No Installs, No Headaches: Screen Sharing with VDO.Ninja
If you’ve ever tried sharing your screen on set, either in studio or on location you know that can be a pain. There's many ways to achieve it but often require extra software, subscriptions and headaches. Early in the COVID days people would leverage ngrok to punch a hole in a network and share Capture Pilot. While this worked, you were reliant on the stability of Capture Pilot. Then came the Zoom and Teams era. A few years later Capture One brought out Capture One Live which helped in many workflows but was still a bit limited and more than what some needed. Recently, I discovered VDO.Ninja . It’s a totally free, browser-based tool for screen sharing that works locally or over the internet. No installs. No accounts. Little to no configuration. Seriously. No App? No Problem. Here’s the best part: nobody has to install anything. Not you, not the client, not the creative on set. As long as they’ve got a web browser it works, even on mobile. That means you can send a live feed f...
