Topaz Video AI Beta 3.1.6.0.b

Topaz Video AI Video AI Beta
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Hello Everyone!

We have another beta for your testing. Please let us know if processing gets stuck and send us the logs.

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Changelog:

  • Updated Themis for better quality
  • Quality improvements for Apollo Soft
  • Fixed issue with Themis getting stuck in certain situations
  • Fixed issue with progress indicator on the scrub bar
  • Misc fixes

Known Issues

  • Thumbnails may not update when scrubbing

Thanks for testing

Please upload problem videos and logs here: Submit files

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There it is, was waiting for this beta to test; I hope the stabiliser model’s Reduce Jittery Motion setting doesn’t blur out the images with this beta, haven’t tested the general release though!

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  • the 1st attempt has a green color mismatch :eyes:
  • the 2nd attempt is stuck in a model load loop and then ends with an unknown error.
  • an old issue re appeared where after i stop processing the preview button does nothing anymore

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Last FFmpeg messages:
Unable to parse option value “0” as video rate
Stream mapping:

The color missmatch is probably related to the new Themis motion deblur.

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In the past I have been disappointed with all the failures I experienced with Topaz Video AI. In fact, I kept Topaz Video Enhance AI because it never failed me. I tested the beta, and now I am super happy with the results. I really have to push the envelope because I shoot with the Canon R5C with the VR180 lens in Canon RAW LT. The files are huge, and when you are creating for VR, the image sits about an inch or so from the viewer’s face. Any image imperfections are magnified, and the goal is to have your viewer feel like they are there in the video. Consequently, both extreme sharpness without artifacts and noise reduction without blurring is critical. This new beta gives me that, and the added bonus of being able to render HEVC NVidia Main 10 @ 120Mbps makes my life so much easier because I don’t have to re-render from MOV. Thanks to the whole team for the improvements!

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I am pleased to report that the multi stream processing on the AMD system is now possible with this version. I have not tested all betas in the last month, so I’m not sure when this was resolved. But I can now process 3 parallel streams on the 6900XT (0.7spf single stream, 1.4spf with 3 streams for a nice performance boost).

The NVIDIA 3090 system which is identical apart from the GPU however now totally outclasses this with 0.37spf single stream performance (almost double speed of 6900XT single stream). Multi stream can do 4 parallel clips (more RAM) around 1.3spf on that machine.

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Same here: false/greenish colors with 3.1.6.0.b as soon as Motion Deblur is activated.

No problems in the 3.1.5 release version.

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@suraj @gregory.maddra @nipun.nath for me I will stay on 3.1.4 as long as the TVEAI team does not put a model manager with the old models. they said he would, it is written on the roadmap for January and as luck would have it on that for February, it is no longer written. it’s not very serious. You marked it and you don’t do it, so we’re all waiting for this manager. and moreover you do not even update proteus, artemis, gaia, theia so for me it is useless to download the beta suite as long as you do not respect what you say on the points that I have just mentioned.

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Same here. :frowning:

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Can confirm the Themis “green mask” issue, I’m packing and uploading my tests now!

EDIT: Thank F— the general release is fine, so it may be a test mask that slipped by when they were tweaking the model for the beta.

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Well this sucks, with the general release if you interpolate up to 240 frames per second, it comes out choppy and not at all smooth, I’ll test the beta and upload the files when through!

EDIT: Whew, it’s only video dependent, not at all due to the model, so the issue is isolated with a codec!

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Hi,

i got a similar error from the live sytem. Sent the log via dropbox. Was not able to copy the actual error, because the program freezes. Here is the error from the live system:
Last FFmpeg messages:

Unable to parse option value “0” as video rate
Unable to parse option value “0” as video rate
av_interleaved_write_frame(): Invalid argument
Error muxing a packet for output file #0
Error writing trailer of D:/Tron Legacy_apo6_prob3.mov: Invalid argument
frame= 8278 fps=1.4 q=-0.0 Lsize=17360641kB time=00:02:45.86 bitrate=857460.3kbits/s speed=0.0282x

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+1 greenish colour cast for me too lol

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With my PC it is also very bright.

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I got some purple or red color issue with Themis, rather than green.

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Not to be mean, but do they ever even test their own software? I mean, they introduce a ‘new and improved’ Themis: you’d think they’d run it at least once, right?

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Do you think they can test for every motherboard/cpu/gpu confiuration as well as every combination of operating systems/drivers ?

I’m not having any problems at all with these colour issues.

Maybe the problem is your system/ video source not the software.

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Motherboard + CPU + OS are utterly irrelevant. And as for GPU, there are de facto only 2 kind: nVidia and AMD, of which nVidia is favored by Topaz to begin with. So, yes, it’s not unreasonable to expect them to test these new features.

And I suppose Stabilization doesn’t blur out your image either, right?

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pssst 
 not so loud 
 :eyes:

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Unlikely since there are multiple reports of people seeing the same issue.

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You are in fact correct I was mistakinly using 3.1.6 not the beta.
Can confirm the green issue.

Sorry, but less than 18 hours ago my best friend of 40 years passed away from cancer and my mind at times is a bit of a jumble.

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