Topaz Video AI 7.0.2.0b

Topaz Video AI Video AI Beta
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Topaz Video AI 7.0.2.0b

Hi everyone,

Today we have a new Beta release with some great updates that we have been working on!

Once you get a chance to try it out, please fill out the survey here:

See more details below:

7.0.2.0b Downloads

Improvements and Fixes

  • Film Stock Presets: Light, Medium & Strong
    • Requires 2nd enhancement enabled
  • MiniDV Preset
    • A great starting point for interlaced MiniDV videos
  • Added option to disable live export in preferences
  • Added option to disable live render in preferences
  • EXR Alpha Support
  • DPX no longer converts to TIFF
  • Fixed cloud renders from duplicating frames when using frame interpolation.

Presets for Film Stock

The following Film Stock Presets will require a second pass enhancement. At default this feature is not enabled. Please refer to the Second Pass Enhancement web doc for enabling and more information.

Film Stock 4K Light

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This setup is for film or progressive older footage that need a light touch to bring out some details.

  • 4K preset
  • This preset requires the Second Pass Enhancement to be enabled.
  • This preset has stabilization enabled as many older family films did not have a physical stabilizer for the time. You can disable this task for faster results.
  • Much of this setting can be used as a base and further modified to your liking.

Film Stock 4K Medium

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This setup is for film or progressive older footage that need an extra push from the light touch version. This uses a different set of filters for the overall treatment.

  • 4K preset
  • This preset requires the Second Pass Enhancement to be enabled.
  • This preset has stabilization enabled as many older family films did not have a physical stabilizer for the time. You can disable this task for faster results.
  • Works best with high contrast black & white films like the example above. Please ensure that “Black & White” is checked (within the Input Settings -Gear Button next to Presets), if your film is grayscale.
  • Much of this setting can be used as a base and can be partially modified to your liking.

Film Stock 4K Strong

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This setup is for film or progressive older footage with lots of grain/digital noise.

  • 4K preset
  • This preset requires the Second Pass Enhancement to be enabled.
  • This preset has stabilization enabled as many older family films did not have a physical stabilizer for the time. You can disable this task for faster results.
  • Great results for 8mm/Super 8mm films digitally captured with products such as Wolverine Data MovieMaker PRO, Kodak Reels Digitizer and Eyesen Film Scanner Digitizer.
  • Also good results with grainy 16mm telecine digital files.
  • Much of this setting can be used as a base and can be partially modified to your liking.

Preset for MiniDV

This setup is for MiniDV or digitally captured videos that made use of Interlaced footage (horizontal fields) for the time. MiniDV saw a large range of quality variations and conditions throughout it’s reign beginning around 1995 and ending around the late 2000’s. There was a huge use case scenarios with home movies to actual television shows and feature films.

MiniDV Int HD Basic

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Due to the large quality and use case scenarios, the settings is a basic starting point for interlaced MiniDV footage. The intention of this preset is to get an average result that looks good in many cases. This setting is therefore intended to be modified.

  • HD Preset. Can be adjusted to 4k.
  • To make use of the Interlaced footage the settings are prepared with the Interlaced Video Type category.
  • The resolution is set to custom in order to keep the aspect ratio and pixel type as Square Pixel. Change accordingly.
  • This setting is intentionally and fully modifiable as a solid base for further refinement.

Disable Live Export

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You can now disable or enable the Live Export viewer.

  • You can find this option within the Preferences menu under the Advanced Features section.
  • Please note that this is enabled by default.

Disable Live Render

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You can now disable or enable the Live Render function.

  • You can find this option within the Preferences menu under the Advanced Features section.
  • When disabled, areas that do not have a rendered preview will automatically play the original source.
  • Please note that this is enabled by default.

EXR Alpha Support

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EXRs with an Alpha channel, can now be supported by giving you the option to enable Alpha channel outputs via the codec settings.
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*Note, that at this time EXRs with Alpha may show transparency of the alpha as a checkerboard pattern in the preview. Outputs do not perform any matte operations, so the full of the RGB image will remain intact. Refer to the example below:

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DPX Non-Conversion

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No longer will DPX files need to be converted to Tiffs when working with Video AI. Now you can use DPX files like any other image sequence.

Have fun with the 7.0.2.0b beta release and give these new and updated features a try!

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Don’t forget to fill out the Beta feedback survey here:

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The Mini DV setting is amazing. I am getting about 52fps.

