Every time I use Topaz for slow motion, whether that be a preset (4x or 8x) or simply try to up the frame rate and slow down in Resolve I get a start-stop effect. Roughly once every second the video will slow down to nearly stopped then go pick back up, start, stop, start, stop. This happens regardless of the AI model, and it happens regardless of the sensitivity settings/duplicate frame settings. Resolve also does not find any duplicate frames when I try to fix it in post so I don’t think that’s the issue.
I’ve tried many different shots, from multiple cameras (Ursa Mini 4k, GoPro Hero 11, Mavic Air 2), all have the same effect.
Double check that your original video does not have a duplicate frames as these will show when the footage is slowed down as a stutter or pause. The easiest way to see this is to put the clip into Resolve or Premiere and zoom in so that you can step forward through a second of the footage and see if the footage hangs on a frame.
I appreciate your response but I have already looked for that, as mentioned above I tried this with several source files from different cameras (Ursa Mini 4k, GoPro Hero 11, Mavic Air 2), Resolve picked up no duplicate frames. I also scrolled through and found none
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I uploaded an original as well as the slowed version, look at the 00:20 mark to see what I’m talking about. I can send a dozen more with the same issue
I suppose thats excellent knews, knowing a problem means there is a solution. I should mention that is not the original source file, the original was filmed in cinema DNG (which topaz doesn’t accept), this was bounced out of Resolve then into Topaz. Can you tell me where the extra frames are or how to find them? When I go through frame by frame there arent any. Similarly when I have Resolve check for duplicates it finds none. Also when I set Topaz to the highest sensitivity it also finds none. I can include shots from a gopro and/or drone (not DNG files) which have the same end result so I’m guessing it’s not an issue with the Davinci export
The Resolve duplicate check only looks for instances that a piece of footage has been used more than once, not that the footage itself has duplicated frames.
Jacob in the past, I have had to go in manually and remove them which is time consuming.
If you can share the original cinema DNG I can run a test on that as well to see if there is a better way to convert the video that does not introduce these duplicate frames.
I would very much appreciate that, I will upload the original now. Kind of confused though as I just looked through that file again on my end and still do not see any duplicate frames when I bring it into Resolve. I scrub through in the timeline one frame at a time and there are no duplicates. I only use Topaz for limited sections in any given video so I wouldn’t be too bothered having to cut them out manually, but I can’t seem to even get them to appear in my timeline.
This is genuinely the first time I have ever had an issue resolved on a forum site. I work extensively in music production and video production and I’m so accustomed to sending out every detail about the situation (including details on every piece of hardware and software) only to receive zero help in the end, that I suppose I’ve become a little jaded about the whole process. I very much appreciate your help, and that you took the time to show the exact steps to get to the end result I’m looking for. Thank you for staying positive, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve walked away from a chat with support crew only to be twice as frustrated as I was when I first reached out.
