Yes that is what I am looking for i have many FFMPEG.exe different sizes from different Video Vendors the Topaz AI version is definitely hugh.
Not unless itās an improvement of features that people actually want and need, it isnāt. The constant changes and recurring bugs are the reason why I have now stopped renewing and will stick with v4 and 3 unless and until a) there is a significant improvement in denoising, upscaling or slomo/frame rate interpolation; and b) the bugs are cleared up. Changing stuff at breakneck speed isnāt the way to clear up bugs.
Iām certainly not going to get into doing their beta testing for them and I have zero interest in features like brightness/contrast/colour/cropping, all of which I can do better in bug-free video editors Iāve had for many years. Theyāve lost their way, for me.
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This has to be joke or trolling because 5.0 has been the worst version since 1.0. Shame since I just renewed my annual upgrades in February, so will be holding off updating for long while.
I donāt understand the statement ā With improved AI model qualityā? Itās literally the same models from 4.2 but with more bugs and very dislikable UI change.
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There is Nyx 3ā¦ and they are offering a renewal discount for a limited time.
I was tempted for a moment, but Iām not planing on using Nyx 3, so thereās really no reason for me to extend my license yet.
Maybe when they put something out that really work on VHS videos.
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VHS is my main reason for upscaling. Havenāt renewed since November ā23 (so pre 5.0) and will wait until I read that thereās great improvements on VHS sources.
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I donāt see a discount for upgrade renewal. Itās the same $150 it has been since I checked at the beginning of the month.
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Just thinkā¦ for me $150 for the renewal of ONE YEARāS subscription seems really too much to ask: after spending $299 for the purchase, the annual renewal MUST cost less: think of DAVINCI RESOLVE STUDIO that costs as a single payment $295 FOR LIFE, paying only 1 time, and we are talking about a software that is constantly updated, supported and constantly improving!
Now I am not saying that TVAI should have the same ābusiness model,ā but at least come out to the users who chose you!
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Itās normally $300. I was about to renew right after it expired, but ended up waiting a few weeks. When I tried again it was back up to 300. Iām sure weād all be happy if $150 is the new base price.
Itās normally $300 for the first purchase of the software. I have never seen a renewal cost that much. In fact I have not seen any of the Topaz AI product renewals cost the same as first-purchase, and I have renewed a few of the products.
My last Video AI renewal was actually on sale, and that was $100.
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This type of pricing for product and upgrades is just amazing to me. Itās especially irritating that the software is more or less half baked and full of bugs or features that donāt work. In essence, itās not a complete working product. Whatās depressing is that itās advertised as something you can use forever. But in reality, we all sit here waiting for a functional product while paying upgrades that far exceed the price of other software packages that are mostly fully developed and actually function as intended.
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Main trouble is that they release what is in effect a āRelease Candidateā (at best) as if it is a Stable Release. Then, they move on to the next Beta, release it as if it were Stable and abandon everything that went before. TVAI never achieves true Stable Release status and it is infuriating.
However those of us who donāt want or need new interfaces, brightness/contrast control, colour correction, stability options and so on can at least pick an old version that contains the fewest bugs or annoyances relevant to our needs. It seems to be a development model aimed at attracting new users who, like me initially, donāt understand how Topaz work. But in the end, they may be less inclined to renew and thatās where I am now with TVAI.
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Agreed, they need to primarily focus on what the sole purpose of the software is, upscaling and enhancing.
Instead they are trying to be an all-in-one software by competing with video editing softwares.
Nobody is gonna use Topaz over Adobe or Davici Resolve for brightness, colour correction etc.
Always listen to customer feedback because they are the ones who buys your product and determines its future success
Hopefully they learn what to prioritise before customers stop renewing annual upgrades as the upgrades alone is expensive.
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I agree with most of what youāre saying, but when it comes to colour correction most people are asking for the colour correction to compensate for the colour errors the software itself creates.
People simply want the same colours out that went in.
In other words most people arenāt asking for a Davinci Resolve function, they merely want the software to produce the same colours as the input video.
This is so important to the process of video production, because you may only want to work on a portion of a video and you want the processed videoās colours to match with the rest of the full video. Many people here have reported colour shifts from the original video to the output, myself included. This needs to be sorted out, urgently Iād say. Itās not a luxury request, it ought to be expected as a baseline standard.
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Does the colour shift happen when processing a preview? Or does it only show on the finished output file?
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There actually is a color correction that I would not mind seeing in TVAI. The ability to program in a specific color balance that would be automatically maintained throughout an enhancement by frequently analyzing the source video and automatically adjusting in the same way that enhancements settings in Auto are adjusted. To date I have not seen any app, enhancer or editor, that will do that.
Well yes, of course and I agree. But the root cause is what must be addressed so thatās where their effort should be, instead of wasting resources developing a feature to let TVAI owners do Topazās job for them by manually fixing a Topaz colour drift bug.
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Both I think. I recall it being said on here that itās dependent on what colour format the original video is coded in.
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I think youāre right. If TVAI produced accurate colours then I suspect hardly anybody would be requesting a feature to colour correct at all.
If people wanted to colour grade the output further then theyād naturally go to something like Davinci Resolve for that.
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@DaveL @TheRustyRebel Both of you are moaning about wasting development time for not needed brightness control or color correction. Why do you think that they even do that?
