Digital Video fixer-upper software, Vreveal, by MotionDSP has been making some mighty impressive strides in the world of HD video enhancement and says it will be bringing the new and improved tech to the masses within the quarter.
Although Vreveal has been around for a while already, the quick-fix ‘plastic surgery’ for shoddy HD video (up to 1080p) is new to the firm – which previously could only handle up to 576p – and having seen the results, we are verily impressed.
The little startup, of which NVIDIA apparently owns a “significant stake” has based its software on technology already used by the military and intelligence agencies like the CIA.
The program’s patented algorithms, are able to analyze and extract information from multiple video frames and reconstruct a single, enhanced frame.
The software also handily locates all videos on a user’s hard drive and bungs them into a single gallery, much like Picasa does with photos and, like Picasa, it also allows users to either fine tune the vids to their personal preferences, or simply use a magic ‘one-click touch-up’ button for those more, er, digitally challenged amongst us.
All included in the magic button are fixes for all manner of problems which commonly arise from crappy consumer-generated video, including shake, bad lighting, graininess and even pixilation.
The software also allows for rotating sideways videos, trimming vids down to their best moments and easily uploading them to YouTube.
Oh yes, and, being an NVIDIA protégé, it also uses a whole lot of Cuda in order to offload most of the work onto users’ (NVIDIA) GPUs, giving frazzled CPUs a bit of a break. In fact, MotionDSP reckons Vreveal can enhance videos up to five times faster by porting to the GPU, which is certainly not insignificant.
MotionDSP says it’s aiming the software at “regular soccer moms and dads,” so, those irritating videos of Lolcats and babies on YouTube and Facebook? Well… they’ll still be crap and annoying, but less grainy and better lit. Rejoice!
And the software works great on an Ion based netbook.
If video isn’t enough to satisfy your needs, Vreveal also allows users to capture print‐quality still images from enhanced videos.
Vreveal is already available to download as a 30-day trial or to purchase for $39 from the company’s website, and MotionDSP says the update to the HD capable version will be free to all registered vReveal customers.
