I am completely confused on how to do batch processing with Topaz Video AI. Basically, I want to drag/drop a collection of source videos into the UI, then set them all up to one configuration, and let them go and process while I do other things. The copy/pasting of settings doesn’t seem to work as expected at all, and when I do get some settings set manually and queue up several videos, they all fail on me. I believe it has to do with the fact that I checked marked scene detection, but that’s essential for my needs and I don’t understand why it doesn’t work.
Is there an online tutorial (e.g. youtube) that explains how to do batching of videos in Video AI? Why are they all failing on me?
I’m on 7.1.1 and I just did a batch today. In the source window I just clicked the multiple files I want to render then clicked the enhancements and settings in the right hand panel, then click the quick export button in the absolute bottom right corner. The quick export bypass the file naming customizations and just starts rendering with the selected settings info the default save path, likely next to the source vids.
I’m on 7.1.3. That’s what I would expect as a behavior, but when I go to the source window and click on any of the sources, it immediately opens the timeline screen for that source. I have no ability to multiple-select them and configure them. That’s the problem.
I understand that much, even though the shift-click behavior doesn’t behave as expected (clicking on the first one of them just opens it up). But typically, a person would work on the first one, then copy/paste the settings to the other items in the source window once the desired behavior is finalized. So, that’s the functionality I was looking for. Also, I am finding that when I do several of them, they all error out on me. I don’t know if it’s because I’m doing an enhancement (DV model) in addition to a framerate increase? In any case, I’ve had to fall back onto running the equivalent mmpeg commands in multiple passes with Python scripts in order to get the batching to behave and be time efficient for me. That seems to be quite dependable.
