News and Events - January 2008

Thu 31st Jan, 2008

Titles

FORscene titling has been upgraded. When images containing text are added to the overlay track, they appear on top of the video. FORscene works out which colours should be opaque, semi-transparent and transparent and automatically anti-aliases between them. In the latest upgrade, PNG graphics, which include a transparency mask, can also be overlaid on top of the video tracks. The PNG transparency mask is interpreted as a full 8 bit alpha channel, both in editing and publishing.

Wed 30th Jan, 2008

Strategy day

Today Forbidden Technologies is holding the latest in its series of strategy days. We will be planning the next steps in marketing FORscene, Forbidden's revolutionary web-based internet video platform.

Tue 29th Jan, 2008

Registered office

Forbidden has moved its registered address to its new offices:
Forbidden Technologies plc
Tuition House
27-37 St. George's Road
Wimbledon
London SW19 4EU

Mon 28th Jan, 2008

Subscribe to Clesh

Clesh has new subscription options. New users can open a free time-limited trial account, and customers can choose between the standard package or the premium service.

Wed 23rd Jan, 2008

Clesh Showreel

The Clesh Showreel shows videos edited, published and hosted with Clesh. The Showreel includes the current top 100 videos, chosen automatically using a secret formula (just updated) based on the viewing profiles of visitors.

Tue 22nd Jan, 2008

FORscene upgrade

Our main broadcast servers have been upgraded to the latest version of FORscene. This gives access to many new features including the high quality Blackbird 5 video codec and additional editing functionality such as titling.

Mon 14th Jan, 2008

New office

Building work at Forbidden's new penthouse office is underway this week. Our customers, who access FORscene and Clesh over the internet, are not affected.

Wed 9th Jan, 2008

BETT

Truetube are using Clesh to enable their contributors to edit video on the web. Forbidden is supporting them on stand G122 at this year's BETT show, which starts today.

Mon 7th Jan, 2008

FORscene talk

FORscene, which runs over the web, is gaining customers both internationally and in education. Today's FORscene presentation to a selection of staff and students from the State University of New York (SUNY) exemplifies this. The SUNY contingent is over in England on a short media course - to compare and contrast media in Britain and the US.

Thu 3rd Jan, 2008

BBC1 broadcast

BBC1 is tonight airing the new series of the drama George Gently. Company Pictures use FORscene in its post-production.