By all that is holy, why is this so hard to get right? During the install, I choose the location I want for the DATA folder. It gets created, the models folder gets created there, the json files get dropped there. Good…but then it goes wrong.
Open the program and look at preferences…there is a completely different location for the data folder listed there…under ProgramData. This folder has also been created, and has a models folder and a presets folder (which should have been created at my personalized data folder). In the models folder there is an auth.tpz file (which should have been created in the “real” models folder that I specified.
So now there are two data folders. Some parts of the program know and use one of them and other parts of the program know and use the other one. This has been a mess for as long as I can remember, even in the 2.x versions. It’s time to fix it and put ALL the data in the location WE specify.
This is what preferences shows, but it is NOT what I set during installation. The “real” data folder, at least the one I set, is at H:\Topaz Video AI Beta, but both are apparently being used, just for different things, when it should all be in one location. TEST THIS STUFF IN-HOUSE GUYS! It’s not hard.
Okay, what is this mess? This version is completely unusable. If I open a video, hit enhance, preview, I get this lovely box which tells me nothing usable.
I can’t do anything else at this point. Even going to preferences and choosing encoder (a blank field) brings up no choices. This version appears to be completely dead in the water.
UPDATE: Turns out, this is a result of the same problem in my previous post. If I rip the entire program out and install it using the defaults, the encoder problem goes away.
single view / click to see the original is not working
the text tell “right click to see the original”, it must be left click
in crop mode, the 16:9 and the 21:9 crop to aspect ratio (the other crops seems to be ok) are not doing it by filling the whole screen on the right and left, there is a bit of pixels which are let out. and impossible to make it right by dragging the top or botton corner to make them full screen, it’s not working.
Love the ability to watch the preview / export in full screen, but maybe having a button to do this on the timeline next to the views button would be great too. the way it’s labeled is not that great. show preview only is unchecked, and when clicking on it, it’s “show all” which is checked. maybe a more simple text would be better, like “fullscreen view” ?
saw all the issues with crop and view, like orange vertical line disapearing etc… there are several of them (it’s written in the changelog).
I’m not seeing this issue on my system. Just curious can you install to the default location and try it without customizing any install locations?
Also, what about installing to default location and then changing the location settings in prefs, does that set the folder locations to how you want them?
The keyboard shortcuts are a good start, but not really helpful as of yet. The time I need these shortcuts are in trim mode, we need keyboard shortcut for trim in “I” and trim out “O” this was working correctly in 2.64. The left are right arrow keys work, but without the I and O it’s pretty useless.
When creating previews to compare 2 or more models, shouldn’t the zoom level and playback location automatically be set to the same between them so we can select between previews to compare quality?
Right now I have to set everything manually/try and match them up so I can make a comparison.
Just wondering if it’s possible to maybe get a side-by-side comparison of both the Alpha and Beta for each week so as to see what is the same and different with each (though I know it still might not be accurate)?
There are no alphas anymore. There are early access releases and betas. Whichever came out the most recently is the “most refined” and up to date. Source…the devs answered this question here in the forums.
here is what I think of this beta version: the preview is not correct at all, the encoding of the export is still not fast it is still slow in any video format, the trim video is just horrible it was much better at the start before its change recently, still the same models and no updates for those since the last 2x version, no new models like artemis 14 or proteus 4 etc, the preset mode is simply useless and bad for my taste must be removed, correct the video color space for the export output, the old models are still not there like artemis 7, 8 etc why are they not there, the categories artemis, theia, gaia , proteus, sincerely it’s bad, it would be good to do as in the 2x version to choose ourselves which models to choose like artemis 7 or 13, and why not that we can add the old models as we could do in the version 2.3.0 for example. if you correct all that or do that believe me there version 3 will be a big step forward, currently you regress you are not advancing for my part. this is my opinion.
Gradualy 3.0.0.8.b comes to what I need: Crop has improved, as well as processing time . Outputsize can be managed from any crop up to 4096, and Enhance with Proteus auto works almost sufficient. Trim is ok, processing time has also improved a bit.
Preview is irritating, and Resource management is still a Desaster: Although only less than 50% of CPU, GPU and memory power in use, 2nd and 3rd processing will not start (only models get downloaded), and Resume from any point is still missing.
Well, step by step things get better, but ther is still a long way to go.
The keyboard shortcuts are great, and the option to convert the output to square pixels is even better! And I have no new issues to report either, keep up the good work
Both beta 7 and 8 flat out refuse to install (installer stuck after computing space requirements, picking directories etc at Please wait while the Setup Wizard installs Topaz Video AI BETA). Windows 10, latest updates, no problem with any Topaz version until including 3 beta 6.
Running as administrator doesn’t help, and picking fresh directories instead of installing over the old install doesn’t work either. No error message, just no progress. Loads two instances of windows installer (windows installer, and windows installer 32 bit) when examined in task manager.
On my old HP EliteBook8470p with 16 GB and 2.9Ghz Intel CPU, and no extra GPU I can process 3 videos in parallel (although processing time is absolutly too long).
Therefore VEAI resource management for my AMD Ryzen 7 5800x @4.85 GHz 32GB + NVIDIA RTX 3060 with 12GB must be checked why only 1 video gets processed using around 50% of available resource.
