I’ve already explained my reasons, and for now, that’s the way it is, but I’m glad it works for you.
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Reinstall 3.0.12 or whatever over the top of 3.1 and it should work just fine (as a beta!). After trying 3.1 in trial mode, I did that and 3.0.12 shows up as licensed. The nag popup can be dismissed for 6 months - perhaps by then it will have achieved release candidate status!
All that remains to irritate is a small “Update Available” box at top right of its menu bar.
It seems Motion Deblur (Themis) model always uses GPU 0 even if I set GPU 1 for AI processor in preferences.
They wont go on, says my licence has expired. I’m locked out going to 3.1.
I can instal 2.6.4 but if I go to 3 or any other (which fell within my years subs) it wont let me activate.
What a mess!
Edit, okay after uninstalling everything (2.6.4) and reinstalling 3.0.12 over the top we finally have got back to 3.0.12.
I stand corrected and chastend…for now!
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I’m also seeing significant performance degradation with Chronos Fast on an M1 Max MacBook, a video that took 27 mins to process now takes 45 minutes. But on my RTX3080 PC I got a significant speed up, 27 mins to 13 minutes.
Thanks for confirming. I’m fairly certain it’s because of this:
Chronos, Chronos Fast, and Full Frame Stabilization uses TensorRT models on NVIDIA machines
I think the change to TensorRT only benefits the RTX series of cards, anything else is now performing worse. Hopefully they can bring back the performance to non RTX systems.
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Windows 10
Hi - I’ve found that any upscale between 120% and 239 or 240% takes about the same time! There is then a big drop in speed above 240%. I’d be interested to know why that is.
Thanks.
Andy
I can answer that. TVAI has 3 different AI enhancement models, 1x, 2x, and 4x. Everything is enhanced through those 3.
1x works up to 120% scale, 2x works at 121% to 239%, and 4x works from 240% and up. 1x is the fastest, 4x is the slowest, and 2x is in between.
I also find that generally, 2x has the best quality.
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It depends. Artemis at 2x may be about the same speed as Proteus at 1x, because Proteus is much slower.
This is why if I have a true 720p video that is not the best quality I will downscale(loseless) it first in something like Staxrip to 480p. I find I really didn’t lose much info because the 720p was poor to begin with. Then I upscale in TVAI to to 1080p. It’s much faster going to 1080p this way then 720p or 540p. Again though only if the original 720p video is of low quality like you can’t make out individual strands of hair on a persons head. Also I’m only using Proteus.
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But we have no guarantee how long the version will run as it has to always communicate with their servers. These versions won’t run forever. Someones got to pay the server bills.
Just bought the product and have some trouble with it.
90% of my videos stuck/hangs while generating a preview. the progress stop always at the same % for each video (Video 1 always at 52%, Video 2 always at 74%…)
Some other Videos just work fine. I tried to convert my old videos first to mp4 but no luck the same issue appears.
It worked fine before 3.x
any idea how to fix it ?
That’s Topaz’s problem, they’ve always sold it, all versions, on the basis that the version you bought or upgraded to will continue to work permanently. So they will have to keep the relevant models available on servers too - permanently (or offer a one-off “download all models” option that works and can be permanently backed up locally).
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Seems to be an issue with expired licenses and the minor version upgrade, i.e. from 3.0.x to 3.1.x. I successfully updated by my Windows and Mac copies.
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Same here…after sticking with the program through all of the beta testing thought we would not be cut off as the program was finally usable 
…and to add injury to insult it allowed me to install it! Now I need to revert!!
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i have just tried out version 3.10 after chilling on 2.x and i honestly cannot understand your complaint. i see absolutely no change in difficulty of using this program, nor i see the necessity of learning how ffmpeg works. as usual, i just provide a file, choose a model, export to jpg/png and wait.
but i see people agreeing with you, so can someone enlighten me?
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Yes. Too many people were burned by the “convenience” of cloud services. It’s all fun and games until the other side, which has all the cards, decides to change something for their own interests. Expired licenses, price increases, model downloads, and so on—or simply your electric or internet provider deciding to slow down, raise prices, or have rolling blackouts in order to chase windmills instead. No fun. What should always be an option is to buy, download, and own it.
So if 2x is best quality would you suggest to render in two passes in order for me to get from (in my case) 480p to 1080p, which I usually use the scale and set to 225%.
It’s normal since TVAI only work at X1/X2/X4, if you set a 720p to 1080p it’s first upscaled X2 (1440p) then downscaled to 1080p. It should even be a little slower due to that extra downscaling step.
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