Thanks for that hint! Either converting the audio beforehand setting the audio mode to ‘Convert’ (instead of ‘Copy’) fixed the issue—same video, no errors.
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Probably the only real issue I have with Starlight is that it tries to fix faces with so little detail sometimes that it looks definitely off. I wish I could have a slider of how much it attempts this when the detail gets too low. But only for faces, since otherwise low detail restoration seems fine, otherwise.
Of course the render speed leaves a little be desired, but since it otherwise is such a good restoration model I don’t even mind that much, even if obviously I would prefer it to be faster (then again, I have a9950x3d+ 4090 so I’d bet I’m not waiting nearly as long as some people)
Iam from Tunisia
RTX 4060 costs about 389,66 Dollar About 0.2 fps for SD-HD Starlight mini encodings
RTX 4090 Costs about 2 314,53 Dollar About 0.7 fps for SD-HD Starlight mini encodings
The RTX 4090 is 6 times more expensive than the RTX 4060, which is a huge difference
0.2fps vs 0.7 fps / 389,66 Dollar Vs 2 314,53 Dollar . Is stralight mini worth it ?
Money is really the foundation of business.
good price/cost ratio is a 4070Ti (or 4080! which is a bit faster). I get about 0.5fps with my 4070TI Super 16GB going from SD to 960p, going to 1440p it drops down to 0.2fps.
You have to ask yourself which videos are worth it. GPU “amortization” and electricity costs are significant. On the other hand, time is on our side, as graphics cards are getting faster and faster.
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Humm. I have seen this before on at least one of their other models. I have a few old black and white videos I’ll have to try on Starlight Mini.
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I had the same question over the last weeks: is it worth it to invest in a RTX 5090 card.
To deal with the very long render times using Starlight Mini is a hard decision for each user.
To render very small clips with Starlight Mini is one thing. But render longer clips/footage with my RTX 4070 is not really realistic to wait days for finishing.
Yes, I also think, that the propotion in saving render times between “normal” RTX cards and 4090/5090 is not really OK from the very high investment.
But, I ordered now a second PC workstation with Intel Core i9-14900KF 24x6GHz and RTX 5090
for in total 4 863 Dollar/4 245 Euro.
This machine I will only use for render TVAI incl. Starlight Mini in background.
The actual machine with the RTX 4070 will be my main PC for video editing and so on.
Sometimes I think, that a clever business model/case to force users to make bigger hardware investments “only for” TVAI 
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yes it’s crazy how we upgrade just for Starlight 
I think it’s the right way do it on a second computer, so for me it was the only way because I hate the nonstop noise and heat and blocked pc, so it put my nonstop rendering one in a seperated room, you can also put it into a garage or elswhere.
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RTX 4070 Ti Super Costs In My Country about 1 153 040,98 Dollar VS 0.5 fps for SD-HD Starlight mini encodings. RTX 4060 costs about 389,66 Dollar About 0.2 fps for SD-HD Starlight mini encodings .
So whenever the money doubles, the frames double. 
Oh I see you’re right my 4070Ti costs much more than I payd six month ago, so that’s crazy forget that. But for 650 Euro you get a 5070Ti 
5070 Ti in Tunisia costs 3 149,000 TND about 924 Euro
RTX 5060Ti costs in Germany 446€ and I get 0,4 fps (DVD upscaling). I think, this relation is ok.
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yes it’s 924 Euro or 1056 US$ what you posted, on Amazon the 16GB edition it’s cheaper, about 900 US$
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yes it is 446€ is a fair price, and 650€ for the Asus 4070Ti-12GB is also very ok
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Please don’t forget to calculate the cost of CPU core computing power, memory size, and bandwidth when calculating the cost. Using multiple graphics cards consumes significantly more CPU cores and memory bandwidth than using a single high-performance graphics card such as the 4090/5090.
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how are people getting 0.5+ fps with 5090? I have a 5090 Astral LC (paired with ryzen 5950x) and upscaling a 1280x720 I am not getting more than 0.1fps (no matter if 2x, 3x, 4x upscale), also starlight truncates every video (1 second shorter that original).
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I don’t know my friend. The majority of the professionals that I have run into and contacted over the years……all have high-end Mac suites for video editing.
My sister’s entire business is Mac…. And she is a graphic artist, professional photographer, and videographer.
I think it behooves them greatly to get starlight mini it to the Mac platform.
Because….money….and word of mouth in that professional strata.
I think it will happen…. How soon I just don’t know.
Hopefully soon!
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As higher source resolution is, as slower the fps is my observation. Try 640x480 doing 2x to 1280x960 you should get above 0.8fps and doing 1440p about 0.5 fps and check if there is shared ram usage and how much
Hello.
Upgrade the remaining of your hardware, ect.
Good take!
Would take some moving of other software etc.
But what I am not sure of is…
that for purposes of starlight mini……
What is considered a “low end machine” is just totally fine. Except for video card…
From my understanding, a high-end CPU, motherboard, large capacity and fast, SSD, as well as all the other bells and whistles that you would put in your day-to-day PC….
Would simply not be needed….
When I price up a low end machine with a 5070 TI video card…..
I can come up with about a $1700 cost US…
And it appears it will render just as fast as my high-end 4080 machine is doing right now…
Which is damn slow, but if it’s a standalone, fire and forget, could care less, come back a couple days later machine…
I don’t think I’d care.
