Recent press
The Wall Street Reporter has a three page illustrated article on Forbidden Technologies. In the article, entitled: “Bringing Web-based video editing to the YouTube generation”, they look into the technology and markets for FORscene. “Forbidden Technologies…
Read MoreJava Web Start
FORscene and Clesh are normally run within a web browser. With Java Web Start, you can run web-based software as a desktop application without the normal Java memory limit. To see this, try the Web Start…
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Cayuga Telecommunications report on their front page: “Cayuga Community College’s Electronic Media Programs remain on the cutting edge of technology by adopting a revolutionary new web-based video editing platform called FORscene … Cayuga is preparing television,…
Read MoreFORscene upgrade
FORscene Load on the Mac, which allows DV videos to be compressed locally before uploading to the server, has improved upload reliability on poor internet connections. It is available from the Forbidden website.
Read MoreRoundtable
Forbidden’s CEO took part in a roundtable today on Citizen Journalism. The event, attended by senior press, broadcasting and legal representatives, was chaired by Kelly Thompson, VP of iStockphoto, the internet’s premier royalty-free stock photo community….
Read MoreDocumentary
FORscene is being used increasingly by professionals for editing and publishing. The video: “A tale of Two Lakes (the Beauty and the Beast)” – a 25 minute documentary – is the latest professional video to be…
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Formidable Technologies has teamed up with the SBE to run the student workshop this year at the Broadcast & Technology Expo in New York. Forbidden's CEO, Stephen Streater, this morning gave a one hour presentation to…
Read MoreBroadcast & Technology Expo
Formidable Technologies is exhibiting at the 2007 Broadcast & Technology Expo in New York in conjunction with Cayuga Community College. This is the 35th annual Expo organised by the Society of Broadcast Engineers, Chapter 22, Central New York.
Read MoreBlackbird codec
The next release of Forbidden's Blackbird 3 video codec, and Blackbird 4 which will be released shortly, both take 1MB less memory than the current release. This will help web videos published in Forbidden's Java format,…
Read MoreBlackbird is best-of-breed
Jon Hanford - Group CTO, Deltatre