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2012 – New Possibilities

Wednesday, February 1st, 2012

A new year is here, and Creaza has been off to a hectic start, with the BETT 2012 show as the main focus. BETT 2012 has been completed with great success, and we met lots of old and new Creaza users. Their feedback tells us that people are very happy with Creaza and the creative and subject related possibilities it gives the students.

At BETT we were visited by a group of students from Oaks Park High School in Redbridge in London. They started using Creaza in December 2011, and have already managed to apply use of Creaza to a wide range of areas. For instance the school has conducted an E-safety project where netiquette, source evaluation and privacy were all of great importance. Below you can see two examples of what they have done.

 


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There are also quite a few things happening when it comes to development at Creaza. We are currently working on launching a Cartoonist app, which will be available first in the App Store for iPAD, and then the Android Market for tablets with Android OS. In addition to this we are working on upgrading both the tools and the portal. Further information will be posted on our blog in the near future. Still, the possibility of collaboration with others in the different tools is at the top of our list.

Creaza will also be present at several conferences this spring. NKUL in Trondheim, SETT in Stockholm and Fronter’s Danish user conference are but a few of the many conferences we will be attending.

Even though Creaza, by and large, is considered easy to use, many wish to have a custom fitted training in order to get a better overview of the possibilities of the toolbox. Creaza is therefore often on the road and giving training. If your school or county wishes to have a training, please contact us at:

E-mail: post@creaza.com

Phone: +47 47 77 88 00

We are working on showcasing the good examples from school at Creaza’s channels. If students have created good products that one wishes to highlight at Creaza’s blog, Facebook or YouTube channel, please send us an e-mail at post@creaza.com.

Go be creative!

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Creaza launches new service

Monday, April 11th, 2011

www.creaza.com

Today Creaza will unveil its new cloud based, online video platform at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show at the Las Vegas Convention Center. CEO of Creaza Inc., Jostein Svendsen, will deliver a keynote speech headlined CLOUD VISION vs. Technical Reality at the show’s April 11 “Content in the Cloud” session.

Creaza’s “social video” service is truly unique, enabling users to shoot, edit, share and store their self-generated videos.  Creaza’s cloud-based video editing tool makes it simple for users to edit their video into a produced package, with a wide range of professional editing techniques.  Even beginners can shoot raw footage from a mobile phone, quickly produce a broadcast-quality video and share it with their friends on their favorite social networks.

“Creaza’s ‘social video’ service caters to B2C & B2B, enabling multisite contributions and collaborations for families and friends, hobbyists, corporations, and educational institutes,” commented Jostein Svendsen, CEO, Creaza Inc.

”Our solution will change the professional videography landscape, enabling collaborative productions for global documentaries, newscasts and even wedding videos.

”Shoot and capture media with your mobile phone or any camera device, syncing it to your private media library in the cloud.

Shape and edit your media clips with professional-looking titles, transitions, effects, animation, music and narration.

Share and collaborate in an online workspace and publish your movies to social networks and video scrapbooks.

You will find more information about the new service at www.creaza.com from 16.00 Norwegian time April 11th 2011.

(Source http://press-releases.techwhack.com/133057-creaza-2)

www.creazaeducation.com

Creaza already provide an innovative, powerful and integrated web-based toolbox for creative work and educational purpose. Schools, students and teachers can use the 4 powerful online tools, Mindomo, Cartoonist, AudioEditor and MovieEditor in 9 different languages.

Creaza Education combines powerful tools and curriculum oriented content and let the students integrate professional and user-generated content, creative tools and a social network in a new and innovative way.

www.creazaeducation.com


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Creaza

Tuesday, March 29th, 2011

Creaza Education, consisting of the four appraised tools; Mindomo, Cartoonist, MovieEditor & AudioEditor will on April 11th get a sibling –

Creaza Video in the cloud.

This is a new online video-editing platform that enables personal and user generated TV of the future. The new service is not targeted to the educational sector, but rather to consumers and business alike.

From April 11th Creaza Education will be found on www.creazaeducation.com and Creaza Video in the cloud will be found on www.creaza.com.

The strong collaboration between the two Creaza companies makes us confident that Creaza Education will continue to innovate, grow and offer the most stunning creative educational service on the web!

See press release

Creaza listed on the top 100 private companies by AlwaysOn

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Kleopatra – movie made by two students in Oslo

Wednesday, March 9th, 2011

A primary school in Oslo using Creaza did a project where the students were using both Cartoonist and MovieEditor in Creaza. This is a movie made by Synne & Andrea, both 12 years old. What a story ;-) Great work !

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Brand new content launched in Creaza Premium

Friday, February 11th, 2011

Today we launched a lot of brand new content in Creaza for our Premium users.

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Creaza has made an agreement with Karl Malbert, a swedish musician, and there are now almost 400 new sounds available in Creaza. We are extremely happy with this and hope all customers enjoy the new possibilities with all the new music and sounds. They are sorted under new categories such as historical, geographical, jingles, action, serious, romantic, party, fun and many more.

Today we launched a new place in the MovieEditor theme “Geographical places”. 35 various movie clips from Marrakech (the “red city”) in Morocco. Marrakech comprises both an old fortified city (the médina) and an adjacent modern city (called Gueliz) for a total population of 1,070,000.

A brand new theme is launched in Cartoonist; “You & Me”. This is a theme where students can work on their social skills and compentence, e-safety, understanding of others feelings, explaining difficult situations, share their thoughts on everyday life and so on. A brand new theme with brand new design and content.

Good luck with creating new movies, digital stories, cartoons, comic strips and much more!

Interested in Creaza Premium?

Send a request to sales@creaza.com with size of school, city, county or LA.

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Make a slideshow in MovieEditor

Tuesday, September 21st, 2010

It is now easy for users to create their own slideshows with Creaza MovieEditor. You can create a story using Cartoonist, import it into MovieEditor and export it directly to Youtube. You can also make slideshows using your own uploaded pictures and export it the same way. You can add various content, transitions, text, music and sounds…

Here is an example…

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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.

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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..

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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

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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
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