ok this is what Copilot will tell you forget rheia with digitized VHS 95 sources
Always deinterlace with video proc pro or handbrake old vhs stuff first then use first artemis lq v13 and Iris v1 LQ save to mov extension and h265 all the time
This will give you a good result NO artifacts next step
use Proteus v3 rase the slider to 70 percent do NOT use Proteus v4 it will create artifacts and deblur artemis v2
next use colourdirector 365 for professionally enhancing colours HDR
0.1 fps is a bug I hoped was fixed but doesenât seems to be when you have it. I had this before several times, then when I restart the task it runs at normal speed.
That means I tried to solve my FFV1 issues parsing logs for days with different scenarios to definitely quit it for ProRes
The bad thing is that âregularâ ffmpeg perfectly encodes stuff with at most some warnings because of super high rate, but output is top level quality. (FFV1 level3 4K 4:2:2 10b)
Can you add the option to change order that adjustments are rendered?
I have no idea if deblur is processed before or after upscaling.
I have no idea if frame interpolation gets processed before or after upscaling.
Having the ability to sort the order that these are done would be great. I have found that the order that these are processed can drastically change the results in some cases so having that ability would be a huge improvement. I usally have to do each seperatly to get the best results. It would be a big time saver if it was possible to do this. Thanks
It is absolutely not the source file. In fact, if I convert the same 4:3 file with an old version 2.6. 4 (which I am still very happy with) I get a perfect HD file with 16:9 format.
DAR = display aspect ratio
SAR = storage aspect ratio
Itâs this, means Topaz doing something wrong and with source file is everything ok.
Source is 720x576 anamorph, means the content is compressed in width which is normal for 16:9 anamorph DVDs. Topaz reads out correctly the video container flag 16:9, this must be streched to 16:9 to get correct aspect ratio, then Topaz expands the width of the video until it is native 16:9
So everything is correct up to that point. But then TVAI does a additional unnecessary fault step. Because source is 5:4 not 4:3, Topas flags the video not as 16:9, TVAI says players âyou must play this with aspect 1.942 instead 16:9 (1.777)â
You can easy correct this by Muxing the file for example with MKV Toolnix and set flag it must be played as 16:9
BUT if itâs the case the Topaz encoded video itself is at wrong size, then we have a problem! I can check this tonight.
Yes, I hate that too, thatâs why I always drag a video into Virtualdub so I can see whether there are black bars before I import it into Toapaz. It would be really helpful if Topaz made black bars clearly visible, for example using a green color
Does anyone else experience the same export times when doing 24fps and 60fps videos? I recently did a video of 2hrs, one was 24fps and the other was 60fps but they both took the same time to finish? Surely if itâs enhancing 55% less frames then it should finish at least 40% quicker?
I read what you all write about here and I am surprised! Why do you do video cropping in Topaz? There is a free version of Davinci, where you can easily make anything out of the video. And also, in addition, there is color correction, sharpening, removing noise, and so on. Let Topaz do what itâs designed to do, upscale and interpolate framesâŠ
Realize that it is impossible to enhance videos in one application in any way. It requires 3-4 programs. Personally, I do this with: Shutter Encoder, DaVinci Resolve, Neat Video, Topaz Video AI first pass Proteus, second pass Aion. How do you imagine doing it only in Topaz? Mission Impossible!
Exactly. Topaz does upscaling. So, if you crop in TVAI, then the cropped result will be upscaled as well. Letâs say you cropped a 1080p source to 800p (2x 140 bars), then that 800p gets scaled 1.35 times more than it normally would. Now, you could achieve the âsameâ in, say, VapourSynth, with like core.resize.Lanczos, but then sans the A.i doing the extra scaling â and itâs the A.i you really want for that enhanced quality.
so I made some tests now, test-content was
4:3 DVD 720 x 576
aspect-ratio of 720 x 576 is 5:4, this must be streched to 4:3, because if you put the DVD in the player, you have 4:3 on youâre TV
What TVAI does
if you have the option âsquare pixelsâ then TVAI encodes in 4:3 (or 16:9 if DVD is 16:9) and not 5:4 which is the pixel content on DVD (720 x 576), so TVAI does this correct.
But sometimes I donât have the option âsquare pixelsâ. With same content sometime I have the option and then itâs gone? If you cant choose âsquare pixelsâ TVAI keeps the aspect ratio as pixels are on DVD: 720x576 5:4 so youâre upscale is also 5:4 and therefore complete unusable.
720x576 is the storage aspect ratio (SAR) of a PAL DVD. It has got absolutely nothing to do with the aspect ratio of the movie. All PAL DVD movies have a resolution of 720x576. No matter what aspect ratio they have. Only in combination with the pixel aspect ratio (PAR) you will find out what the aspect ratio of the movie actually is.
A DVD NEVER has square pixels. They are always anamorphic. So you should not tell TVAI that your source has square pixels.
Iâm not saying that TVAI does everything right, thoughâŠ
