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IUT de VELIZY chooses trakAxPC

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

We are proud to announce that the Department of Communication Networks (SRC) (Le département Services et Réseaux de Communication) of the IUT de VELIZY, a public university located just outside Paris, has chosen trakAxPC as their preferred media creation software for their upcoming communications and media course this academic year.

This follows on from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) choosing trakAxPC as their preferred media editor (click here to read why the BA Media Programme Director, Antoni Roig Telo decided to use trakAxPC in this course).

If your educational institution is interested in using trakAxPC, this academic year, please see our “trakAxPC for Education” area to learn more and receive a tailored quote for volume purchases.

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Universitat Oberta de Catalunya uses trakAxPC

Thursday, August 12, 2010

We are completely delighted to announce that the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) have chosen trakAxPC as their preferred media editor for the upcoming academic year. I asked the BA Media Programme Director, Antoni Roig Telo, why he chose trakAxPC as their software of choice:

“As a media programme director in an online University, I’m constantly looking for video tools that might be useful for our students in our virtual courses. For me, an ideal tool should meet at least the following principles: be affordable (we need a license for every single student and main information centres), with a slight learning curve, be easily accessible, be supported, be self-contained (demos or commercial-oriented limited products are not useful for us), be powerful and aimed to professional practice. Up to now, video editing software has been elusive; there are certainly free good tools around, and even some of them online (which is great for beginners and short projects), but none has filled our needs as Trakax, which provides the experience of working in a professional video editing environment in a matter of minutes. We asked our video editing professor, who is used to work in Final Cut and didn’t know about TrakAx to make some tests and arrange a little workshop: he was pleasantly surprised and agreed immediately that this was what we were looking for. A definitive great find for us.”
Antoni Roig Telo
Estudis de Ciències de la Informació i de la Comunicació
[Director del programa de Comunicació Audiovisual]
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

What is interesting about trakAxPC, is that educators of all levels have embraced it - from primary schools (10 - 12 year olds) right through to third level, as seen above with UOC. If you are an educator, you may be interested in our special education pricing on volume purchases of trakAxPC. We have also just announced our new dedicated Teachers’ Resource Area - http://www.trakax.com/software/trakaxpcEducation/.  Sample lessons have all the resources educators will need to map out stimulating classes for a wide range of subjects. Lessons are composed of sample projects and activities that aim to improve IT skills, encourage team-work, assist goal-setting and planning, help organisational skills as well as highlighting students’ natural talents (eg. writing, researching, directing, performing, editing etc.). If you would like further information on purchasing trakAxPC for your education, please see our Education page or contact me directly -

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NEW - Dedicated Teachers’ Resource Area for trakAxPC in the Classroom

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

We realise that teachers at all levels are continually trying to find new and imaginative ways to foster students’ creativity, awaken their interest in subjects and teach basic real-world skills, whilst always keeping an eye on the budget.

The team at trakAx.com are excited to announce our new dedicated Teachers’ Resource Area.  We hope these resources will make teachers’ lives easier, especially teachers who are new to multimedia but are curious as to how they could incorporate it into their curriculum. Our sample lessons have all the resources you’ll need to map out stimulating classes for a wide range of subjects. Lessons are composed of sample projects and activities that aim to improve IT skills, encourage team-work, assist goal-setting and planning, help organisational skills as well as highlighting students’ natural talents (eg. writing, researching, directing, performing, editing etc.). 

Including detailed instructions and a wide range of supporting documentation, sample lessons include “Podcasting”, “Making a Newscast”, “Creating a Public Service Announcement”, “Making a Mini Documentary” to name a few. Each lesson can be easily tailored to fit into the curriculum of subjects such as languages, history, geography, the sciences, music, civic studies, social studies, religious studies and more.

A single copy of trakAxPC costs just $24.95 and we offer generous discounts for volume purchases for educational institutions - please see here for more information. Built for Windows XP ®, Vista ® and Windows 7 ®, the goal of traxAxPC Pro is to empower users of all skill levels to create near-professional multimedia content with little or no previous experience. Building on the popularity of our free to use trakAxPC application, trakAxPC Pro introduces a huge range of new features and functionality, including one-click upload to YouTube (with support for YouTube HD), instant file conversion, Video Credits and Text, automatic crossfading for quick mixes, collaging (Picture-in-Picture), and support for all popular file formats (MPEG-4 / H.264, AAC, MP3 etc.).

For more information or for a tailored quote, please contact Catriona Barry.

