FORscene: A Quick Guide.

Use this guide as a quick start tutorial for our free demo account or for your own account.

STEP 1: Computer and connection.

You need to use a computer of 3Ghz and 512MB RAM. Lesser computers will work but performance may be slow. You also need an ADSL (or other 512 kb/s or faster download) connection to the Internet.

Configure Java and Caching

Configure Java's cache, go to: Control panel -> Java plug-in -> Cache. Tick "enable caching" and set the cache size to 200MB. Then click the "apply" button. Now go to the advanced tab and type "-Xmx256M" into the "Java Runtime Parameters" box, then click the "Apply" button.

In Java 1.5, go to Java Control Panel, click the java tab and in the "Java Applet Runtime Settings", click the "view" button. Set the java runtime parameters to "-Xmx256M", click OK, then OK again.

STEP 2: Upload your video content to FORscene.

This is only possible if you open your own account. If you have registered for the demo account there is already some trial footage there for you to use. You can upload footage using FORupload (available on the FORupload page).

STEP 3: Begin using FORscene.

Go to the FORscene web page, type in your password at the prompt. When FORscene starts it automatically opens the file window. You can open and close the File, Recycle, Account, and help windows by clicking on the icons along the left hand side. The help window will give further hints.

To play a video

• single click on ‘file’ box to open a list of videos in your account
• ‘drag and drop’ the required video file into the ‘play’ window
• wait for video to cache
• double click on window to play back video
• or use navigation buttons (underneath the play window) to play frames backwards and forward, jump to cuts or to the end

Make a simple edit:

• set in point and out point of edit in ‘play window'. One way to set in and out points is to position the cursor on the timeline at the in/out point and then click the left/right arrow on either site of the time code. (notice the black bar underneath defines edit selected).
• drag and drop edited clip into ‘record window’ (drag video from ‘play’ window and drop into the ‘record’ window)

Save your new video

• open the ‘files’ window
• ‘drag and drop’ your new video from the ‘record’ window to the ‘files’ box
• click on the file name and type in your new name, press return (name goes red, green, blue as new video is saved)

Publish your new video on the Internet or mobile phone. (only possible with your own account).

• drag and drop’ your new video from the ‘files’ window onto the 'FORweb' or FORmobile icon
• single click on the 'FORweb' of 'FORmobile' icon to open, then watch as your video is queued, encoded and then published,
• once your video is listed as ‘published’ in the ‘FORweb’ box double click to play back the published web video in a new web browser page, you can Iframe this page to whatever web page you want your video to be shown on.
• once your video is listed as ‘published’ in the ‘FORmobile’ box you can download the video to your mobile phone.

Uploading video from a mobile phone.

• Numerous mobile phones support this feature (Sony Ericsson P800, P900, P910i, Nokia 6630, 6670, 6600, 7610, 3650, 7650 and N-Gage), you will need to add the FORmobile application to your phone. This can be downloaded from the web or if sombody you know has it it can be sent via bluetooth.
• Once FORmobile is on your phone, you will need to configure your account details: from FORmobile select, options -> upload, and set the "set user+password" option to your account userid and password and the "server" option to the server you are using. If you have a proffesional account this will be pro.forscene.net otherwise it will be forscene.net.
• Run the FORmobile application, then select upload from the options menu you can then choose which video to upload by selecting it.
• The video will then be uploaded to your FORscene account, and will appear in the files window to be used as normal.