Topaz Video AI 3.0.0.11.b

Hello everyone,

Another beta for Topaz Video AI 3.0 is available. Please test and give us your feedback. Thank you.

Please upload videos that are not working or have any type of conflicts to this DropBox Folder.

Downloads:

Changes from v3.0.0.10.b:

  • Visual improvements of the GUI
  • Stability improvements of the GUI
  • Clean uninstall on windows
  • Fix for more color shift cases (please send videos that still have issues)
  • Fix side-by-side rendering issue
  • Meaningful error message for some common failure cases
  • Intermediate files get deleted correctly
  • Fix image sequence and thumbnail
  • Faster switching of videos
  • Fix crop when multiple videos are selected
  • Fix issues with multiple preview/export requests
  • Keyboard shortcuts are shown in the menu on Windows
  • Added tooltips for some items
  • New app icon
  • Misc bug fixes and improvements

Known Issues

  • For single/split views, crop might have issues
  • Preview mismatch for certain VOB files
  • Some videos can still have some seeking issues in Preview/Export
  • HDR support is missing
  • Some quality mismatch between 2.6.4 and 3.0
  • Output bitrate is not reset to Preferences bitrate when importing a new file
  • Failure can happen when resizing to a big resolution like 4k or 8k without a warning if the machine runs out of memory
  • Speed can be slower than 2.6.4 with some models on some machines. We’ll be working on speed optimization in the next weeks
  • Preview with image sequence doesn’t work or plays at 25fps
  • Preview files do not always delete when removed from GUI

Problems and Solutions:

  • Make sure Max. Memory Usage in the Preferences is set to a high number
  • If the Gaia model fails on Mac, try clean installing the app using the DMG file posted above
  • If export fails, try using Transcode/None/Auto in Audio Settings in Preferences
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Due to the many known (and unknown) issues, I will wait to test beta version 3.0.0.26.b :wink: See you then.

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The color space issues appear to have been resolved with my test videos. The application also failed when any AI processing was enabled, and this has also been fixed. Thank you.

I have two GPUs installed. I find that processing fails immediately when setting “All GPUs”. Selecting one GPU or “Auto” works fine. The max memory setting is on 70%. What does Auto do by default?

New icon looks great!

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Hola! beautiful interface, for color change, it’s solved :slight_smile: for the deinterlacing, always the same, dione td and dione dv deinterlace very well but the problem is that the artifacts are clearly amplified which makes the video irretrievable. Then, for the preview, it always bugs, it does not play in loop at times, as soon as when I stop the process as soon as I see that the image changes in the preview.

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Great. A new beta release! :nerd_face:

Thank you for adding the clean uninstall capability for Windows, too.

@ida.topazlabs
It would be wonderful if someone could make a list of the areas/folders where temporary or obsolete information was stored in previous versions? I would love to be able to dig that all out and delete it. It’s not just a messy waste; eventually it will attract bugs.

:nerd_face:

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I have 2 GPU also, and it fails on mine as well. This used to work very well on the earlier versions of the beta, and I can confirm that with both all GPU selected, I was getting about twice the throughput. Not always, but yes when i was doing enhancement and slow motion at the same time.

Hope they fix it soon. I did send an error report last week.

The RGB to YUV issue has not been fixed.
I sent you the file.

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Hello @TicoRodriguez,

Thanks for sending the files and notes. Is the color shift issue occurring for all encoders or any specific encoders? We are aware of this issue with the 16-bit tiff and png sequence.

@nipun.nath there is still no list of models as it was in version 2.6.4 where you could choose, it would also be nice to put the old models. feel like they don’t read any of our posts to take notice, this is the third time I’ve written this.

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I really like the new GUI. It feels great to use, is very responsive and looks good in my opinion. I also like the new icon.
Previously I had one video with colour issues, but it works now. And again no new issues either. Looking forward to the final 3.0 release.

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The UI is very nice and feels more solid and professional.

Chronos Fast is still 5x slower than it was on v2.6.4 on my Apple Silicon Mac.

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Much clean and useable UI now.

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Ok, been too busy since b9, back on it with b11. Nice improvements to UI appearance.

What I’ve noticed in first 20 mins (and I focus a lot on my large library of interlaced archival footage).

