Video Enhancer - convert SD video to HD using Super-resolution method

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19 January 2009
Major update of filters database. Now 210 VirtualDub filters are supported by Video Enhancer!

24 October 2008
Version 1.9.3 released. Higher Super Resolution quality, improved audio/video sync.

7 September 2008
Video Enhancer v1.9.2 released. Better AVI writing (Media Player Classic problem fixed), comprehensive manual, ability to stop batch processing, some interface improvements like using percents in sizes.

10 June 2008
Video Enhancer v1.9.1 released. Fixed Nero incompatibility. Improved support for some codecs.

8 May 2008
Video Enhancer v1.9 released. Fixed audio/video sync problems. Added sound codecs configuration (select bitrate etc.). Improved compatibility with some codecs.

11 February 2008
Video Enhancer v1.8 released. Improved support for different codecs and formats. Added batch processing: just select several files, and VE will process them all.

2 September 2007
Video Enhancer v1.7 released. Added Preview function, filters settings aren't lost anymore, added Video Enhancement Wizard, new look with skins.

16 June 2007
Video Enhancer v1.6 released. Super-resolution speed increased up to 5,4 times while quality remained the same. Now SR is multithreaded. Added command line interface.

Speed compared to v1.5 Slow mode Fast mode

1 core 1,9 times faster 1,5 times faster

4 cores 5,4 times faster 3,5 times faster

13 May 2007
Video Enhancer v1.5 released. Improved super-resolution quality, improved support for different formats, including VBR audio. High quality mode now 1.5 times faster.

14 December 2006
Video Enhancer v1.4 released. Improved VirtualDub compatibility, improved Super Resolution quality, fixed bugs.

11 November 2006
Video Enhancer v1.3 released. Improved support for different file formats, added audio recompression.

11 August 2006
Video Enhancer v1.2 released. Processing speed improved significantly on multiprocessor systems, Dual Core and hyperthreading CPUs.

28 July 2006
Video Enhancer v1.1 released. Now works with files containing mp3 audio stream.

Video Enhancer

Video Enhancer allows you to:

Increase resolution of your video with Video Super Resolution technique which delivers unbelievable quality by using information from previous frames, while all the other resize methods use information from one current frame. Now you can convert your SD video to HD!
Use more than two hundred of VirtualDub filters allowing you to do everything you want with your video: deinterlacing, denoising, deblocking, color correction, deshaking, sharpening, visual effects etc. On multiprocessor systems, dual core or hyperthreading CPUs works a lot faster than VirtualDub because all filters, decoders and coders work in separate threads simultaneously.
Open any video which can be played on your system and re-compress it with any video codec (DirectShow, DMO and Video for Windows) installed in your system.

With Video Enhancer you can do all these tasks together or just some of them.

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Filters (plugins):

Download Filter Pack - 20 popular filters in one easy-to-use installer or see full list of 210 filters working in Video Enhancer.

See also: SuperResolution plugin for Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro (not required by Video Enhancer, it has this technology built-in).

1. Video Super Resolution

Video Enhancer can convert your video to any resolution with superb quality. Super Resolution is a technique of increasing images or video resolution. For each processed frame it uses information not only from this frame but also from other frames. If picture in your video doesn't change too fast, then information from several frames can be added to create a picture of a bigger size. No algorithms of ordinary image resize/resample can provide this quality just because there's not enough information in one frame. Here is a couple of examples:

Original video (zoomed 4x, actual size is 4 times smaller!):

After Video Enhancer:

Original video (zoomed 4x):

After Video Enhancer:

You can see comparison with other resizing methods.

To assure you that these pictures are not fakes, you can download the test video clip (2 MB) and see it for yourself. The clip is compressed with MSU Lossless Video Codec.

This super resolution method is also available as Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro plugin.

2. Two hundred of filters for video editing

You might be familiar with VirtualDub - a very powerful video editing application. What makes it so powerful is its video filters. There is more than a hundred filters for VirtualDub, you can do absolutely anything with your video with these filters, possibilities are limitless. But VirtualDub reads only AVI files and works only with Video for Windows codecs.

Video Enhancer allows you to use most of the VirtualDub filters (90% now) combining with power to open any video file (AVI, WMV, MPEG, RM, MOV - see documentation for details) and use any video codec either Video for Windows and DirectShow.

Unlike VirtualDub, in Video Enhancer all filters, coders and decoders work simultaneously in separate threads. For example, if you process your video with two filters, then at the time coder compresses the first frame second filter is already processing second frame, first filter is processing third frame and decoder decompresses fourth frame. Simple test with processing DV video with 3 filters and compressing it with XviD showed 1.9 times higher speed than VirtualDub on Dual Core AMD Opteron.

Here is a list of VirtualDub filters that work well with Video Enhancer. Choose any filters from that list, download them, unpack and put *.vdf files to "plugins" directory in the Video Enhancer folder. If you have VirtualDub installed, then Video Enhancer will find installed filters automatically.

In Video Enhancer you can create chains with any number of VirtualDub and Super Resolution filters. It means you can filter your video before resizing, after resizing, between or even instead. ;)

3. Convert your video

After you've decided what to do with your video, you can choose any video codec to compress your output video to reduce the output file size. Video Enhancer lets you use not only VfW codecs (like VirtualDub) but also DirectShow and DMO ones, i.e. any video codecs.

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