FixMyMovie.com Brings High-Quality Broadcast Format to Mobile Video
Support for H.264 Technology Through Adobe Flash 9 Enables Best Video
Experience and Free Enhancements for Mobile Phone Video and Low-Resolution
Footage
December 11, 2007 – San Mateo, Calif. – MotionDSP, an emerging leader in
digital video technology, today announced that its new, free consumer
service – FixMyMovie.com – now supports the high-quality H.264 video
compression standard. FixMyMovie.com is one of the first websites to
natively support H.264 encoding and enables the best-possible quality for
videos uploaded to the site. FixMyMovie offers a ‘one-click autofix’ for
user-generated video, through MotionDSP’s cutting-edge video enhancement
solutions – originally developed for military/intelligence applications.
H.264 is the new standard in broadcasting digital HD and is deployed
worldwide through a number of different TV networks, websites and Web
technologies in their digital workflow. With FixMyMovie.com, citizen
journalists can create accounts, upload their videos, order full processing
and share the H.264 results through Adobe Flash 9 (via email or embed).
News organizations can now upload video obtained from users through their
mobile phones, enhance the quality automatically and add that video
directly into their news editing without transcoding. Through
FixMyMovie.com, it is also possible to download the processed results as
high-res H.264, high-res WMV, or even high-res JPEGs for printing – ideal
for newspapers and magazines.
H.264 is a standard component of Apple QuickTime and is now built-in to
Adobe Flash 9. Through this new format, users can dramatically enhance
video from any source with one-button, online simplicity and with the best
possible quality.
Examples can range from breaking news captured with a mobile phone to
irreplaceable video of a baby’s first steps.
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. The service was launched at the DEMOfall 07
conference and has been called ‘the gold standard for video enhancement’ by
pre-briefed analysts and press, as well as In-Q-Tel (Arlington, VA), the
investment arm of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
Regardless of source, FixMmyMmovie.com enables any video to look its best,
all with the simplicity of one-button operation – just click and the
service will upload your selected video with free enhancement processing.
Then, you can share it, embed the improved video on your blog, Facebook or
MySpace page, or download it for posterity in formats for multiple devices.
In addition to H.264 Flash, enhanced video clips are available for download
to Microsoft Windows PCs as a WMV file, High-res H.264 QuickTime for Apple
iPod, iPhone, or Mac computers, as well as Adobe Flash for online services
such as YouTube.
MotionDSP is already recognized worldwide for its Ikena software product
family, which ranges from Ikena Workstation–a laptop-based video forensic
tool for the security market–to Ikena Web, a scalable Web service for
carriers and Internet video sites which can enhance tens of thousands of
user-generated videos per day.
During the consumer beta, Fixmymovie.com allows for free enhancement of
video clips smaller than CIF resolution (352×288 pixels) and less than 15
megabytes (almost any video from a mobile phone or digital camera fits
these requirements). Further details may be found at
http://www.fixmymovie.com.
About MotionDSP
MotionDSP is an emerging leader in digital video enhancement. MotionDSP’s
next-generation technology enables Internet video sites and mobile carriers
to vastly improve the quality of video captured by consumer video devices
such as mobile phones and webcams. The company’s new demonstration site for
consumer video enhancement may be found at www.fixmymovie.com
