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Review: vReveal software miraculously cleans up even the messiest video
Say goodbye to blurry, shaky, grainy or too-dark videos with vReveal, video enhancement software that can clean up even the funkiest shots. We loaded it up and tried enhancing some messy videos from a point-and-shoot camera, and the improvement is nothing short of amazing.
The coders at vReveal have taken tech used in military and police work and brought it to the rest of us, letting you drastically clean up a video with one click, or dig in and tweak it until even the crappiest video looks squeaky clean. It even has a routine that makes it easy to publish your videos directly to YouTube.
It works on any PC, but if you have an NVIDIA graphics card, the rendering of your final results is sped up to about twice as fast. For example, with our NVIDIA card, it took about three minutes to clean up this one-minute clip, fixing the graininess, enhancing the contrast, and stabilizing the image enough to make it look like a Steadicam shot. This is a breakthrough, especially since the software costs a mere $50.
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By Wash0ut at 2:41 PM ON 03/24/09
How many times do you think I hit the play button till I realized it was a picture?
By Mr. J at 3:08 PM ON 03/24/09
Pity it's not available for Mac - still, iMovie offers stabilization.
By HD at 3:12 PM ON 03/24/09
I second that's a shame it's not available for Macs. Hopefully there will be a version soon.
By jack at 5:03 PM ON 03/24/09
Can someone post a torrent for this?
By Stefan at 10:10 PM ON 03/24/09
I haven't been able to find a torrent Jack, but there's a 30-day free trial on their website that you can use in the meantime. Hopefully someone will have a torrent up by the time the trial expires.
By Deaf-Mute at 11:30 PM ON 03/24/09
Wow, the software costs $50 and you're begging for torrents already? I admit, I've skipped the buying stage of getting new programs, but I don't think I've done it for a program this cheap. At least they offer a 30-Day free trial.
By Scanner at 8:57 PM ON 03/25/09
I agree with DEAF-MUTE. If the program works, it's definitely worth the $50. I can understand the desire to check programs out, but this offers a 30 day trial. Don't be a ditz. Or at least don't make it so obvious that you're a ditz.
By HowardG at 1:10 AM ON 03/26/09
Jack What a retard! This is exceptional coding for amateurs such as you. In fact it's used by us pros and you want to scam the authors. Do the right thing, get a life, a job and conscience and pay for the privilege of using somone else's talents!
By Justin at 5:33 PM ON 03/29/09
$50 is a lot of money. It's best not to spend unless it's necessary. Don't shoot down people asking for torrents... then again I get these sorts of things off private FTP's ;-)
By Joe at 1:36 AM ON 04/05/09
definitely try before you buy here. the quality improvement you get from this type of software is not fantastic. which saddens me, I really wish this worked better. Dee Mon Video Enhancer is uses a similar "super resolution" method to enhance video and is available on bittorrent if you're curios. although it doesn't support CUDA so it's much slower. the CUDA support is kind of ironic, because the picture here of the red robot basically only illustrates the dynamic contrast/color enhancement you get for free (and in real time) with an nvidia graphics card. vreveal is fairly good at cleaning up compression artifacts though, so that's something at least. hopefully their will be improvements over time.
By CJWright at 5:49 PM ON 04/30/09
just today found out about this via an email from Nvidia with 20% off deal with this coupon code
VREVEALPROMO deal good through May 14, 09.
Apparently it works better with CUDA enabled nVidia graphics cards. Look up CUDA on Wikepedia and it lists the nVidia cards that are Cuda enabled. Still don't know what it is...but I have one. Sure I'll get this to add to my video programs. Looks kewl.
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