New: V-Sync Screen Tear Clean-Up Tool
April 23rd, 2009
We talked about this in the Uncharted ‘Coming Soon’ piece, but it’s here, it’s working and it looks excellent. The Digital Foundry frame analyser allows us to pinpoint every frame in a 60Hz output that is not v-locked, and now that same tool has been expanded to take that analysis and use it to weed out and clean-up all the torn frames.
So here’s an example of the tool in action - an original capture from Naughty Dog’s Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, followed up by the cleaned-up, enforced v-lock version.
Slowed down to 1/6th speed, this video shows a classic ‘before and after’. The result is pretty dramatic - Uncharted looks better than it does running on your PS3. Go here to see this in streaming HD, or download this VC-1 WMV file for a higher quality analysis.
So over and above showing Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune in the very best possible light, what else is this tool good for? Well, Microsoft’s conditions for Xbox Live Marketplace video include a stringent guideline that all footage must be v-locked. Up until now, the only way to do this was by hand, manually copying and pasting frames, or elements of frames. But now, publishers, developers and video studios can simply supply us with their clips and we can do the work for them - quickly and easily.
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