Chat Log with Motion DSP

i would like to welcome MIke and Nikola from Motion DSP

Thanks!

Thanks! Good to be here.

Thanks to EVGA for having us here.

we will be changing to moderated mode. once we do please submit your questions and then Jacob will work with them to get answers

Thanks for Coming mike!

get outta here

Im eating dinner.

please let us know if you have used the software yet??

vReal?

I have not used it yet.

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vreveal you nub

I have not used the software yet, however I am very interested in its abilities.

I have not used it yet either.

However, you have aroused my curiosity with this chat session.

I only first heard of the software with eVGA's newsletter

Mike can you share some links for everyone to have a look ...

I have used the trial

I would love to use this, it would be perfect for youtube videos

Hey, guys, if you haven't played with vReveal yet, you can check it out at www.vreveal.com

Thanks

Lots of info and demo videos, plus a 30-day free trial

I promise, you've never seen video enhancement tech like this in a consumer software

ok guys we are going to switch to moderated mode, be ready to ask questions ... give these guys a challenge on their technology

Not to mention it can run super-fast if you've got an EVGA NVIDIA GPU in your system

We are in moderated Mode now, please send your questions

Motion DSP cleans up the photo and videos to make it crystal clear, but does it stabilize the video when the person filming moves or makes a fast gesture?

Hi, Blazen, thanks for the question.

Just be clear, vReveal is expressly for enhancing video, not photos (although we do a really nice image-capture from enhanced videos)

And stabilization is one of our most raved-about features

It does a great job of making things rock-steady when there's lots of hand-shake

What are the main GPU factors affecting performance, i.e. if I have two CUDA cards, which will help it most to run faster, increased video RAM or a faster GPU clock?

You should try it out for yourself! Free trial at www.vreveal.com

Sorry, let me ninja that url: http://www.vreveal.com

You'll get the most GPU performance from a card with many cores and high clock.

vReveal doesn't use more than one card in the system (for now) -- CUDA works in a different way from SLI, where you're likely to use both cards at the same time

Is there any support for Windows7, or will this product be supported for Windows7?

Performance chart for some GPUs: http://vreveal.com/gpu

vReveal is mostly compatible with Windows 7 (works really well on 32-bit), but we won't officially support Win7 until it's commercially available.

I saw a screenshot on your website where you cleaned up a photo of some books so that the titles could be read... I guess I don't understand how software could 'add in' stuff that's not in the original photo?

That example with the books that you saw is actually a screenshot captured from a video before and after it was enhanced.

The technology that allows us to reconstruct each frame of a video with more detail is called super-resolution, which is based on multi-frame analysis.

For each frame in a video, our algorithms look at the information in the surrounding frames to reconstruct the first frame with even more detail.

There's a more thorough explanation of this really powerful tech at http://vreveal.com/technology

And vReveal is the only consumer app that has it . It's the kind of thing behind the amazing video enhancements you see in shows like CSI

Davabled thats a great question can you send me an email at jacobf@evga.com for a free copy of Vreveal.

In it's current form, your software supports up to 720P. Do you have plans to expand the supported resolutions to 1080P or higher?

Blazen22 - I would like to give you an EVGA T-Shirt... please email jacobf@evga.com your shirt size and address

Will vReveal work on computers that have Nvidia Integrated Graphics?

Everyone, please make sure you direct your questions to ALL

This way everyone will see the questions. Thanks

Hi, Skydive, thanks for the question.

Right now, vReveal can apply its special enhancements like cleaning (noise removal and detail improvement) and stabilization to videos with a vertical resolution up to 576p.

Some good questions guys. Keep them coming

We are planning on an "HD" version that would let you enhance HD resolutions (720p and higher).

vReveal will work on any PC (even if you have integrated NVIDIA card, or ATI card), but to take advantage of awesome GPU processing speed, you need to get NVIDIA card that's 8-series or newer

If your hardware supports CUDA, vRveal will use it to improve performance

Here's more information about which NVIDIA GPUs are CUDA-compatible, including mobile chips: http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_learn_products.html

Does vReveal take advantage of the extra memory available through 64-bit systems or will it in the future?

We don't do it now, but we will in the future - extra memory might be needed only for very high resolutions (like fixing HD)

If using GPU acceleration, does vReveal process solely on the GPU? In other words, will vReveal use the CPU significantly if using GPU acceleration?

All the hard work (i.e. video enhancement) will happen on a GPU (if you have a compatible card)

Does vReveal output to .flv?

there are some tasks still handled by CPU (like decoding and encoding), so CPU will be used a bit

on i7, CPU utilization is <10% when processing on a GPU

No, vReveal does not export to Flash (FLV)

What is the future support of Vreal going to be like, Plugins ect...?

Although you can upload straight to YouTube.

Regarding our future plans for plugins, etc., we do have plans to work as seamlessly as possible with other video apps and hardware.

