OK, So like everyone here, I got tired of losing all progress Starlight made on a video when it will decide to error out. SO, I coded a simple robocopier BAT program that will make copies of the temp file Starlight makes so you will have a video (audio is not saved, but you can always source that in later) to at least work with and will allow you to trim in where it left off in Topaz video. The script is designed to make a backup copy of the starlight temp video every 60 seconds, and keep the last 5 backups. After 5, it will simply erase the oldest file while creating the latest file.
Open Notebook and copy the below contents of the script into it, and save it as Startlight_Autosave.bat (I save the BAT file to my source folder of my videos)
On the user settings, fill in the appropriate folders/file names for your own application. Keep the quotes.
And that’s it. When starlight crashes, you don’t loose the progress made, and you can edit it all back together in your favorite video editor. This is what I have been doing upscaling old Viper tv episodes, and sometimes ill have a few minutes rendered, or a few seconds, but I can sew them all back together in Premiere and export all at once when done.
======================PASTE BELOW THIS LINE INTO .BAT FILE=======================
@echo off
setlocal EnableExtensions EnableDelayedExpansion
title Topaz Checkpoint Monitor (60s)
REM ========= USER SETTINGS =========
set “SRC=C:\WHATEVER FOLDER YOU ARE SAVING TO/SOURCING FROM”
set “FILE=THIS WILL BE THE TEMP FILE STARLIGHT CREATE_LONG NUMBER.mp4”
set “DST=C:\WHEREEVER FOLDER YOU WANT THE BACKUPS SAVED TO”
set “INTERVAL_SECONDS=60”
set “KEEP_CHECKPOINTS=5”
REM ========= SETUP =========
if not exist “%DST%” mkdir “%DST%”
set “LAST_DST_SIZE=”
:loop
REM Timestamp
for /f %%I in (‘powershell -NoProfile -Command “Get-Date -Format yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss”’) do set “NOW=%%I”
REM Source size
set “SRC_SIZE=—”
if exist “%SRC%%FILE%” (
for %%A in (“%SRC%%FILE%”) do set “SRC_SIZE=%%~zA”
)
REM Copy attempt
robocopy “%SRC%” “%DST%” “%FILE%” /Z /R:0 /W:0 /NFL /NDL /NP /NJH /NJS >nul
REM Destination size
set “DST_SIZE=—”
if exist “%DST%%FILE%” (
for %%A in (“%DST%%FILE%”) do set “DST_SIZE=%%~zA”
)
REM Checkpoint only if size changed
set “CHECKPOINT=NO”
if not “%DST_SIZE%”==“—” (
if not “%DST_SIZE%”==“%LAST_DST_SIZE%” (
for /f %%T in (‘powershell -NoProfile -Command “Get-Date -Format yyyy-MM-dd_HH-mm-ss”’) do set “TS=%%T”
copy /Y “%DST%%FILE%” “%DST%\checkpoint_%TS%.mp4” >nul
set “CHECKPOINT=YES”
set “LAST_DST_SIZE=%DST_SIZE%”
)
)
REM Cleanup: keep newest N checkpoints
for /f “skip=%KEEP_CHECKPOINTS% delims=” %%F in (’
dir /b /a:-d /o:-d “%DST%\checkpoint_*.mp4” 2^>nul
') do del /q “%DST%%%F” >nul 2>&1
REM Countdown display
set /a COUNT=%INTERVAL_SECONDS%
:countdown
cls
echo ==========================================================
echo Topaz Checkpoint Monitor (Ctrl+C to stop)
echo ==========================================================
echo Time : %NOW%
echo Source Size : %SRC_SIZE% bytes
echo Backup Size : %DST_SIZE% bytes
echo Checkpoint : %CHECKPOINT%
echo Keeping : %KEEP_CHECKPOINTS% newest checkpoints
echo ----------------------------------------------------------
echo Next copy in %COUNT% seconds…
echo ==========================================================
if %COUNT% LEQ 0 goto loop
set /a COUNT-=1
timeout /t 1 /nobreak >nul
goto countdown
