Video AI 3.0.0.7.b

Hello everyone,

Major internal changes have been made in this build. There may be more issues than usual. Please include logs and problematic videos when reporting issues to the thread.

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 v3.0.0.6.b :

  • Multi-select for inputs (full screen view only), previews, and exports
    • Use shift, control/command click for selection. Right click selects all
  • Filters may be applied to batches of videos
  • Stop and re-start processing
  • Order of processing may be changed
  • Failed or errored previews & exports may be reprocessed
  • Faster queue operations for input/preview/exports
  • Playhead position is now kept for each video

Known Issues

  • 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
  • Aspect ratio crop missing
  • Keyboard shortcuts are still missing
  • Preview files do not always delete when removed from GUI

Problems and Solutions:

  • Make sure Max. Memory Usage in the Preferences is set to a high number
  • If the Gaia model fails on Mac, try re-installing the app using the DMG file
  • If export fails, try using Transcode/None/Auto in Audio Settings in Preferences
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Merci pour ces derniÚres versions! gaia hight étant de meilleure qualité que sur la version 2.6.4! :slight_smile:

  • suggestion : gray color font on blue is hard to read, for preview and export, better would be white on blue :slight_smile: .
    the green mark with the blue/purple background is as well impossible to see.

  • suggestion : having the possibility to have a display by default (like fit to screen.)

  • there is stop and process again but didn’t see a stop and resume, so i assume it’s stop and process again, and pause and resuming is not there yet ;).

  • the list has been reversed again from last file rendered at the end of the list instead of top, I personnally prefer the most recent file at the top and disagree with the change, i know there is one who disagree, (maybe more ?), but i still think it’s much better to use.

  • thanks for the playhead cursor staying in position, the crop issue fixed (the way it does it is quite funny), the crop staying on the source display/preview.

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The thin progress bar is difficult to see now that the entire job bar is being highlighted in the same colour
one of the colours needs to be changed. As per Marty the text is also hard to see.

image

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Confirmation to close application no longer pops up, even when an export job is running, this is a big problem and will create some angry users when their export jobs get closed accidentally - please re-enable prompt on application exit/close!

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Yes. The latest preview should be on the top of the list. Anything else just gets clumsy.

And, good, contrasting colors are essential for making controls clear and easy to read.

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When you open the menu to close a preview it starts playing again.

Why are the files in the preview and export window going newest at the bottom again. FIFO is the way it should be, just like you had changed it to a couple of releases ago.

Most recent on top please, just like in Outlook and every email program, you don’t scroll the list to get to the bottom to see your emails. It makes sense to see readily what you just did.

Please fix the order of previews
newest on top is the only logical choice.

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The Chronos Fast model struggles to deal with people’s handwaving (as in waving goodbye). When it tries to increase the frame rate, there is flickering. I will upload an example to Dropbox for the dev. team to review.

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Version 3 has already added trim and crop.
All that’s left to add is brightness, contrast, saturation, and gamma.
Vote for this.

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I am getting “Model Not found” or “Model Failed” for Gaia and Theia. I don’t think this is new for me to 3.0.0.7.b because I have been mostly testing Proteus and I think I’ve seen the same errors recently on Gaia and Theia.
I just tried uninstalling VEIA and renaming the existing “C:\ProgramData\Topaz Labs LLC\Topaz Video AI BETA” before installing again. Installation was ok with new models folder created. Preview says downloading and running model but then fails for both Gaia and Theia consistently.

This is Theia Model Not Found
Applying option map_metadata:s:a (set metadata information of outfile from infile) with argument 0:s:a.
Applying option map (set input stream mapping) with argument 0:a.
Applying option c:a (codec name) with argument copy.
Applying option metadata (add metadata) with argument videoai=Enhanced using thf-4 with reduce noise at 0, sharpen at 0, and revert compression at 0.
Successfully parsed a group of options.
Opening an output file: C:/Users/john/AppData/Local/Temp/268545064/Dark Shadows 0223_406955519_thf4.mp4.
Setting default whitelist ‘file,crypto,data’
Successfully opened the file.
detected 16 logical cores
cur_dts is invalid st:0 (0) [init:0 i_done:0 finish:0] (this is harmless if it occurs once at the start per stream)
Output size set to: 2560 1548
Here Config props model with params: up thf-4 4 1 1 1 640 387 0.000023 25.000000
2022-09-17 13-10-07 Thread: 21280 Info Model: “thf-4” Device: 1 VRAM: 0 threads: 1
Failed to configure output pad on Parsed_veai_up_1
Uninit called for thf-4 1
Error reinitializing filters!
Failed to inject frame into filter network: Invalid argument
Error while processing the decoded data for stream #0:1
Statistics: 0 bytes written, 0 seeks, 0 writeouts
Statistics: 854695 bytes read, 3 seeks

This is Model Failed on Gaia
Output size set to: 2560 1548
Here Config props model with params: up ghq-5 4 1 1 1 640 387 0.000023 25.000000
2022-09-17 13-08-19 Thread: 44704 Info Model: “ghq-5” Device: 1 VRAM: 0 threads: 1
Failed to configure output pad on Parsed_veai_up_1
Uninit called for ghq-5 1
Error reinitializing filters!
Failed to inject frame into filter network: Invalid argument
Error while processing the decoded data for stream #0:1
Statistics: 0 bytes written, 0 seeks, 0 writeouts
Statistics: 854695 bytes read, 3 seeks

Tested Theia, downloaded and ran successfully.
Edit to add: Same with Gaia

Beta only processes to 3%, and sucks up the space from c: drive.

Attached a snipped log (original 162MB)
error-log-beta.txt (46.0 KB)

@ida.topazlabs @suraj One thing which would speed up things a lot for my usecase, would be the possibility of scaling straight to 1.5x with the AI filter itself. Would that be possible?

(I have a folder with about a hundred 4096x4096/3840x3840/3840x2560px stereoscopic 360 degree-videos, and upscale them to double the size, but unfortunately after that I have to shrink them under the max of 35 million pixels (with the scale_qsv filter) which is the maximum the HW H265 decoder of the Meta Quest 2 can handle. It would speed things up a lot to just upscale 1.5x.
Exporting to h264 would be possible but would either be a bit blurry or stutter because of the high bitrate demand
)

@suraj What does the filter parameter “instances” mean? Parallelization or improvement through repeated inhancement?

You can select and process different parts of the movie at the same time with this option!

How would that work?

You open the video file, use the cut tool to select start and end, choose your processing settings and begin processing. You can close this (not the app, only the watching processing) and then choose another start and end via cut on the same video with new settings of your choice and then start processing these. Now you find two running exports on the lower right which you can observe both by clicking onto one or the other.

Thank you! I’m not sure if we mean the same thing
 I mean the ffmpeg-filter-parameter, e.g.
ffmpeg -i abc.mp4 -movflags use_metadata_tags -vf veai_up=model=alqs-2:scale=2:instances=0,veai_fi=model=chf-3:fps=59.94:device=0:vram=1:instances=0,scale=w=7200:h=4861:flags=lanczos:threads=0 -c:v hevc_nvenc -profile main -preset p7 -cq:v 17 -maxrate:v 100M -c:a copy