I am transferring Video8 videos to an Apple MAC using QuickTime Player to save them.
QuickTime Player has two “Quality” options: High(default) and Maximum. Topaz can process the “High” videos but aborts on the “Maximum” videos. Of course I want the quality as high as possible.
High produces H264 and Maximum produces Apple ProRes 422. It appears that Topaz doesn’t support Apple ProRes 422 for input. Is that correct? Can the support be added?
Video AI can handle and process ProRes files, can you upload the logs for review or send them to the support team directly if you do not want to share them on the forum. help@topazlabs.com
To gather logs, open the app and select Help > Logging > Get Logs for Support, and attach the zip file to your reply.
Still going over them and trying to get some clarification on the errors in them. Looks like a possible issues with the input file format and codec in regards to the audio streams. Trying to get some answers on workflows to resolve it besides just re-encoding the original file to a different format and bringing it in.
John, I was able to run an export on the sample clip you sent using the export settings of ProRes, Audio Mode Copy and the container MOV and have it work.
Here is that export using the Rhea model on auto. I would suggest trying the manual parameters on Rhea to dial in what you are looking for. Also going from 480 to 4k is going to be tough without some distortion in one jump.