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www.inbroadcast.com | Vol: 5 - Issue 12 | December 2015

InStudio

Forscene Enhances Editing
& Collaborative Capabilities

A

new iteration of Forbidden's
professional
video
editing
software, Forscene, was recently made
available to all clients of the postproduction platform.
The
functionality
introduced
in this release enables new Avid
workflows and increases efficiencies
on multitrack productions. Many of
the new features were requested by
long-time Forscene client Princess
Productions, who was integrally
involved in the development and

testing process.
"We've been using Forscene for
the past five years to save time and
money in edit - particularly on factual
entertainment series and high-shootratio productions," said Paul Jones,
Head of Post-Production for Princess
Productions, part of the Endemol Shine
Group.
"The new features are currently
being put to the test on series 3 of
Channel 4's The Island with Bear
Grylls in a workflow that sees complex

Forscene can autoconform sequences against imported AAFs

multivideo and audio track sequences
move from Avid to Forscene and back
again, which would not have been
possible before this release.
"Working with the Forscene product
development team has delivered
a solution that allows our teams in
Panama and London to collaborate on
edits the day after the footage is shot."
The ability to import Avid AAF files
- and autoconform timelines based
on this data - is one of the release's
much-anticipated features. Long-form
broadcast clients often log and create
rough cuts in Forscene and then move
to Avid to complete their edits. This
new feature means that clients can
now move seamlessly between Avid
and Forscene at any point during the
offline edit.
In one scenario, clients can use
the feature to make Avid sequences
available for review by parties in
different locations. Rather than
exporting a QuickTime clip from Avid
and then importing it into Forscene,

clients can now make the actual
Avid timeline available in Forscene.
In another example, the feature
allows production and post teams to
collaborate on cuts. Once an editor
has refined a sequence created in
Forscene, he or she can recreate
the Avid timeline in Forscene for the
production team to continue working
on it.
Other noteworthy additions to
Forscene features include:
*	 Support for up to 12 active video
tracks and 24 audio tracks on the
timeline;
*	 The unique ability to concurrently
see all video tracks in a sequence
during playback - and to easily toggle
between this multidisplay grid view
and the usual top-down view of video
layers;
*	 The option to publish audio-only
clips in a variety of formats;
*	 Faster publishing for video content
with added graphics and overlays.
Jason Cowan, Business Development
Director at Forbidden, said that
the new features were designed to
"make it easier than ever for any
production or post team to log and edit
collaboratively from anywhere in the
world".
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