Topaz Video AI Beta v4.1.0.0.b - v4.1.0.5b

I think so, yes. It tests out as progressive, but I can clearly see some interlacing, hence “interlaced Progressive.” It’s an SD DVD from around 2008-2009 that was probably shot on DV camcorder tape.

Iris as a second enhancement was too soft even with Sharpen and Detail turned up. Trying Artemis now.

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For the last few years I have always paid 84 dollars for the 1 year extension, now it costs 150 dollars!!! Is there no discount code for beta testers?? I’ve been there for 7 years, unfortunately I can’t test this beta anymore, it’s just too expensive

in manual mode or relative auto mode you dial everything at 0?

Hmm for Iris it says for low Quality Iris v1 will be used for iris MQ iris v2 will be used back to Alpha

Why I see manual for you I would expect relative to auto but I see relative to auto always falls back to auto settings

Having said this eventhough I do not the same iris settings the result with manual looks good i use by the way interlaced in stead of interlaced progressive

I find that for any model that offers the option, manual/estimate at the worst quality point of a video seems to give me the results I prefer the most.

That said, I ended up not using these settings. I switched to interlaced and used Dione V3 with Artemis as the second enhancement, which didn’t offer manual. Not sure this is the best setting for the entire vid, still tinkering.

I was thinking why input is progressive and the output default to progressive and the enhancement results look bad

Maybe when the VHS PAL tapes that were originally interlaced with the converting hardware/software modules got a modern progressive MP4 container.

Then the enhancement of TVAI while output is progressive tries to enhance progressive frames while the content or each frame has still interlaced characteristics but lost the metadata at the point we start interlacing first the frames are before enhancement takes off put in the right sequence order

I belief most of the European VHS PAL with converted Mp4 \s users are unaware of this when Tvai steps in that is why we some advanced users tried hybrid first.

The end result is that unaware users of this behaviour will get disappointed and our US support engineers might not be aware of this old stuff PAL SD Interlaced or not give it enough attention I just found out by trial and error by chance and have not changed to progressive output ever after

Yes, what “interlaced progressive” is about is a progressive copy of an interlaced source. I was wondering if it’s there because TVAI can actually detect interlaced videos but can’t detect when a progressive video has interlaced content. I’ve not had the app import anything and say interlaced, but maybe I just haven’t imported any interlaced sources. But this particular video has several scenes in which the interlacing is clearly visible.

Would love to test. But my beta license needs renewing :slight_smile:

The beta is incorrectly reporting the framerate of imported .wmv files. A 29.97 fps file is being reported as 59.94 fps.

I tested this by making a 1 second export as tiffs, and sure enough, it made 60 tiffs.

The current alpha is also doing this.

4.0.9 release version is working correctly.

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Is there any update to Apollo S/R it was included a few betas ago?

I was under the impression that Aion is the descendant of Apollo SR.

Yes, it is

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Are there environment variables I can set for the beta version?

Same ones that are in the release version.

My first try at an Aion interpolation errored out. Log attached.
logsForSupport.zip (439.0 KB)

The same for me (Mac Book Air M2). Aion fails in all videos. But in previous alpha 4.1.0.3.a it works in 1080p, not in 4K or above.

Logs from beta:

logsForSupport.zip (7.2 MB)

Logs from alpha:

logsForSupport.zip (665.6 KB)

Well that’s no good. They need to be different, since the models are stored in different folders.

No, the dialogs to set variables are the same. The settings in the dialogs are different.