  1. Launching b11 from the installation box resulted in invisible UI but app button on the task bar. Closed the button and launched from desktop icon, UI operates normally. Except “Unmaximize” button needs TWO clicks to unmaximize, as I reported for b9.

  2. Deinterlace still not restored as a first-pass, can only choose it as an Enhancement, which means I can’t use enhancements. This is a show-stopper for final use.

  3. When interlaced and using x2 Dione model, when Out is set to “Original”, output (Preview) is still x2; e.g. input is 25fps, Preview is 50fps. Can we PLEASE get a grip on this? It’s been a problem for numerous betas now.

  4. Having done 4 Previews in a session and wanting to compare them, switching now sometimes results in the app hanging (endless twirler). Have to close and start again.

  5. Preview of source (interlaced) still flicks like a mad thing, along with mad flicking of pointer on play bar. Preview clips still sometimes play repeatedly, sometimes only play once when you click the Pause then Play button. Been a problem for many betas now.

Question: How do we tell what order processing is done in? For example, is deinterlacing done before stabilization (as it should be), and in what order is upscaling done? I see that temporal interpolation has risen up the application list… does that mean it is now done before Effects? Can we choose the order so we can test whether different orders give better/worse results depending on the characteristics of our source footage? Do I ask too many questions?

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Codecs with YUV colorspace are affected.
Please check the additional sent items that I tested with H.264 (NVIDIA) and H.265 (NVDIA).
I have verified the differences in color space in DaVinci Resolve and TMPGenc.

Why is it very slow to export unlike Topaz Video AI Early Access v3.0.0-8? Why is it so slow to export? Please fix this problem

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Processing time is disappointing. With the release before I could run 2 in parallel with 2x ffmpeg @ 25%. with this release 2xffmpeg @ maximal 14%. Processing time has increases from 100% to 180%. That is inacceptable!

However that lower CPU load per ffmpeg allows to run 3 videos in parallel with total usage of less than 40% CPU with 95% GPU

A few notes:

  1. Setting the input framerate still doesn’t update the scrubbing timeline to the correct time frame, so half the timeline is stuck on the last frame (same issue as last reported).

  2. Related to above, trying to clip he sequence still has the right side go off the screen - though funny enough now the bar itself is actually going off the screen as well, which makes it more funny to look at:

Once you “clip” it by manually bringing back the right side, going back to main sequence the bar seems fixed.

  1. Still missing frame selection.

  2. The export locations and selections still don’t follow standard usage of the Explorer in windows, which makes using it very awkward.

  • Asking for a “name” to save the sequence, only for that name to be interpreted as a folder instead doesn’t happen anywhere else I am aware of and while I assume its intentional, feels like a bug and the program is broken. It also makes saving location painful when doing multiple sequence. This also results in cascading folders still
  • If I want an export to go to the same folder, why is that function impossible to achieve? If you try to select the same folder, it wants a name. If you give it the name of the same folder, it actually opens that folder then asks you for a name again - once again, this is abnormal behaviour for Explorer standard usage and feels really clumsy.
  • The above was handled beautifully by TVEAI for years - I really would like to know whom thought current output was a good idea, it wasn’t broken before. I also cannot understand how changing the output sequencing from something that makes sense, to something that makes no sense, is supposed to make the new UI easier to use. If you want this to work this way, so be it, but add an option in preferences to revert back to a normal expectation of saving in Explorer.
  1. Clicking preview, and then clicking close preview does not stop the processing of that preview. When you are testing various models and grain etc, you often preview things over and over again. This means clicking that button a fair amount. However, instead of clicking stop preview and that being the end of it - I now have to stop preview, then close preview, then click a confirmation box that i want to stop the preview, tripling the user input for a simple task. Terrible UI behaviour.

  2. Preview is STILL broken from last release. It will not preview the section you are trying to look at. Scrub to a point, click preview to see what it looks like and be beholden to a preview of a different part of the clip.

I see no fixed issues in this release for UI from issues previously reported. I don’t mind testing, and happy to keep testing, but when I see the same broken behaviours release after release with no fixes occurring, it seems like I waste a lot of time testing new releases with the exact same issues one after the other.

I think I will wait now until the fix notes actually indicate some fixes before testing a new release.

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