A week filled with presentations, networking, branding and meeting customers  really confirmed to us that Creaza is being used a lot. We met hundreds of users and a lot of people within the education sector who all showed an interest in Creaza. A common theme is that our product always gives us the possibility to make people smile

Check highlights from BETT here: http://www.bettshow.com/bett11/website/Home.aspx?refer=1

For BETT 2012 we will move on to an even larger stand to meet the growing interest. More to come on this..

Creaza participated at NOT together with Fronter in Utrecht in the Netherlands in the end of January. It was an extraordinary stand with Creaza buttons all over and we met both existing and potential customers. NOT is the largest educational event in the Netherlands.

In the City of Oslo all students and teachers have access to Creaza, and they use it!
Nearly 30 000 people have used Creaza in Oslo since august 2010.

500 teachers from Oslo participated at the conference “Den digitale Osloskolen” Wednesday this week. We received a lot of positive feedback on how their students may use Creaza’s creative tools to create and produce and thereby show their skills and competence.

This week usage of Creaza was at an All Time High both when counting different users and unique products being produced. We like it!

This weekend Creaza will participate at the international CREATE – SHARE – LISTEN conference in Lillehammer, Norway. We are looking forward to meeting Digital Storytellers from all over the world.  You can find the conference website here: http://lillehammer2011.wordpress.com/

New content:

A spring release with new content is coming up for all our Premium users. A brand new theme called “You & Me” will be released in February. We will be back with more on the possibilities this theme provides when release is a fact!

In our MovieEditor theme “Geographical Places” 20+ new movie clips from Marrakech will be released. How is daily life in Marrakech? All Premium users will get access medio February.

AND! A lot of new music tracks is on its way. All using Creaza Premium will get about 400 new Music tracks they may edit, mix, slice and use together with all of the movie clips.

The large German event “Didacta” is being held in Stuttgart Germany from February 22nd to February 26th. Creaza will be there. We will be at Halle 1, Gang L, Stand 51 together with our partner Fronter.

For more information and more products made in Creaza please follow us here:

www.creaza.com/facebook

www.creaza.com/youtube

Thanks!

The tools have been greatly improved in several ways. We now believe Creaza provides the most powerful online video-editor on the web, with Creaza MovieEditor.

Additional content and new themes have been released. Usage has grown a lot and Creaza is being used across the world. We are very happy with the result and hope users enjoy the creative possibilities Creaza provides.

As the end of 2010 is approaching we are happy to announce that Creaza now has an agreement with the City of Stockholm ensuring that all secondary students (and their teachers) in Stockholm City will have access to Creaza Premium from January 2011. The same goes for all students in the City of Oslo, both primary and secondary. Together these two customers represent almost 100 000 students.

We are happy that Creaza has been accepted as qualified software within the IT-Catalogue of the IT supplier “Zentrum für Informationstechnologie im Bildungsbereich der Landeshauptstadt München”. Creaza is now an official supplier of digital tools and content in the City of Munich!

Creaza now has agreements with many of the cities in the Gothenburg-Region collaboration. Learners and teachers in the City of Stenungsund now have access to Creaza Premium.

A lot has happened in the creative Creaza World in 2010. Even more will happen in 2011. We are looking forward to it

We hope to see many of our users and followers in 2011. We will be at BETT in London January 13th – 16th. Visit Creaza at stand V53 to see powerful, creative online tools in education. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter to keep up to date on what’s happening..

www.twitter.com/creazatweet
www.facebook.com/creaza

Creaza wishes to give a big Thank You to partners, users, customers and friends for an amazing year!

We wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays.

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!

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.

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 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..

The Three Billy Goats Gruff

For more videos, check out our channel at YouTube: youtube.com/CreazaTube

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