News and Events
Forbidden's unique web-based products are significantly impacting today's broadcast and post production world - as an increasing number of organisations utilise its features in their post production projects.
Thu 24th Jul, 2008
Share purchase
Greg Hirst, Business Development Director of Forbidden Technologies plc, has purchased 50,000 Forbidden shares for his pension fund. You can see a copy of the announcement here.
Wed 23rd Jul, 2008
Server upgrade
The Forbidden server array used for paid pilots, shareholders and the Clesh Showreel is being upgraded. The first server has already been replaced by a new faster server with an additional 2,000 hours of capacity.
Tue 22nd Jul, 2008
Mac upgrade
FORscene Load Mac 1.6.10 is available for download from the website. This version allows users to log in under their own user name rather than by account name, increasing security and traceability.
Mon 21st Jul, 2008
Breathe Post
Breathe Post is staging an event on Wednesday 23 July with a live demonstration of their new FORscene HD workflow: shooting, uploading, remote logging, web-based editing, remote voice over, HD on-line finishing and remote review and approval. Production companies can book a place by phoning Kyran on 020 7426 5121.
Fri 18th Jul, 2008
HolidayNet
The holiday & travel information site HolidayNet.com is Forbidden's travel partner. They are offering travel video clips from their 2,500 hours of professionally shot content to the industry, with no up-front cost. Nicholas Rogovsky, travel film director and MD of HolidayNet, said: "The TIA reports page visits where video is present up by 29% and conversions to booking up by an average of 26%. Our independently produced video content allows all tour operators and travel agents easy access to video for their own product marketing".
Thu 17th Jul, 2008
Proxy box
The FORscene Linux proxy box can capture 24 hour video streams locally. FORscene's efficient navigation then gives quick access to material relevant for review and editing, which is uploaded in real time as required. By using client machines for the CPU intensive tasks of compression and playback, the FORscene proxy box scales well to multiple 24-hour TV channels.
Wed 16th Jul, 2008
myAWOL press
Forbidden's LA-based partner myAWOL, which is preparing to showcase Clesh and FORscene, is already starting to attract press comment. In its article A Music Label For The Digital Age, Techcrunch says: "The big music labels have made it patently obvious that they don't know how to deal with the internet ... myAWOL (My Artists Without Labels) ... is taking a multi-pronged approach to tackle the music industry with the web".
Tue 15th Jul, 2008
AGM
The Forbidden Technologies plc 2008 Annual General Meeting is to be held at 11.00am on Friday 5th September, 2008 in Forbidden's new Wimbledon HQ. Our 1,800 shareholders are welcome to attend.
Mon 14th Jul, 2008
Mac upgrade
FORscene Load Mac version 1.6.9 is now available for download. This tidies up a few loose ends such as simplifying the options and improving the video quality with the latest video codec.
Fri 11th Jul, 2008
myAWOL
Forbidden has an increasing range of partnerships around the world. Its LA-based partner myAWOL is incorporating Forbidden's world-leading Clesh and FORscene web video tools into their definitive internet music site, to be launched later this year.
Wed 9th Jul, 2008
Shareholder offer
As a quoted company, Forbidden Technologies plc offers external shareholders complimentary accounts on FORscene, its award winning internet video suite. In addition, people wishing to take advantage of Clesh can gain immediate access by signing up on the web.
Tue 8th Jul, 2008
White balance
Colour differences between artificial light / daylight, or light at different times of day, show up on video. FORscene allows a simple way to set which colour appears as white, allowing scenes shot in different light to be matched. The example video below shows the subtle but perceptible changes in colour before and after white balance is applied:
Mon 7th Jul, 2008
JPEG export
FORscene can publish and host videos in a wide range of formats. The new image export button allows stills from edited videos to be published and hosted too, as can be seen in this example.
Wed 2nd Jul, 2008
Results posting
Forbidden's annual results have been posted to shareholders and will be arriving shortly.
Thu 26th Jun, 2008
Thumbnails
Click-through thumbnails have been added to web videos published using Forbidden's web player,
simplifying having multiple videos on each page. This home movie provides an example:
Tue 24th Jun, 2008
Work experience
Forbidden Technologies has a history of providing work experience for students and school children. With Wimbledon Fortnight starting this week, yesterday's project for Caroline and Zoella was for each to plan, shoot, edit and publish a visitors' guide to restaurants in Wimbledon. You can see their guides here and here.
Mon 23rd Jun, 2008
Mac upgrade
Version 1.6.8 of FORscene Load Mac is available for download. This allows Mac users (including those running Leopard) to upload video, audio and stills into FORscene. It is suitable for people with high quality source material, such as DV or HD, as the video is compressed locally before uploading, speeding up the upload process by up to twenty times.
Thu 19th Jun, 2008
TrueTube
TrueTube, which makes Forbidden's Clesh web-based editing system available to their visitors, has updated their website. TrueTube provides a forum for school children to debate ethical issues of the day through the medium of video, and is available to schools in the UK.
Wed 18th Jun, 2008
FORscene upgrade
FORscene has been upgraded today. This upgrade reduces the number of mouse clicks for typical storyboard users, speeding up the editing process.
Mon 16th Jun, 2008
Servers upgraded
Forbidden has upgraded the servers used by FORscene's broadcast customers. This upgrade included improvements tried and tested on our normal servers over the last two months. As with other upgrades, the FORscene service continued uninterrupted.
