When you save a custom preset, the parameters of some of the manual settings (like sharpen, fix compression, etc) won’t save to the preset. For example, set 10 for fix compression and -10 for sharpen, save a preset, open a new video source, apply the saved preset, and for some reason only the -10 sharpen value applies but the 10 fix compression value doesn’t. It only works after you delete the preset, create a new preset from scratch with the same values and save a new one.
Preview playback is broken again on this release for me. Done a clean install and problem still persists. Keeps Live Previewing once I hit play and it won’t stop unless I close the program. Nothing in Preview Queue and it’s still running.
Previewing playback (real-time way or continuing from the usual one) is somewhat quirky in this version - it stops intermittently at random, without any clear cause - there’s a lot of ready frames to be played ahead of the cursor in my case (360p → 1080p). It’s annoying to press SPACE to continue all these times.
Fixed single view audio error.
I have a feeling that single-view-preview-interruptions in this version could match the single-view-audio-stutters in the previous, 6.1.0.0 version of VEAI…
I need a better crop option. I try to make say 720p video to 1080p or 4k but I either have to cut out to much or have ugly letter boxes. Been using a makeshift by using VideoProc Pro to make to make it 1080p or 4k then use Topaz to further enhance as I can get it look aspect wise pretty identical to the original doing so with videoproc first. Which is a shame as I rather just use Topaz hence why I bought it.
The croping thing is more complex. Often there is also scaling a little bit to get the result and all task should happen without generating floating points, also user wants have a correct aspect ratio. There is the width stretch problematic (DVDs). Topaz gives us square pixel option but sometimes you have to free scale source in the width, but you can’t do this into TVAI.
I think a TVAI “smart crop” could be realized, but only if a developer intensively have a look at this and redesigns it from scratch. In my opinion the user must define almost everything and have the possibility to do it, scale freely without letterbox and TVAI should ignore aspect ratio (DAR) from source files focus always on native pixels, otherwise there will never be a solution that fits for all.
In short: The part that TVAI has to do is to ensure that the source video always remains codec friendly (no floating point) for all actions the user does.
Just did a 2 second Starlight 4K test. Still seeing problems with motion artifacts and flickering with very fast movement. I know it’s still being looked at but just wanted to share.
Just for referenc, here is the same clip processed with Artemis LQ. It retains the original color, contrast and the bird flying motion doesn’t have artifacts (ghosting and flickering) in the feathers compared to Starlight. However, like I’ve said many times, Starlight is way better when it comes to reducing aliasing/moire.
