Video AI 3.0.0.4.b

Topaz Video AI Video AI Beta
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Hello everyone,

Another beta for Topaz Video AI 3.0 is available. Please test and give us your feedback. Thank you.

Please upload videos that are not working or having any type of conflicts to this DropBox Folder .

Downloads:

Changes from v3.0.0.3.b:

Changes

  • A new Apollo model is added
  • Close all added for export
  • Improved image sequence preview/export playback
  • Output encoder can be modified by the user externally
  • Mouse draggable trim
  • Export can be previewed after enough frames are processed, if allow recovery is ON in preferences
  • Faster loading/updating videos
  • Fixes issues with some filter chaining
  • Add warning when video failed to load
  • Filename contains filter information
  • Metatag videoai added to videos with full filter details
  • Misc. fixes and improvements

Known Issues

  • Progress bar under preview video sometimes goes high and then comes back
  • Preview mismatch for certain VOB files
  • Some videos can still have some seeking issues in Preview/Export
  • Color space / HDR issues
  • Keyboard navigation missing
  • Intel codec not working on some machines
  • Some quality mismatch between 2.6.4 and 3.0
  • Multiple selection for source videos is missing
  • Output bitrate is not reset to Preferences bitrate when importing a new file
  • Different view mode is still missing
  • Failure can happen when resizing to a big resolution like 4k or 8k without a warning if machine runs out of memory
  • Speed can be slower than 2.6.4 with some models on some machines. We’ll be working on speed optimization in the next weeks
  • Proteus with Auto + Stabilization may cause artifacts
  • Preview with image sequence doesn’t work or plays at 25fps

Problems and Solutions:

  • Make sure Max. Memory Usage in the Preferences is set to a high number.
  • For image sequence, select only one image from the sequence, the app should import the entire sequence.
  • Make sure the output resolution is 4k or below for H.264 encoder.
  • If the output doesn’t 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/None/Auto in Audio Settings in Preferences
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Left and right arrows should move the timeline by individual frames, please!

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Last preview is still undeletable until the software is closed completely.

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Thanks for

  • Filename contains filter information
  • the new divided timeline
  • very easy way to set up in and out for exporting small part of the videos.
  • Green screen while drag and drop a video.
  • output encoder feature

but
same preview issue than Lee… preview stay in the software in the playback window even by loading new sources, erasing export etc.

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Can anyone explain what this means? Can we use more output options in FFmpeg with CLI now? Thx

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That’s not my issue. I’m talking about the physical file of the last preview in the temp folder cannot be deleted until the software is closed.

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A very nice improvement!

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Here is the post explaining how to add new encoders to the GUI.

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The lack of keyboard shortcuts support is very annoying to us as well. It is on our list, it will be there before few betas before the final release.

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We are aware of this issue. We are working on a caching mechanism to speed up switching between sources, previews etc. Once it is done previews should delete correctly, but it will block deletes from outside the app when the app is running. Wait for an update on this in next week’s beta.

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First person to get a non-gpu/apu h264 encoder working for windows please post your json edit if that is allowed.

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This is fantastic! A power user’s dream! Thanks for all your hard work on this so far!

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I just did a successful export and encode with Nvenc QP encoding by adding the following to encoders.json:

{
"text": "NVENC QP (NVIDIA)",
"encoder": "-c:v h264_nvenc -qp 24 -pix_fmt yuv420p",
"ext": [
  "mov",
  "mkv",
  "mp4"
],
"transcode": "aac",
"os": "windows",
"device": "nvidia"

},

Very exciting!

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Good catch. It is a typo causing a failure. This should be fixed by next release.

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I’m glad it is useful.

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That works nicely. I use a qp of 0 and 5 mostly and I got the results I was expecting for nvenc. Now if I could just use a software based h264 I would be very happy but this is a huge step forward. I also made a shortcut for direct editing of the json. I placed the QP version at the top of the list so no hunting. Changing the value will be easy.

Well done david :grinning:

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I added a new codec from encoder.json and it does not appear in the list, yet I saved the file, on the beta it does not appear, what should I do? Thanks

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I don’t understand why it doesn’t work for me. however I modify with notepad, I save in a folder because it does not save immediately in the original folder. then I copy paste the file, I accept so that it replaces. then I go to the software, and in encoder, it doesn’t display the addition I made, I don’t understand. help me please