News and Events - December 2007

Mon 24th Dec, 2007

Merry Christmas!

And a Happy New Year from everyone at Forbidden Technologies. We have made a short seasonal video showing some of the views from our new office.

Fri 21st Dec, 2007

New office

After eight years in its current location, Forbidden Technologies is moving to new offices. The new address is: Forbidden Technologies plc, 6th Floor, Tuition House, 27-37 St. George's Road, London, SW19 4EU.

Thu 20th Dec, 2007

Titles

The latest FORscene upgrade supports graphics overlays for use with logos and titles. Images generated on third party applications are treated as foreground, translucent and transparent colours. The transparency level can be faded in and out using the same simple interface as the video and audio fades. The system gives full broadcast quality anti-aliasing.

Wed 19th Dec, 2007

Stereo audio

FORscene and Clesh have long been able to edit up to four audio tracks. Where a source has multiple synchronised audio tracks (such as stereo on DV), the default behaviour is now to trim these tracks together, simplifying editing.

Mon 17th Dec, 2007

Clesh upgrade

Clesh has been upgraded to use the latest Blackbird 5 video compression. Web uploaded videos and images are now clearer with better texture, and the most active videos take less data when published using Clesh's integrated web publishing.

Thu 13th Dec, 2007

Blackbird codec

Forbidden Technologies uses its own Java codecs to meet the specific demands of web based video post-production. The latest codec, Blackbird 5, offers significant improvements in video quality whilst cutting the data rate the most complex videos by up to 15%. Blackbird 5 goes into test today.

Tue 11th Dec, 2007

FORscene DV upgrade

FORscene DV enables editing of browse quality video from a central location and then uploads and conforms only the DV frames which are used in the final edit, making FORscene DV the most efficient way to make broadcast quality videos from material shot in the field. News journalists now have a choice of uploading their source video from either Windows PCs or Macs.

Fri 7th Dec, 2007

Account management

The biggest broadcasters using FORscene use it for multiple programmes at the same time - and these can be in different departments. The latest upgrade to the account management allows the highest level people access to all programmes, whilst still giving different departments simple access to their own programmes.