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I’m waiting for a rtx 5080. My 2070 rtx is just too slow :confused:

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Before anyone asks, Starlight mini has not been improved with this beta version. Both speed and image quality are identical to the 7.01 version

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This beta doesn’t seem to like the SL Mini files (probably)… :slight_smile:

2025-06-13 02-45-36.832 Thread: 9492 Info "C:\\ProgramData\\Topaz Labs LLC\\Topaz Video AI BETA\\models\\/runner.exe" QList("X:/Defilada - Andrzej Fidyk, 1989, 60'.flv", "X:/Defilada - Andrzej Fidyk, 1989, 60'_609536503.mp4", "--start-frame-idx", "691", "--end-frame-idx", "912", "--ffmpeg-encoding", "-c:v hevc_nvenc -profile:v main -pix_fmt yuv420p -b_ref_mode disabled -tag:v hvc1 -g 30 -rc cbr -b:v 16M -preset p6 -movflags frag_keyframe+empty_moov+delay_moov+use_metadata_tags+write_colr -bf 0", "--ffmpeg-preproc-filters", "scale=w=450:h=360,setsar=1,crop=w=432:h=338:x=9:y=10", "--upscale-factor", "1", "--max-gpu-mem", "18") true
2025-06-13 02-45-36.840 Thread: 9492 Info started process with program:  "C:\\ProgramData\\Topaz Labs LLC\\Topaz Video AI BETA\\models\\/runner.exe"  ,agrs:  QList("X:/Defilada - Andrzej Fidyk, 1989, 60'.flv", "X:/Defilada - Andrzej Fidyk, 1989, 60'_609536503.mp4", "--start-frame-idx", "691", "--end-frame-idx", "912", "--ffmpeg-encoding", "-c:v hevc_nvenc -profile:v main -pix_fmt yuv420p -b_ref_mode disabled -tag:v hvc1 -g 30 -rc cbr -b:v 16M -preset p6 -movflags frag_keyframe+empty_moov+delay_moov+use_metadata_tags+write_colr -bf 0", "--ffmpeg-preproc-filters", "scale=w=450:h=360,setsar=1,crop=w=432:h=338:x=9:y=10", "--upscale-factor", "1", "--max-gpu-mem", "18")  working dir:  "C:\\ProgramData\\Topaz Labs LLC\\Topaz Video AI BETA\\models\\"
2025-06-13 02-45-36.840 Thread: 9492 Info Pyrunner process started 10 CMD: C:\ProgramData\Topaz Labs LLC\Topaz Video AI BETA\models\/runner.exe X:/Defilada - Andrzej Fidyk, 1989, 60'.flv X:/Defilada - Andrzej Fidyk, 1989, 60'_609536503.mp4 --start-frame-idx 691 --end-frame-idx 912 --ffmpeg-encoding -c:v hevc_nvenc -profile:v main -pix_fmt yuv420p -b_ref_mode disabled -tag:v hvc1 -g 30 -rc cbr -b:v 16M -preset p6 -movflags frag_keyframe+empty_moov+delay_moov+use_metadata_tags+write_colr -bf 0 --ffmpeg-preproc-filters scale=w=450:h=360,setsar=1,crop=w=432:h=338:x=9:y=10 --upscale-factor 1 --max-gpu-mem 18
2025-06-13 02-45-36.849 Thread: 9492 Warning qrc:/videomanager/TVideoManagerPane.qml:1056:29: QML IconImage: Detected anchors on an item that is managed by a layout. This is undefined behavior; use Layout.alignment instead.
2025-06-13 02-45-36.873 Thread: 9492 Info FF Process Output: 10 Runner: started


2025-06-13 02-45-36.878 Thread: 9492 Info FF Process Output: 10 Failed to open library file: Lib/site-packages/torch/_C.cp312-win_amd64.pyd

cannot verify files

2025-06-13 02-45-36.881 Thread: 9492 Info process exited: 10 1 0
2025-06-13 02-45-36.881 Thread: 9492 Info Going to delete path: "X:/Defilada - Andrzej Fidyk, 1989, 60'_609536503.mp4"

After looking into ‘models’ folder - of course, there’s RUNNER.EXE file and it’s tenure only. Yikes. :slight_smile:
Is there a way to force TVAI into re-checking the SL Mini stuff without full reinstall?

