News and Events - April 2007
Mon 30th Apr, 2007
Recent blog
Ken Pyle's blog talks about NAB: "video ... is shaping up as the latest battleground for these software titans [Microsoft, Adobe and Google] ... These thoughts crystallized as I watched the speakers from Adobe, Sony and Forbidden Technologies ... A Google acquisition: That thought kept running through my head as I watched the presentation from Stephen Streater, CEO of Forbidden Technologies".
Wed 25th Apr, 2007
OGR-25
Forbidden and friends have been donating spare CPU cycles to solve some of the most computationally difficult academic and public interest problems in the world today. The Forbidden team has just entered the top 100 list of all teams worldwide.
Tue 24th Apr, 2007
EGM
Forbidden is calling another EGM, this time to discuss proposals for increasing the cash resources available to the company. Today's RNS announcement provides more details.
Mon 23th Apr, 2007
NAB summary
Forbidden's trip to NAB was packed with meetings. Many thanks to Formidable, for their logistical support, to exhibitors for letting us demonstrate FORscene to them on their own computers and to Soundmouse for generously lending us their stand for demonstrations to third party organisations.
Fri 20th April, 2007
Tutorial video
The final part of the How to: Edit tutorial explains features such as colour correction, audio levels, subtitles and other useful features. Those with faster connections can see a high resolution version here.
Thu 19th April, 2007
Recent blog
Awareness of FORscene and Clesh is increasing in the blogosphere.This recent blog says "Clesh & FORscene, web based video editing and publishing at its best ... Clesh & FORscene get the 'I wish I had more than two thumbs award'".
Wed 18th Apr, 2007
Telecom@NAB2007
"Today’s telecom network operators need a video platform to succeed," announces the Telecom@NAB2007 conference. Come and see Stephen Streater demonstrating content creation, acquisition, management, protection and distribution on the FORscene web-based video platform. The talk and demonstration is at 4:20pm in room N238. Stephen will demonstrate how FORscene can be used by the telecoms companies themselves and how Clesh is ideal for use by their customers.
Tue 17th Apr, 2007
NAB account
Forbidden Technologies has set up a FORscene account for NAB2007. Forbidden is making available 200 unique usernames and passwords for use with this account during and after the show.
Mon 16th Apr, 2007
Green Dimension
The FORscene video editing and publishing system is used by corporates as well as broadcasters. You can see a video of the 18m diameter WES 18 wind turbine published by Green Dimension.
Fri 13th Apr, 2007
Tutorial video
The latest tutorial shows how to edit video in FORscene. Part 1 explains navigating around videos, trimming, adding graphics and speed control. Those with faster connections can see the video at 768x576 here.
Thu 12th Apr, 2007
NAB talk
Forbidden's CEO, Stephen B. Streater, has been invited to speak at NAB. The session, Putting It All Together, is taking place between 2:45pm and 5:00pm on Wednesday April 18. Stephen's presentation is in the section Magic Happens. Forbidden will be showing how the editing just illustrated by Avid, Sony and Adobe can now be carried out using the Web's video toolkit, FORscene.
Wed 11th Apr, 2007
Nokia N95
The Nokia N95, which has a 5M pixel camera and captures DVD resolution pictures, is now readily available in the UK with mobile phone operators offering cut price (and even free) N95s with contracts. FORscene is fully integrated with the N95 allowing upload of full quality video over 3G, Bluetooth or WiFi, editing on the web, and podcasting or publishing at full resolution and frame rate, making the FORscene/N95 combination the perfect tool for Citizen Journalists.
Tue 10th Apr, 2007
IVCA awards
PCI Fitch won no fewer than three IVCA awards for its Army on West Ridge Expedition project, including a Gold for "Effective Communication". This campaign used a branded version of FORscene mobile to promote the British Army to "Potential Army recruits in the 16-24 age group, a youth audience and a worldwide public audience".
Thu 5th Apr, 2007
Tutorial video
This part of the FORscene navigate tutorial covers such areas as chat, how to control access to your account and how to resize video. Those with slower broadband connections may prefer standard sized versions of part 1, part 2, and part 3.
Wed 4th Apr, 2007
NAB
US Interest in FORscene continues to mount and Forbidden is sending a delegation to NAB in Las Vegas. We have already pencilled in half a dozen meetings there with potential customers and partners.
Tue 3th Apr, 2007
Fades
FORscene now supports fade up and fade to black with a single drag on the video track. As with all FORscene video and audio effects, there is no delay waiting for rendering: fades play back in real time.
Mon 2nd Apr, 2007
IVCA awards
Forbidden's Liz was a judge in the Public Relations category of the IVCA awards last Friday. The winners are listed here.
