Fair enough. Of course we all want catch-22, both speed and quality. But someone raised similar issues as you did , a couple of weeks back or maybe a month ago, when Topaz Video AI was at 3.0.12 or version around there. It was buggy and slow. The question in the forum was raised about speed vs. quality. If I recall correctly, most suggested stability first, quality second, speed third. I think I’m in that same camp, how about yourself?
Also, few things to note as well. To their credit topaz team did increase speed with the last few iterations of the version 3 of their software. I am sure they will continue to work on it. But they (topaz team) did release their road map to mention the things they are working on at the moment. So maybe that provides some info as well.
Video Roadmap Update (Feb 2023)
I think Topaz team in last few versions mentioned increase in speed for some cards and drivers, but off course with so many different hardware configurations there will be trade offs. Ideally hardware would be the only limitations, but I think software can do a lot to optimize the process.
Speaking of speed etc. I personally feel that no amount of speed is as important as stability. And if you are frequent reader of forums here you will notice the many bugs people still are experiencing. I hope Topaz can fix those first. Because what is the point of having speed if video render skip frames, app crashes, changes color of the original video, UI has bugs etc. In my opinion the current version of the software is still in beta stage and its being slowly coming out of it. So I hope we first see stable , truly stable release and than optimized release. I have a feeling many would agree with that.
