I think it would be a good idea to have the option to remove dust and scratches. This would make it very convenient when upscaling, as we would no longer have to remove dust and scratches beforehand. Think about it, Topaz Labs! Thanks!
I’d love this option!
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Perfect for fixing old 35mm film which is what VEAI is used for often times.
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Yes, Dust and Scratch remove operation will be a powerful asset. Especially within the Video Enhance AI.
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I’m surprised this isn’t an option already, to be honest.
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Why re-invent the wheel? Many apps that can do that for you. On the cheap side use Neat Video.
VEAI should concentrate on one thing – upscaling, in my opinion.
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- flicker remove
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I asked for several Pre-AI deinterlacing functions, flicker removal would be great too!
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Again – Neat Video continues to upgrade their plugin to remove dust and scratches for Macs. It works much faster with the M1 / M2 chips. It doesn’t crash and is seamless.
Why? Simple answer: I don’t want to buy another product after just having paid $299 to buy one. You may already have a large box of video tools, I don’t.
I do not agree that Video AI should only do upscaling - in that case they should rename it “Video Upscaler AI”. That is what it currently is, in my opinion.
Dust&scratches removal was a feature I have expected in this packet. I was very disappointed about the bad (actually non-existing) abilities on enhancing older video material, at least dust removal I would have expected as part of the denoising. Video AI works pretty good on good/high-quality input when upscaling, but its performance with bad-quality films (I love 20s and 30s films) it is rather disappointing.
Actually, I only didn’t return it because it works so well on scaling up my 1080p material of modern films to 4k - important since I have a large 4K screen. This was not the main reason I purchased it for, but at least a useful side effect. As a pure upscaler it gives pretty good results, but only if the input material is at least good, better high quality.
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What are you talking about ?
Since when does digital video need dust and scratch removal ?
Your talking about a niche few that are transfering from tape to digital.
This should be done at the transfer stage.
And older films like 20 and 30’s material needs frame by frame work.
This is still being talked about?
Buy the right tools for the job. This is for upscaling only and hmm not the top solution.
Even NEAT video can help get rid of those scratches. It is cheap.
It’s still being talked about because Topaz originally sold Video AI as a tool that could effortlessly improve vintage footage in ways that users don’t seem to be able to replicate using the current version of the tool.
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I would really check out Neat for their dust and scratch removal. They have version 6 now – if you are using a Mac the speed of rendering is 2x as the previous version. I just upgraded today. It is very fast if you have a M4.
NEAT does one profile running over the full video, right? I like the manual area slection of noise that should be removed like NEAT does. This brings me to an idea:
Suppose TVAI had something like NEAT (or reall NEAT Plugin) and you can mark the noise to be removed into TVAI in several Images/scenes…then TVAI calculate average values for all other frames for denoise. The more frames you denoise by hand, the better TVAI does the denoise over the full video 
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