All major editors have a “Replace Footage“ function. We edit our footage into the project… then send a clip out to be colored or have SPFX added to it… then we replace the original clip with the effected clip. For decades we’ve used this to finalize our edits. But since Topaz removes the timecode upon export… we cannot use the “footage replace“ function to swap out the poorly focused / low resolution original footage, for the newly upscaled / focus-improved footage from Topaz, thus making it dysfunctional for any serious / large-scale edit.
Timecode Passthrough would be a simple addition which would bring Topaz into the realm of pro production.
Hmm, that’s a really difficult question…
I just worked that way myself…
(offline quality cut in DaVinci and then clips replaced, but without timecode, which is why the last two clips were no longer correct…)
Is that the case with all models, or only with time/fps conversion or also with enhancements such as Iris or Reha?
All models. And ‘Replace Footage‘ is a normal way to work. I’ve been at agencies where the entire file of interview audio is sent over to an audio desk to be cleaned and leveled, then it boomerangs back and gets replaced. If they stripped the SMPTE out of the interview the way Topaz does their workflow would die.
The fact that this is already an option within the FFmpeg command if you use the CLI is yet another example of the stupidity of Topaz for removing the CLI.
So it would take only a few minutes for a Topaz developer to add this option into the app.
My thinking is: installing FFMPEG, clearing it through security as a randomware download and then using a command line when you never learned, let’s say Python, is disastrously foreign and complex from the average user perspective. Nobody should ever say to the average user: “Just use FFMPEG.“ - It should be no-code. Right in the GUI.
Just to clarify that the FFmpeg I was referring to is one installed within Topaz Video. Sorry for my mistake of assuming other users would have been aware of that.
I totally agree that no user should feel obliged to use the CLI. However, until very recently that was a supported option in Topaz Video.
(Prior to using Topaz Video AI, I was also one of your average users who had no idea how to use FFmpeg)
I do hope that Topaz implements your idea ASAP and I had already voted for it.
