FORscene: Overview

FORscene streamlines the process of video editing and publishing. It is suitable for a wide range of users, from broadcast professional wanting to use FORscene's advanced features, to Amateurs who simply want video on their website. This page gives a simple overview of how you could use it.

1. Capture.
   Capture footage on your video camera.
2. Upload.
   Upload captured footage to FORscene using FORupload, or by using our professional ingest system. FORupload is a software utility which will upload video either directly from your DV camera or from previously stored files on your hard disk (AVI files). It can also upload still images (such as jpeg's) for use in slideshows. FORscene can also accept video from our live encoder so that you can edit your live programme as it happens !
3. Access, Log & Edit.
   Access your FORscene account from a standard web browser (from anywhere in the world with a computer and broadband), log and edit your footage to produce your final clip or programme.
4. Review.
   Because of FORscene's collaborative editing features your colleagues can review your work irrespective of there geographical location.
5. Publish.
   You can now publish your edited footage from FORscene:
   • Embed streaming video into any website
   • Automatically hosted by FORscene servers
   • Java streaming videos therefore easily accessible to viewers
   • Also publish to mobile phones
   • Create online presentations by integrating slides and subtitles with video
   • Produce EDL output for professional users

Some of FORscene's professional features:

Logging
FORscene allows you to log rushes, enabling producers directors to produce a searchable database of an entire shoot. Timecode details remain when the project is transferred to an online edit suite - significantly streamlining the post production process and achieving corresponding cost reductions

Editing
Exceptional accessibility means that offline editing can take place anywhere with internet access: On-location, in the office or at the editors home. FORscen makes tapeless collaborative editing a reality, ensuring editors can work on the same footage regardless of geographical location.

Review
To avoid the cost and time challenges of delivering review content to review producers via VHS or FTP editors simply save the final cut on FORscene. Reviewers anywhere in the world can access and review the content immediately.

Publishing
On completion of the edit the footage can be exported directly as an EDL. It can also easily be published to the web or delivered to mobile phones.