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A feelgood movie

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

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

Example of an exported movie

This video example has been created with Creaza MovieEditor and has been exported to mp4:

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

Creaza 3.0 released this weekend

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

• 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 shortlisted at BETT Awards 2010

BETT – the world’s largest educational technology event arranges BETT Awards every year. The Awards have a long and thorough evaluation of all products both technical, pedagogical and academic. This evaluation is done by 80+ judges on all products. The shortlist (finalist) was released on November 12th.

Creaza is so proud and excited to be a finalist in the large category 8:  Tools for Learning and Teaching.

This nomination means a lot for Creaza and it confirms that professional people within technology and education finds Creaza to be a very good product for learning and teaching.

Still this does not stop the development of the product.

Creaza wants to make a difference in education to make learners achieve more, using the best web-based technology there is!

The shortlist was announced on November 12th. The evaluation was done on Creaza version 2.0. Today Creaza version 3.0 is released with a lot of new possibilities and functionality. A new post will be written on the blog with highlights of what is new and what is possible.

The winners in each category will be announced at the BETT Awards on January 13th during BETT.

Hope to see you all at BETT!

Creaza on the road

3th and 4th of November 2009 Creaza participated at Uddannelsesforum in Odense, Denmark. Creaza was represented together with our partner Fronter Denmark. It was an exiting conference with quite a lot of people, both young and old, both pupils, teachers, ICT-coordinators, Headmasters and others.

At the event pupils from Denmark, using Creaza, presented how the work with the tool both for other pupils and for adults 😉

It was really exiting to see how clever usage of Creaza they presented and it also gave us Creaza people some good ideas… There were pupils attending the conference both days and the well known “CreazaButtons” disappeared fast..

Some pictures:

The post war period and “the wall”

With the thematic universe “The post war period” (only available in full version) students can work with many different subjects from the 50`s, 60`s, 70`s and 80`s in the worlds history. November 9th 1989 is one very important date regarding this. The wall and the borders splitting Berlin in two were opened.

This is what wikipedia says: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_wall

This is an example of a cartoon made with Cartoonist in Creaza using “The post war period” thematic Universe.

Creaza – on the move – used all over the world!

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:

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

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In MovieEditor the fullversion of Creaza contains 3 more Thematic Universes with many movieclips and both in MovieEditor and AudioEditor you will find a lot of Music and Sound Effects..

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

New release – AudioEditor – MovieEditor

Friday September 11th AudioEditor was released – Splice together your own version of a newscast, a radio commercial, or a radio interlude. Make your own sounds, clip, trim and cut in one or more tracks and  play it back later..

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..