It’s been almost a month since the Studio release, and I’ve yet to get Starlight Sharp to work for me in any meaningful way, the primary reason I bought the Studio (Founder’s version).
My PC doesn’t have enough VRAM, so I knew Starlight Sharp (local) would never work. That leaves only Starlight Sharp (cloud). I’ve tried it with multiple videos of differing resolutions and aspect ratios, but still nothing. The worst part is that Topaz doesn’t refund the cloud credits, even if their models are completely unusable!
The problems that I’ve with Starlight Sharp (cloud) are so many:
- Most of the time, it simply doesn’t work and returns the video unchanged.
- Sometimes, it returns a video (e.g., duration=10s) with only about 1s “enhanced” and the rest a blocky, blurry mess.
- Other times, when it does “work,” the results are so poor that I regret the long wait, only to get something worse than from Proteus (Default).
I’ve been thoroughly disappointed with the release and handling of Starlight Sharp. What’s the point of releasing it to the general public in a half-baked state like this, rather than keeping it in beta for a few more months? I would’ve vastly preferred that to this mess.
I’ve already wrote to the support team and sent the logs as well already. Please fix these issues ASAP.
