Topaz Video 1.4.0

Unfortunately while delivering outstanding details and (as a BIG plus to Starlight mini) avoids mangling text/“alien fonts” Starlight precise has a very annoying weakness similar to SeedVR2: jittery motion / “jumps” in the image every few seconds which can be seen best in shots with steady backgrounds.

See here for an example:

ETS_SLP test.zip (13.9 MB)

- look at the vegetation which jumps/slightly changes every few seconds. This could be a real show stopper for some videos :-/

Maybe an additional SLM step before or after the SLP run can smooth that out (as SLM produces extremely smooth output, maybe even too smooth). Further testing is required.

@Topaz: would it be possible to make the model more temporal aware or at least to “blend” those individual blocks so that this is at least not that obvious?

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