Source/preview/export listing order changes; last processed file shows on the top now
Misc. bug fixes and improvements
Known Issues
Max. Memory Usage may get set to the minimum after installing. Change it in Preferences.
Certain VOB files do not open correctly
Some videos can still have some seeking issues in Preview/Export
Preview is not instant on Export
Color space / HDR issues
Keyboard navigation missing
Intel codec not working on some machines
Apollo failing when AI Processor is set to Auto on Windows
Some quality mismatch between 2.6.4 and 3.0
App doesnât clear the temp folder
App only shows resolution in DAR and not in SAR
Hovering over Max. Memory Usage in Preferences quickly triggers a tooltip that covers the slider.
Multiple selection for input videos is missing
Different view mode is still missing
Problems and solutions:
If the output doesnât open in other applications, disable Allow Recovery before processing in Preferences > Output (note: Allow Recovery is required for previewing exported video in the app while processing)
If export fails, try using Transcode or None in Audio Settings in Preferences
If Apollo is failing on your Windows, change AI Processor from Auto to GPU
Ahh thanks to have added the frame per second / second per frame switch in Preference ! couldnât stop to smile when i saw it ahah !
Still a small issue in the Preference / folders, Slash / and\ are reversed in the Adress for Temp and Data folder unless one is a network drive ;).
Happen on playback only fro preview (only testing preview for now), source and preview are not in sync during the first second, but from what i see itâs related to the slowdown on the playback during the first second and which is there since the first Gui prototype. not sure itâs done on purpose or not.
this issue doesnât happen when scrolling the cursor on the timeline (sorry i never remember the english name for that)
on my i7-7700/asrock H270m-itx A/C / 1050ti, the bug of ram set on zero is there in preferences as related in the change logâs (in case itâs machine specific).
yeah just reporting what i test, in case ! ;). very happy to see this version today for personnal machiavelic reason lol !
for the one who didnât noticed it, while closing the preview if itâs not finished, the preview still continue to process / render, i think itâs a very cool feature, it allow to continue to scrub (?) the video and add new preview to the list. But in case we want to stop totally the preview, except the âclose videoâ, there is no stop button. (not a big deal at all).
Much more usable. Iâm seeing about a .01spf difference in processing speed between 2.6.4 and this beta. Preview is night and day better. Preview during processing is slow to show up but that is not a show stopper. Scale box in Resize section now shows the complete amount.
The big thing for me is Proteus Auto seems to working correctly. While the values for my processing in full auto are slightly off I can make the changes to the sliders and get great results. For my test video Dehalo was too aggressive but dropping it by 10 which is what I normally do with this video worked fine. Same for Deblur. Able raise it by 15 and the entire video seems correct. Since Iâm not interested in 4K work I canât say this holds for that but Iâm happy.
I did have issues after the first installing with an FFMPEG error. That was corrected by not assigning changes in directories, just default installation. With all the past installs I need to clean the registry and all Topaz folders and do a complete fresh installation. That will include models but I only use a few so no big deal.
We run tests to try to reproduce this when you reported it on Windows in a past beta version. Would you mind sending me through Dropbox any of the videos that you run into this with? Per my understanding, itâs happening to you with any video but we since we arenât able to locally reproduce it so far, itâd be good to test again with one of your videos. Thank you!
Multiple problems with 3.0.0.2.b (first v3 beta tried):
File Select no longer finds m2ts clips. Most of my archival footage is in this format. Managed to open file manually. (Either drag-n-drop, or enter star-dot-star in the input field.) Please restore all allowable input formats.
Source file info panel wrongly reports interlaced FPS as twice the rate (e.g. 50fps), whereas v2.6.4 reports correct rate (25fps). Then, the deinterlace models say âx2â, which had me worried that it would convert my 25fps/i footage into 50fps/p footage. I think now this means it knows the INPUT is twice the framerate with half the lines, not that the OUTPUT is going to be twice the nominal framerate. This is confusing and I would prefer to revert to v2.6.4 simple labeling. Given you can detect 2x interlaced, I think the best info for the info windows is the nominal framerate with an advisory that itâs interlaced (e.g. â25fps (Interlaced)â.
Model manager is missing. If required model hasnât been loaded via v2.6.4, thereâs no Manager to select it. You have to go back to v2.6.4 and try and figure out if youâve loaded the correct model/s.
When you set the Models folder manually (not enough room on Drive C), 3.0.0.2.b Beta now adds âmodelsâ sub-folder to your folder selection, so itâs now pointing in the wrong place. This causes startup failure. I have temporarily duplicated needed models to âmodelsâ sub-folder. The auto-addition to a manual folder selection is not helpful⊠youâve already set up a folder yourself, so thatâs precisely where you want it. It is ESPECIALLY unhelpful when the software doesnât tell you thatâs what itâs done (your selected folder is displayed as the Data Folder, with out âŠ/models shown), until your next startup reports a big red error box, and forces you to log into your account again.
