I’m seeking advice on the most efficient way to enhance a movie from 1948. One minute clip available from my GDrive here.
I guess Starlight (or SeedVR2) would be your best guess here.
What hardware do you have?
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In a short try I wasn’t really impressed by the SeedVR2 result (which turned out similar to naxcis result), so I’m trying a Starlight encode.
Hi. I don’t have a dedicated setup for video processing. Just an office desktop with i7, 64 GB, and an Intel graphics card. I don’t mind using the cloud, even if expensive. Still, I’d prefer to limit the processing of a 2 hour video to one or two passes, thus this request for advice.
For reference here is a sample of the video you shared that was processed with Nyx and the new Proteus Natural models retaining the input resolution size for minimal distortions from upscaling.
Thanks Kyle. That’s extremely helpful.
Tony
Welcome, you can also try just running Nyx or Artemis for denoising and some light sharpening to help without overly processing the video and losing the texture and look of the video. Its a classic film, so leaving the film scratches, the slight jitter from the film moving through the projector from the original source is part of the character of the film.
This is a “quick’n’dirty” (except that Startlight never is quick) attempt with Focus Fix and Starlight mini:
Video clip_starlight_mini.zip (18.3 MB)
-although there are some issues with repetitive patterns I like that result more than the flickering mess SeedVR2 created there. And it’s MUCH more detailed than the Nyx approach.
Agreed. That’s very nice.
I don’t see where to add the ‘Focus Fix’ option (see below). Any advice?
EDIT: Oh, is it just the Starlight Sharp model variant?
Starlight does not support Focus Fix.
It’s available on the classic models only - Proteus, Iris etc.
So then Starlight or SeedVr2 is anyway not an option, does not work with onboard graphics.
On the Mac it does:
And I believe it’s also available on Windows, you just need to trick the GUI to enable it.
If you first select e.g. Proteus and check the Focus fix there and after that change to Starlight the upscale options are suddenly locked/deactivated (as it is when Focus fix is enabled, so I guess this setting is carrying over and was just forgotten to integrate with Starlight) - and also from the result I’d say it DOES focus fix.
No, the standard Starlight (formerly and now again ”mini”).
P.S.: Regarding “quick’n’dirty” - this rendering took 16min:20secs for that short clip on a RTX 5070TI/16GB.
But it IS a one-step thing as the focus fix does the otherwise often advisable downscaling. So just load your film, select the focus fix, then Starlight and export.
And then have LOTS of patience
Nope, doesn’t happening.
But I’d be happy to have that option.
