“FixMyMovie offers new features”

I am always on a look out for “what’s new” in the world of mobile technology. The latest I read is that free enhancement service let’s you upload phone videos onto the Web.

“MotionDSP (DEMOfall 07) this week announced some major enhancements to its consumer service, FixMyMovie.com. Updates include one-step sharing of videos from mobile phones via MMS or e-mail, as well as free enhancements and iPhone conversion, the company says.

The company says videos sent to FixMyMovie are automatically enhanced up to four times their resolution, and can also fix poor lighting conditions automatically. Low frame-rate videos are stabilized and smoothed, and videos are also converted to the high-bit rate H.264 for higher quality.

The new features include the ability to send movies directly from their mobile phone to this address – upload@fixmymovie.com, without needing an account on the site. Once uploaded, videos are enhanced, and a link to the fixed video is sent back to the user via e-mail or SMS.

Registered users can then send the videos where they want, whether to You Tube, embedded on a Myspace page, blog or put onto individual Web sites. Links can also be sent to any e-mail address. Registered users also get a personal gallery on the FixMyMovie site, where they can be easily shared. The site can also prepare high-resolution versions of videos for other devices, including iPod, iPhone and Apple TV, as well as a Windows Media version of the file. Users can also grab high-resolution JPEG pictures from any video, clicking 'pause' on the video and hitting a 'capture' button will create a JPEG from the frame of the original video.

Amazingly, this service remains free. During the beta, FixMyMovie will allow for free enhancement of video clips smaller than CIF resolution (352 by 288 pixels) and under 15MB in file size (which covers any video from a mobile phone or digital camera).

While it's nice to have the video enhancement features offered by the service, the real gem of this offering is the ability to get your videos off the cell phone and onto the Web in such an easy way. For many users, it's too difficult to get the videos off the device, so it's nice to see a one-step offering from this service”.

Isn’t the working great…??