I see no incentive for anyone to pay to receive incremental updates to 3.x with the program in it’s current state since the release of 3.
Currently, the incentive is to not upgrade, or participate in any kind of testing of the updates and maybe consider upgrading once the bugs are ironed out and performance has been improved.
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When I try stabilization I get the blurred image on the right.
iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2019). 3.7 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i5. 32 GB 2667 MHz DDR4. Radeon Pro 580X 8 GB. SSD. Monterey 12.6.2
I would have agreed with you, until I realized that this is ‘bleeding edge’ software, or software based on largely experimental new technologies. As such, Topaz is doing a better job keeping it working, and stable, and speedy, and effective, than any comparable commercial competitors out there. Are there bumps and setbacks along the way? Yes. However, with the price of admission, we get to ride this A.I. ship, and boldly go where no video program has gone before. 
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Isn’t that what you became a beta tester for? To help iron out those bugs. 
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I became a beta tester when 3 was going into alpha, then they pushed out the release when many people were saying that 3 still felt like an early beta. It still feels like a beta.
The released version of 3.x does not feel like a polished, release ready product.
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I don’t disagree on any particular point. But the devs are not necessarily the same people who make the commercial decisions. And it’s only the former we can reach.
In the latest version, when using x264 x265 encoding, turn on the particle switch, the processed video image particles are few and uneven, particles are not well preserved, and the effect is not as good as that of the prores encoding particles. I hope x264 x265 can increase the parameters to retain the particle effect
1920 x 1080 30sec clip downscale to 960 x 540 6.8fps
Time - 01:12
Ive done more testing the model doing this consistently is the themis deblur model. It turns the scene greenish. Please test it yourself and wipe back and forth on the preview panel to see this change. It’s happening on every video i test so far.
Something is really wrong on my end. I am trying to downscale a 30 clip (same downscaling that you did) and TVIA is telling me it will take 1 hour and 3 minutes; 2fps. Can I ask you what parameters you used? The video type is progressive and TVAI automatically selected the Proteus Fine-Tune AI model. The encoder is H264 high (NVIDIA); bitrate 180.
Rob
How did you got back to 3.0.7? I just see the possibility to download 2.6.4 and when I click it I got blocked by my Antivirus program saying URL Blacklisted 
And still no answer from the Support. They wrote they usually reply in 8 hours, but it looks they are really busy and tomorrow they have some company meeting so I don’t expect an answer until Monday at the earliest.
Product Releases - Topaz Discussion Forum (Release for all products)
Topaz Video AI v3.0.7 (Video AI 3.0.7 Specifically)
You will need to click the version you desire and download it from the release post.
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Ok I’m going to make a probably unpopular statement. I’ve used this idea since buying my first piece of software in 1979. Yep Apple 2 and CP/M days. Never buy software or for that matter hardware on what you think it might become. Only buy it because it answers a problem you have at that exact moment. I purchased Topaz Video Enhance AI at version 1.1 or 1.2. At the time I only had a GTX 1050Ti. VEAI crashed and had all types of bad performance but it was still better then anything else for the videos I had.
I upgraded 2 or 3 months after my license expired. I was using the alpha versions of very early 3.x.x.x with a watermark to judge when the software meet my new needs. That happened somewhere around Alpha 3.0.0.10 A. That was when Auto was working good enough that I could use it for my videos. That was my threshold for purchase. If it never progressed any further I was fine because I can’t justify paying money on speculation. I’ve seen too many companies fold over the years or completely change directions like writing an OS to becoming a financial consulting company. Or worse where the one person company which writes some great piece of code and the person dies. These examples are pieces of software that all cost more than Topaz Video AI back when salaries were a lot less.
I’m not saying you have to be happy with the state of the software but you do have to ask why did you buy TVAI when you did and can you still run that version of software you bought.
I hope you who are not happy never have to buy a piece of software that comes on one 1.44Mb floppy disk and cost $25000. That will really make your heart race for a while. I still have the floppy. It’s framed.
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I can confirm your personal experiences on my Intel machine too. 
I ve put it on my google drive temporary. Hope that helps: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tohwQU7T8S0z_H_iILc42Udz6IcqF3N2/view?usp=sharing
wowzers, what was the software?
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Back in the late 90’s I had a job to build some antennas for a weather satellite. It was a single program to model the antenna all written in Fortran and then compiled into a single exe file. It took 9 month to verify the code.
Engineering software is super expensive and it nothing to pay $2000 for nice packages and then the next year pay $2000 again to upgrade to the latest. Even Adobe back then was anywhere from $600 to $900 per computer license for Photoshop and the updates cost a minor fortune.
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I figured out why Topaz Video AI version 3, wasn’t version 1. It didn’t make any sense that a completely new piece of software, written from the ground up, wasn’t assigned version 1, until you think about the user licensing. It would have messed it all up, big time. Topaz Video AI is not the same as Topaz Video Enhance AI. They should have been honest by declaring the end of life for Topaz Video Enhance AI and commenced with version 1 for Topaz Video AI, by offering a special pricing concession for current users.
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Having a one-year license does NOT mean that the application will stop running after the end date.
It only means that you will not continue to get upgrades if one occurs after the licensed year. To continue getting upgrades, I.E., VEAI 2.x to TVAI 3.x.
These days a lot of software vendors are using a sort of “stick and carrot” method to get their customers’ $$$ flowing in. That is the “subscription.” They usually allow you to “subscribe” for a year. They promise you the sun, moon and stars at a “bargain” price. But with the subscription plan, at the end of the subscription, everything stops. - Not so with the Licensed version.
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