Hello. I have just purchased Topaz Video AI and I can’t figure out how to use it within Premiere Pro. I have tried everything. I know I can use it as a standalone application and export - but that seems counterintuitive - if you have to degrade the image you are trying to improve by having to export it first. I’m sure I’m missing something obvious - but please help. I am going quickly insane.
The dev team is still working on a plug-in feature for Adobe Premiere at this time. The current work flow is to send the video file out of Premiere and bring into Video AI for processing and then reimport it back.
You can also use the plug-in for After Effects and send the video from your timeline over as a comp and work with it that way.
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News about the Premiere Pro Plug-in? 
Still on the list for the app.
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Great News… thanks
Is there a roadmap for this Premiere plugin for Video AI? I am working on a feature documentary with a lot of low res archival material. We would like to be able to apply Topaz upscaling on the fly within Premiere when we are exporting our rough cuts during the offline edit. It would help us to know if this is something that will be coming next month, or in 6 months, or if it’s not even started yet. I own Video AI now but we may buy another tool to do this instead if you won’t release this soon.
It’s not practical for us to do our exports through a turnover to After Effects or Resolve every time and re-apply the upscaling effects on the specific clips that need it. It’s also not practical to run the entire export through Topaz when different shots need different settings and many shots don’t need upscaling at all.
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I understand there is no update on this topic 
Hi.
Topaz Video can be used as plugin for both DaVinci Resolve and Adobe After Effects No Plugin for Adobe Premiere although I think I heard somewhere it was still in Development.
If someone else knows more perhaps they can confirm one way or another
Yeah, it was told in this thread two years ago
”The dev team is still working on a plug-in feature for Adobe Premiere at this time.”
Short answer is that, yes, this is still on the list for the devs but it is a very complicated and time consuming process to develop and get working.
The longer answer is that there are a lot of different issues with creating this plug-in to work with the models and how they run. The After Effects and Resolve plug-ins are still running into issues with working as they should and these are being tweaked and worked on as they can be. The team is still talking to Adobe about how to get a Premiere plug-in developed.
However, the thing to keep in mind is that as heavy as the models are to run within the apps current GUI, that workload does not change when being called as a plug-in into another apps interface. When a larger video project is open in Resolve, After Effects, or any other app that draws a lot of memory resources to maintain and then adding on top the AI processes with our models is quite a lot for systems to handle, especially when most of the editing apps now use live render processes that run in the background.
When they make enough headway to release a beta version of it, we will be sure to let everyone know and push it via marketing emails and notifications. They have not forgotten about it, nor is the support team letting them. I personally prefer Premiere over Resolve and would like to use the models within it but I know it will still take awhile for videos to render and will have to change my workflow to how it used to be before real time rendering was a thing in editing apps, with renders running overnight and reviewing in the morning.
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Hey,
thanks for the detailed reply! Is good to know the reasons behind why it is not supported yet.
Hope you can get to a solution, though I understand it’s not easy to apply the same “plug-in” for different software interfaces.
At least you know there are some people interested in this feature.
I see that you already replied to it before, but…
Is there an official “workaround” (not considering forum/Reddit/community… ) for working with Premiere? I couldn’t find it on the website
Thanks!
The easiest way to work with files in Premiere, is to actually export them out and bring them into Topaz Video for processing and then replace them back after they are done. The workflow is similar to sending sections of video out for VFX workflow.
