FixMyMovie.com Enhances Crappy Cell Phone Videos
29 February 2008Digital video software developer MotionDSP this week unveiled a series of major enhancements to its free consumer service www.fixmymovie.com.
Users can now share videos from mobile phones via MMS of e-mail, making it a one-step process. The service also offers free iPhone conversion.
Videos sent to FixMyMovie are automatically enhanced up to four times their resolution, with poor lighting conditions automatically fixed, potentially bringing dark videos back to life. In addition, low frame-rate videos are stabilized and smoothed, and videos are converted to high-bitrate H.264 for the best possible quality.
The new features allow anyone with a mobile phone to automatically send movies directly from their phone to upload@fixmymovie.com; no account on FixMyMovie.com is required. Once received, videos are automatically enhanced, and a link to the video is sent back via e-mail or SMS.
FixMyMovie is not a direct competitor to video sites like YouTube. Registered users can then send the videos where they want - a single click to YouTube, embed the video on MySpace pages, blogs and individual Web sites, or send a link to the newly enhanced videos to any e-mail address.
Once registered with FixMyMovie.com, new videos sent from a phone or e-mail go automatically to a personal gallery on the site, where they can be easily shared. If a user hasn’t registered, the service will create an account and e-mail back details, which is ideal for first-time mobile users who just want to quickly try out the site.
The service also prepares high-resolution versions of videos for a variety of devices. This includes a high-resolution iPod/iPhone/Apple TV compatible version and a Microsoft Windows Media version of the file.
Users can also grab high-resolution JPEG pictures from any video - just pause the video in FixMyMovie and hit the “capture” button. The service creates a JPEG of that moment in time that surpasses the resolution of the original video.
“One of the biggest challenges facing camera-phone owners is how to get videos off the phone and share them. Once they’ve figured that out, the next thing they discover is that the video quality is terrible. We fix both these problems with the latest technology and exceptional ease-of-use,” said MotionDSP CEO Sean Varah. “The bottom line is that we’re enabling your phone to be a viable video camera.”
During the consumer beta, FixMyMovie.com allows for free enhancement of video clips smaller than CIF resolution (352×288 pixels) and less than 15MB (almost any video from a mobile phone or digital camera fits this requirement).
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