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Forbidden Technologies' Forscene wins over Giant Pirates

Published: 16:50 17 Jun 2014 AEST

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Forscene, the cloud-based video platform developed by Forbidden Technologies (LON:FBT), continues to gain traction in the market.

The latest company to adopt the platform is California-based production company Giant Pirates Entertainment, which is using Forscene in its post-production work flow in order to hasten editing of 'The Feed', a "buddy comedy road show featuring culinary celebrities" that will air on the FYI network in the United States.

Forscene gives Giant Pirates the ability to start editing field packages immediately via the cloud rather than having to wait for hard drives to ship across the country, eliminating lag time that could throw the multi-site production off schedule, Forbidden Technologies said.

"Having the ability to work with footage via Forscene so soon after it has been shot is a new and welcome experience for our post team," said Tracy Tong, supervising producer on 'The Feed'.

"When QSR Systems, our Avid vendor and rental company for this production, recommended Forscene, we were wary. We had never used any kind of cloud-based work flow before, so we had some concerns about compatibility with the Avid codec, upload times, and ease of use. It turns out we had no reason to worry," Tong added.

A codec, or coder-decoder, is a piece of software that converts a raw data file into a compressed format that can be read by a media player.

"Anyone with a general understanding of Avid or Final Cut can quickly learn how to work with Forscene. Even someone with no experience on Avid could easily pick it up with a quick half-hour training session, or by watching the Forscene YouTube videos," Tong said.

According to Greg Hirst, business development director at Forbidden Technologies, Forscene is perfect for reality TV shows.

"With Forscene, they now have a new weapon in their arsenal for undertaking these challenging productions," he said.

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