However, I don’t think anything could have prepared me for NAB 2010 in Las Vegas and the events surrounding it.

Although I have attended NAB for many years, I have always been the person asking the questions of the person in the booth. I was never the person in the booth. This year FORscene had a booth in the show, a pod featuring FORscene at the Chyron booth and another demo location set up at the BIM booth, all staffed by the creators of FORscene – our good colleagues from UK – based Forbidden Technologies plc; the two gentlemen on the ground in Los Angeles, California and our small contingent from here in Canada.

This was the first time I had met any of the people from the UK office and the first time both Lucy (La Grassa) and I met the California-based gentlemen. We all got along splendidly I am happy to say, which is good, because it was like a Monty Python adventure gone awry.

We had a small booth. How big a booth do you need to demo the world’s leading web-based video editing and management tool? All you need is a laptop, and an internet connection… maybe a big monitor so more than one person can watch at a time, right? We needed a bigger a booth! We were packed most of the time, usually with more than one demo and/or meeting going on at once. The second day we brought in more laptops. Word of mouth was spreading: if you want to “edit anywhere, anytime…now,” you had to see FORscene. I’m not complaining; it was wonderful!

Yes, it was wonderful being surrounded by all these heavily-accented fine gentlemen. Oddly, there were no two English accents alike. They were smart, they were funny, and they were very understanding. Day two of the show looked to be busier than day one. My first appointment of the day was at 9:30 am. There I sat with my laptop, proudly showing off what a powerful tool FORscene is when it hit. Hard, fast and violent. FOOD POISONING! Did I mention how understanding my colleagues were? By the time I left the show around 2:00 pm (never to return to NAB 2010) they had all pitched in, talking to people and covering appointments for me. Not one of them made me feel guilty for abandoning them so completely. When next I got to see them it was my last night in Vegas. They all came to our hotel for a farewell meal (did I mention how brave they were?) They had many tales from the remainder of the show to share with me and I appreciated every one of them. Most of all I appreciated my new FORscene family.

You probably have all heard about the nasty volcano in Iceland…and the nasty volcanic ash that grounded more than a few planes. Well, my little Monty Python troupe has yet to make it home. They were stranded for several days in Las Vegas. They are currently holed up in California. We don’t really know when they will make it home to the UK. That is up to Mother Nature and her motley crew. The Brits continue to work hard from their rooms with massive amounts of follow-up calls and emails and thanks to SKYPE I can talk to them when I need them.

Here’s the thing. All we need is a laptop and an internet connection and each other.

How was your NAB experience?

How My NAB 2010 Began

Forbidden partners with Brightcove

10th Feb, 2010

Forbidden Technologies today announced that it has partnered with Brightcove, the leading online video platform. The partnership will enable Forbidden Technologies to integrate FORscene, the Company’s Cloud-based video editing platform, into the Brightcove platform, enabling organizations to tap into the full suite of video publishing and distribution capabilities from Brightcove and video editing features from Forbidden.

FORscene enables video, audio and still images to be uploaded into the Cloud from either a PC or Mac and includes frame-accurate logging and editing tools. The simple to learn, yet powerful, platform gives users the benefits of Cloud computing. Searchable metadata enables targeted advertising – published content is directed automatically as H.264 to the Brightcove platform for multi-resolution compression and hosting in the user’s channel.

Metadata added in FORscene can be published with the video. This material can be used to direct targeted advertising throughout the video. By increasing the accuracy of targeted advertising, this provides added value to video content.

Cameron Church, Technical Channel Director of EMEA, Brightcove said:

“We are always looking to bolster our Brightcove Alliance partner program with value-added technology and services that complement the Brightcove platform. FORscene will give our users the tools to create engaging video content that can be easily distributed through the Cloud”.

Pete Burns, Project Manager at Forbidden Technologies said:

“The world of Cloud computing is rapidly growing with the Cloud now providing centralised productivity tools. We are pleased to partner with Brightcove, as the unique combination of FORscene and Brightcove will help to bring online video monetization to a new level”.

For more information visit:

www.forbidden.co.uk/solutions/brightcove/
www.brightcove.com/en/partners/forbidden-technologies