Topaz Video AI v4.0.0

A nice feature could be to load any video to the left side maybe the original and on the right side load an video already completely rendered the day before in order to compare those both.
So it´s possible to compare videos at a later time or from different applications.

Actually you can do that already by starting TVAI twice, and diplay them side by side

Yes i totally agree…

A program should run also on older CPUs when there´s an GFX-Card who delivers an acceptable frame rate. Also Windows7 should be supported.

And devs don´t think about limit the tool to Windows 11…there´s a lot of hardware out there with Windows 10 where Windows proofes to be able to upgrade to Windows 11 where the upgrade is failing all the time waiting months for new upgrade trials they again failing to upgrade to Windows11…

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True, there are lots of cases with broken cadences. But if a whole movie was correctly transferred to DVD (for example), I have normally found I can use inverse telecine in the programs mentioned and use TVAI on the progressive result.
Of course, a capable AI would be the solution for all those other cases…

Exporting in 4K is extremely slow. This is the most important issue that cannot be improved. Even in new versions, Export is getting slower and slower.
image Previous versions had 2.4fps

What graphics card are you using? :thinking:

AI processing is highly computationally intensive. If you want faster processing times, you will need a very powerful GPU.

This is my graphic card image
I think the Export software’s slowness is mostly because it saves directly to the drive. Maybe their algorithm doesn’t take advantage of VRAM and RAM.

You may try run the benchmarking by clicking
“Process → Benchmark” or keyboard shortcut (Ctrl + B)

Also, you may check the temperature of your CPU/GPU to ensure that your laptop doesn’t overheat during processing. Excessive heat can lead to thermal throttling, which significantly reduces speed.

The four configurations to compare in real time were the best they had.

We are sticking with version 3.3.11, and I believe that for the time being, we won’t upgrade until we see positive progress moving forward and not regression as we are experiencing now. We believe there are genuinely important points, such as real-time preview and the ability to have four simultaneous previews to compare four different progressions in real-time. We hope you understand these requests are not made lightly; they have a purpose.

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Or better software.
As is seen by the now abysmal performance of Iris on Apple Silicon.
My M1 Pro with 10CPU cores and 16 GPU cores is about as fast with the (not really so) old V3.4.0.0.1.a as the M2Ultra with those newer versions despite the latter having 24 CPU cores and 60 GPU cores.

That’s right: 60 vs 16 GPU cores and still about the same performance due to lacking software optimisation.

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unuseable. preview doesnt work anymore. source and processed is async and processed doesnt show any difference. its broken

Here are the benchmark results. Is it because my device configuration is low? If so, can you tell me what the minimum configuration requirements are?

Topaz Video AI  v3.5.3
System Information
OS: Windows v10.22
CPU: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-11800H @ 2.30GHz  15.709 GB
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop GPU  3.8838 GB
GPU: Intel(R) UHD Graphics  0.125 GB
Processing Settings
device: 0 vram: 1 instances: 1
Input Resolution: 1920x1080
Benchmark Results
Artemis		1X: 	04.87 fps 	2X: 	03.41 fps 	4X: 	00.99 fps 	
Iris		1X: 	04.05 fps 	2X: 	02.33 fps 	4X: 	00.67 fps 	
Proteus		1X: 	03.45 fps 	2X: 	02.58 fps 	4X: 	00.84 fps 	
Gaia		1X: 	01.08 fps 	2X: 	00.75 fps 	4X: 	00.50 fps 	
Nyx		1X: 	01.36 fps 	
4X Slowmo		Apollo: 	05.27 fps 	APFast: 	19.94 fps 	Chronos: 	03.03 fps 	CHFast: 	05.11 fps 	

Topaz Video AI  v3.5.3
System Information
OS: Windows v10.22
CPU: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-11800H @ 2.30GHz  15.709 GB
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop GPU  3.8838 GB
GPU: Intel(R) UHD Graphics  0.125 GB
Processing Settings
device: 0 vram: 1 instances: 1
Input Resolution: 3840x2160
Benchmark Results
Artemis		1X: 	00.84 fps 	2X: 	00.53 fps 	4X: 	ERR fps 	
Iris		1X: 	00.87 fps 	2X: 	00.41 fps 	4X: 	00.10 fps 	
Proteus		1X: 	00.65 fps 	2X: 	00.41 fps 	4X: 	ERR fps 	
Gaia		1X: 	00.21 fps 	2X: 	00.12 fps 	4X: 	00.09 fps 	
Nyx		1X: 	00.17 fps 

You may compare your benchmark result with others.

This one is a bust Topaz, My it team is frantically uninstalling and reinstalling an older version (have not been successful yet) so we can work. We use this almost every day at our studio and we are dead in the water. I am running a machine that is top tier with a Ryzen 5950, Rtx 3090ti and 128gb of pc3600 running at 3600, and a gen4 NVME. The machine is solid and worked with every version until now. It is plain awful and is basically useless. Now If I hear someone say that this machine is not powerful enough, I call BULL! The machine is a little over a year and a half old and if your software outruns its headlights… you don’t understand your customers. I have been a paying customer for several years and have gone to bat for ou guys when people complain for no reason or they have a potato computer. But this is just sloppy.

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Perhaps this software is only suitable for use by studios specializing in graphics. Not suitable for mass use.

Is there a reason that downloading updates for Video AI is 30-50x slower than downloading updates for Photo AI (especially given similar file sizes)? I know Photo AI sometimes does smaller patches (which Video AI should do also), but even in the case of a large download, Video AI is PAINFULLY slow to download.

On a similar topic, Photo AI has an option to download updates in the background and have them ready for install. Why doesn’t Video AI have this same function months later?

They used to… not any more.

You might want to request being a beta tester, and we can really use your perspective as you’re a professional user of the program, plus you get the benefit of testing the betas, which would be of immeasurable value as you will have stable builds to fall back on when encountering general release mishaps such as this one!

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like the previous version its broken. preview doesnt work correct. source and preview picture is always async. its impossible to finetune parameter if the video is always showing the wrong scenes

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I’d really like to hear the answer for why Video AI update downloads are ridiculously slow. Regardless if they are using a CDN like Akamai or their own servers, I would expect download speed parity across programs.