Can you enhance multiple videos at the same time with Vreal? How does if effect the performance.

Absolutely, vReveal can easily enhance videos in a batch. It will render the enhancements to the videos sequentially, so there's no hit to performance.

if your card does not support CUDA how big of a performance hit will you take in the performance of the software?

The nice thing about vReveal is that it doesn't need a GPU to run. It can run on your Windows XP or Vista machine with just your CPU.

But you do have potentially a tremendous increase in performance when you do have a CUDA-enabled GPU in your system.

If you'd like to get a relative idea of performance for vReveal on CPU-only systems vs. GPU systems, you can check out this chart: http://vreveal.com/gpu

After looking at the web site and the capabilities of the vReveal software, I noticed that 8800 series GPUs for the most part are not supported. Are more recent GPUs supported on your software? (such at the GTX 295)

Most of GPU cards from 8000, 9000 and 200 series are supported.

Only some of earliest 8000-series GPUs are not supporeted, but will be in the next update (coming soon)

Good question, Skydive can you send me an email at jacobf@evga.com

What video formats does vReal support?

Pistolkilla, vReveal can import .AVI, .MPG, .ASF, .WMV by default. With QuickTime installed on your system, vReveal can also play .MOV, MPEG 4, and .3GP files. Plus, it can leverage any codec packs on your system (like K-Lite) to open even more formats.

Considering the parasitic relationship between technology and civil rights (2007 CSI received a Big Brother Award) do you get many inquiries about privacy, data and technology?

any chance that we'll see it coming to the mac platform?

Nope, we don't get many privacy inquiries. Especially since the software doesn't really gather private user data aside from YouTube credentials.

Samsamha, we have no plans for Mac at this point. But Nikola, who is our VP Engineering, uses Boot Camp to use vReveal on his MacBook Pro.

You said you were planning on coming out with an HD version. It would be just 720p and or 1080p be correct?

On the output side, vReveal can already output to 720p. On the input side, vReveal "HD" would introduce the ability to enhance videos up to 1080p. (As I mentioned earlier, right now you can enhance everything up to a vertical rez of 576p.)

Thanks again for hosting this chat. How does this software handle both Audio/Video syncing. As well as antialiasing?

On Audio/Video synching: we leave original audio-video sync intact. On antialiasing -- that's one of the strongest points of vReveal, being able to improve aliased video.

Has Vreal been tested with Workstation style video cards? (Quadro)

vReveal works with all CUDA-compatible Quadro cards (except a couple of the very first models, and that support is coming in our next update), which you can see listed here: http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_learn_products.html

Does vReal have any special filters like, Sepia , Black & White, Negetive, ect...?

You can easily get sepia, black & white, and negative effects by moving the "color" sliders in vReveal's fine-tuning controls.

Does youtube re-encode the file? If so, is there a major quality loss?

Good question on re-transcoding: there is some quality loss everytime you re-encode, but if YouTube clip is watched in High Quality or HD, the improved version should still look way better then the original

Aside from the obvious benefits of vReveal's easy ability to correct video and audio problems, do you envision it being positioned against a non-linear editor like Premiere?

shift_nismo can you send an email to jacobf@evga.com for the good question

Hi, Skydive, since vReveal is focused on enhancements and has simple editing features (trim, rotate), it's an excellent complement to movie-authoring software like Premiere.

We have a few more questions and then we will let everyone a chance to thank the vReveal team for joining our chat.

Especially since vReveal has enhancements capabilities (detail improvement, increasing real resolution, high-powered stabilization, noise removal) that you can't do in any other video app.

does the software simply offload all of work to the gpu or it still requires some cpu power (for the cards that supports cuda)? is it multi-threaded to take the advantge of the multi-core cpu?

If GPU processing is turned on, all enhancement happens on a GPU. CPU is used only for decoding and encoding. When run on a CPU, vReveal it's fully multithread.

Are there any notable special effects that can be added to a movie with vReal? Im aware that this program can do alot of cleaning, what about adding effects?

Hi, Russian, aside from what I mentioned earlier about tweaking the color controls to get sepia, black&white, and negative effects, at the moment vReveal is focused on enhancing video, not adding effects.

Does this require SLI configuration to use , or can a single GPU user benefit from the software?

vRveal needs just one (CUDA enabled) GPU. SLI is not supported.

This the last question, we will go to an open forum for everyone to some final comments for the MotionDSP team. Thank you again and we look forward to our next chat.

Will SLI be supported

We are in an open forum now

Thanks again Mike and Nikola for taking the time to present your software.

Thanks for hosting this chat!

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Thanks for hosting

THATNK you for this guys!

You're welcome! Thanks for much for your questions.

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It was awesome!

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You're welcome! Thanks everyone

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Thank you, Mike and Nikola for joining us this evening. You have raised my awareness and interest in your software. I look forward to putting it through it's paces!

Thanks to the MotionDSP guys and Thanks to all the users for their great questions