Topaz Video AI v4.0.8

Video AI Releases
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I refuse to use Iris on low resolution and with 480p x 360 I was under the impression iris Low quality has to be used

The slowness can be caused because the automatic setting does check at the 8 frame level in stead of 20 frames.

I noticed that the recovering detailed information setting to high increases the time of rendering.

I would not scale up more than X 2 or X4 but use Anymp4 to set the aspect ratio and cropping

then use Topaz AI one caveat

Topaz AI changes the source meta data hence I need to rerender in ANYmp4 ā€¦

I use a RTX 4080 and Latest Intel CPU I got pretty distressed from the 3 seriesā€¦

One Very important problem is de Mona Lisa effect with Iris and low 480P input The Mona Lisa might be wonderfull, but when I see the craqaleles I do not think iris is usefull anymore

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Iā€™ve not seen any actual performance improvements (in models, speed or preferences management) that could not have been implemented in the 3.x UI. Iā€™ve certainly not seen any indication that work on the #1 item on my personal wishlist, multiple GPU processing, is being done (really, people, if the folks at Blender.org can make a free, open source app run 2x faster on two GPUs, thereā€™s really no excuse for any commercial app that uses GPU processing to lack that capability).

That said, I hope that Topaz succeeds in fixing the 4.x UI. Because the odds of them ever backtracking on it are probably nil. Nobody likes to admit they made a mistake.

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Player rotation is still broken for me. To rotate a video 180 degrees I have to rotate by 90, start the player, pause the player, rotate to 180, start the player, and now itā€™s properly rotated. This has been broken for 3 point releases now, surely someone can Ctrl-Z the code submitsā€¦

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This happens because Some customers felt the GUI is not slick enough

Then they introduce bugs that need to be patched this is typical American startup where the initial software that was made rendered out of the proper ideas then got marketing demands which always means creating crippled software.

i remembers the day where we were supporting version 3.7 but when asked by escalation engineering version 2.3 was the most stable one. our customer adobe

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I worked in several development environments before retiring, and the need to keep customers interested with a constant stream of highly visible ā€œimprovementsā€ makes bloat pretty much endemic to every consumer product in the world, not just American software. Compare Renaultā€™s 2024 product line to what they were selling 20 years ago. And itā€™s been 30 years since they last sold product in the USA.

Things are slightly better when the target market is industrial. Iā€™ve been an AutoCAD user for 30 years, and although thereā€™s been plenty of visible bloat in each new release, itā€™s still possible to configure the options to make the UI look and work much the same way it used to when it was a DOS program with keystroke commands.

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how would you say that proteus v4 compares to v3?

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with a good processed source video, proteus v4 is much better, it keeps more details and denoises better I find, it is with proteus v4 that I have found the best parameters until now.

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It would be great if there was the option to fix output settings to 4:3 and 16:9. It would improve upscaling old VHS videos from 720x576. At the moment I have to upscale to 768x576 and in a second rendering to higher resolutions. It also would be very useful if you would add the stabilisation features from version 4.0.5.1b to the latest version.

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Can we please get improvement in the Artemis Aliasing/Moire Preset? I feel there needs to be a stronger version.

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I wonā€™t update till release of Proteus V4.

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BUG REPORT: Previous Output file gets overwritten by Previews

Steps to reproduce:

  • Create a bunch of previews
  • Select Clip trim
  • EXPORT AS ā†’ Specify a custom filename
  • Wait for the export to finish
  • Create a few more previews
  • These new previews overwrite the previous exported clip
    (and destroys hours of export timeā€¦)
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My previews and exports go to different locations.

If you go to Preferences/Directories, what does it say in the Export and Temp folder entries?

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They are set to different folders of courseā€¦
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And even if not: Why do previous all of a sudden take the same file name as a previous export?
Why is there no alert that a file is being overwritten?

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Awesome :slight_smile: But itā€™s still removing my shortcuts and pinsā€¦
Is there a reason yaā€™ll want us to keep recreating them?
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Does it do this if you select Export instead of Export As?

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I think youā€™re onto something. I have noticed that if I create a preview for Proteus with manual settings, then switch it to Auto, the generated command keeps the manual settings effectively making my next preview Relative to Auto instead of just Auto.
It could be not resetting other things like the output path as well.

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Iā€™m thinking that Export As is setting the same name and location for everything. Thatā€™s a guess, because Iā€™ve never used that.

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Well, just tried this version.
Did a resize to proper 4k, iris MQ and then LQ, and Gaia for the resizeā€¦ preview just sits thereā€¦ after about a minute, it errors out and that is that, no popups or anything. Oddly, if I try to export it starts with no problem. Of course I cannot see what it looks like so itā€™s pretty bad I guess.

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Is there any model or setting that deals with electronic stabilization flickering?

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Hmm I belief Topaz should have skipped to release a version after christmas or even after new year thanksgiving days was also skipped before thanksgiving or whatever to be gratefull for