In addition to all over better performance, there are many higlights in the new release. Some of these are:

Functionality:

Fileuploader
Improved file uploader in the Portal with better GUI, showing the user progress on each file both in uploading and storing/converting.

Grouping objects
Group/ungroup objects in Cartoonist. You may now group several objects in the slide and threat them as one.

Add new layers
”Add new layer+”-button in MovieEditor gives you the possibility to use as many layers that you want. You can add both graphichs- and audio layers.
”Add new layer+”-button in AudioEditor gives you the possibility to use as many audio layers as you want.

More than one video layer?

Earlier, it was possible to add images (jpg, gif, png) and flash files (swf) to a graphics layer. With Creaza 3.1 it will also be possible to add animated gif-files and video-files (both from the thematic univers and from ”My mediafiles”. All the files added to a graphic layer can be scaled and rotated, and you can have more than one on each track.

Add markers
The ”Add marker”-feature is enhanced. You can make as many markers as you like, and you can make them relative or lock them to a videoclip. From the toolbar you can choose to skip from marker to marker.

Content:

Arabian Nights (1001 Nights)
This brand new Cartoonist theme is made in a completly different style. This theme is made with a persian style, and have the backgrounds, characters and props to tell two stories from 1001 nights: “Alladin” and “Ali Baba and the 40 thieves”

New “World City”
We have added a new city to this theme. Berlin is now one of the world cities in Creaza.

Global Village
In “Global village”, we have added more video clips in the ”Transport”-section.

Mindomo

• Added more clipart and it is more structured.
• New templates (skins) for the mindmaps
• Easier access to notes, multimeda, hyperlinks and task information
• “Save as”-functionality, save new instances of your mindmaps (*)

Cartoonist

• Better zoom-functionality, now you can zoom in several times without having to zoom out (*)
• “Save as”-functionality, save new instances of your cartoons (*)

MovieEditor

• Export your movies as mp4-files (*)
• Expand and collapse layers vertically. Default is collapsed. Expand for more functionality (adjust layer volume, mute, solo) (*).
• Collapse layers horizontally for more workspace (*)
• Add a marker to your timeline with descriptional text (*)
• “Save as”-functionality, save new instances of your movies (*)
• Drawing og waveforms on the audiolayers
• Support for SWF- and GIF-animations in gfx-layers
• Editing track title (*)

AudioEditor

• Export your soundclips as m4a-files (*)
• Expand and collapse layers vertically. Default is collapsed. Expand for more functionality (adjust layer volume, mute, solo) (*).
• Collapse layers horizontally for more workspace (*)
• Collapse the media browser for more workspace (*)
• Add a marker to your timeline with descriptional text (*)
• “Save as”-functionality, save new instances of your soundclips (*)
• Drawing og waveforms on the audiolayers
• Editing track title (*)

*Full version only

Creaza has been a lot on the move lately. One of our partners, Fronter, have held their user conferences in several countries. Creaza has participated in the Norwegian, Swedish and Finnish user conferences during the last weeks. We have done presentations and been available for users on our own Creazastand in every event.

The feedback Creaza has gotten regarding the pedagogical and technological possibilities to use the product in the pupils learning process is awesome We are very happy that Creaza gives pupils and students new creative and innovative possibilities to show and present their knowledge and competence.

All over the World:

Creaza is being used all over the world. Users from every continent has registrered at www.creaza.com and started using the demoversion of Creaza. In October norwegian users used Creaza the most. It is very exiting that the country placed right behind Norway in second place regarding usage this month is Brazil! Thats cool Have a look at this website:  www.baixaki.com.br/download/creaza.htm

What`s happening the next weeks?

In week 43 Creaza will be in the UK. We are going to participate in events in Bristol, Kent and London in addition to other meetings with customers and partners.

In week 44 Creaza will be in Stockholm, Sweden, at “Skolforum 2009”  This is the largest educational conference in Scandinavia with over 20 000 visitors..

In week 45 creaza will be in Odense in Denmark at “Uddannelsesforum 2009“. We will have a stand together with Fronter DK, and pupils from Denmark will show how they use Creaza.

It is a lot of travelling, but so joyful to meet users and people from schools and discuss possibilities with Creaza.

Do you only access the demoversion?

Here are some of the benefits with the full version of Creaza:

• Export from all tools:
• Mindomo – PDF
• Cartoonist – High resolution PDF for print
• MovieEditor – MP4
• AudioEditor – M4a

Record sound directly in Creaza in your browser

Import cartoons into MovieEditor

Use effects and transitions in MovieEditor

Additional storage

Content:

The full version of Creaza contains a lot more Thematic Universes than the demoversion. For example there are many Cartoonist Universes made by professional artists and with Norways largest publiser as editor for the Universes.  Some examples are:

The post war period
World War II
The Roman Empire
The Viking Age

Global Village: Food, Water & Climate People & Life Energy Nature Transportation War & Terrorism
World Cities: Movieclips from many cities around the world
Exotic Animals: Movieclips of animals all over the world

Are you interested in the full version of Creaza, please contact us:

post(a)creaza.com

Creaza is now available in several languages; Norwegian, English, Dutch, Finnish, Danish and Swedish. By September 20th Creaza also supports German.

From the tools Mindomo and Cartoonist you can now export your products to high resolution PDF for print. See example of an exported Cartoon here:

MovieEditor has been brusched up and a lot of new functionality is launced. You can now import your Cartoons into MovieEditor and then record your own sound or put in musicclips from the library. This may give your cartoon or movie a whole new communicative side.. In MovieEditor the library of video- and musicclips is rebuild and has a more navigationfriendly appereance..

When you insert music or soundeffects in your movie you now get audio curves on all your clips. This makes it easier to mix sound and get that perfect sound to your movie.

On all tracks you now have the opportunity to trim your clips directly on the timeline. In MovieEditor it is also made possible to use hotkeys on your keybord. Some of these are;

delete/backspace=delete clip

ctrl z=undo

ctrl+alt+e=open effect window

space=play/pause

shift+arrow=keyframe by keyframe

arrow=next clip

enter=back to start of movie

ctrl s=save

i=set in point in clip

o=set outpoint in clip

A new Demovideo of the MovieEditor is also avalable. You can access it from the new Helpcenter in Creaza.. Click on the image below..

Mindomo:

• Export mindmaps in high resolution PDF’s (full version only)

Cartoonist

• Export cartoons in high resolution PDF’s (full version only)

MovieEditor

• Export movies in mp4 (full version only)
• Import cartoons (full version only)
• Adjust duration of clips directly on the timeline/trim the clips
• Frame-by-frame edit possibilities (full version only)
• GUI improvements
• Audio curves on sound clips

NEW! AudioEditor (full version only)

• Eight audio tracks (full version only)
• Library with soundclips (full version only)
• Audio curves (full version only)
• Enhanced search (full version only)
• Export audio in mp3 (full version only)

Click here for productsheet (integration with Fronter)

The next release will support Danish, Finnish and Dutch in addition to Norwegian and English

We are also building Creaza’s brand new helpcenter. It will be available with the new release.

Termination of demo user access trough Fronter

For the last year, it has been possible to use the demo version of Creaza with a single-sign-on solution trough Fronter (VLE/MLE). This is no longer possible. From monday 17th of August you have to have purchased Creaza for your school to benefit from the great integration between Fronter and Creaza. If you have been using the demo version, your work will still be available trough Fronter, but it will not be possible to create new products. For the schools and LA’s that have purchased Creaza, everything will still be available only with more functionality.

For questions regarding this, please contact support(at)creaza.com