NewMedia On the Go » audio http://newmediaonthego.com/blog a tech blog mostly about electronic publishing and virtual worlds Sun, 25 Sep 2011 23:42:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Cleaning up Video with vReveal http://newmediaonthego.com/blog/2009/07/03/cleaning-up-video-with-vreveal/ http://newmediaonthego.com/blog/2009/07/03/cleaning-up-video-with-vreveal/#comments Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:25:58 +0000 admin http://newmediaonthego.com/blog/?p=365 I have a chance to review a new, specialized video editing tool called vReveal, just in time to try to fix up some of the shaky vids I’m making with my new iPhone 3GS. But there’s a catch.

vReveal is a MS-Windows® program. Normally this would not be a problem, since I have Windows XP Pro®, Vista® and even the Windows 7® beta operating systems running in virtual machines on my Mac. I use both Parallels Desktop for Mac and Sun Microsystems’ opensource VirtualBox. But my new 24″ iMac apparently has some hardware not supported yet by either of these VM systems, and it’s possible that vReveal itself does not support my video card, even though it’s made by their partner, nVidia (nVidia GeForce GT 130). Maybe upgrading to the latest version of Parallels will help, too.

So, I have some more work to do before I can try out vReveal. Luckily, nVidia has a nifty tool, shown below, that can help locate drivers for their video cards. By having it here in my blog, I can use it from within the various VMs I have running to see if I can get them optimized to take advantage of the nice graphics I enjoy on the Mac OS side. And of course you can do the same; enjoy! The sound card issue may be isolated to Sun’s VirtualBox, and if that’s the case I’ll have to spend some time on the users forum over there to see if I can resolve that issue. But at any rate, here’s the nVidia widget:

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