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vReveal 3.0 Released
vReveal 3.0: Powerfully simple video software for real people
MotionDSP is pleased to announce vReveal 3.0, a major upgrade to our award-winning video application for Windows. Ever since the first version of vReveal, we’ve strived to solve one of the fundamental problems for consumers and video: video software is painful to use. It’s complicated, cumbersome, and slow. With vReveal 3.0, we’ve kept vReveal’s amazing “one-click-fix” feature, while re-thinking the interface, making major advancements in speed, and added an amazing automatic panorama feature. You’re going to love it.
Our vision for vReveal: solve the video problem for consumers
Most consumer video software started as professional video software, designed to edit professional television shows and Hollywood movies. Consumers don’t create television shows, they take short videos on their smartphones and they want to share them. Period.
A leading manufacturer of PCs told us that 80% of consumers list “doing things with video” as one of the top 5 reasons for purchasing a PC, but only 5% end up actually doing so, for the above reasons: video software is complicated, cumbersome, and slow.
MotionDSP designed vReveal from a clean sheet. We got down to the basics: make a simple-to-use application that was fast, easy-to-use, and amazing. This wasn’t easy to do when we started in 2009. Computers were slow, and consumers weren’t doing much with video yet. But then graphic chips (GPUs) got faster, and then the iPhone 3 came out, and it could take good video. And we went through version 1 and version 2 of vReveal, listening to all the feedback we got from users, and making vReveal better and better.
Now, in 2011, consumers have iPhones and Android phones with great high-def video cameras in their pockets. And graphics chips have become WAY more powerful. Indeed, just this week, AMD has released their new AMD A-Series APU which packs a powerful discrete-class graphics processor (GPU) and a powerful 4-core CPU into the same chip. For $500, consumers can now buy a computer that is nearly the equivalent of a super-computer. And vReveal 3.0 has been specially tuned to use every ounce of this power. For more information about AMD A-Series APUs and AMD VISION Technology, see the AMD website www.amd.com/vision.
Check out the new vReveal 3.0 at www.vreveal.com/download.
Sean Varah, CEO, MotionDSP
Create amazing panoramas from video in one click with new vReveal 3.0
Popular video enhancement software hand-picked as launch partner for AMD’s groundbreaking A-Series APUs
SEATTLE, WA, June 14, 2011 – MotionDSP, a leader in video processing technology, today announced the release of vReveal® 3.0 (www.vreveal.com), a major upgrade to its software for enhancing video from mobile phones, digital cameras, and DSLRs. vReveal 3.0 is released in conjunction with the launch of AMD A-Series Accelerated Processing Units (APUs), and it is extensively optimized to take advantage of their powerful parallel computing capabilities.
vReveal’s new “auto-panorama” is a revolutionary new feature for creating stunning panoramas from video. Almost any panning video clip can be automatically transformed into high-quality panoramic image and posted to Facebook in one click.
The new release also features a completely redesigned user interface, up to 179% faster performance for HD video processing on A Series APUs (compared to Intel’s Sandy Bridge chips), and a signature one-click video fix, allowing users to automatically stabilize, color-correct, and sharpen video in any format.
“Video processing is notoriously computationally intensive, which enables this type of application to benefit tremendously from the combination of CPU and GPU on the same die in the APU architecture,” said John Taylor, director, Client Product and Software Marketing, AMD (NYSE: AMD). “We have been working with MotionDSP to optimize vReveal to run on APU-based PCs because vReveal’s powerful algorithms are a perfect match for CPU general purpose and GPU parallel processing in AMD A_Series multicore APUs. vReveal 3.0’s new OpenCL-based architecture spreads tasks across both the CPU and GPU, taking full advantage of the supercomputer-like performance available in A-Series APUs. The results are even better than we could have expected.” In controlled lab tests, vReveal 3.0 performed up to 179% faster on PCs powered by AMD A-Series APUs versus comparable Intel-based PCs at HD resolutions.
“Millions of new smartphone users want to discover, fix, and share their videos,” said Sean Varah, CEO of Motion DSP. “AMD’s innovative Vision technology makes it possible for us to deliver a lightning-fast, effortless video software experience to consumers at a great price. We’re proud to be a launch partner for AMD’s A Series APUs.”
vReveal is available as a free download at www.vreveal.com.
About vReveal & MotionDSP:
vReveal® video software for Windows makes it easy for consumers to find, fix and share their videos. MotionDSP is a leading innovator in digital video processing software. MotionDSP’s next-generation algorithms automatically improve the quality of video captured by a wide range of video sources. vReveal is a registered trademark of MotionDSP Inc.