FixMyMovie is a new free web-based service which allows you to
easily improve the quality of your video clips which was launched on
September 24th at the
DEMOfall
07 conference.
It works by simply analyzing your clip and making automatic
adjustments to it. All you have to do is upload your video clips and
FixMyMovie does the rest for you.
It is based on the MotionDSP video enhancement technology, and
the service can significantly improve the quality, focus, sharpness and
stability of your camcorder or mobile phone video footage.
Here are more details:
Overview
“Fixmymovie.com can take any video file
from a mobile phone or digital camera and make it better. FixMyMovie’s
suite
of automatic enhancements
improves overall resolution, corrects for poor lighting conditions and
removes the blockiness and other artifacts that ruin most mobile phone
and low-end digital camera videos.“
MotionDSP’s
patent-pending technology
studies your video and finds the unique information present in each
frame of video. If it can match the scene (background) or objects
(foreground) in more than 3-4 frames, it puts that information together
to make a cleaner video.
MotionDSP seems also to be using technical approaches similar
to what you would call ”
interpolation”
and “sharpening”,
if you were optimizing a still digital image.
Applied to the a
low-quality recorded video they all contribute to make the video image
look less pixelated and with more and better defined contours.
Automatic Processing
To avoid wasting time in trying
to improve video
clips to which little can be done, FixMyMovie processes the first 10
seconds of your video clip automatically so that you can check whether
the image processing that FixMyMovie has applied to it does work or
not.
If you like the results, then you can request FixMyMovie to
process the rest of the video.
FixMyMovie showcases all of its abilities by providing the
user with
a compare-video feature that facilitates seeing the “before” and
“after” the video processing.
Videos
that perform really badly with FixMyMovie are those shot
while moving especially if recorded on a low-quality low-frame rate
mobile phone video recorder.
FixMyMovie is also available to do custom professional jobs
and the
engineering team behind this powerful technology can be reached at:
professionalservices @ motiondsp.com
How does it work
To use FixMyMovie the steps to follow are very simple.
1) Upload
Sign-up, log-in and upload your low-quality movie clip to
FixMymovie in
.3gp, .mp4 or .avi file formats. Maximum file size is 20MB.
2) Fix
Let FixMyMovie do its job by processing and improving the
quality of
your video.
3) View-Compare
Check and verify how your video clip will be visually enhanced
before
committing FixMyMovie resources to process your whole video.
4) Share-Embed
Each and every video comes with a share-embed code that you
can simply
paste into any web page for online viewing. To get the “embed”
code to be placed on your web site, you need to click on the text box
next to the “Embed” button, just to the right of your video
clip.
This
will in turn select the code in the box, which you need to copy and
paste “as is” inside your HTML code.
5) Download
Download your enhanced video in your preferred video file
format among MOV,
WMV
and FLV.
Examples
Check the difference between original clip and
the enhanced version by clicking the “Compare” button
appearing at the bottom left of each clip.
Or use the swiping bar in the image here below to see the
difference between “before” and “after“,
as the clip plays back.
Key Features
-
Video processing
The video processing and enhancement capabilities of FixMyMovie have
not yet been available to the large public until now. With FixMyMovie
anyone can easily improve low-quality video in a few simple steps. -
Video and still image comparison
This is truly notable. For each clip you upload to FixMyMovie you can
see how the original clip looked versus how the clip would look after
MotionDSP processing. This is invaluable and it is also great marketing
at work for MotionDSP. -
Sharing and embedding
FixMyMovie makes it easy also to publish your enhanced video to any
standard web page or blog. -
H264 Codec
FixMyMovie has recently further improved its outstanding video quality
by integrating the H264 video codec into its system. To take advantage
of it, you’ll need to install the beta Flash Player available here:
http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer9.html. -
Still Frame capture
With FixMyMovie you can also capture high-res still frame grabs from
you video clips. To do so, play your original video, hit the pause
button (or drag the slider) to select the scene from which you want to
grab a still picture and click the “camera” button. -
Download
high-quality enhanced video clipsOnce you’ve ordered full processing of the video, FixMyMovie makes it
available for download in H264
MOV format, WMV format, and also Flash FLV (which is excellent for
YouTube uploading). Please note that the downloadable clips
are
prepared at a higher quality (higher bitrate) than the versions you see
displaying on the site.
Technical issues
1) FixMyMovie uses the very latest Adobe Flash
plug-in. If you do not have this latest version of Adobe
Flash installed, you may not be able to see videos play
inside FixMyMovie.
In this case, please follow these instructions to download and
install the new beta Adobe flash player.
* Go to the Adobe website (http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer9.html)
* If you are using Internet Explorer,
select the link entitled “Download ActiveX Control for Windows
Internet Explorer” or
* if you are using Firefox or other browser,
select the appropriate link for Windows, Mac, or Linux
* Install the flash player
* Go back to www.fixmymovie.com,
and check if you can play the videos.
Note: this Flash player is still in beta and it may cause
problems with your system.
2) The maximum resolution size
for video
clips to be uploaded on FixMyMovie is 352×288
3) File and Codecs supported
Just got an email from Sean Varah the CEO of MotionDSP Inc.
confirming the following:
File formats: AVI, MOV, FLV, ASF/WMV, MPG, MP4, 3GPP, 3GP2
Video codecs: MJPG, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 (DivX), WMV7, WMV8, WMV9
(VC-1), VP6,
VP7, RAW, H.263, H.264 and more
Audio codecs: MP3, AC3, AAC, WMA, ADPCM, AMR
Editor’s Review
FixMyMovie is a breakthrough web-based service
allowing automatic low-quality video enhancement at zero cost to the
users.
The service is extremely straightforward and simple to use
though
more detailed information about which specific video file formats are
supported for upload, and other possible limits in file size and max
number of video clips that can be uploaded would be very useful.
If you are a reporter, journalist
or online
publisher looking for a simple way to enhance low quality video clips
for web publication this is the service to use. Keep in mind that the
service works essentially only with low-res videos and it will not
accept higher-quality (above 320×240) resolution videos for processing.
If you are a startup or a web 2.0 company
looking to learn
how best to market and publicize a product, here is on of the very best
examples of 2.0 marketing I have come across in some time. Kudos to
MotionDSP excellent vision and outstanding marketing implementation.
Other FixMyMovie reviews online
- PR
Newswire – Official Press Release - Fixmymovie
Brings CSI To Your Cellphone – Mashable - FixMyMovie
saves your woefully bad digicam films – Webware - Fixmymovie.com
launches ‘James Bond-style’ enhancement of user videos –
Social Media - Fixmymovie.com
a new online video enhancement service – Macsimum News
Originally written by Robin Good for Master New Media
and entitled “Enhance
Your Mobile Video Clips Image Quality With MotionDSP FixMyMovie” on Sept 26th 2007. Some Rights Reserved.
