The Vizrt Community uses Discourse software. To find old NewTek knowledge:
YouTube shows you how to set up a TriCaster in 10 minutes. The NewTek Forums tell you why your NDI feed drops every 47 minutes when connected to a specific Netgear switch. For broadcast engineers, these granular, packet-level discussions are worth their weight in gold.
⚠️ Note: The old NewTek forum URLs (e.g.,
forums.newtek.com) now redirect to the Vizrt Community. If you have bookmarks, update them. newtek forums
For sports replay operators, the 3Play section is a niche sanctuary. Discussions focus on slow-motion interpolation, triggering macros from referees' whistles, and best practices for multicam replay on a budget.
Even though LightWave 3D was sold to Vizrt (and has a quieter development cycle now), the forum archives are a university-level education in nodal shading, radiosity, and rigging. Many professional animators keep old login credentials just to access the "CORE" community scripts that never made it to official repositories. The Vizrt Community uses Discourse software
Perhaps the most famous section of the NewTek Forums was dedicated to LightWave 3D. In the 1990s and early 2000s, LightWave was the dominant 3D application for television visual effects (used in Babylon 5, Star Trek: Voyager, and Battlestar Galactica).
The LightWave forums were a hive of high-level technical discussion. Unlike modern social media, the discourse here was deep. Users shared custom LScript codes, debated the nuances of radiosity rendering, and dissected the physics of digital lighting. It was an informal university for 3D artists, where professionals and hobbyists rubbed shoulders. ⚠️ Note: The old NewTek forum URLs (e
Instead of just posting “Help!”, structure your post like this:
**Product:** TriCaster TC1
**Firmware:** 3-8-230516
**NDI Version:** 5.5
**Problem:** Input 4 shows green screen when using NDI from a remote PC
**What I’ve tried:** Rebooted, swapped ethernet cable, disabled firewall
**Logs/photo attached:** yes
This will often get you a reply from a power user or Vizrt staff within hours.
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