What are you planing to do, runnung PC nonstop 24h for SLM? Can you post your CPU? 1000W should work is minimum specification for a 5090…but It’s not good running a PSU nonstop over weeks at his limits, for this reason my questions.
Yes Seasonic Prime Titanium Series are the best but also expensive. I’m using 850W Seasonic Titanium with mit 4070Ti but this one is just ATX 2.1. This doens’t matter here because it’s firing my 4070. I recommend using 3.0 better 3.1 for driving a 5090 because of the 600W connector melting problematic, so take care, there are older Seasonic out like mine. For example the Seasonic Prime PX 1600W Titanium is a ATX 3.1 psu, the Seasonic 1300W “SSR-1300PD” is from 2017 and not.
It’s a 125W TDP CPU, when you buy new one take ATX 3.1 and 1200W works, like this one here or when you plan for the future and having best quality psu, take the 1600W Prime Seasonic Titanium. If you don’t want spend money also your existing should work - no 100% guarantee, but when you do unvervolting the 5090 which I recommend anyway I’m sure without any problems, but then check if it’s at least a ATX 3.0 otherwise I recommend buy a new one.
I don’t actually physically split the video file, I do certain areas in the video. With Mark In and Mark Out. For example, I first export the 00:00-00:10 minute, then the others, if you want, you can do them later or at the same time in the process, you can do them at different intervals, like 00:10-00:20, 00:20-00-30, and after they are all done, I just combine them consecutively with the video editor program.
For weeks now there has been hardly any useful information. Like many others I renewed my subscription in the hope that the Starlight Mini could be something special. And now what? The developers have brought a new product onto the market called “Astra” which can only be used via the cloud and with a subscription. And we idiots have been waiting for months for something to happen. I am 10000000% sure that Topaz doesn’t give a shit about us or our opinions. We have been supporting this product actively and passively for years, but now we have reached a point where we are neither important nor relevant to Topaz. We have been waiting for innovations for years. Now Starlight Mini has been released, but Topaz is in no hurry to give us a faster version. What has ever happened to this company? They were happy to help with beta versions, but this company doesn’t give a shit about the community.
I’m not a shill for them at all and I am going to give them the benefit of the doubt.
Almost all companies exist to make money…. They are not charities.
I was ready to give up on topaz after the trials and tribulations that I had with version six.
But this new release of starlight mini has basically re-solidified my faith in the company.
At the same time, I don’t think they can afford to ignore the opportunities that an online model will give them with a much broader appeal.
The everyday Joe can just send his video in and get it fixed. No need for a computer. No need for knowledge. No need for effort…. Just money is needed.
I don’t know if you’ve been noticing, but that’s kind of the way of the world right now.
Yes, the product was originally built for video professionals, and enthusiasts… and as long as they keep coming up with something as revolutionary as starlight mini…. I will stick with them.
But I don’t think you can ignore the business opportunities of what an online model will give you if you want to stay in business as a company in today’s world.
They are branching out and trying to do MANY things right now and it’s probably stretching their resources greatly.
I have similar concerns, but I’m a former tech executive and don’t think they’d be so stupid as to lean into cloud as if their user base would survive the inherent price gouging and customer steering toward that path. This isn’t solidworks. It’s a buggy UI around a tweaked ffmpeg engine and a single model in a bad python container. The moat they have with their models is a few college projects away from dropping. I assume if they turn their back on local, open source community will build solutions that fill the void pretty quickly.
There is a lot of pressure to do this if you want to spike your valuation ahead of a sale, which I suspect may be what’s happening. Topaz people, any comments on this?
Not only because of speed but very likely the quality will benefit from downscaling before. This is generally true for photo and image upscaling when the actual resolution doesn’t match the details of the image/video i.e. when somebody has simply „blown up“ the size without actually improving details at the same time.
P.S. for joining the files if you do them in several smaller parts you could also use MKVToolnix. No need to reencode (assuming those parts are all rendered with the save settings).
No need to do split renders here - maybe because my rig isn’t so extremely high end but just a „normal“ fast one with i9 12900 and a RTX 4070, nothing oc“ed or „tweaked“ and thus runs fully stable even for an extended period of time at full load.
Shutter Encoder is a free application, add files there in order and you can merge them all consecutively with “Merge”. If you are using a Mac, there is already a free video editor on it. I am using a PC, so I am using Sony Vegas Pro. You need to learn how to use a video editor, because it is not enough with just Topaz, you will need to make audio and video improvements.
They haven’t released a new version in a long time. Actually, I have to give credit to Topaz applications, because I used their alternatives, but none of them were as good as Topaz products. I can definitely say Topaz is the best improvement in photo and video. Of course, not everything is that simple. After all, software developers don’t have a magic wand. They find new things with time and long efforts. There were constant updates until version 7, but it was almost deadlocked after version 7. I’ve been waiting for the 7.1 beta version for a long time. For example, new versions of Iris and Topaz, and maybe a faster micro model of SLM. A model that is twice as good but works twice as fast will do the job. I’m also waiting for Nvidia driver improvements for the 50 series. I appreciate the software developers and wish them success.
If you make ProRes files some editing programs will combine these without re-rendering. Personally, for long renders like this I make an image sequences which I then recombine in an editing program, Then if Topaz crashes everything is saved until the crash.
Conversely, TL could include a (much sought after) PAUSE feature, which would allow us to save our renders, power down the PC, and come back where we left off instead of having to start from scratch. Also, an “auto-save” feature would be nice. At least every 5 or 10 minutes, renders could be saved so all work isn’t lost in case of crashes.
These are ‘nice to haves’. SLm is the best we’ve seen so far (by a mile imo). If they could do something to rid ourselves of monster faces, it would be almost perfect (speed being the other big issue).
