Topaz Video AI 7.0.2

[luke.roche]

Topaz Video AI 7.0.2

Hi everyone,

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

See more details below:

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7.0.2 Downloads

• Windows
• Mac DMG | PKG

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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.

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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

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

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

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.

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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

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.

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Disable Live Export

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.

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Disable Live Render

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.

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EXR Alpha Support

EXRs with an Alpha channel, can now be supported by giving you the option to enable Alpha channel outputs via the codec settings.

*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

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.

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Have fun with the 7.0.2 release and give these new and updated features a try!

[z1nonly]

Thank you for the disable live render option! I will give it a try tomorrow

[UHD4KUser]

I don’t suppose there’s a rough ETA on Starlight v2, or a fixed v1?

[rene.zuch]

Any News on Starlight local on Mac? Please make this work for everybody before adding new features.

[Chris3247027034]

Random videos still get the wrong bitrate and FPS. I guess this won’t ever get fixed.

[lindon.lomax]

What is this? Error: Connection habdling canceled

[Akila]

I can’t seem to find the AI modules for Film Stock nor MiniDV in the enhancement menus even though I have the second enhancement toggled on.
can someone post a screenshot where it is located?

[topaz257 (Michael Karg)]

They are not new models but some ‘Presets’ (predefined settings for different models in the top right corner of the UI)

[cwlcak]

I’m consistently getting 1.2 fps with 7.0.1. I’ll wait to upgrade until there’s something more substantial worth risking my current optimized set up. Perhaps I’m reading this wrong, but it looks like a lot of the things in this upgrade are presets I can manually configure myself.

[PeteVideoEdit]

OK, this update is not the “burner”

I always wait for an answer of Topaz members/employees belongs to the new Nvidia driver improvements and how they would be enabled/effective in TVAI (in the future).

Again: my question not belongs only to Starlight Mini. It belongs also to all other improvement models, if and how render speed could be increased with the new Nvidia driver technology.

[PeteVideoEdit]

How you can get 1,2 fps with Starlight Mini?

My RTX 5090 renders only with 0,9 - 1,0 fps.

Did you made special settings beside in TVAI?

[manav]

The software is still unusable for videos that have rotation metadata or ones you rotate using the input settings in TVAI. I explained the problem in detail in my post at the bottom, but no one from Topaz has responded. I was really excited for Starlight Mini, but I guess I’ll wait on buying a license until this gets fixed.

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Here are two screenshots from 7.0.2. When you rotate a video using the input settings in TVAI, the resolution doesn’t update to match. This gives you an output that’s rotated but stretched into a landscape resolution.

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Here’s my earlier post with all the details:

Topaz Video AI 7.0.1

Unfortunately, after this update, TVAI is still unusable for processing vertical/portrait videos that include rotation metadata or require manual rotation in the input settings. I’ve tested this across three sets of vertical videos from two Android phones (2014 and 2022 models). Set 1: No Rotation Metadata (Manual Rotation Needed) Source: 640x480 resolution. These are portrait videos saved in landscape orientation because the phone was held upright but registered the recording as landscape. T…

[naxci1]

Starlight Mini gives very good results, but still needs some improvements. For example, there is a problem with the synchronization of the mouth and eye movements. There is also no pause button, which is absolutely necessary because the process takes a long time and we can’t pause it. This is a big problem right now. Also, if it worked in Live Render, we could preview how it would look in advance. I also need a global pause button when I render multiple files. I think this is an easy thing to do.

[Harald.De.Luca]

The addition of presets is really nice. Particularly for the MiniDV and denoise, which really suits me to make a first pass for denoise before making the 2nd with StarLight.

But still no multi-language. I wish I had the interface in French.

[Moebius]

Disable live render means that the program will only play and loop the previewed clip and not keep playing the original video? For example, if I render 2 seconds of a preview, will it keep looping the preview like it used to instead of playing the original clip after the 2 second preview?

[PC100]

You also need to know the input and output resolution, and probably the VRAM % limit set in preferences for fps to be comparable. For all we know they’re only upscaling 240p to 480p.

[PeteVideoEdit]

Thanks!
This is an important information, that the named render speed belongs to only upscale 240p.

Logical, that is faster in comparison, cause I upscale only 480p or 720x576 with Starlight Mini so far.

[cwlcak]

I have a 4090 set to 70% max memory and using 3 out of 4 max processes. Output set at 30fps. I’m usually upscaling 640p or below to 1080p. If I want to upscale to a higher resolution, I open After Effects, and use the TL plugin and Rhea (usually) after initially using SLm to get to 1080. Consistent 1.2 fps.

Edit: also, when I’ve used SLm to upscale 720p to 1080p, it slows down to 0.7 fps. But imo, why use SLm if you have a good 720p source? In that case, I’ve found Rhea or Proteus are better options.

[cwlcak]

You can not upscale below 1080p using SLm. That’s the minimum output, regardless of how low the original resolution is. The lowest I’ve used SLm for is a 320p clip. iirc I was getting 1.1 fps on that one. I’ll try a low resolution source and see if the fps drops. If I was getting 1.2 fps on any other TL model, there would be something wrong With Rhea, I’m usually in the 30 fps range when upscaling a 1080p to 4K.

[u6jrf29x5]

Can you guys add Starlight Local to the commandline for advanced usage?