EARLY LOOK: Birddog Flex IN, Flex Backpack 4K PoE+ NDI Converters, NP-F, Coms, Streaming, and more!

Here I take a look at the new Birddog FLEX line of converters- tiny, lightweight, PoE powered WIth the ability to power other devices down the line. The FLEX Backpack is especially good at this with an integrated NP-F battery mount to fit into the battery shoe on the back of monitors, recorders, and all kinds of things. This passes PoE power to the device and enables a single ethernet cable to provide power to TWO devices, capture 4K video, provide tally, coms, RS-232 control, and, later this year, Dante audio.

[@DuffTV]

Another well explained video. Thanks again

[@MrPipDarty]

My solution was using an Npf battery plate and dummy np batteries to power a zve10 and zv1 respectively off the backpacks

[@IEBATechThoughts]

Nice!

[@marwanalnimri1342]

Awesome review.......... What type of a video switcher are you using for this presentation? It looks nice and compact..... If you have another video about your setup will be great......Thanks in advance.

[@IEBATechThoughts]

For this production I'm using a Tricaster Mini. bhpho.to/2Dpc6Qv Controlled with a Skaarhoj PTZ Wiz. bhpho.to/39Fo5FT amzn.to/2CTEdrr

[@marwanalnimri1342]

Thanks

[@CorporateStreams]

Hi Anthony, Great stuff here! Do you know if you can run 3-4k camera's on one gigabit network, and run a separate gigabit network hosting another 3 camera's, then bring it all in (maybe over speedify) to your switching system? Thanks in advance and keep up the good work! BTW, hacking Hollywood is my personal channel and this is my business channel. Would love to interview you on the channel if you're up for it.

[@IEBATechThoughts]

If you're real good at networking, you can do that. I'm not that savvy on networking to know how to do that, yet. I know the Tricaster 4K Mini uses a dedicated NIC for each of the internal PoE ports, which you could feed each into it's own gigabit switch, and the Mini puts it all together. That'd be the non-IT-savvy way of doing it. Speedify creates a bonded pipe to a Speedify server across multiple connections to the internet, so that's a completely different thing.

[@CorporateStreams]

@@IEBATechThoughts Ahh ok sounds good. Will have to do more research and try that out! I'm on all blackmagic switchers (4 different models from mini to 2/ME), so I may have to look into other software switching solutions like vmix if I go ethernet based anything.