Congratulations to the technical people behind Video AI, and fixing the dropping of last frames when rendering out in Pro Res files.
In Topaz’ Video AI v.3.3.2 Stabilization of video is still very slow, and may even be halting entirely? I have imported a short three second 4K (3840x 2160) clip, and after ten minutes Video AI still has not produced a preview.
PS: After experimentation I have discovered two passes does not provide a preview at all, whereas one pass produces a preview and render after some time.
Hey there! I moved this to the general section since this is not a new feature
Stabilization is slow by nature and any additional passes that it is asked to perform will slow things down even more. It will continue to get faster with training.
Thank you, I appreciate Video AI’s Stabilization is by nature slow and I have noticed if the passes option is ignored it reads and renders more quickly.
I am particularly enjoying Video AI’s slow motion tool, dubbed appropriately Chronos.
As your colleagues at Topaz Labs would know Chronos was the name of the tool Britain’s The Foundry gave to a time remapping tool designed for Adobe’s After Effects nearly twenty years ago. Artists were disappointed when The Foundry discontinued this tool for AE, and moved it over to their flagship application Nuke. Today, I believe Topaz Lab’s Chronos is probably the best motion time remapping tool on the market.
On another subject your AI digital tools for still image enhancement are wonderful, however the sharpening in both the still tool set and Video AI have no means to customise the sharpening. Do you think your team would be interested in developing parameters to affect the fine, medium and coarse sharpening of stills and motion film?
Wow, that is very interesting! While I cannot speak for the entire team, this did not cross my mind. All of the Topaz Video AI models are named after Greek Gods and I do not believe that Chronos was chosen due to the tool Britain’s The Foundry.
You actually can customize the sharpness in the image apps and in Topaz Video AI For Topaz Video AI, select Proteus and from here choose “manual” which will allow you to adjust the level of sharpening
Thank you Ida. Yes, I realise sharpness can be manually adjusted in TopazLabs’ Video AI. In any event being able to do this with fine medium and coarse level parameters would take this app’ to another level.
Yes. I just bought Topaz, stabilization is so slow it’s unusable, waiting and waiting and waiting for any kind of preview. We don’t have this kind of time. DaVinci does a whole clip in like 1 second.
Paul T. Fisher, I do not see the purchase of Topaz Labs’ Video AI a poor investment. Yes, this app’s stabilisation is currently quite slow, and that isn’t just because US motion software vendors would have us all believe everything digital task can be done in three seconds, with no errors or delay.
But seriously, this is an app’ that is evolving exponentially with each passing month. I expect that even the engineers working on it do not fully know where it may go in the years ahead.
As a film-maker who works in numbers of applications and plugins, I recommend giving this app’ the benefit of the doubt. Work if you wish in DaVinci Resolve (most people who view it is as the industry standard still do). But just remember BlackMagic have been rather quick in the past to remove DaVinci’s film restoration app’, and plonk only its dust removal tool in their flagship Resolve app’. Much is the pity. Still, Diamant’s Dust Buster + has stepped in and scooped all Blackmagic’s customers wishing to do film restoration.