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Transparent Image Support Coming Soon

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Another update on the development roadmap - support for transparent images (PNGs and Gifs) will be available in the upcoming release.

A few of our users who are tennis and golf instructors wanted to added circles / arrows etc. to highlight certain postures and moves when analysing their students’ performance. The short video below will show how quick and easy this will be with the new release.

If you purchase trakAxPC today, you will be eligible for this upgrade free of charge and remember trakAxPC Pro is only US$24.95!

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trakAxPC Wiki Launched

Friday, June 04, 2010

We have been working away on a Wiki for trakAxPC for the last few weeks and think it is now ready to be launched into the world.

We had a few reasons for creating a Wiki. The first one was to make it easier to search for answers to your queries, for example “How to insert envelope nodes?”. We also realised that although people loved the video tutorials, sometimes you don’t have time to watch a 7 minute video tutorial. Now all videos have detailed markers allowing you to jump to particular points in the video from the Wiki - so for example you want to know how to Split a Segment, when you Watch the Video you are brought directly to the section of the video that shows you how to do this.

Although it isn’t a perfect solution, we wanted some way of non-English speakers of accessing some support in their own language. Using the Google translation service, at least users can get a basic overview of the features and functionality in their own language.

The Wiki will continue to grow as we add further information and articles. If you have any suggestions or would like to contribute to the Wiki, please do not hesitate to contact me - .

I look forward to hearing your feedback!

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trakAxPC Video Tutorials - en Francais!

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Jean-Claude Arzur has created the most fantastic trakAxPC Video tutorials for French speakers - vraiment super! The effort that Jean-Claude has put into these videos is really stunning and these will be a fantastic resource for any French speakers who are new to trakAxPC.

To watch the videos, please visit Jean-Claude’s website at: http://www.1colibri.1cd2.com/trakaxpc/index.php

He covers the following topics (in great detail):

• L’interface de la version Pro
• Les fenêtres et la barre d’outils de TrakAxPC
• Créer un mixage audio
• Créer un montage d’images et /ou de vidéos
• Exporter votre mixage audio ou votre montage vidéo

We really can’t thank Jean-Claude enough for the time and effort he has put into creating these videos - it is much appreciated. We are completely blown away by both the quality of these videos and the effortless way that Jean-Claude explains the features and functionality of trakAxPC.

Again, the link to the French video tutorials: http://www.1colibri.1cd2.com/trakaxpc/index.php
Click on “Débuter” to start the videos.

Merci Jean-Claude!

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3 months since trakAxPC Launched!

Monday, March 15, 2010

I realised yesterday was our 3 month anniversary since launching trakAxPC. I thought I should give a quick update on where we are at. Well, firstly it has been great three months since launching. We’ve been completely delighted with the amount of people who have bought the application and more than that, how diverse the audience has been. Below I have attached a screenshot showing all the countries that people have bought from, which is pretty cool:

Secondly I would like to thank everyone who has written to us personally about the application. It is really so great to receive in messages on how you are using the application, what you like and what you would like to see. Below are a selection of snippets from mails we have recently received:

“I really appreciate your continued support, I hope your business prospers as you definitely have the customers interests at heart.”
Marcus, West Midlands, UK

“Thanks - I just downloaded it yesterday and without being able to view the tutorials online (was on the train, no internet connection) I managed to put together a simple video.  Watching a couple tutorials today, I was really blown away and knew it was easily worth the asking price!  I look forward to using it on more projects! “
Chris, Pennsylvania, US

“I love the program.  It is easy to use and the features are great.”
Frank, Michigan, US

“I am frankly astounded at the level of customer support I’ve received, before I purchased and after. “
John, Maine, US

“Just thought I’d drop you a note...I finally had a chance to install and look at trakAx. I’m impressed! (That takes some doing)...So impressed that I just placed my order.”
Richard, Arizona, US

I would also like to give a huge shout out to the guys who run the Japanese trakAxPC Wiki - http://www29.atwiki.jp/trakaxwiki/
I know this is a really valuable resource for all our Japanese users and we hope to be able to add some of our own Japanese support later this year.

As per my previous post, we will be making a new release available shortly which will include thumbnail views and in-track parsing - you can read more about this update here.

We are also working on extensive resources for trakAxPC in an educational environment, as well as using trakAxPC to showcase your small business - both of these resources should be online shortly.

Thanks again everyone. As always, if you have any questions, please drop us a comment below or see us on Twitter and Facebook.

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