Hello!  (Oh, and Hallo, Hola, Bonjour, Ciao, 你好, 안녕하세요, and こんにちは)

Badaboom 1.2 has been released and coming along with it is a brand new eight language interface!  With increasing international interest in the application, localizing Badaboom was certainly one of our priorities.  Non-English markets are now able to take even greater advantage of their NVIDIA GPUs by running Badaboom in the language of their choice.  The included languages are English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, and Korean!

Download it now here or check out the Learn page for more information.  The Badaboom site has undergone a little bit of a renovation lately, so feel free to explore!  There are even some new demo videos! 

The Badaboom 1.2 Release Notes can be found here.

PC Perspective just did a really nice look at CUDA-enabled apps:  http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=719.  The review highlights the versatility of the apps taking advantage of CUDA and focuses on Badaboom!

“Finally, we are seeing some better CPU usage scores. Badaboom chewed through all of our benchmarks and gave us the best CPU usage scores we've seen so far. The most impressive CPU usage score came during the YouTube 1920x1080 MPEG-4 transcode that averaged only 9 percent! That's absolutely outstanding considering most of the other applications we've reviewed were over 50 percent and higher. Handbrake was pretty much pegged out at 99 percent for every benchmark and was also much slower in transcoding every benchmark. 

We've got to commend Elemental for paying attention to how much the CPU was being engaged during transcoding. There's a bit debate right now between getting the best transcoding performance from utilizing both the CPU and GPU and or just using the GPU and leaving the CPU for multi-tasking functions. I can see it going either way depending on the user's needs.”

Ease of Use 
Cyberlink PowerDirector7 – Good 
Elemental Badaboom – Excellent 
MotionDSP vReveal – Good 
Super Loiloscope – Good 
TotalMedia Theatre 3 Platinum – Fair

CPU Utilization 
Cyberlink PowerDirector7 – Poor 
Elemental Badaboom – Excellent 
MotionDSP vReveal – Fair 
Super Loiloscope – Good 
TotalMedia Theatre 3 Platinum – Excellent

Image Quality 
Cyberlink PowerDirector7 – Good 
Elemental Badaboom – Good 
MotionDSP vReveal – Good 
Super Loiloscope – Excellent 
TotalMedia Theatre 3 Platinum – Excellent

Transcoding Speeds 
Cyberlink PowerDirector7 – Excellent 
Elemental Badaboom – Excellent 
MotionDSP vReveal – Excellent 
Super Loiloscope – Excellent 
TotalMedia Theatre 3 Platinum – N/A (No transcoding benchmarks completed)

Well, it has admittedly been quite awhile since the last blog post, but we have some news coming up about Badaboom, so you can expect updates much more often!  For all you international users out there, we are currently going through the finishing touches of localizing the application, and it will be available very soon. 

You may also be seeing some changes to the website in the next few days...stay tuned!

Badaboom is making the world better for Netbooks!

"Nvidia was also showing off a range of demo's, including 1080p video playback, video encoding with Badaboom of 720p video while the 1080p video was still running, as well as Left 4 Dead which was running at 1,280x720 resolution and seemed to play quite smooth. Considering that the test system had a dual core Atom 330 CPU as well as the Nvidia 9400M chipset, this was pretty impressive."

Badaboom has been named the "Product of the Week" on the Tech Buzz page of TechBuzzWorld.com.  Here is a snippet from Rob Enderle:

"Transcoding is what you do with a video file to make it fit on an iPod, cell phone, or store it to watch on an Xbox, PS3, Media Extender or Media Center. Badaboom covers each of these devices, and it is both easy to set up and very easy to use. The product requires Nvidia Cuda, which means you need a current Nvidia card, but if you have one and need to transcode, you'll love this thing. You can download the trial for free on the Badaboom site above."

Badaboom v1.1.1 is on the loose!  Why, you ask, is this version called 1.1.1?  Well, to answer your question, this release does not focus on adding new features, rather it's effort is geared towards making Badaboom as robust an application as possible, fixing bugs and addressing issues that all you users have reported.  In fact, we took the time to summarize exactly what makes version 1.1.1 so special, so go ahead and read the release notes here.  If you have Badaboom 1.1 and need to upgrade or if you've never tried Badaboom and are wondering what all the fuss is about, go ahead and visit the Store page.

Badaboom continues to receive great feedback about the added features of version 1.1--we appreciate the support!

E-Frontier, a major developer and publisher of graphic design and consumer entertainment titles, has launched a page on their website dedicated to Badaboom.  We are excited to be working with our new Japanese partner!  Check it out:  http://www.e-frontier.co.jp/badaboom/trial/.

Last weekend Elemental Technologies' product demonstrations, including Badaboom Media Converter version 1.1, were featured in interviews at the CES Show in Las Vegas, Nev. See what people were talking about...

 CES ComputerTV 2009: "NVIDIA Badaboom GPU Processing at CES 2009"

(Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgrp8zcLbmI&feature=related)

NVIDIA Ion @ CES 2009: "Elemental Badaboom"

(Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV-KVVlu7nY&feature=related)

 Badaboom 1.1 continues to please reviewers around the world. Check out these recent reviews and test version 1.1 out for yourself by downloading the free trial offer.

"Badaboom looks very “professional” and you don’t need to be a nuclear scientist to use it. Application is very intuitive and you will easily do everything that you intended to, even if you never had any contact with this type of applications."

Inside HW*: http://www.insidehw.com/Software/Multimedia/ATi-vs.-nVIDIA-Video-Transcoding.html      *translated

"AVC completely loses out to Badaboom in terms of picture quality and suffers broken pictures. Badaboom has been commercialized and it seems that Badaboom's overall superiority over AVC is something overwhelming."
Beareyes: http://graphics.beareyes.com.cn/2/lib/200901/09/20090109126_1.htm  (Chinese)

"Badaboom provides users with an intuitive graphics interface rather than Avivo Video Converter’s boring text interface."
Yesky: http://diy.yesky.com/vga/335/8681335.shtml (Chinese)
 

The 12 Days of NVIDIA promotion, in which Badaboom is included, has been extended to January 5th!   Check it out at http://www.nvidia.com/object/12_days.html