Topaz Video 1.0.0 (New Studio Release)

[jo.vo]

You might want to give Rhea at 1x a try.
This does quite nicely clean up bad sources and only sometimes do strange things.
See here for some examples:

Very Impressed by Rhea for 480P

One last thing (No, I’m not Steve Jobs ): I found that using Rhea at 1x size without upscaling does still deliver a very good cleanup of the source with gaining some details but mostly leaving faces alone, so nearly no monster faces with that: [Bildschirmfoto 2024-12-22 um 21.38.29] -not bad for the video being still at original SD size… [Bildschirmfoto 2024-12-22 um 21.50.18] Even for that small low res face the original character is fully maintained at 1x resolution with Rhea (so…

But then with that you could also use Iris LQ V1 and be way faster…