Moved this to it's own new post.
vReveal is really only good at two things: stabilizing video (camera de-shake) and the "auto contrast" feature.
I would not use anything else.
I cannot say that I disagree with any of this:
Quote:
- They have been promising a "frame rate doubling feature" since the days of fixmymovie.com (Shut down late 2008, I think?).
- Upon release of version 2 of this software, they reduced the functionality of the clean feature, saying that the higher clean levels were taking too long for "consumers" and thus was removed as a feature (wtf!)
- Vreveal is only good for improving "edges" within the video. It makes textures worse.
- Vreveal unnecessarily butchers the audio from most video clips that get processed by this software unnecessarily
- Their support is poor/non existant
- Its a video enhancer that only runs in 32 bit (compatible with x64 machines, but still runs in x32)
- They dont listen to their customers!
- They constantly use the $8000 ikena software that uses the same technology as vreveal as a selling point. Vreveal is either a shonky product that pales in comparison to ikena, or they're both stuffed. I cant tell, as motiondsp will not provide demos for people to use. They will however provide demonstrations of their software, or give uss access to a fully functional product for a certain period of time, for a large deposit (According to the australian supplier for it anyway).
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I'd add this:
- The denoise is really nothing more than a blur filter, so don't use it.
- I never run a program stream (audio + video) trough vReveal, only elementary streams (video only, no audio).
- Support should not be a consideration -- you get what you get, and that's really it. Rhyme not intended.
- The stabilize feature did get worse, from version 1.1 to version 2.x. But it still works much easier than
VirtualDub, and without any of the odd side effects.
Definitely consumer software. (Not that a pro won't find use in it.)
Definitely not for general use. You would never want to run videos through it without good reason.
All in all, spot-on review. Thanks for sharing.