How to enhance video quality for dark low-res videos

Posted on April 28, 2008 at 5:32 am

Want to enhance the video quality of that funny dance your friend just did which you happen to catch on your cell phone camera? With video cameras built into so many mobile devices today, including cell phone, PDAs, laptops, etc, there is an explosion of dark low-resolution and plain crappy looking videos all over the Internet.

Luckily, there’s a way you can enhance your dark or jerky or low-res videos so that they appear half decent. All you have to do is upload your videos and a software program will analyze how the neighboring frames in your clip are related to one another and combine them to make a cleaner, higher-resolution video.

FixMyMovie is a video enhancement site powered by MotionDSP’s patent-pending video technology. It makes movies from your mobile phone, digital camera, or webcam look great.

FixMyMovie can increase your video resolution up to 4 times, remove noise, fix poor lighting conditions, stabilize low frame-rate videos, reduce noise and artifacts, enhance color, brighten and darken videos, grab high-res JPEG stills from your videos, and convert videos to the high-bitrate H.264 for higher quality. Sweet!

It’s pretty simple to use also, just upload a movie to the site or email it to upload@fixmymovie.com. The fixing up process can take anywhere from 2 minutes to 1 hour depending on the size of your video. You’ll get a link to your file via email or SMS which you can download to your computer. You can then easily share it with your friends and family by emailing them the link, embedding it on your blog or website, or publishing it onto YouTube.

Here are some cool examples of how FixMyMovie can make your crappy quality videos look much better:

Other cool things about the service include the fact that you can download a high-res version of your video to your iPod by clicking on the “iPod Video” link beside your video.

You can also see how well FixMyMovie fixed your movie by clicking the “Compare” button to show the original and enhanced version side-by-side.

FixMyMovie supports: ‘avi’, ‘mpeg’, ‘mpg’, ‘mov’, ‘rm’, ‘flv’, ‘wmv’, ‘3gp’, ‘mp4′, ‘3g2′
with maximum resolution 352 x 288. Since it’s still in beta right now, they support only up to 15MB for the file size.

Overall, it’s a pretty cool service and very useful for the hordes of people taking videos with their cell phone cameras! Give it a shot and see how your video comes out. Enjoy!

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