It´s a short clip and i am satisfied by the result, the video is clear, crisp, good color. Give your opinion?
I have only FHD but look nice.
Although not suggested/recommended, I have been using Rhea to enhance ‘unwatchable’ prints of older commercial films, mostly from the 1940’s. Attached before and after screen captures show Rhea combined with Focus Fix (Normal) for the first pass followed by Artemis with double up-scaling to 1152.
Proteus remains my go-to in this particular endeavor, but Rhea warrants usage beyond the intended application.
@sugofoxi It’s looks fine and sharp, but I can see blurred textures caused by “fix compression”, “Improve Details” or “Dehalo”, and it has a “plastic look” Rhea tends to. Often I use just deblur and sharpen from Rhea, other parameters are too invasive for me for film, then as second enhacement I choose Theia or Gaia, sometimes Artemis.
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Agreed and good points to consider. The print I had was terribly soft. Enhancement decisions are very subjective, and I’m thankful that Topaz offers so many possibilities.
Attached is another Rhea/Artemis combination (no focus fix) of “It Happened One Night” (1939).
I don’t consider the facial enhancement in this example to be in the ‘plastic’ category given that the make-up preference in the 1930’ was smooth and heavy.
Much better now! Previous version was good samples when “pixel blocks” are too fine, sharpness/contrast goes down. If it’s extreme, the picture looks like fluid or you just have a unsharp image. Luckily, this can be easily fixed by increasing deblur 
Not sure if you saw but the Starlight model works for the sorts of old films that you have, it’s currently released on the web app.
Thank you for your alert.
Yes, I did see the Starlight release information. I’d say this Cloud only service is too resource (time) intensive to be a viable solution for films, to say nothing the proposed cost. Beyond that, it’s a Diffusion Model meaning that it is creating visual content that does not exist in the original. As a commercial film purest I’m not inclined to use a process which is not refining pixels but is actually creating new ‘imagined’ imagery.
Might be a good tool for old 8mm home movies though!
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Could be “RheaXL” is a spin of Starlight in a early stage, immature with many artefacts. How I come up with this is the Alien fonts Starlight produces, which is very specific RheaXL does (Rhea V1 does not.) So we are do with a RheaXL+Artemis combo somewhat maybe closer on Starlight as we think, but of course it lacks the computing power to achieve Starlight results
Interesting - I hadn’t thought of that possibility.
