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Creaza – What’s up?

Tuesday, December 14th, 2010

Due to a hectic period we have not posted anything on the blog this last month! Sorry!

A lot has been happening and Creaza has travelled a lot to meet, present and train learners, teachers, headmasters and many more. We have visited users and potential users in cities across Europe. It has been a thrill with extraordiarily positive feedback on the product and its potential in the learner`s digital environment.

During the autumn we have also released a lot of new stuff, some examples are:

  • Content from Oslo
  • Content from Venice
  • Content from Florence
  • Highlights from Norway
  • More content from Rome
  • Various movieclips from Palermo and Sicily
  • Creaza is available in French – www.creaza.fr
  • Creaza is available in Spanish – www.creaza.es

We are working in order to add even more content early this January, and the things we are working on is a completely new Cartoonist theme, and a lot more music and sound. The Cartoonist theme is not yet named, but consists of elements which are possible to use in work with social skills, e-safety, puberty, girls and boys, issues with bullying, you and me and much more…

Users make incredible stuff using Creaza’s tools and content. Some also primarily use their own stuff and only the tools.

Watch this nice video produced by a swedish user with the theme “Water”. He has used different content and functionality in Creaza and combined that with his own sound, music and voice-over.



The same user produced this slideshow from his cartoon on “Ancient Greece”:


We are approaching 2011 and a new year always starts with the BETT Show. Creaza will be there, of course, with our own booth at V53. We will also do a presentation at the Pearson booth at BETT. Visit Pearson on the ground floor, at B40 and C40 on January 12th at 16.00 to 16.45 for a Creaza presentation. More on BETT to come on our Blog.

We hope that you follow Creaza on Facebook as well: www.creaza.com/facebook.

Post your products for others to be inspired ;-)

Enjoy December ;-)

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Some higligths from Norway

Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010

More content from Norway is released in Creaza..

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Creaza listed as a featured project in flex.org`s showcase!

Thursday, October 14th, 2010

Today creaza was added to the featured projects on the showcase list that adobe presents on their website http://flex.org. Flex is a developer toolkit for building exceptional rich Internet applications on the Flash platform.

Creaza has been using the Flex framework and Flash platform for several years in order to provide a superb user experience.

We are proud of being recognized as one of the innovators on the rich web and it inspires us to push the boundaries of online creative work even further.

Have a look at the showcase here:

Creaza in the showcase af flex.org

Expect to see more creative tools for teaching and learning at Creaza.

The 5’th tool will be revealed in 2011!


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Norwegian and Swedish user conferences

Monday, October 11th, 2010

The last couple of weeks Creaza met a lot of Creaza users from Norway and Sweden. Fronter AS held their yearly user conferences in the two countries. For us at Creaza it was extremely nice to meet users and get their feedback. Users are happy with the product and the possibilities, but they also gave us feedback on what they would like as new content and functionality in the next release of Creaza.

At both conferences we made presentations on the possibilities with Creaza and showed what is new in the 3.2 release. Even more interesting, teachers from both Norway and Sweden showed how they let their students use Creaza in their learning process and in their creative project work. We are very pleased that there are so many professional and good teachers using Creaza with their students in such a good way.

Historical moments

In the latest release (Creaza 3.2) there is a lot of new and improved functionality, especially in MovieEditor. We have made this video to show you some of the new possibilities.

Go be creative !

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How many videos would you like to insert?

Tuesday, September 21st, 2010

With the latest release you can still add as many PiP’s (picture-in-picture) as you like. What is new in this version is the smooth way of handling PiP. Align your videos with the help of the grid once you have dragged the clips down on the timeline. In the preview window you can now add a grid. Choose among different different grids to find one to suit your project. The grid helps you place the videos (or other graphic objects) where you want. With the “snap-to-grid” feature it is even easier to align the videos.

In the movie below, there are 16 videos playing together on top of the “main” video.

Enjoy!

Oh! By the way… This video is exported directly from Creaza to YouTube with the new “Export to YouTube” feature.

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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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Creaza 3.2 released!

Thursday, September 16th, 2010

Dear Creaza Community,
In this newsletter, we are pleased to announce the Creaza 3.2 release. Below we have listed the highlights of “what’s new” in this version.

Server upgrade
We have upgraded our server farm, including media handling and transcoding. With the upgrade we have seriously improved the performance when:

  • uploading and transcoding
  • saving products
  • exporting movies

New functionality in all tools
There are a few new features in all the tools. You can now:

  • upload media directly from any tool
  • open existing products from the tools menu

MovieEditor
We have worked hard to improve the user experience and design to make the MovieEditor even more user friendly and intuitive. The result is an advanced MovieEditor packed with features, yet still easy to use.
Some of the new features:

  • Unlimited PiP (Picture-in-Picture)
  • Amazing transitions
  • Video-loops for background
  • Capture video directly from your webcam
  • Use grid in preview window and snap-to-grid to make video walls
  • Flip (horizontally and vertically) Picture-in-Picture clips
  • New Edit button where you can swap video-loops and change effects for videos
  • Slideshow creator to simplify creation of dazzling slideshows of your pictures (with transitions)
  • Enhanced import of Cartoons
  • Export in HD
  • Export directly to YouTube

Try out the new version now, and let us know what you think! Stay tuned for further announcements.

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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..

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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):

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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

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