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Whip Your Videos Into Shape, Fast, Using vReveal 3.2

Posted: 21 Dec 2011 11:09 AM PST

These days, mobile devices like smartphones and tablets make it easy to record high-resolution videos on a whim. But, what you "do" with those videos once you take them is another matter. Many consumers have hundreds or even thousands of videos. How do you even search through them, find what you're looking for and share the part you want? Enter vReveal.

vReveal is a free software application that helps consumers find, fix, edit and share their videos. Since it first hit the scene, vReveal has strived to solve a fundamental problem: video software is complicated, cumbersome, and slow. So, MotionDSP combined sophisticated image processing, GPU acceleration, and an elegant user interface to create vReveal 3 — a powerful but simple application with a unique "one-click fix" for video.

In addition to one-click fix, vReveal can generate
panoramic photos from your videos.

In response to feedback from our more than one million users, we're pleased to announce vReveal 3.2 as an upgrade to vReveal Premium, and uses GPU-accelerated video encoding to significantly improve performance when enhancing video and saving it to your computer.

vReveal uses a suite of state-of-the-art image processing algorithms to comprehensively fix video. The software arms you with multiple video filters that work together to fix your video: industry-leading image stabilization, auto white balance, auto light and color, multi-frame noise cleaning and sharpening. And, since vReveal is GPU-accelerated, you can preview your enhancements in real-time at full resolution – try that with other video applications.

What does all this mean to you? A three-minute 720P video from your iPhone or Android Phone can now be fixed (stabilized, color corrected, cleaned, and sharpen) and encoded in under three minutes. That's faster than real-time and far faster than the five minutes it would take without vReveal. That's 80 percent faster, leaving you more time for all the other things you need to do in your life.

To help you get your videos in shape for the holidays, we've arranged a 40 percent discount for all NVIDIA fans looking to buy the vReveal Premium upgrade. Simply enter code NVIDIA40 during checkout on this page. (Offer valid until Dec. 31, 11:59pm PT)

Find more information on vReveal 3.2 at www.vreveal.com

Give Skyrim A Boost With New GeForce R290 Drivers

Posted: 21 Dec 2011 09:00 AM PST

Just in time for your 2011 holiday gaming, NVIDIA has released a new R290 beta driver with even more optimizations for one of the hottest games of 2011, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

Earlier this month, Bethesda reported that it has shipped 10 million copies of Skyrim, and Steam reported the game to be the "fastest selling title" in its history.

Download GeForce 290.53 drivers from GeForce.com.

Skyrim optimizations in 290.53:

Increases performance by up to 25 percent vs. 290.36 drivers on indoor scenes (measured with GeForce GTX 560 at 19×10 Ultra).
Updates the NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support to a higher performance profile.
Adds new 3D Vision laser sight /crosshair options to better match Skyrim crosshairs.

Check out the full guide for optimizing Skyrim on GeForce.com.

GeForce 290.53 also adds new SLI and 3D Vision profiles for several new titles. These drivers are available for both desktop and notebook GeForce GPUs running Windows 7 or Windows Vista. They are also available for GeForce desktop GPUs running Windows XP.

You can read the GeForce 290.53 article on GeForce.com for more information on what's new in 290.53.

Enjoy the new R290 beta drivers. And let us know what you think in the comments below!