Thanks for showing this to us Topaz. Please listen to what the other feedback has said — I favourite’d some of the ones I agreed with.
Please do NOT be afraid to change your plans if they’re bad ones. If users want the UI to go in a different direction to you, be very thoughtful on your next steps.
Look at all the greatest successful software in history — Word, Excel, web browsers — they were careful in their evolution. When they made small changes so things got easier, it was great. When they made a big change that added extra steps, it was hugely unpopular.
I have a question about this but I haven’t got energy to focus on right now —
If I want to tweak ALL the advanced settings to find the optimal ones, and compare various settings with each other, will this new GUI help me compare Setting A with Setting B with Setting C, comparing them quickly? I just want to do rapid comparisons on a specific frame. Or a few specific frames that I nominate, hopefully.
Is this design concept making that easier, harder, or the same … ?
I use VEAI to tweak the sharpness and noise on my VR 8K videos. When the screen is an inch or so away from your face you need all the sharpness and no noise!
I LIKE the layout now and the new one is pretty but maybe too simplified. Perhaps a switch to toggle the way we have it now and the new format. This new layout would actually slow me down with extra steps to get to the manual settings. One thing that we really need is a PAUSE button. That would be much more helpful!
I am not very involved with the UI. Right now it is only used as a source for CLI command examples—since we don’t have detailed CLI documentation available to us.
There are a lot of users that are coming from some software that they know and use often. I have no idea what sort of copyright issues Topaz might have to deal with if they wanted to mimic such software. Regardless, it’s impossible to please everyone.
I agree with @domdom less clicks is king.
Give us pop-out windows. Make the multi-monitor people happy. I don’t plan to ever have more than one monitor, but I can alt-tab with the best of them.
It’s sounding to me like everyone would be fine if there were multiple versions of the UI—provided Topaz actually knuckles down and finishes one of them.
I appreciate the new concept design but prefer the current gui design over the concept. For me it’s mainly just being used to the current workflow layout and really not looking forward to learning a new one just yet. The concept one does appear to require more clicking through versus current GUI.
If it’s a matter of Topaz dev resources being allocated, I would personally prefer to see the resources going toward new models/improving upscaling video quality/processing speeds.
Hello, if the future version solves the following problems, it will be a good thing.
About the current version:
I don’t understand why we lost the real-time view of the video being processed.
Even worse: when clicking a clip processed, it opens in an external player and not in TVEAI.
In other words, there is absolutely no way to view the enhancements while they are under progress (and to compare them with the original), like before.
Therefore, one has to always make “previews”, which is annoying and time consuming.
In the past, I could simply launch a batch and have a look from time to time, to see if the result looks good, even before finishing a video processing. So I could stop in case of problem.
Not to mention that the arrangement of the left and right video players, and the lines beneath (in preview panel, with blue and purple) are extremely confusing. (One has to click there to see something changing, I already forgot what).
Modern “UX” where things are multiple clicks to action but looks clean is a complete disaster. From YouTube to my Pixel phone where it takes multiple presses just to silence the damn thing (iPhone has a physical switch!) - things are going backwards.
Please do your best to avoid also doing this with your UX/UI…
Listen to the criticisms but don’t mess with it so hard that it actually becomes a PITA to do anything!
I don’t like where everything is going.
The settings “get lost” somewhere, and I want to see them all the time.
The only way to conveniently display full-size video and conversion settings is to move settings to a separate window (on a second monitor).
In the current version I have disabled “Compare Mode”.
Personally I don’t want the GUI to change again. I would say the time and effort would be better spent improving and tweaking the current v4.
Unless, as someone said above, the current GUI will be accessible under an ‘advanced’ mode, I don’t want to use this new GUI. This is supposed to be a professional product. The interface should be advanced looking. Not all the controls hidden.
it might be that Topaz wants to market this tool also for novice users as part of their business model. that would make sense why they would want to simplify the UI.
as long as I can do easy batch process by selecting all and set the settings for the batch without the need to set it up one by one and I have the CRTL+SHIT+E and CTRL+T. I am fine with whatever UI there is personally. 70% of the UI today I barely use anyways. I don’t use preview at all.
In my honest opinion, the apparent GUI redesign is a waste of money and should be stopped now.
I had no trouble with the GUI in v2.x. With v3 and v4, we have spent a lot of money on GUI development, and now we are going to waste even more money?
It is appalling that the annual membership fee is being used for such a waste of money.
What users want to see is a beautifully output image.
It is not a beautiful GUI.
As someone who is currently working on a large scale project of upscaling thousands of videos from SD/HD to 4K, such changes to the UI would be wasted on me and if anything more infuriating to use than the current interface of v4.
At the moment I’m having to constantly spoon feed TVAI small batches of videos to upscale, as when you get above say 20-30 files to batch encode, unless you have a large screen, the interface cannot cope all that well with that number of files in both the input and output panels and the overall management of batch encodes is incredibly limited compared the plethora of media encoders that have been developed over that last 20 plus years.
I’d fully support a ‘pro’ or ‘batch’ mode that has much better batch encoding functionality (for starters showing the input section as a list and not thumbnail only view) and the ability to drag/drop the order of items and have better overall selection and option controls on item in both panels…oh and the ability to pause would be nice!
I feel that this design will just bog down CPU and GPU resources needed for the actual renders. The current GUI is more than good enough. Something I would improve instead of the GUI is Nyx’s model. The current Nyx HQ model does a worse job at de-noising footage than DaVinci’s temporal and spatial models, which should not be the case given how good the up-scaling models are.
In line with what others have said, in this scenario if I choose the enhancement settings for one scene then click on another, I’d want those same settings to stay open. Having to click through various menus / dialogs each time I wanted to make a change would be very annoying.
That said, it’s very hard for me to judge something like this just by watching a video - but while this approach looks nice, it seems to have some of the same failings as the current interface - namely that adjusting and previewing settings can be a little cumbersome. What I would value (amongst other things) would be an interface that let me tweak / view the results of that tweak as quickly and seamlessly as possible.
And, like others, what I would value more would be improvements to the various models.
In my opinion, this GUI is looking better, cleaner and simplified but needs drop down on the sides just like FCP that can appear and disappear, also would be nice to have light exposure control, and pause/resume button. thank you.
The current UI is really good doing the settings on the right from top to bottom…
What i really love what´s could be new is that the current KI-Setting is on the left side and it can be modified a lot of time on the right directly seeing how things would change…
And that Scene-Based KI-Settings could be the game changer making TVAI so powerful that you can look through the entire video and change settings for some scenes that look not the way it should…making it able to produce a perfect output without rerendering the complete video a lot of times.
I already thought about to make different Exports and switch beween different exports with DaVinci-Resolve…but that is a lot of extra work.
With this scene based system it would be possible to see each problem that could happen and correct it directly saving a lot of time.
Are there outstanding complaints against the UIs of TVAI 3 and 4? Yes. Would changing the UI resolve those complaints? Potentially. It would need to be done right. Slowly. A little change here. A little change there.
Do I like the current UI? No. Compare the amount of wasted space to the UI of Blender. Blender feels like there are so many more settings presented and so much more view-port area—yet it’s the same amount of pixels being used. Now look at the proposed new UI. It is better at not wasting space?
