Your entry into the world of NDI®.

Built on BirdDog’s custom NDI® silicon chip, the P100 PTZ camera is your entry into the world of full NDI®. Featuring frame rates up to 1080p60, 10x optical zoom, and dual SDI and NDI® outputs, P100 gives you professional level quality, performance, and total flexibility. 3.5mm audio connectors allow P100 to work with BirdDog Comms, the world’s first NDI® audio intercom platform.

Full NDI®. No compromises.

In the world of NDI® there are two flavours, NDI® and NDI|HX. NDI® is a variable bit rate, I-Frame codec that is reaches around 140Mbits at 1080p60 and is visually lossless. NDI|HX is a compressed, long-GOP, H.264 variant that reaches around 12Mbits at 1080p60. P100 is a Full NDI® camera.

Broadcast Sensor. Incredible pictures.

P100 is teams up a true broadcast camera sensor with the BirdDog custom NDI® chip to form a match made in silicon heaven. Champagne images on a beer budget because your productions deserve the best.

Extreme Speed. Optics done right.

Lightning auto focus. Insanely fast zoom. Precision optics. P100 has been engineered to meet the most demanding situations whether you are in a boardroom streaming your quarterly results, producing a live event for your church, or live streaming sports.

Dual output. NDI® and SDI.

With NDI® and SDI simultaneous outputs you can use the P100 is ready to go live with your full NDI® workflow, or if you are still in an old school SDI workflow you can control via RS422, RS485, and RS232. Future proof your investment by using baseband video now and move to NDI® when you are ready.

PTZ Keyboard. Take control.

Combine P100 with the BirdDog PTZ Keyboard and you have total control of all functions remotely. PTZ Keyboard is a full featured controller that can control up to 255 PTZ cameras on a single network and can scale to even the most complex installations. PTZ Keyboard can control P100 over NDI® or by RS422 / RS232 when using in SDI mode.

Free Comms Lite. Upgrade to Comms Pro.

P100 includes free Audio Intercom software, Comms Lite. Comms Lite supports four BirdDog devices and one Director. For more information on Comms Lite and how to get your free copy click here.

Need a more powerful Audio Intercom solution? Comms Pro gives you all the amazing features of Comms Lite plus allows you create you up to five groups, adds additional push to talk buttons for the director, ability to change groups on the fly, plus more. Comms Pro is just $495 and you can read more about it here.

Distribute NDI® content everywhere. Just add Central.

BirdDog Central is a software platform set to redefine the way we think about driving content to TV screens. By teaming up Central with any NDI® source, including all BirdDog hardware capable of creating NDI® sources, you can now drive your NDI® streams to any BirdDog Studio NDI or Mini to decode NDI® back to SDI or HDMI. For more information on Central click here.

CAMERA

IMAGE SENSOR
1 / 2.86 inch CMOS 2.2MP

LENS
4.7-47mm

OPTICAL ZOOM
10x

DIGITAL ZOOM
12x

HORIZONTAL ANGLE OF VIEW
60.9° (W) – 6.43° (T)

APERTURE
F1.6 (W) – F3.0 (T)

MIN. ILLUMINATION
Color: 0.5 lux

SHUTTER SPEED
1/1 – 1/30000s

FOCUS
Auto, Push, Manual

WHITE BALANCE
Auto, Indoor, Outdoor, Manual, OPW, ATW

EXPOSURE
Auto, Manual, Shutter/Iris Priority

BACKLIGHT COMPENSATION
YES

MECHANICAL

PAN MOVEMENT
Horizontal : ±350º continuous pan (Zoom Adaptive Speed Range: 0.5°〜100°/S )

TILT MOVEMENT
Vertical: +90° to -30° (Zoom Adaptive Speed Range: 0.05°〜72°/S)

PRESET POSITIONS
128 (Speed adjustable: Up to 150°/s)

PRESET SPEED
0 – 5 Level adjustable

ENVIRONMENTAL
Indoor

OPERATING TEMPERATURE
-10 – +50 (°C)

OPERATING HUMIDITY
≤80%

VIDEO INTERFACE

VIDEO OUTPUT
NDI/SDI/HDMI

VIDEO FORMATS
1080p 60, 59.94, 50, 29.97, 25
1080i 60, 59.94, 50
720p 60, 59.94, 50, 29.97, 25

AUDIO I/O
3.5mm Audio In (Stereo)
3.5mm Audio Out (Stereo)

CONTROL INTERFACE

IP PTZ CONTROL
NDI Control (auto configuring)

SERIAL PTZ CONTROL
1x RJ45: RS232/RS422

SERIAL CONTROL PROTOCOL
VISCA / Pelco D

POWER & DIMENSIONS

POWER INPUT
12v DC, PoE +(IEEE 802.3at)

DIMENSIONS
145x145x154mm

WEIGHT
1.0Kg

NETWORK

VIDEO COMPRESSION
Full NDI – i-frame high quality low latency NDI for production

NETWORK PROTOCOL
NDI – Discovery, configuration and control

WEB CONTROL INTERFACE
Full control via Web/Mobile UI including Scene presets