News and Events - March 2008
Fri 28th Mar, 2008
Recent coverage
This article discusses Truetube and their latest award: "Truetube is lively, entertaining and informative and one of the best examples of student voice on the web ... Young people can ... even edit [their videos] in Truetube’s online editing suites (provided by Forbidden Technologies). All videos are monitored before being made live".
Tue 25th Mar, 2008
US trips
Forbidden's round of US trips continues. This week's meetings are on the West Coast.
Thu 20th Mar, 2008
Truetube award
Truetube, which makes Forbidden's Clesh available to give children a voice in video, has won the innovation award of the Education Resources Awards.
Wed 19th Mar, 2008
More US talks
Forbidden's series of US talks, given by Business Development Director Greg Hirst, continues today at 6.00pm at WSYT/WNYS TV, 1000 James St, Syracuse, NY. Tomorrow's talk at 6:30 pm, Nicole's Italia, 20 Mall Guilderland, NY, completes this series. You can try FORscene for yourself by signing up to the free trial from Forbidden's home page.
Tue 18th Mar, 2008
Presentations at SBE
Following a round of business meetings in the US and Canada last week, Forbidden is this week presenting a series of talks at the Society of Broadcast Engineers. The first talks are being held today at 12:00 noon (WNED-TV Studio Boardroom, 140 Lower Terrace, Buffalo, NY) and at 7.00pm (WXXI-TV/Radio, 280 State Street, Rochester, NY). Please feel free to attend.
Mon 17th Mar, 2008
Open source
Another Forbidden contribution to the Open Source community has been released. The new feature increases the flexibility with which Perlbal can hand off web requests to the different components of its backend server, increasing efficiency and throughput of FORscene.
Tue 11th Mar, 2008
US trips
Forbidden Executives have a number of US trips planned for this month, with the first two taking place this week. FORscene's web technology means that it works well from anywhere in the world, including North America.
Mon 10th Mar, 2008
Proxy box
FORscene allows people to review and edit their video from anywhere on the internet. Forbidden's new Linux proxy box gives Local Area Network access speeds to videos captured locally or seen previously - while preserving all the advantages of video access from anywhere on the internet.
Fri 7th Mar, 2008
ISP upgrade
Forbidden's main ISP is upgrading its power supply tonight at 24:00 GMT (19:00 EST). FORscene users who are logged on at the time will experience a short period of downtime.
Thu 6th Mar, 2008
Linux upgrade
To ensure reliability, high volume customers use a Forbidden Linux box to upload videos into FORscene. The latest FORscene Load - Linux software provides simultaneous real time capture, compression and upload using the latest Blackbird 5 video codec and recent higher quality Impala audio codec.
Wed 5th Mar, 2008
AAF
Professional FORscene users have standard EDL output formats to export their edits from FORscene to other high end editing systems, and a variety of XML files have been available to FCP users for some time. Now Avid users can move edits made on FORscene into their Avids via AAF files.
Tue 4th Mar, 2008
New wipes
In addition to fades, dissolves, saturation control, brightness / contrast, and fast / slow motion, Clesh has 17 new real time wipe effects. You can see them in action in this video.
Mon 3rd Mar, 2008
Ts & Cs
Annual FORscene licences are based on an agreed maximum number of concurrent users and storage space - there is no meter running during actual use. Forbidden's new Terms and Conditions reflect this.
