Award winning UK producer selects Blackbird Edit, cloud editing platform for documentary TV series

Posted: 04/04/2018

 3 April 2018,  London — Forbidden Technologies plc announced today a leading factual, features and entertainment television producer selects Blackbird for a BAFTA and Emmy award-winning documentary television programme.

The production company selected Blackbird to replace an existing EVS system to log and edit footage. The crew will use Blackbird to quickly log media from a gallery quad split of over 50+camera feeds, over an 18-week period.

This project is the first time Blackbird is used in a complete end to end fixed rig production and post-production cycle. Blackbird increases the value of post-production workflows by introducing a single logging toolset that moves seamlessly from location to edit suite. This enables producers and edit producers to review and search media across the entire production using rich logging metadata.

Ian McDonough, the CEO at Forbidden Technologies said, “I am delighted our incredible Blackbird software is extending into a new area of production. The fact we are an end to end solution on a fixed rig show dramatically extends our reach within the industry. We are bringing all the advantages of cloud as well as speed, collaboration and cost efficiencies to the customer which is quite an irresistible combination.”

Blackbird technology allows full visibility of multi-location digital content, improves time to market for live content such as video clips and highlights for social media distribution, and results in much more effective monetisation.

Forbidden develops, markets and licenses a powerful cloud video platform using patented Blackbird® technology. The technology underpins multiple applications which are used by rights holders, broadcasters, sports and news video specialists, post-production houses, other mass market digital video channels and corporations.

About Blackbird

Blackbird is a revolutionary cloud video platform which changes the way people work with digital video, maximising the value of video assets, and increasing monetisation in an evolving broadcast and digital landscape. Blackbird is the cloud-native provider of production and delivery tools, bringing workstation responsiveness and richness together with all the advantages of the cloud. Video professionals and teams working with live/non-live or high-volume video collaborate through hyper-accelerated accessibility, editing, distribution and delivery of video more efficiently, across the world.

Blackbird® is a registered trademark of Forbidden Technologies plc. Forbidden Technologies plc (AIM: FBT, www.forbidden.co.uk) floated in February 2000.

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www.forbidden.co.uk
www.blackbird.video