Topaz Video AI v3.0.0

apart from the technical problems people mention: I’m NOT convinced by the “improved” UI.It seems that simply that all the handholdy assistants and advisers and whatnot are now forced on me. So selecting the very same features has become more cumbersome due to unnecessary splitting into seperate menus. It feefls bloated but not better.

The Trim function doesn’t do any more than the older one but has now become needlessly cumbersome to use. Instead (that’s not even an option anymore!) of simply timeline click, “i”, click “o”) , you now have to click a button, move markers with the mouse, and then another pointles click to “apply”… And to change it, all of that again.It’s literally the same but with more fluff.

Yet basic real improvements it are still missing. It saves my last session as autosave. So there is a save function. Why can’t i still not save a session manually with a name then? If you have two instances running and one crashes, you can start from scratch because the backup is uusally from the wong one. Or multiple trim segments (more features would be a real reason for a seperate menu).
Or a pause function.

I guess the idea is to make things easier to understand and find for new users. And they probably do. But many a workflow has been sacrificed for that.The improved workflow claim seems almost sarcastic. It would be great to have the few real advantages (stabilisation, offline mode(!!), new ai models… in the more streamlined old ui. As it stands, with these and the other issues i will not refresh my update period for now. The older version is simple better.

Btw: no file load via network: i had that issue with older versions too. The reason after a long search was it running as Administrator. As soon as i removed that (compatibility mode), i could drag files from the network in again.

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