Dave yes that’s a good point, but many times the manufacturer/programmer holds back - maybe to put the “feature” in the NEXT version - so as to extract the most dollars possible from the customer. Or, maybe they just don’t realize how much a given feature is needed.
One thing about the possibilities of a pause button is that my computer can go to SLEEP while processing, and then Topaz will pick up where it left off when the computer wakes up. Meaning it kinda feels to me like a pause button is more-or-less built into that process somewhere.
Anyway, what do I know - except the lack of a pause button is sorely felt by a lot of users.
Have you tried Process Lasso? It has a suspend and resume function, I just tried it and it seems to work (you need to suspend the ffmpeg process not the Video AI gui).
But actually though, if I’m reading the docs correctly, Process Lasso may render pausing ffmpeg.exe, moot? That the computer will keep running smoothly, or relatively smoothly, while VAI/ffmpeg.exe is running?
I haven’t dived too deeply into it but you can probably set the amount of resources used by Video AI (probably by adjusting the parameters for ffmpeg.exe)
the app video ai is great but need some options it’s helpful i hope you make it available :
1- options after task finish like i can chose to close computer or sleep computer or close app or do nothing.
2-add color for video B/W.
Hey there! these are both already feature requests!
Please vote for the item that corresponds with your request! I merged this to the pause and resume thread, you will want to vote for the colorization thread as well.
The inability to pause processing makes about 3/4 of the work I’d like to do with Topaz totally impractical.
I would enormously benefit from the ability to pause processing in the middle of a video, but even just the baby step of adding the ability to pause the QUEUE so the current job finishes and no more are started would be tremendously valuable. I can’t fathom why at least that programmatically trivial option isn’t available after all this time. Look to Handbrake for how this should function.
My registration has lapsed because this is the only meaningful feature I need. I would re-subscribe for another year of updates if this feature was added.
