Topaz Video AI Beta 5.0.3.0.b

Hello everyone,

We have a new beta available for testing.

5.0.3.0.b

Changelog from 5.0.2

  • Added back reset button for timeline zoom.
  • Added .SER as an importable file type.
  • Fixed certain input tiff sequences failing to load with projects.
  • Fixed 0s elapsed bug when finishing export.
  • Fixed stabilization not reloading in app (loading with error).
  • Fixed benchmarking failing to load.
  • Fixed trim + crop + rotation persistence across projects.
  • Fixed EXR+DPX failing to reconvert.

Known Issues

  • EXR/DPX Exports may lose input frame number.
  • Inconsistent “Preview X frames” enable status.
  • Looping previews has a stutter.
  • Live preview can have frame de-sync.
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Time remaining/elapsed box no longer has a default set and is empty until you choose one.

It should default to time remaining for active jobs and completed jobs should show time elapsed by default.

And of course toggleable for any export regardless of status.

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To be honest I don’t like this GUI. The one before had well seperated parts. This one is an overall gray swamp where parts of the GUI are not seperated at all.

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Very grey swampy. Perhaps they will allow us to customize the look:

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When I let Video AI just re-encode the video without any enhancements, maybe to make the file size smaller, the progress info get stuck after a minute even though the processing continous as usual and finishes fine. This issue has been reported before.

A warning that path changes in preferences don’t take affect until after a reset would be nice.

Timeline zoom slider works, however the - and + buttons next to the slider have no action (macOS). Also would it be possible to control the timeline and the zoom with the scroll wheel? e.g. use some modifier keys to control zoom (please don’t use Ctrl on the Mac, it’s reserved for the entire screen zoom). Alt or Option + scroll wheel would work. Open to other suggestions of course. Thanks.

Mouse wheel zooming would be awesome. The best is when it bases what to zoom on what the mouse cursor is directly over.

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An error occurred
2024-04-27-04-29-6-Main.tzlog (3.2 MB)

I’m tired of the over-used and lazy crappy metro-flat look, as it’s extremely boring.

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This morning i tried to resume my work from yesterday but it just happened nothing and wondered why it´s not finished after starting the next task.
The program just freezed in(“keine Rückmeldung”) like it always does when i start to resume and show no other reaction but this time after the TVAI defreezed the Video wasn´t finished and i could start the next.


logsForSupport.zip (30.2 MB)

So i am thinking what can i do to resume a video TVAI is refusing to do so ?
Maybe i should close TVAI and start it again…what would happen ?!
TVAI is trying to resume without starting the resume with clicking on the play button…that never happened before…

After restarting TVAI it finished resuming the file.

I am noticing that the stabilization also in the last release is suddenly shaking some times each time the text of the credits at the end of a video is changing.

I can see movements and rotations of the text when the credits are changing.
I don´t think that this is normal…i didn´t noticed that behavior in older versions…don´t know when this started.
Just test stabilization of the end credits of a movie.

I am using standard settings of Stabilization.

The white text on black background starts rapid moving in different directions(also rotation) after the next credit shows up. Just look frame by frame it´s clearly visible.

Stabilization is used in cases where it shouldn´t stabalize at all…that needs to be fixed.

I uploaded a short file in the dropbox of tony.topazlabs showing that case.

Every time again when I open a video file the application is revert back to its default values so that I manually have to switch to Iris especially to Medium and so on. Would be hepful if the application just set the last settings I used because those are often either the same or a good starting point.

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Could the preset help? I created 2x Iris MQ and set it as default in Preferences. Will test effectiveness later, processing now…

To be honest the Preset list gets longer and longer with very unintuitive options to delete old presets so that I am faster setting up the enhancements than to search for the preset I need. :eyes:

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Will be trying out Aion soon to see how it goes, but man Nyx is just KILLING it! Wish it was not so slow.

edit Did exact same scene without nyx and just Aion, and it insta errors out.
logsForSupport.zip (5.8 MB)

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I have to say I have never used the existing presets… I don’t target resolution, I target quality enhancements. So I try to pick the best model for the type of video, and 2x or 4x, progressive or interlaced, recover details… can the default preset be removed?

I never used the default presets either. Unfortunately they can not be removed yet.

I started the processing of 62 files, same protocol ! Good news is the SW is doing it. However it’s difficult to see where we are in a long list of exports… It does bounce up and down when you reach the top or bottom of the list, but there is no scroll bar, so no indication of where you are in the list.

Also I find the changing of the text, from the model, resolution, FPS to the actual name of the file and remaining time to process quite confusing. It’s OK, I get it, space is a premium… Hoping you will find a better implementation for that list.

Thanks!

Note: there is a vertical scroll bar in the sources list…