I’ve used Topaz on footage for VHS tapes, and it’s worked wonders. A VHS tape using the Iris AI model would take about 6 hours and improved the quality greatly.
I have Sony cam footage from a camcorder that’s about 10 years old and has created MTS files. I stitch all those together using Adobe Media Encoder (MP4), and then use Gaia, but the results are negligible. Not only that, a 10-minute clip outputting into an MKV file takes about 2 hours. So 6 hours of footage takes 3 or more days to convert.
Viewing the output it really doesn’t seem to be any better and there doesn’t seem to be an AI model that improves the footage. Is there any point using topaz on footage captured by fairly modern camcorders?
i have a fairly high spec machine running with a Nvidia geoforce rtx 3060ti
I assume your MTS files are already at high quality (1080p), the only reason I would see why Topaz would be used for your footage is mainly if you want to upscale your videos (e.g. to 4K). another option is if you need to clean noise in low light conditions for example or camera shake in case you have it and you want to stabilize your footage or convert to high frame rate and/or do slow motion scenes.
the Tool is not meant to make your current already High quality video look “Wow”, it’s not it’s intent.
it’s not a video editing tool. it’s main mission statement is “upscaling”…
If you need none of the above uses cases I mentioned and what @gene-8240 responded, then this is not the tool for you for the video in question.
My footage is purely family videos. As I mentioned it worked wonders on VHS footage from 30 years ago, so it definitely served a purpose. Later camera footage from this past decade there wasn’t much improvement to be made. Maybe if it was faster I’d let it run through my footage but I guess I was trying to find a reason to justify running it for days on my pc. The things you’ve mentioned Cleaning noise in some sections and converting it to a higher frame rate for me presently doesn’t justify the time. So i guess i’ll just leave it and maybe a couple of years down the line if its faster and improves the quality i’ll look into converting these. Thanks for your response and helping me clarify my position.
It strongly relies on the individual source. Some are recovored better than others. If you find settings where you really would like to get your videos processed with I might help you out a bit. Would also be good to get a short file for download to test with.
@ the developers: It would be great to have an option to save all settings to a simple ascii file to enable us to provide our settings easy to the forum.
Wow that a lot sharper thank you. I’ll give those setting a go.
I’m probably going to regret asking this, as I’ve already sharpened all the vhs footage i have, but is there any other settings you’d recommend for vhs?
I got my tapes converted by a guy i met face to face on ebay. he was actually a tv producer and had a lot of video equipment at home and did conversions. so i think i got the best quality that i could from the tapes. I used topaz and its worked wonders, but i also figure if they can be improved then i might as well get it done now.
This is footage from 30 year ago… almost to the day. I am actually happy witht he reult considering its a tape from 30 years ago, but if theres anything you can recommend i’d be more than happy to try it out.
