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Embed your product in a blog

Thursday, June 24th, 2010

With Creaza you can embed your products in a blog or a website.

You will find the embed source in the top right corner.

Here is an example..

Exported HD video from Creaza MovieEditor, preview

Sunday, June 13th, 2010

Adobe released Flash Player 10.1 June 10th. Just after that, Creaza launched an open test bench for the new Flash Player. We launched a preview of the next version of Creaza MovieEditor.

You can try Creaza MovieEditor at http://www.creaza.com/movieeditor. This version lets you edit your HD video online and export the movie in mp4 HD format.

Here is the video exported from the preview of Creaza MovieEditor, export in HD – 720p (1280×720):

Creaza MovieEditor – cutting edge, multi track online video editing – Try it now

Friday, June 11th, 2010

Today Adobe launched  Adobe Flash Player 10.1.

Flash 10.1 provides opportunities for Creaza to develop a full-featured timeline-based video editor, similar to traditional desktop-based video editing tools.

And you can try it out today!

The MovieEditor is still in BETA, but will be released for all customers in August 2010, with 720p export!

We have made a demo movie so that you can see all the advanced functionality of the MovieEditor in action!

Click to try

“The new MovieEditor harnesses the power of Flash 10.1″

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

Creaza has visited a lot of existing users and met new users in different countries throughout the spring.  At the same time, our developers have been working very hard so that Creaza can offer you even more technological possibilities, all over better performance, and exciting new content.

Creaza will soon launch a preview of the new MovieEditor!

There is a lot of debate regarding the use of Adobe Flash. We’ve decided to launch a preview of MovieEditor as an open test bench for the new Flash Player 10.1. You will have the opportunity to evaluate for yourself what can and can’t be done using Flash! Steve Jobs has labelled Flash as old technology. Apple claims that Flash is an obsolete CPU hog, and that developers should consider reaching out to the open Web standards of the new HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript instead. Adobe says Apple’s technology complaints are a smokescreen. Adobe has taken measures to increase performance, and Flash will continue to innovate and expand the limits for what is possible on the web.

While Flash as a video player for the web may or may not be threatened by HTML 5, the launch of Flash Player 10.1 provides an opportunity to move the front to the next level. When the new Flash Player is released we will show you that video editing in the cloud has no limits.

Let us be clear: Flash Player 10.1 rocks! We will post an update when the Flash Player 10.1 is released. The new MovieEditor is scheduled for August 2010. You will be informed about the site for the Technology Preview on our Blog.

MovieEditor 3.2


More about online video editing – creaza.com/movieeditor

Exciting times on the web if you want to be creative!

New functionality, content and possibilities released with Creaza 3.1

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

After a long time of developing, Creaza 3.1 was released friday March 19th in the evening.

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.

Creaza is developing and growing ;-)

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

It has been a busy time since BETT 2010 for Creaza. We have been developing a lot and travelling a lot.

Aladdin vs Ali Baba

Creaza has been visable in Helsinki, Trondheim, Lørenskog,  London and Lillestrøm doing meetings, conferences and presentations for different people within the educational systems in the different countries. All people and places very successful, interesting and providing Creaza a lot of feedback from existing users and potential users.

Creaza is translated into 6 languages in addition to Norwegian of course. Try English, Swedish, Finnish, Danish, Dutch, and German. Creaza is being used in all those languages and all over the world. There are people using Creaza in Quatar, Jordan, South Corea, Russia, Spain and way up north in Norway in the city called Hammerfest.

Together with Fronter Norway and the City of Oslo we are doing an exciting small project with 8 schools using Creaza towards the goals in the Norwegian curriculum. Students from the age of 7 to 17 is participating along with their teachers. The project is running until summer 2010. On monday we have a kick-off with the teachers running each schools project.

March 16th to 18th  Creaza will be in Cologne in Germany together with Fronter Germany on the “didacta“, a large K12 conference.  We will do presentations every day on the stand and also have a seminar. Visit us at Halle 10 Stand C001.

18th and 19th of March Creaza will also participate at the Danish Fronter user conference in Fredericia doing several presentations on “possibilities” and “how to use Creaza”

BUT:

Creaza was shortlisted for the BETT Awards 2010. We didn`t win in our category, BBC did. Congrats..  Still we have gotten the feedback from the judges. Very good. We are happy about the feedback and our developement had started in the same directions long before the feedback. The judges said:

The product offers clear instruction and guidance and four well-contrasted tools.

  • The open-ended software enables choice and creativity across the curriculum and is accessible for all learners (One of our goals with Creaza)
  • The mind mapping, in particular, is simple and clear to use (Oh yeah!)
Your entry was chosen as a finalist for the following reasons:
  • The wide variety of tools and the ability to link seamlessly with the MLE is an excellent feature that will have to become standard on this type of product. (Agree)
The judges were asked how your entry could be improved. Here are their comments:
  • The cartoonist would be enhanced if it included the option to add sound. (Possible today)
  • Links between the different aspects of the software would be welcome. For instance, it could be linked into the option to produce one document incorporating all four tools ( ;-) )

Would you be surprised if the last comment of improvement would be realised? We would not. We are thinking and planning for a 5th tool. Combining the 4 other tools and a lot of more possibilities. More to come on that ;-)

IF we make it. Creaza 3.1 will be released by the end of week 11. How many layers of video and audio do you want? Arabian nights to be released. Berlin movieclips in the World Cities thematic Universe. A lot of new content and functionality will be released. Of course we will inform you all about this on the Blog!

Embed your Creaza product in a blog..

Friday, January 8th, 2010

2010 is here and the BETT conference is approaching fast. Creaza will participate at BETT in Olympia, London from January 13th to 16th. We are also very proud of being shortlisted at the BETT Awards.

Creaza has now released new functionality. It is possible for users to use their products “embed source” and insert it into websites and blogs.

Below we have inserted a cartoon made online with Creaza.

Check out this movie..

A feelgood movie

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

Creaza just made a small fellgood movie using a random computer with a browser with a flashplugin in Berlin and with access to Creaza…

Import cartoons in MovieEditor

Monday, November 30th, 2009

In Creaza it is possible to import a cartoon from Cartoonist to MovieEditor. In that way it is possible to add sound to your comic strip. Here is an example of a (sort of) animated movie made in Creaza:

The Three Billy Goats Gruff

Creaza 3.0 released this weekend

Monday, November 16th, 2009

This weekend we released Creaza 3.0. The highlights from this release are some important features and improved GUI. Below you can see listed the new features and improvements.

Mindomo

Mindomo (Creaza 3.0)

  • 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

Cartoonist (Creaza 3.0)

  • 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

MovieEditor (Creaza 3.0)

  • 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

AudioEditor (Creaza 3.0)

  • 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