News Category: News Archive

13/10/2005

Tapeless production

The Broadcast conference, Tapeless production, which is taking place today, is packed. Forbidden’s stand is attracting considerable interest from broadcasters and production companies alike.

12/10/2005

The Sheffield International Documentary Festival (SIDF) is the UK’s premier international event for factual film and television. Forbidden is one of three exhibitors at the festival – the others being Sony and Apple.

11/10/2005

Logging

With several FORscene productions involving hundreds of hours source video, the need to annotate content is clear. The FORscene professional loggers’ interface has been supplemented with a simple interface for journalists use. A new user can…

10/10/2005

Recent press

The Mail on Sunday‘s Special Report this week is “The mobile revolution”. Alongside a picture of Forbidden’s products in use, the article says: “The firm uses mobile phone technology for editing purposes. It often sends video…

06/10/2005

Recent press

Cable & Satellite International reports on their Product of the Year awards 2005. FORscene was runner up in its sector with its FORmobile capability: “FORmobile … also supports Viewtooth – Forbidden’s technology that allows the player…

05/10/2005

Strategy day

Forbidden is holding a strategy review day today. This is the first strategy day with the new Board.

04/10/2005

FORscene alerts

FORscene mobile publishers can specify a mobile phone distribution list. When the publishing completes, the people on the list are notified by text message. Clicking on the text message in FORmobile downloads the video, which can…

30/09/2005

XML

FORscene has been upgraded to support XML output. XML input is used by Apple’s Final Cut Pro. Logging information, sync pulls and assembly edits created over the web in FORscene (which works on PCs and Macs) can be…

28/09/2005

FORscene upgrade

Each FORscene user has a unique password protected web page, maintained by Forbidden. Today’s upgrade, which appears automatically by opening the web page on PCs or Macs, has a varied selection of improvements. These include refinements…

27/09/2005

Recent press

The influential professional video site Sypha has an article about FORscene. Following a visit to Forbidden’s stand at IBC, they report: “FORscene enables ‘mobile’ reporting with upload and edit functionality for mobile phone stills and video”.

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Jon Hanford - Group CTO, Deltatre