The new JSON preset files have wrong paths inside (some of them), pointing at TVAI stable ProgramData folder, it’s probably not an issue, but I fixed the paths by hand. :slight_smile:

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Props to @erasmo.topazlabs for that one :wink:

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Alas, it’s time for me to upgrade as well…

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Working on some updates :slight_smile:

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Thanks for the notes mik, passing these to the team

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For the SL Mini files, for the time being I’ll probably try to copy the stable 7.0.1 TVAI ones into the beta, or I’ll just make a symlink to it (dangerous a bit). :slight_smile:

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Thank you! Could I ask for both Gaia v6 models to be available again, too? They were great for some user cases, more so, that v5. I still have the v6 ox files, but TVAI won’t accept the modified Gaia v5 JSONs - the changes in the program are probably the cause… :slight_smile:

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I am getting Stabilization errors with Film Stock 4K Medium. Strong and Light versions works fine.

2025-06-13 11-45-53.523 Thread: 49428 Info FF Process Output: 7 
2025-06-13 11:45:53 65096  INFO:  Stabilization: with smooth = 0 & dof = 1111 & rsc = 1 & window = 128 , got crop ratio  100  % 0000
2025-06-13 11:45:53 65096  INFO:  Smooth trajectory calculation started ...
2025-06-13 11-45-53.523 Thread: 49428 Info FF Process Output: 7 
2025-06-13 11:45:53 65096  INFO:  Stabilization: smoothing video by window 64
2025-06-13 11-45-54.564 Thread: 49428 Info process exited error occurred: 7 1
2025-06-13 11-45-54.564 Thread: 49428 Info process exited: 7 -1073741819 1
2025-06-13 11-45-54.566 Thread: 49428 Info Going to delete path: "C:/Users/bosst/Documents/Topaz VideoAI Projects/Default/previews/test 1_1_stab_amq13_nyx3.mp4"
2025-06-13 11-45-54.566 Thread: 49428 Info Close and delete path "C:/Users/bosst/Documents/Topaz VideoAI Projects/Default/previews/test 1_1_stab_amq13_nyx3.mp4"
2025-06-13 11-45-54.566 Thread: 49428 Warning qrc:/videoplayer/TVideoPane.qml:753:9: QML TPreviewPane: Binding loop detected for property "rightPreviewStatus"
2025-06-13 11-45-54.571 Thread: 49428 Warning qrc:/videoplayer/TVideoPane.qml:753:9: QML TPreviewPane: Binding loop detected for property "rightPreviewStatus"
2025-06-13 11-45-54.574 Thread: 49428 Warning qrc:/videoplayer/TVideoPane.qml:753:9: QML TPreviewPane: Binding loop detected for property "rightPreviewStatus"
2025-06-13 11-45-54.574 Thread: 49428 Info ~TProcess(): destroyed
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Starlight mini on Mac, cloud rendering takes forever, 6min still rendering for past 6-7 hours, is it as slow as local rendering on the PC or is there any time frame ?

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Hey everyone! I have updated the 7.0.2.0b post to reflect two features that were accidentally left out.

  • Reminder that you can now disable live export previews via the preference menu.
  • You can now disable the live render function via the preference menu.

Thank you

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Not normal - our team is working on optimizing this. Assuming our Astra pre-launch is causing a backup in pipelines here. This should get better in the coming days.

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I have a problem importing videos into Vegas Pro. When I import the video into the software, it doesn’t show the entire video, in terms of length and duration. It’s a very short duration in the editing. There was already this kind of bug in older versions. Can you fix this bug? Thank you.

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Seems like Blackwell is entering its Mature state.

As said, it takes a half year for the software vendors to adapt to a new GPU Architecture.

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I modified Film Stock Strong to deal with somewhat destroyed animations, if only a bit, selecting corresponding “qualities” of Artemis model gives interesting results. I gave JSONs the name of the destroyed video I’ve experimented on. Of course, it’s nowhere near SL Mini’s quality, but it’s a start. :slight_smile:

Ordy.json (3.1 KB) (Proteus v4, without frame rate smoothing)
Ordy2.json (3.1 KB) (Iris LQ, with frame rate smoothing)
Ordy3.json (3.0 KB) (my own preset, Rhea XL v1 with Iris v2 LQ, smoothed frame rate to 29.97fps, the video should be 2x upscaled)

Ordy3 preset in action:

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Ordy (ou les grandes découvertes).zip (2.5 MB) - the VERY destroyed video in question.

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The working directory setting does not work after install: It saved where I had set it to from the last install, but when I rendered a preview, it was located the default Windows My Documents location. I had to act like I was changing the path and restart TVAI for it to use the right path.