Topaz Video AI v3.2.0

Veering off-topic here a bit, but how much does your gpu’s draw power while idle?

It should ALWAYS be around 30 watt max!

If it draws something like 100-120W you have a power issue. You can also recognize this easily by your idle Mhz, if it’s over 1000mhz, that’s not idling. My current power draw is 24W with 210Mhz gpu.

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I did this by installing this, it doesn’t matter it says multi-monitor, I have only one and same thing:

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The changes of color and definition in the version
v.3.2.0 should be thoroughly reviewed.
I attach a graphic test with a deinterlaced TV.
With the help of Vectorscope I have verified various video and photo sources and the problem is constant.
A professional colorist should find solutions or, failing that, as occurs in the main image editing software, add the possibility of typing the ICC by the user and keep it constant during the render.
At what internal point is the color change taking place?
Greetings

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I’m talking about that too! The spectrum shifted to red, and unnecessary grain appeared.

The color issue must be resolved.
I recommend that you process a white sheet to be able to deduce the color changes in the final result.
If you have a large Kodak gray chart it will be very useful.
I read your interesting contributions on these errors and some computer prone to color blindness - as you well know has settings in Adobe - reacted inappropriately.
In EFX studios, programmers and supervisors tend to have very fluid lines with the DIT so as not to have post conflicts with the Color team.
Topaz has a great photographer on the team… I understand that with so many programming and development problems he’s going on safari…
Your correct approach is a necessary contribution.
Greetings

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To be honest all my GPU’s I’ve overclocked in the past will sit around 75% of it’s clock speed at “idle”. This card’s TDP at “idle” is 144w on the desktop until I remove my Overclock settings back to default. I found It’s just a drawback of doing it. That or it’s my OS being strange… I’m not fussed on power usage personally, it’s the only constant power intensive appliance in my house apart from the fridge and freezer.

Edit: I should mention I have a 240hz monitor and a 144hz secondary monitor. Which may be the increase in power usage at idle.

For my card maxed out at 112%+ power limit using 460w peak TDP will barely touch 80C under every circumstance I throw at it. rarely even gets to 74C on hot days… Whereas others with the same card have complained about it getting to 85C easy so I guess it just depends on the environment it’s in. Trust me 75C is nothing compared to Hardware I’ve had in the past that would be a constant 88C-97C. it also helps to get lucky with a decent binned chip with your series of card.

Sounds to me like your download is being blocked by something. Try temporarily disabling windows defender firewall, and also disable any other antivirus/security/firewall applications you might have.

Yeah I misunderstood, my apologies. When I go to bed I do set my pc to Power save mode and also have a profile to set my GPU to 25% power limit.

Is there a new location for the models folder? Using this guide: Model download tutorial - #29 by dimsimjim, there is nothing else than the logs folder when going one level up. I cannot find any models folder in Roaming, Local or ProgramData. Where are we supposed to unzip these files?

Also, can I downgrade to the previous version? I just want to work for now…

Nothing else but the noise reduction slider was applied.
I believe this was at 50, but it was necessary to strike a balance between 1) enhancing desirable fine detail, 2) preventing the “painted” look of compression reversion, and 3) suppression of random analog noise. If it weren’t for the oversharpening (which is also giving that woman a nasty lip and chin injury instead of a minor shadow) it would be fine! 3.0.4 didn’t do this mess.
Even the blank walls in another part of the picture had “flurries” moving around on them. The “shoeprint” on that white seat back cover is an artifact, yes. But…the dark black edge on the right side of the cover is NOT an artifact…that’s sharpening that should never occur in any noise reduction function.
I did the same test in every version going back to 3.0.4 …where it stopped “sharpening” and actually started reducing the noise. That’s also the most recent version where that “shoeprint” artifact didn’t show up.
P.S. A video has been added to the dropbox as requested by the moderator, however I trimmed it to 30 seconds of the relevant portion–if there was any reencoding, it may possibly alter the results in testing. Quicktime doesn’t tell you if the trim function reencodes or not. If you want the much larger original video please let me know.

I thought so too but I tested it by disabling all firewalls and windows protection and nothing changed, even restarted and still nothing.

Try this:

Set up your export job, then go to the menu → process → select show export command, then copy it, then go to menu again → process → open command prompt → right click to paste in the export command, press enter to start it.

When the job fails, you will probably see a more meaningful error message. Paste a screenshot of that here.

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I’m currently using v3.1.8. Can I install v3.2.0 without corrupting the previous version (install in different folders), so I just test it. I know I can do it with v2.6.4 and v3.xx, can I do it with different version of 3.xx?




This is what I got following your guide, can’t preview or export, get the same errors on both.

Does the command prompt eventually error out after this section? Usually the error messages will appear after this section. You might need to wait a while for it.

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The JSON files should be extracted into %PROGRAMDATA%\Topaz Labs LLC\Topaz Video AI\models (Win) or /Applications/Topaz Video AI.app/Contents/Resources/models (Mac).

You may switch back to a previous version by downloading the appropriate release from the Releases forum.

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Also what model of GPU do you have? If it’s a Nvidia 20 series there is a known issue with them and a temp fix has been posted in this thread by the devs.

I Have waited 20 mins and nothing has been added to the command prompt from the screenshots, I still have it open in hopes it will update with something.

I have RTX 3080TI with the latest studio driver

Ok well in the meantime you might want to open a support case:

Topaz Labs (an ‘email us’ option should pop up)

You will also want to include the logs: menu → help → logging - > get logs for support

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Try to remove all the subtitles from the source file. I’m almost sure the problem you’re having is with the subtitles

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