Wednesday has been declared the CUDA Day and due to this very occasion, it is a privilege for me to write about all CUDA supported applications can do in the real world. I will go through all the details pretty briefly.
LoiLoScope - A video editor using nVIDIA's CUDA technology gave me lots of reason to try this baby at an ideal time. And the timing is right because I have a brand new Sony Handycam in my hand and a very recent Manipur trip videos of my family. So I fire it up and the first thing anyone will notice is it's GUI. Easy, user-friendly and eyecandy stuff, gives you all the reason to make better video edits than the rest of the editors around. Made a very small video editing of my failed football talents, but guess what, I was able to do all the basic video edits within a matter of 15 minutes and that is the first time. Impressive. But that's probably not the best for me. The best was it's ability to upload the video to YouTube directly. All I had to provide was Login, Password, Title and Description and I was done. Made my task so simple and CUDA encoding was lightning fast. Also format support AVHCD is pretty good which my Handycam uses. So thumbs up to this brilliant software. Look at the images and especially my so called failed football talent in the video below.
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Image 1- http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/2851/loilo1t.png
Image 2- http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/4586/loilo2x.png
Image 3- http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/2993/loilo3.png
Video Gallery- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRtv6GbwCPw
Badaboom - Badaboom is probably the tool I was waiting for. Have a Sony PSP so video watching on it while on the move to college too is a pretty regular. Dad uses it quite often too to watch Bengali movies. Thus the importance of Badaboom. And it does it's job just as it says, upto 20x faster. Superb speed. Used to use PSPVC before but it is a complete flop compared to this. Badaboom also provided me quite a lot of options before video encoding for PSP. Used the latest Prince of Persia movie trailer to show it's prowess. Images and video below showing the lightning fast encoding process and the final quality of the video viewed in PSP.
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Image 1- http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/5664/dscn2752.jpg
Image 2- http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/5876/badaboomc.png
Video Gallery- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqLR5P8dLQ4
vReveal - Now, before trying vReveal, I was quite speculative of things it said it could do. Something like working wonders with videos that are dark, shaky, noisy, pixelated or blurry. So an interesting piece of software. But could it deliver? Curious to know. The answer is Yes. In fact, it delivered even better than I thought of before trying it. It might be always like you want but with the right settings and tweaks, could do a gem to your blurry and bad videos. Trying it is pretty simple. A very simple editing interface reminds me more of a la Picasa style. Options were right in front of the eyes and if you still don't believe that your blurry and pixelated videos are not worth a look at, think again because they can be brought right back from the dead. And using it is probably the easiest thing for even a computer illiterate let alone a geek. And a most point, it is very fast. Saved 39 minutes of my time using nVIDIA CUDA. Pretty cool. Check the comparisons below the believe what I am saying. Test video was a clipping from the game Call of Duty : Modern Warfare 2.
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Image 1- http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/7871/vreveal1.png
Comparison 1- http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/7585/vreveal2.png
Comparison 2- http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/8302/vreveal3.png
And last but not the least,
3D Vision - Now, that is interesting. Very interesting indeed. Watching 2D was well, umm, did you even notice it? So many games and softwares used the name 3D on writing but were they really? Nah. But nVIDIA is what's bringing it now. Seeing stuff in 3D is like actually seeing the real deal, you notice the depths and the distance of objects from screen is easily noticeable. So you can now tell which object is closer and which is farther away from the screen very easily. Now 3D cannot be explained with images, so may I suggest you that head out there, buy a new Zotac GeForce GT240 and you will know how good seeing the real deal is on the virtual world. I didn't really like the Red and Blue glasses because they were pretty strenuous for extended uses but am planning to buy a new one from nVIDIA website which is better than this and retails for $149. Probably worth the buy. I can't say much now because I am searching for a 3D movie now, so, Shhh..., please do not disturb anymore and have a look at a screenshot of the Stereoscopic Player to view 3D movies.
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Image- http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/5453/13659980.png
I hope this thing shows why nVIDIA CUDA is the best. Are you still reading this? Come on, start moving and get yourself a Zotac GeForce GT240 right now before stocks last. So shoo. Move it fast.
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