After a few experiments with some my worst footage, I’m very impressed. On my test footage previously, Proteus’s noise removal often created a strange ‘grainy’ texture that would appear intermittently in different areas which was quite noticeable on skin. Proteus did a great job overall with noise …

Here’s an example of my first Iris encode, using Wings footage from 1976. This was a case of requiring a lot of recover detail/recover original detail. My processing path was de-interlacing and convert to 1:1 square pixel in Hybrid before processing with Iris in TVAI. Within TVAI, this was a one-pa…

What are the Proteus settings you’re using after Iris? I thought I could get away using Proteus to sharpen up my Iris renders, but it still tends do unforgivable stuff with people’s faces. Then again, the videos I’m working with are probably in much worse condition than your DVD example. For the mo…

Almost none… Manual: Revert Compression: 0 Recover Details: 0 Sharpen: 0 Reduce Noise: 0 Dehalo: 0 Anti-Alias/Deblur: 10 Add Noise: 0 Recover Additional Detail: 20 But I forgot to mention before that I’ve downscaled the Iris pass from 1080p to 576p (1024x576) and upscaled 200% (2048x1152) …

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Is your memory usage set to 100% ( Topaz Video AI > Preferences)?

Don’t set the memory to 100% on Apple silicon for SD upscales as this will reduce performance. See e.g. here: [image] Video AI v3.3.X - User Benchmarking Results User Benchmarks Mac Studio 2023 with M2 ultra (24c CPU / 60c GPU): Upscaling DVD with RAM at 100%: Topaz Vid…

Hey there! I am investigating this user’s case and for this reason, I do need them to raise their memory usage. Thanks!

ffmpeg seems to be not really optimized for M2 and/or multiple cores at really high counts. Handbrake which heavily relies on ffmpeg as well e.g. here is only slightly faster on the M2 Ultra (24 cores CPU and 60 cores GPU) than on a M1 Pro (10c CPU / 16c GPU) when doing a single encode. Only when …

I tried both scenarios in M1 8GB and M2 16GB minis. 10% memory 1.8 FPS on M1 and 1.1 FPS on M2 100% memory 2.2 FPS on M1 and 1.7 FPS on M2 I still don’t understand why M2 is less capable. And this happens not only with Iris but with every model Is there any chance I have a malfunctioning M2? I…

We are looking into this now and I will update you ASAP, thank you for sharing these details with us

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jo.vo June 27, 2023, 5:12pm 35

Don’t set the memory to 100% on Apple silicon for SD upscales as this will reduce performance.

See e.g. here: