Because it’s more important to bring in new users than address current user problems. It’s quantity driven, but at the expense of quality. Higher version numbers give the impression the software is well seasoned and fully functional, but current users know better. This rapid release of major versions at Topaz is a marketing stunt and mostly hype. We’ve have 4 major versions in less than 4 years, and that says a lot about the quality.
All new. Video AI 4
Cinematic. Superpowers.
Get my point?
My version makes my bed and a cup of tea for me 
I understand, maybe that’s why we need to turn to other software, because Topaz is really heading in the lowest direction. I’m not saying this to denigrate the company’s work, but they are going in the wrong direction since there was this sudden change in the team after veai 2.6.4
I say it and I will always say it again, because for me it is the strict truth.
Where did you hear that it was a different team between VEAI 2 and TVAI 3? I started with VEAI 2 and you are the only person who I remember saying that the team changed. I worry that you are wrong and that it is the same team.
The application changed. I remember Topaz saying they were taking the application in a different direction with the total re-write. VEAI 2 had several deal-braking bugs. Those were solved with TVAI 3—at the cost of a very different way of using the application. (And all the new bugs and issues that came with that.)
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Yes i selected all images. I tried several sequences that i used before and it doesn’t work anymore. If i downgrade to older version it works perfectly every time. I’ll just try the next version and hopefully its fixed.
Guys do you still remember?
Only one column on Video
Same font size
‘Color pop’ only if a filter is active
Scaling percentage had decimals
No need for double check before export
No layer disappear under another
Can I have a copy of that one, please?
(although I’d have to patch it so that it makes coffee instead of tea…)
Does it work opening just the first image?
Unless you make a detailed bug report in the bugs and issues section of these forums, they’re not going to know it’s not working.
I hang around, hoping for turn in direction, but I have yet to see it.
One way to possibly measure turnover, is open job postings. I’ve looked in the past and they seem to always have openings for programmers.
I think he is refering to
Yes exactly that. Thanks to you 
Cool cool. Thanks.
Still not more substantial than a rumor. Intellectual property should be more impactful than a UI developer. A product manager even more than that. Anyway, gossip gets us nothing.
As of 2023-11
Actually Topaz Labs has 4 employee openings directly related to VideoAI on their website and 2 more indirectly related (that’s out of roughly 30-50 employees for all software products including management).
Lead Software Engineer, Video AI
Senior Software Engineer - Video AI
Senior Software Engineer, AI Performance
Software Engineer (Product)
Software that never materialized used to be called “Vaporware”.
Software is pretty much the same now…basically all software is “Beta” or “Alpha” (take MS Windows 11 for example, just a continuous update). Just a handful of companies make a concerted effort to release an 80% and above working software application between feature updates.
My vote is for Resolve!
When will those endless created Folders under Temp be automatically deleted ?
Or is this data still needed for something ?!
Over time this will mess up my Harddisk-Space.
I just acquired TVAI as part of the Black Friday promotions, so v4.0.4 is my first install. I’m having problems with computer freeze-ups when I’ve had it running for around 30’ or so, so I was trying to tweak performance somehow. I am not finding the low power option on the processing preferences in the app. It is still showing as an option in the documentation. Did it disappear at some point?
if i were topaz vc or shareholder or boardmember i shuld be alarmed if you are not you should leave the company
Alas as I can’t install 4.0.4 on my non-AVX2 system, and my questions about whether it would work without AVX2 if you had a good graphics card (so would use that instead of AVX2) went unanswered, I decided what-the-heck let’s give it a go, since I have a licence which supports the latest version and it has been suggested it will work this way…
Anyway, here’s the Benchmarks run on my AVX2 system (for amusement value, and why I’d like to run it on my faster system - BTW I checked and the BIOS is set to provide the power necessary to run the CPU quickly, i.e. “Platform PL1 Power” is set correctly for the faster 20W operation, not the 6W for a fanless system):
Topaz Video AI v4.0.4
System Information
OS: Windows v11.22
CPU: Intel(R) N100 15.777 GB
GPU: Intel(R) UHD Graphics 0.125 GB
Processing Settings
device: 0 vram: 1 instances: 1
Input Resolution: 1920x1080
Benchmark Results
Artemis 1X: 00.18 fps 2X: 00.13 fps 4X: 00.06 fps
Iris 1X: 00.20 fps 2X: 00.11 fps 4X: 00.04 fps
Proteus 1X: 00.19 fps 2X: 00.13 fps 4X: 00.06 fps
Gaia 1X: 00.03 fps 2X: 00.02 fps 4X: 00.02 fps
Nyx 1X: 00.08 fps 2X: 00.08 fps
4X Slowmo Apollo: 00.20 fps APFast: 00.93 fps Chronos: 00.10 fps CHFast: 00.17 fps
This is my non-AVX system with 3.5.4:
Topaz Video AI v3.5.4
System Information
OS: Windows v10.22
CPU: Intel(R) Core™ i7-3770K CPU @ 3.50GHz 31.96 GB
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 5.8281 GB
Processing Settings
device: 0 vram: 1 instances: 1
Input Resolution: 1920x1080
Benchmark Results
Artemis 1X: 08.92 fps 2X: 05.14 fps 4X: 01.50 fps
Iris 1X: 08.88 fps 2X: 04.83 fps 4X: 01.51 fps
Proteus 1X: 08.72 fps 2X: 04.45 fps 4X: 01.48 fps
Gaia 1X: 02.81 fps 2X: 01.86 fps 4X: 01.24 fps
Nyx 1X: 03.38 fps
4X Slowmo Apollo: 03.55 fps APFast: 29.61 fps Chronos: 06.80 fps CHFast: 10.70 fps
Plus finally the non-AVX2 system with 4.0.4:
Topaz Video AI v4.0.4
System Information
OS: Windows v10.22
CPU: Intel(R) Core™ i7-3770K CPU @ 3.50GHz 31.96 GB
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 5.8281 GB
Processing Settings
device: 0 vram: 1 instances: 1
Input Resolution: 1920x1080
Benchmark Results
Artemis 1X: 09.04 fps 2X: 05.98 fps 4X: 01.66 fps
Iris 1X: 09.04 fps 2X: 04.92 fps 4X: 01.52 fps
Proteus 1X: 08.86 fps 2X: 05.84 fps 4X: 01.57 fps
Gaia 1X: 02.81 fps 2X: 01.86 fps 4X: 01.24 fps
Nyx 1X: 03.40 fps 2X: 02.96 fps
4X Slowmo Apollo: 03.96 fps APFast: 24.41 fps Chronos: 06.82 fps CHFast: 10.64 fps
So basically I just copied over the files from the AVX2 system and gave it a go. I did play with adding some registry entries but that didn’t change anything.
My findings are that it runs okay but only in Trial mode (it will authenticate and take away the Yellow Trial box, but you still get the watermark).
So, since 4.0.4 (i) seems to run okay and (ii) I have a licence for it, could someone please suggest how to get it out of trial mode? For bonus points should I expect everything to work or are there things to avoid? I did notice no exceptions were thrown running the Benchmark or converting a clip with Proteus V3, and the results all look sensible compared to 3.5.4 
