News

06/03/2008

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…

05/03/2008

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…

04/03/2008

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.

03/03/2008

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.

29/02/2008

Anniversary

Forbidden floated AIM eight years ago today. Since then, sweeping technical advances have driven the growth of video on the internet. Starting with its core video compression and web playback technology, Forbidden has created the world’s…

28/02/2008

Saturation

The latest feature to be released in FORscene and Clesh is colour saturation control. Right dragging horizontally in the video window sets the saturation, complementing the vertical control of black and white levels. This short video…

27/02/2008

Television broadcast

Channel 4 is broadcasting the series Shameless, which uses FORscene in its post production, on Tuesdays with repeats on Channel 4, Channel 4+ and 1st Look on E4. The programme has a custom built 66,000 sq ft set…

26/02/2008

Document

Forbidden is a pioneer in web based video. You can read about the background to the company and the way its markets are shaping up in this document.

25/02/2008

Effects

Forbidden's consumer video platform, Clesh, supports a range of real time video effects, including video levels, fades and dissolves, which play back immediately without needing rendering. Forbidden will shortly be broadening effects into new directions –…

22/02/2008

Recompress

The recompress feature allows publishers to update their videos with Forbidden's latest web player technology. This feature preserves the original URL, so website links to videos don't need updating. Here is example of a republished video…

So psyched to part of the A+E Networks deployment of Blackbird.

Kevin Tobin - Senior Director of Production, A+E Networks