Google buys Green Parrot Pictures, looking to make YouTube prettier

I never understood why MotionDSP ( http://www.motiondsp.com/products/ ) never marketed to consumers or consumer applications, and pigeonholed themselves as a law-enforcement- or intelligence-only product. Granted, I'm sure there's plenty of money in that niche, but it seems like B2B sales to people like Youtube, Vimeo, Zencoder, etc. would be a no-brainer.

Their CUDA product may not have been as attractive to businesses with existing server farms, because those server farms rarely include GPUs, but they have a multicore-optimized variant as well.

Anyway, I guess they're not too shaken up about it ( http://twitter.com/MotionDSP/status/47834266205306881 ), so maybe there's something I'm missing.

This for me marks an interesting shift--before this, we thought of YouTube as a place we upload movies after we finish editing them, if we edited them at all (Sure they had the Video Editor on their site, but was it really used?). By adding advanced options, however, YouTube could become perhaps something more than just a place to store videos, but create and edit them as well.

The CEO of Green Parrot gave a great TEDx Dublin Talk on Bullet time and interpolation. Well worth a look.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoQ5rdTa4Tg

Wow, the stabilizer has a huge effect, congratulations to Green Parrot on some awesome tech!

You can play with image stabilization using VirtualDub and the Deshaker plugin. It's a PITA, though, so YouTube integration is great.

http://www.virtualdub.org/

http://www.guthspot.se/video/deshaker.htm

How much? Anyone know?