The first prototype of the Video AI 3 GUI is now available for Windows and Mac.
We have noticed that many of you have been waiting for a GUI release before testing the quality of output. As such we are releasing a very early prototype of the GUI for you!
Install experience
Video stabilization
Output quality
Color shifting
HDR
Audio
Frame skipping
Overall workflow experience
Range of format support
Any missing features from the existing app you’d like to see again
Any crash reports
Are you able to playback video after the app crashes
etc, etc.
We will be releasing many updates over the next month to get the app up to production quality. There are currently over 100s known issues, so we will not be attaching a full list to this post.
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The command line for macOS has a little problem if we copy it and execute it in a terminal. /Applications/Topaz Labs LLC/Topaz Video AI ALPHA.app/Contents/MacOS/ffmpeg -hide_banner -nostdin -y -hwaccel auto -ss 0 -t 69.962 -i /Users/ibobby/Movies/Downloads/Video 1.mov -filter_complex crop=1280:720:0:0,veai_up=model=prob-2:estimate=30:scale=2:preblur=0.037495:noise=0.136735:details=0.33096:halo=0.1139:blur=0.437269:compression=0.696276,veai_fi=model=chr-2:slowmo=1:fps=60 -c:v hevc_qsv -profile main -preset slow -max_frame_size 65534 -global_quality 20 -pix_fmt yuv420p -movflags frag_keyframe+empty_moov <outputVideoPath>
The ffmpeg path includes space, so adding quotation marks will work, like "/Applications/Topaz Labs LLC/Topaz Video AI ALPHA.app/Contents/MacOS/ffmpeg" -hide_banner ......
The same to do with the input path, just simply -i "/Users/ibobby/Movies/Downloads/Video 1.mov", remeber to do the same thing with the output
macOS doesn’t support qsv, so it’s better to use VideoToolbox, -c:v hevc_videotoolbox. Even right now, the exporting function within the application is not working, it shows Ffmpeg cmd option error: Unrecognized option 'preset'. Error splitting the argument list: Option not found. I’m not sure if it’s my problem, but intel qsv certainly can not be accessed by FFmpeg in macOS.
Is it possible to enable the options -ss for starting time, -t for total time and the filter crop only when they’re set, I’m not sure what impact there will be if they’re set when to the default value, but I’d rather they’re not there if I didn’t set them.
The idea is to have projects and store previews in the project to make future comparisons easily without having to process again. Ideally the delete option should delete the file as well.
1 & 2 should already be happening in the actual call.
3. I see the mess here. It should be using hevc_videotoolbox which doesn’t support for the -preset option. We should be able to get the libx264 and libx265 licenses soon, so it should be included in the build for better options and quality support on both Mac/windows.
4. agreed, it should not be adding a crop filter with the size equal to the frame size.
Comparison view along with other views is on the list of features to add.
Any “non-upscaling” preset is showing incorrect information in the preview output text, defaulting to 2880x1920 and 400%. The output file itself is fine, just the text in the preview area is wrong.
You should be able to delete the preview, but it doesn’t delete the file right now (BUG). There will be multi-select or select all option in the future so you should be able to delete the preview files.
Why the preview don’t work for encode video ? Left preview is work but right don’t. Why ?
Do we have to activate something for the preview to work? Or did I miss something?
@suraj The logs store the users password in plain text
This is the relevant line:
2022-04-15 08-45-36 Thread: 380 Info “C:/Program Files/Topaz Labs LLC/Topaz Video AI ALPHA/login” QList(“email”, “password”) true
I have one thing to say about the video encoding for export, it is much slower than version 2.6.4, is it normal that it is a bit slow and slower than version 2? Is it expected that the encoding will be faster in the future?
