It is good to know that there will be live preview again…, but without that makes the user experience frustrating… I have to wait long minutes for complete previews, and I could have been able to tell best settings on a few frames. I think this 4.0 thing should have been a public beta test, not a full release until it is not fully functional - at least like previous versions. Also I felt that the left / right windows were swapped?
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+1 … this version should not have been released until it is fully functional. Live preview is a base thing when testing iterations on settings.
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hoping known issues of preview rotation and sync is fixed on the next one
So, setting it lower will go “faster”… this is counter-intuitive… I mean I’ll try it but it sounds stupid. Thanks.
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Well, rather to wait for a Video AI application developed in India, I prefer to stimulate Topaz to step up their efforts in cleaning up their product, and to focus on user friendly interfaces and tutorials.
They have good ideas, but they should have the courage not to publish program changes rejected by beta testers as a new Release.
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I guess I don’t understand how the preview system works now…
Is it no longer possible to preview your final output while it’s being processed, even if it takes double the disk space or whatever like it did in the later 3.x versions?
I don’t like creating previews that will always be discarded when I can start doing a full output in earnest that I can decide to either keep or cancel based upon how it’s looking while it’s processing. That’s a much better use of processing time, I think.
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Have you tried selecting the GPU in the preferences? Don’t select ‘all GPUs’.
BTW you said you have a 4080 but your screenshot shows a 4090.
Fully agree
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Yeah, I forgot I got the 4090… I mean it’s not a huge difference between the two… Either way, yes only my 4090 is selected in the preferences.
I won’t be updating my subscription. Thank you for all the weekly updates but it’s not worth the $149 a year.
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Why is it, that every time i have done a preview all the settings i have tweaked with the model i am using is completely reset again? And if i tweak on the one i already previewed, it starts to preview a model i am no longer using? The two window preview thing is absolute garbage, this company really needs to learn that, “if it aint broken, don’t fix it”. (But concentrate on what IS broken.)
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Will the script to download Topaz Video AI models be updated?
It was updated for 4.0, but it doesn’t work correctly. I imagine nothing’s changed that much but maybe somebody could look over the script again?
What do you expect? You’re upscaling 720p to 4k and then zooming in 8x on tiny area with next to no detail. Maybe in 5 years, when AI can generate the entire frame, quickly enough not to take several months for one video, your expectations will be realistic.
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The crazy thing is, back in 2020, when I took the bait, I genuinely believed AI would do exactly that, by accurately filling in all the missing bits-n-pieces of an SD video, so in the end, the output frames would be a perfect 4k representation of the original source. It appears joachim.ehrhardt is just now learning the sad truth, that upscaling video to 4k using AI is more hype than reality.
Rather than 5 years, I think it will take 10 to 20 years before AI is smart enough to create those missing elements, but powerful computers will be required to accomplish it.
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I can see why someone would believe some of the marketing claims made.
Right now, however, the sweet spot for Video AI is improving MQ video (720p and up) as there’s enough information for the models to work with. To really improve LQ/SD sources, it will require generative AI to fill in the missing details and like you said, we are a long way away from having the processing power to be able to do that in a reasonable time.
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did the team ever say yet when topaz will get an auto save and resume feature? For example, if the power goes out in the middle of converting, then you reboot the computer, the idea is that it allows you to resume from a checkpoint that autosaved when you open topaz again so you don’t lose the whole conversion. They would have to set it in a way where its auto saving every five minutes. A company called owl 3d does this with their 3d converter software and its very convenient to resume even after reboot with owl 3d. Would love this feature in topaz.
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you can make it worse!! you are not doing it well. And yes, I tried to help but nobody wants to understand us. Try to convert an interlaced video and you can have the absolutely awful output. Also when you try to contact support a womman told me that the output was great… awesome! So, thats it. Nothing else to do.
I bought a 24 g card only because I want to render faster…but in every update it changes… if you are lucky, your card works, and other times you can do nothing else even if you have more than 12 processors, because the software hijack all of them.
Yes I agree, it’s pain that both preview windows re-process when comparing a new model against one you have already processed.
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Saving progressively as a .ts file may work if they gave us an Export output format option? But finding t he last saved point may be a challenge for the tech team. Not impossible though!
