Using Topaz Cloud Credits, Video AI users can now offload heavy processing tasks to our servers for faster processing.
Use cases:
Processing large batches of videos in parallel: There’s no limit to how many simultaneous jobs you can queue on the Cloud Rendering service, which can greatly improve your overall output of clips.
Processing long videos on low-power machines: Cloud Rendering excels when working with videos that are 30 minutes or longer, which allows us to parallelize across more GPU instances. For users on laptops with less-capable GPUs, you can sleep your machine without worrying about renders being paused or cancelled.
Known issues:
H.265 and AV1 are the only enabled codecs for now. We plan to expand the list of supported codecs as we determine system stability. Cloud renders larger than 8K are also disabled for this release.
Video inputs under 10MB are not currently supported for Cloud Rendering.
Hyperion is not currently enabled for Cloud Rendering.
We’re excited to work together on furthering the efficiency of Cloud Rendering, and as always we appreciate your involvement and feedback!
New in 5.5.1:
Adds support for Intel ARC ‘Battlemage’ B580 and B570 GPUs
Have ANY of the dozens of known bugs been fixed in this version? If so, then it would be nice to know what they are. Previously, you have listed them here among the new “features”.
Quick export is no longer initially obvious, but I see it’s now on the far right, without any text. But of course that’s on purpose, as your “cloud export” button takes its place. For goodness sake, why don’t you do what most of your customers actually want - fix the bugs and make the existing software usable.
Oh, and despite how you introduce this version 5.5 at the top, I’m not one of your Video AI testers, I’m a paying customer, as I expect most of us would like to be treated. Topaz should remember that.
I am always willing to give them a chance, as I love the notion of A.i enhanced video upscaling. Nonethess, I experience the onset of a pervasive sadness, as the lack of dev responses, and experiences so far of people here, makes me feel that, indeed, we may be looking at the end of TVAI as we know it.
So, not going to install this (as it’s a Release version, and would thus replace 5.4 Release).
The cloud rendering got cheaper? The 2nd movie now processed via cloud in 5.5 only took 354 Cr. which is maybe half of what the first movie needed during beta. Edit: this cloud rendering never finished for an unknown reason.
Is there a flag to permanently disable cloud rendering? I don’t have any use cases for this and want to make sure I never inadvertently send something to the cloud to be rendered.
1,000 credits (according to their website) costs $300. So, that 1 movie, at 354 Cr, cost you exactly $106.2 (if you didn’t get the initial 1,000 for free). Yeah, thanks, but no thanks.
The developers of TVAI have said that local processing is still possible, and cloud processing is mostly for people who need the extra speed, or just want to off load work from their computer.
This is just speculation from my part, but that may change in the future. It could be possible that some new lage enhancement model comes out and they only allow processing in the cloud.
I really hope duplicate frames interpolation/removal bug is finally fixed, cause it’s been present since devs introduced mpv as a playback engine (which by itself is a great idea). I have a feeling, that all this work has been done on a version of TVAI with, de facto, regression bug.
In the TVAI 5.5.0.5b it was impossible to create a new preset - the app becomes faded, but the window with preset save options doesn’t appear. Clicking anywhere in the app will bring the ‘faded’ TVAI back.
The preview video files are still being created NEXT TO the source file, not in the TEMP folder.
And the TEMP bug - it’s dangerous to just wipe the content of this directory at exit, TVAI! What if a different folder were hardcoded into the program this way?
Only if you subscribe to a credit tier… or the once 1400 credits for ~100 bucks is now jacked-up to much higher funds.
Taking a second look at this… pricing (no REAL deal, IMO) for the purchase of any Topaz software and/or credit tiers (double-dipping) it is clear to me that Magnific, Midjourney, ect. is a much better bargain now than Topaz with much superior quality outputs. And at these prices, for those that have low performance system, could easily upgrade there units with the required specs and have oodles of money left over than pulling-the-plug on any of these… uhm… “Topaz Holiday Deals”.
@tony.topazlabs Do we get credit for catching errors in beta ?
it looks like you rushed out Cloud Rendering for this. it might have better to have all Models working in cloud.
Cloud Processing will be more worth while when it has all the models if version and file formats of 5.4 at least.
