News and Events - May 2007

Wed 30th May, 2007

Mobile upgrade

A new mobile friendly URL simplifies FORscene access through mobile phones. It gives both over-the-air upload of videos and photos from the phone, and over-the-air downloads of podcasts to the phone.

Tue 29th May, 2007

Tutorial page

The FORscene video tutorials are all available in one place. Each video has an MPEG-2 download option for viewing the full sized versions off line.

Thu 24th May, 2007

Clesh upgrade

As a web application, Clesh benefits from a stream incremental improvements. The latest upgrade simplifies the storyboard, thus making Clesh easier for novices, and gives more guidance during use.

Tue 22nd May, 2007

EGM

The results of today's EGM are outlined in the stock exchange announcement here.

Mon 21st May, 2007

Guelph

The University of Guelph is promoting the use of video within the university. Forbidden's FORscene web-based video platform is a key component of their plan.

Fri 18th May, 2007

Tutorial videos

The FORscene web video platform supports many output formats. These four videos explain how to export videos in four common formats: Flash, Ogg, MPEG 2 and Web (Java). Those with faster connections can see high resolution videos: Flash, Ogg, MPEG 2 and Web (Java).

Wed 16th May, 2007

Broadcast Live talks

Forbidden has been given speaking slots in both the Manage and Deliver sections at Broadcast Live this year. The Manage talks cover Mash ups on Tuesday and Exploiting assets on Wednesday, with the Deliver talks on Citizen Journalism scheduled for Tuesday and Thursday.

Mon 14th May, 2007

FORscene upgrade

As a web-based application, FORscene benefits from regular upgrades, which combine to make it ever more powerful. The latest upgrade adds multi-line file names, and allows playback at single, double and quad speed using the JKL buttons.

Fri 11th May, 2007

Tutorial video

The FORscene web-based video platform gives you control of your content through a web browser. There are several ways to upload video and photographs into FORscene, and these are outlined in the upload tutorial. Those with faster connections may prefer this version.

Thu 10th May, 2007

Broadcast Live

Forbidden Technologies is showing off FORscene at Broadcast Live, the UK's leading event for the creation, management and delivery of video. Those wanting to see Forbidden in action in the UK now have their chance - Forbidden has stand G58.

Tue 8th May, 2007

Video tutorial

With all the advanced video tutorials for FORscene users, beginners will be pleased to see our tutorial on how to login. Those users with slower connections can see the video here.

Thu 3rd May, 2007

Japanese support

This week's upgrade to FORscene uses the latest Java features to extend support of foreign languages. For example, in Japanese, it automatically converts the phonetic Japanese alphabet into Chinese characters.

Wed 2nd May, 2007

Recent press

The latest edition of Broadcast magazine, the leading industry periodical, carries a letter from Stephen Streater, CEO of Forbidden Technologies extolling the virtues of web-based post production. Advances in the internet have enabled a whole range of web-based services - and this is now being recognised across the industry.