Topaz Video AI 5.3.2
Among the available models, Iris produces by far the most pleasing result when processing material like “The Love Garden” (1971). See attached input sample: sample.zip (9.3 MB)
Unfortunately it tries too hard to enhance faces that are far away, resulting in distorted facial features.
Here is a frame that reveals the damaging effect:
I suggest to add a switch to turn off face processing.
Have you tried Iris LQ V1 at 2x upscale or Rhea (not XL!) at 1x?
How can I get Iris LQ V1?
Rhea seems better but it is so slow.
I guess you need to turn on the „enable previous models“ setting in the prefs (the Advanced tab).
Then you should be able to select Iris LQ V1:
Thank you.
Iris LQ V1 looks almost the same as Iris Medium quality (my first choice), only a bit duller.
Well, with Iris LQ V1 you’ll likely have to use own parameters as Auto isn’t really good here.
Especially a high positive value for the Antialias/Deblur setting should be used (e.g. +60), for bad old material also values of +40-60 for fix compression and recover details.
You might want to use a bit of sharpening (+15) as well and - depending on the source also small positive values for dehalo (8-10).
Iris is basically Proteus with facial that people were screaming for at the time.
So use Proteus.
I was never able to reproduce the same effect as Iris using Proteus. Will try again to meddle with the parameters.
I beg to differ as Proteus seems to smudge texture details while Iris does not. Even when using manual parameters for proteus it still does this.
We all know that - and also, everyone that has used Proteus quite much and now uses Iris can tell you that Iris really is different to Proteus in quite some aspects (most often better IMO) besides face recovery.
Thus the recurring requests for an Iris model without face recovery that also are as old as the Iris model itself…
Okay I get it but I have a serious problem with Iris - it makes hair for example into a fuzzy blocky mess
It has the same effect on short hair it makes them into small needles and has a very unnatural look even when using auto setting.
I know others may be just simply going with Proteus but that again smudges textures and eliminates details on skin for example
