I was 26 updates behind. I am downloading the newest version now. But please fix bugs. No one really gives a shit about the cloud. I hope no one buys into it and it gets removed. buying a second pc would be money better spent in the long run any ways.
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That one guy had to pay $150,000 (Sic!) in credits for a single movie. For that money, I can buy a hella computer! A whole park even, with 10x RTX 5090’s, easily.
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For me cloud rendering can cost as much as they want, I don’t use it anyway 
If it is too expensive it will be rarely used, the price will level out, the market regulates
No one will, really, for that money. But the ones who are spending are Topaz… spending time, that is, on something that makes as much sense for home users as buying an entire Tesla, just because you need a battery. Time best spent on, oh, say, fixing the most egregious VFR bug, that paralizes the use of any of the 5.4-5.5 versions. It’s always a matter of opportunity cost.
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yes, then their servers will get bored and they have the choice of end it or lowering the prices. I have no problem with that as it is an additional offer. I will have a problem if there is only cloud rendering, then I will be gone and look for alternatives
I am happy I still use 5.3.0.5 b the production version 5.3.X nok
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I think they added a lot of cards into a machine optimzed it for one model the most used and then gained high performance in the hope that we want to make money out of enhancing videos for other less literate in video enhancing…
That example was from a temporary pricing error and does not reflect the current Cloud Rendering pricing.
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I think I like having the option to use cloud rendering if I wanted to. I often work away from my desktop on a weak laptop and it is nice to be able to still be able to use topaz through the cloud while I’m on a travel friendly ultrabook.
All it is a new button that you don’t have to click. It would be pretty ridiculous to have to get another app, set up presets and options again, and learn how to use it just so the main app doesn’t have a Cloud export button? That is a terrible workflow and I hope they don’t listen to such a bad ideas.
For 150k you can hire a hitman who will steal 35mm original film reels of movie and you will get 6k quality 
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But lets be honest. we all know that was a error. I am sure they corrected it by now.
I agree but really wished they fixed bugs before adding this.
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It is not for us it is for those professionals that want to make money on behalf of the illetarate folks in enhancing video for them proteus v4 is good enough it seems also under the hood gotten the most attention lately in other words it is your opportunity to make money on behalf of your friends and family , and it will be good for Topaz. Choosing Proteus v4 means good is good enough.
I have the same issue. I emailed them about it and posted about it in various places. I’m concerned because my liscense has expired, and i’m worried i’m going to be stuck with a broken program that can no longer suit my needs.
EDIT: They emailed me, and said I would be able to get the bug fix.
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I would love it if people like hardware unboxed or gamer’s nexus used topaz as a benchmark.
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Good. 
Having a hard time finding current prices, tbh.
For a moment there I leaned towards Rhea, but I went back to Proteus v4. Rhea is too plastically, really; and taxes my RTX 4090 fully; that’s an extra 500W. With the 200W from my CPU, that’s a parmanent 700W for like 8 hours, per movie. It adds up. Not a biggie, really, but if it isn’t substantially better than Proteus v4, then I might as well stick to the latter.
v5.3.6 works totally fine for me. Above that, not so much. Let’s hope v6 delivers.
Beware,
eventually local rendering will be discontinued or moved to pro level licenses. just matter of time. cloud crap is horrendously overpriced
don;t know what happened with 5.4+ but since that release all manual parameters values deliver completely different results compared to pre 5.4 versions. (output of old models are simply destroyed. those are completely useless now)
