences through internet social channels and streaming platforms, television broadcasts or websites.
Producers can plan and manage events in Teams, which integrates collaboration, work management and real-time communication with chat, calling and meetings. Expanding on the existing live event solution that allows for anyone to easily share webcams and screens to thousands of viewers, now Teams is introducing these more advanced production options for customized, high-scale broadcasts.
NDI for Teams, available in June, transforms the feeds of a Teams Meeting into discrete audio/video sources for a production tool or streaming app to provide professional capabilities for broadcasts that help turn a Teams meeting into a virtual stage
So, considering the timeframes I would imagine we will be hearing more very soon, and likely roll out sometime in Q3 CY2020 (July - Sep) given it's already the end of June.
Hope that answers your question
Best, Chris
Several days now and still no responses or replies? Not even a "Hold tight, we'll be announcing information X"?
Hi AskMP
Nothing on the Microsoft 365 roadmap currently
The official build announcement states coming soon
The book of news actually states June, see article 2.1.5
https://news.microsoft.com/build-2020-book-of-news/
With new Skype TX interoperability for Microsoft Teams rolling out in May and NDI support available worldwide in June, customers can use Teams to create online conferences, interviews, press briefings, entertainment and other productions. They also can reach audiences through internet social channels and streaming platforms, television broadcasts or websites.
Producers can plan and manage events in Teams, which integrates collaboration, work management and real-time communication with chat, calling and meetings. Expanding on the existing live event solution that allows for anyone to easily share webcams and screens to thousands of viewers, now Teams is introducing these more advanced production options for customized, high-scale broadcasts.
NDI for Teams, available in June, transforms the feeds of a Teams Meeting into discrete audio/video sources for a production tool or streaming app to provide professional capabilities for broadcasts that help turn a Teams meeting into a virtual stage
So, considering the timeframes I would imagine we will be hearing more very soon, and likely roll out sometime in Q3 CY2020 (July - Sep) given it's already the end of June.
Hope that answers your question
Best, Chris
ChrisHoardMVP Thanks for that. With it stating that a June release and with the amount of industry professionals I know, I'm just VERY curious to now why I haven't even heard from anybody who has actually used it. Without going into names, I work closely and alongside a lot of event and live production people, yet none of them have seen even demos of this in play. With it being a "June release" and it also being now June 25th, it is truly bizarre that there has been zero release of expected functionality considering that Microsoft is trying to push Teams to be a tool for professionals to use in replacement of Zoom, Slack, and others.
My interest is simply to get more information for all of us. The Skype TX isn't a solution for a lot of us, and Skype currently, while does have NDI out, is not a viable option in many cases simply due to how the engineering team decided to treat the audio. We're (as in the crews behind the scenes) are biting at the chomp for details and a more refined timeline of expectations as we need to start planning for events even so far as the fall and early winter seasons.
ThereseSolimeno I wouldn't consider this "solved". The response by ChrisHoardMVP was information regarding what has already been stated. There hasn't actually been information released or any updates. A "June release" but then timelines by Christopher's guess being July to Sept is clearly not what I would have come to expect from Microsoft when it comes to business feedback.
That is the best response. That is what we know currently.
It's not the solution you are looking for - and I can understand that. Teams NDI is a really exciting feature - it was the one we all looked at from build and want to get to grips with as soon as possible. We all use OBS, we all use things like X Split, we want to see casting into public video platforms. We have fed that back a lot to Microsoft.
To reiterate, there is nothing on the Microsoft 365 roadmap or from the message centre. When something is nearing release it will hit the roadmap then the message centre, then be released. It is not there. Until that time, the functionality is likely to be in private preview - as stated here by an MVP i know called Ragnar Heil
https://ragnarheil.de/top-use-cases-for-ndi-integration-with-microsoft-teams/
But we hear very little about it because private preview is largely NDA to those actually involved with it. As MVP's, we can't disclose anything under NDA even if we know. Concerning release dates with Teams some items get pushed back from time to time or simply take longer. These times are fluid and aren't set in stone. The teams team is super busy delivering functionality like 7 x 7, tasks, lists, breakouts and a whole myriad of other things. They also have to deal with massive scaling of the platform as it have jumped probably 40 - 50 million users since Covid
As said, I regret that we haven't heard more sooner, but this is the state of things how they stand currently. As soon as I hear anything more I will post it back here
Best, Chris