Yeah pretty decent. I think adding some fine film grain to combat some of the banding and adding grittiness would help. Did you think the faces look too plasticy?
i’m definitely going to just keep my eye closed for all the cloud processing stuff, and instead looking forward for fixes to all the issues that are constantly being reported on the forums. i don’t like this precedent of seeing shiny new features constantly being added while the base of the program remains in its current state.
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So this would make 900 credits for 10 minutes and 9000 credits for 100 minutes resulting in 1000-1500$ for a not too long movie.
Honestly, no one will pay that, even at a tenth of this price it’ll be too expensive for about every normal „consumer“ user.
Add to that that the model still heavily struggles with some content.
So, Starlight, at least in it’s current state isn’t more than a „demo“
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How much are you selling your 4090 for?
will sell it locally. used 4090s seem to fetch about the price for a new 5080.
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For those of us who don’t care about cloud-based processing, are there any non-Starlight features or bug fixes for the 6.1 update? @tony.topazlabs
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Absolutely. This price is our current cost, which will come down over time and allow us to offer more access at lower rates.
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For me I find that it’s adding a tiny bit contrast and a slight color shift to the footage. Hopefully it’s just a codec output thing on the web app.
It’s actually System Informer application (with kernel driver ON), I hope these readings are not exaggerated, 3090s are known for their high transients… 
I’m curious if Afterburner has support for automatic voltage curve optimization for efficiency?
Here it was the contrary, leading to desaturation of the input video, see e.g. my example here:
I got the answer that the desaturation would in fact be
Well , the source is a old bootleg video and the faces are not very realistic . I guess even Project Starlight has a limit when the face is not " clear " in the source . I shared and posted that link on a Springsteen Fan Forum and the reaction was not so good ." 
“It looks awful. With that strength of AI you lose all the original detail”
“That’s not Bruce and Clarence up there, it’s some kind of animated tribute act.”
“Sorry to say, but I have to agree. Not remotely lifelike”
" Basically, the “AI” turns these videos into a cartoon rather than preserving a realistic representation. " etc.
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The question is: Is Starlight really a completely new automatic system or are there several trained Topaz employees sitting there and viewing the respective upload video in order to then apply the already common filters optimally and in combination?
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Afterburner only has OC scanner. But those automatic scanners never worked well for me.
3090 should have the efficiency sweet spot around 800mv just like the 3080.
With my 3080 I use 2 undervolts (800mv and 737mv). Both for undervolting. Very efficient in TVAI, especially the 737mv setting with only a slight performance hit. Just push the frequency 100Mhz up over the default at those voltages and u should have a nice safe undervolt for your 3090.
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Yeah, hopefully Starlight will be trained to make the footage not too smooth, but it is very challenging on video like that. My use case isn’t VHS video but I totally get your point. I do find that I need to do a second Proteus pass with the Dehalo setting up on top of the Starlight footage to get it a bit more natural. Not a perfect method of course, but it’s slowly getting better in fidelity for my videos.
That would be very difficult to scale
tony, is nvidia’s 5000 series special tech native fp4 processing will increase performance on topaz?
I’ll let the research and AI engine teams fill in with more detail, but I believe fp4 processing would require us to lose color depth in output videos? Not sure, but we do have many other benefits from RTX 5000 and the new encoder features.
If they have fixed the Alien fonts in Starlight, please do the same in RheaXL 
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Can somebody please do the the math for 7 seasons of Star Trek Voyager? I could use the laugh.
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Right now, it would probably be a lot of repeated GPU usage if everyone upscaled their own copy of the same TV series, but Starlight allows for automated upscaling of back catalog material for re-release at higher resolutions.
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