No matter what I did (interlaced footage, Dione TV model which is what I use most, model downlaoded), Preview and Start Processing always results in âProcessing failedâ. I turned audio processing Off. Still failed. Set memory to 50%. Still failed. Set to one processor. Still failed. The failure message is almost instant: no advice that model is being loaded or prepped.
The frame-trim feature (not edge trim which I didnât test) is not working properly. The frame scrub selector is not nearly as sensitive as it was in v2.6.4 and itâs quite clunky and hard to try and select the exact frames. Maybe because a bar has been added to show the Preview frames from the selected point? The manual frame selector boxes seem to be missing. It also doesnât actually trim when you click the trim button, and it wants to process the entire clip.
The MRF feature is missing from the main âloadâ panel. Every launch, you have to manually go get the same video file youâve been working on.
So, I havenât got to first base with the v3 Beta yet. Looking forward especially to trying out the new stabilizer feature, and testing v3 against v2.6.4 for speed.
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Feature request for future version - MRF: MRF list via the File menu (File | Recent), so you can easily re-load any of the last nine (or N) input files youâve been working on, without having to laboriously navigate your library to load it every single time. This is the ONLY app I use (and I use MANY dozens) that doesnât have one.
Feature request for future version - Force-download model in Model Manager: Model Manager 2.6.4 doesnât allow you to tick a model and force-download it. I deleted a lot of model files (space at a premium on Models drive), and canât download the ticked ones again unless I use them in a preview or export. This is tedious. A shortcut menu item off each individual model with âRe-downloadâ option would be great. And auto-detect if any ticked models are missing, and offer to download those. At the moment, force-download is only âEVERYTHINGâ, which is 100Gb of Model space I donât have.
This is interesting can you upload a sample file. You are right if the input is 25fps/i then the output will be 50fps/p. But Iâm not sure that is the case here, so looking at a sample file would help a lot.
Yes, model manager will be added in a few weeks and will have more controls than the current one in 2.6.4. The way models are managed in 2.6.4 and 3.0 are different but same models files are used in both. If the file is not present already the required models are downloaded at runtime.
Currently the required files are not copied over when the data directory is changed, so you will have to copy the contents of the directory c:\Program Data\Topaz Labs LLC\Topaz Video AI\models to the new model directory. This should fix all the processing error issues.
Copy the contents from old model directory to new one or just reinstall the app.
Trim display is different in 3.0 and once trim has been activated the entire timeline is the trim range, same for previews. WIll add a go to frame eventually.
Yes MRF/projects will be added later.
Force download and cleanup unused model files will be added to model manager.
What are you using to view the files. Currently all the metadata information is copied over from the input to the preview/exported videos. This should not effect the creation or modification date at the OS level. So if you are viewing the files in a video editor it could just be the metadata getting copied over. If it is windows explorer or something then it is an issue that we are not able to reproduce.
Thanks for the quick responses! Follow-up from meâŠ
Thanks.
I have uploaded TanzaniaLeopard.m2ts to Dropbox, which is 25fps/1080i. Clip is copyright.
There was no indication that the model was being downloaded at runtime. The failed message appeared almost instantly.
I did not (recently) change the data directory in v2.6.4. And there is no "C:\Program Data\Topaz Labs LLC\Topaz Video AI\models folder as it was moved to a different drive over a year ago. B3 failed to pick up this source directory, and wrongly added â/modelsâ to it when I selected my own models folder manually in B3. It should not add â./modelsâ at all, let alone without telling you. I already said I copied over all the model files to the â./modelsâ folder. Itâs not like they are missing, and if they were, then B3 should retrieve them. I donât get that behaviour. I just get a âfailâ on any Preview or Export. If I switch off ALL models and go with JUST plain reproduce, it processes Preview and Export. If I switch on JUST Resize (I use x2), it stops processing on the first frame. If I switch on ANY Delinterlace or Enhance feature, it âfailsâ altogether. v2.6.4 still works just fine.
Well I just installed B3 (no previous B3) and that was the behaviour, so why would reinstalling it help?
Trim display doesnât work. When I move the slider and click the trim button (scissors), it picks the whole timeline and doesnât trim at all. Moving the slider AFTER turning trim on doesnât do anything, either. It just shows the whole timeline in braces, and there appears to be no furniture for selecting the IN and OUT points. Not working at all.
This appears to crash if an .mkv container with subtitle tracks is chosen as input file:
Could not find codec parameters for stream 3 (Subtitle: hdmv_pgs_subtitle (pgssub)): unspecified size
Could not find codec parameters for stream 4 (Subtitle: hdmv_pgs_subtitle (pgssub)): unspecified size
Could not find codec parameters for stream 5 (Attachment: none): unknown codec
Could not find codec parameters for stream 6 (Attachment: none): unknown codec
Could not find codec parameters for stream 7 (Attachment: none): unknown codec
Input #0, matroska,webm, from âD:/test.mkvâ:
mmco: unref short failure
encoder->Init() failed with error 5
Error initializing output stream 1:0 â Error while opening encoder for output stream #1:0 - maybe incorrect parameters such as bit_rate, rate, width or height
