Very interesting. I wonder if the issue is specific to 2x or rather tied to output resolution. Say if you upscaled to 2x first, then ran SLM at 1x, 2x and 4x, would it now be 1x that experiences this issue because it is the same output resolution?
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I’m uploading an image to serve, to some extent, as a reference for the faces. Although, as I mentioned, based on my tests, working at x4 deviates more from the original source than working at x3 (needless to say, at x4 it introduces more information).
I’m also sharing the original frame at x4.
As for running more tests right now, my computer is busy processing videos, and I reckon it’ll be done by the next Olympics!
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I haven’t really tested much footage at 1x. Normally if it’s 1x the resolution would be around 1080p and if that’s the case it really doesn’t need fixing. However sometimes you have a 1080p video where the compression is messed up or it was encoded poorly. It may help with those situations but I would need to test it.
Topaz Starlight Mini Music Videos
I tried using your approach but for some reason all the options under De-interlace tabs are disable (greyed out). Is there anything else that you need to do under other settings of Hybrid? Maybe a full tutorial would be useful for some people (like me) if anybody wants to take the time to put it together.
If Hybrid isn’t working for you then Staxrip is another option you could try.
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Then they can do Starlight Mini Light Mini, then Starlight Mini Light Mini Light.
When you said you felt it was unnatural every 10 minutes, was that true for Aion also?
How much does a card cost to render Aion 1080p or 4K in an hour? What about 2-4 hours?
To deinterlace vhs or dvd use Shutter Encoder, interpolation 29fps, bwdif deinterlacer and rec 601 to 709 under colorimetry tab. Better results than Hybrid and easier to use.
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Can someone please explain what a previous commenter (Vincent) meant that for frame interpolation "If your source is DVD, ect. (low-rez), well, that’s TL’s models main focus… period… "
So Topaz Frame Interpolation using Chronos, Apollo, even Aion, is coded for 480p not even 1080p let alone 4K? Is that accurate info?
Is it the Topaz code or motion estimation grid or whatever that is based around low resolution material, or is it Aion, Apollo, Chronos, Rife, etc, or what is the issue?
Is there any FI on the market that works well for at least 1080p SDR, if not 4K and HDR, without issues with scene cuts, 23.976 remainder, audio sync, visibly repeated or visibly dropped interpolated frames, etc? ChatGPT told me about Topaz and also something called Dane, dont know if that is any better?
Its a bit confusing, this are different function lines, you must select something one line some other fields not gets greyed out
set “Source Matching” and checkbox" EZKeep Grain" value 1 and also set “Denoiser” and “Lossless” fields, they are not greyed out in your screenshot, just do all like in my screenshot
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Will Starlight Mini leverage Blackwell-only features like FP4/INT4 math, structured sparsity, or the Transformer Engine v2—rather than just relying on TensorRT support? I’m on a 5090 and only seeing incremental gains, so it feels like there’s untapped optimization potential.
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@ForSerious stated this about Apollo on a 40-minute render. I don’t recall a statement about Aion after 10-minutes.
+1 !!! Would love to see this!!!
When speed gain only results by reducing math-calc-floating point-precision (FP16-8-4-2) then they never can get the model itself faster without quality loss, is there no other way? Only the difference between the frames needs to be recalculated and not every frame from scratch. Could that be the potential or is that already being done? I’m just trying to get a rough idea of what we can expect.
They’ll need to ship Blackwell specific models to stay ahead of open source, so it will definitely happen. Hopefully the next release. 
Are these dark outputs in the Trial version normal? If so, how can I judge the quality of the output? I have no idea how better the quality is, so how do you expect me to buy the full version.
Any word on 7.0.2 release? When and what’s going to be in it?
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