3 March 2017
Version 2.2.0: fixed some issues causing processing to stop at 99% and never finish. Other minor fixes and improvements.
20 August 2016
Version 2.1.2. Improved support for filters like "frame merger", fixed issue with sometimes incoherent updates of picture in preview or when enabling/disabling filters.
1 August 2016
Version 2.1.1: Make VirtualDub plugin support great again. Fixed problems related to plugin's settings saving and loading. They manifested with "Gradation Curves" filter but could arise with some others too.
8 July 2016
Version 2.1.0: added batch processing, more bugfixes and improvements.
1 July 2016
Version 2.0.8: included some codecs and filters.
16 June 2016
Version 2.0.7: fixed bug with saving files.
25 May 2016
Version 2.0.6: better work with codecs, special support for Deshaker filter (two pass processing), more bugfixes.
22 April 2016
Version 2.0.5: improved processing speed and robustness.
15 April 2016
Version 2.0.4 with new manual (help), a bit different look and some bugfixes.
April 2016
Several updates with bugfixes.
31 March 2016
Video Enhancer 2.0 released. Completely new UI with instant visual feedback and live preview.
Improved stability.
23 March 2016
Video Enhancer 2.0 public beta is available.
19 December 2015
New update: better support for AAC and VBR (variable bitrate) audio
streams in general. This fixed most audio/video sync problems.
08 October 2015
Update to 1.9.12.1: better support for Windows 10, improved opening and decoding of different video formats.
24 September 2015
A minor update: automatically convert audio stream to format (frequency and number of bits)
selected when configuring audio codec. See changes page for details.
4 August 2015 autovideoenhance tool updated: now one can select MP4 or AVI output
for each project.
23 July 2015
Filters locations updated after one of major sites
with VirtualDub filters expired.
11 July 2015
Video Enhancer 1.9.12 released:
* Added support for MP4 output (experimental).
* Support for more advanced plugins.
* Conveniently search filters by name/author/description.
* Better working automatic plugins downloading.
* Fixed some minor bugs and annoyances.
29 November 2014
Filters database updated. Automatic download and installation of filters in
Video Enhancer improved significantly.
2 July 2014
Minor update to 1.9.10.1: some bugfixes and speed improvements.
28 May 2014 autovideoenhance tool released: process videos
automatically just by putting them to specific folders!
Increase resolution of your video with motion-search-based
Super Resolution
method, where
each frame is upsized using information from
a number of neighbor frames to extract maximum
details for outstanding results. All the other resize
algorithms use information from one current frame only.
Now you can convert low res videos to high definition (HD) or HD to 4K!
Use more than 220
VirtualDub filters for powerful and flexible video editing: deinterlacing, denoising, deblocking,
color correction, stabilizing, sharpening, visual effects etc. On multiprocessor systems, multicore or hyperthreading CPUs, Video Enhancer
performs much faster
than VirtualDub because all filters, decoders and coders work in separate threads, simultaneously.
Open virtually any video and
re-compress it with any video codec (DirectShow, DMO and Video for
Windows) installed in your system to AVI or MP4.
With Video Enhancer you can perform all these tasks together or just some of them.
v2.2 It's free now!, 7 MB
Filters (plugins):
See full list of 220+ filters working in Video Enhancer.
1. Video Super Resolution
Video Enhancer can upscale digital videos to any resolution with superb quality: be it 480p to 720p, 720p to 1080p, 480p to
1080p or anything else. Super Resolution is a method to upscale video and images, i.e. increase resolution of a video or picture
(terms "upsize", "up-convert" and "uprez" are also widely used). To upsize each frame, information from this very frame and
from a number of neighbor frames is effectively used. If picture in your video is not changing too fast, then information from
several frames is added to create a larger and more detailed picture. No algorithm of ordinary image resize/resample is
capable of providing this quality just because of the lack of information in one frame.
Here you can find examples of Super
Resolution technology in action:
Original video (zoomed 4x, actual size is 4 times smaller!):
After Video Enhancer:
Original video (zoomed 4x):
After Video Enhancer:
We performed extensive testing of different upscaling options. The result is a
comparison of Infognition's technology with other resizing methods, including vReveal by MotionDSP,
Instant HD by Red Giant, Boris FX Uprez, Genuine Fractals etc.
Sample videos used in comparison are available for download and sceptics are welcome to check our results.
To ensure the above pictures are real, you can download the
test video clip (2.9 MB),
upsize it 4 times in Video Enhancer and see it for youtself.
The clip is compressed with Lagarith lossless video codec.
You might be familiar with VirtualDub - a powerful video editing
application. What makes it so powerful is a vast collection of video and audio filters.
Over two hundred filters for VirtualDub provide limitless possibilities: use Subtitler filter to subtitle videos, logoaway filter to remove
annoying logos, deshaker to stabilize shaky video, denoise for noise reduction, or cartoonizer to make a movie look like cartoon.
You can crop and rotate a video scene, deinterlace, adjust brightness or correct video with frame luminance variations using
deflicker. A disadvantage, however, is that VirtualDub reads AVI files only and works with Video for Windows codecs only.
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 or
DirectShow.
Unlike VirtualDub, in Video Enhancer all filters, coders and decoders
work simultaneously in separate threads (model known as multithreading). For example, if you process a
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 proved to 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.