Video AI 3.0.0.8.b

nipun.nath · September 23, 2022, 11:02pm

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 have any type of conflicts to this DropBox Folder .

Downloads:

Changes from v3.0.0.7.b:

Added keyboard shortcuts (see below for a list of shortcuts)
Added presets
Lock aspect ratio on crop
Added option to convert rectangular pixel to square pixel
Different view modes
Colorspace mismatch is fixed for some cases (upload videos that still have issues)
Gaia and Theia models work on CPU & iGPU as expected
Misc bug fixes and improvements

Known Issues

For single/split views, crop might have issues
Preview mismatch for certain VOB files
Some videos can still have some seeking issues in Preview/Export
HDR support is missing
Some quality mismatch between 2.6.4 and 3.0
Output bitrate is not reset to Preferences bitrate when importing a new file
Failure can happen when resizing to a big resolution like 4k or 8k without a warning if the 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
Preview files do not always delete when removed from GUI

Problems and Solutions:

To avoid artifacts with Proteus Auto + Stabilization, either turn off Auto in Proteus or try longer previews (e.g. > 5 sec)
Make sure Max. Memory Usage in the Preferences is set to a high number
If the Gaia model fails on Mac, try clean installing the app using the DMG file posted above
If export fails, try using Transcode/None/Auto in Audio Settings in Preferences

Keyboard shortcuts:

Left/Right Arrow - Goes one frame backward/forward
Up/Down Arrow - Move up/down in source/preview/export list
Space - Pause/play
Ctrl/Cmd + 0/1/2 - Zoom
Ctrl/Cmd + P - Preview
Ctrl/Cmd + E - Export
Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + P - Show preview command
Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + E - Show export command
Ctrl/Cmd + I - Import
Ctrl/Cmd + C - Copy settings
Ctrl/Cmd + V - Paste settings
Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + C - Crop
Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + T - Trim
Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + A/N/O/Delete - Apply/Add/Modify/Delete presets

lee.keels · September 23, 2022, 11:49pm

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.

data
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.

lee.keels · September 24, 2022, 12:03am

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.

output

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.

Martyprod · September 24, 2022, 12:11am

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).

pdwhite · September 24, 2022, 12:29am

Nipun,

Is it my imagination, or have the enhancements started running faster this week? (I’m running Nvidia.)

david.123 · September 24, 2022, 2:09am

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?

nalamanos-170537 · September 24, 2022, 2:12am

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.

david.123 · September 24, 2022, 3:22am

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.

xl5 · September 24, 2022, 3:33am

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)?

Also, are the latest Betas refined Alphas?

lee.keels · September 24, 2022, 3:38am

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.

xl5 · September 24, 2022, 4:04am

Thought that might be the case.

TomaszW · September 24, 2022, 4:26am

Always isn’t fast for encoding exportation

TicoRodriguez · September 24, 2022, 5:35am

Colorspace mismatch is fixed for some cases (upload videos that still have issues)

RGB to YUV colorspace conversion not yet fixed, please fix.

TomaszW · September 24, 2022, 6:01am

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.

joachim.ehrhardt · September 24, 2022, 6:34am

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.

kjell · September 24, 2022, 6:54am

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

robin.koehler · September 24, 2022, 9:16am

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.

joachim.ehrhardt · September 24, 2022, 9:21am

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.

jphilip-649517 · September 24, 2022, 12:33pm

Same issue, Preview/Export doesn’t work at all

Failed to configure output pad on Parsed_veai_up_0
Error reinitializing filters!
Failed to inject frame into filter network: Invalid argument
Error while processing the decoded data for stream #0:0

Like @lee.keels spotted it, it seems like when we have a modified data folder path, the program keeps looking in the default models directory. After copying all the jsons there it finally worked.

But something is not clear, the ‘Topaz Video AI BETA’ folder has a sub-directory called ‘models’ where the jsons are stored but the models are downloaded directly in the main parent ‘Topaz Video AI BETA’ folder. So I have binary tz models in both folders and as expected after running a duplicate files finder program it found some

219164502  03.09.2022  13:22  D:\ProgramData\Topaz Labs LLC\Topaz Video AI BETA\apo-v4-fp16-ox.tz
219164502  22.09.2022  19:08  D:\ProgramData\Topaz Labs LLC\Topaz Video AI BETA\models\apo-v4-fp16-ox.tz

126544963  22.09.2022  18:05  D:\ProgramData\Topaz Labs LLC\Topaz Video AI BETA\chf-v3-fp16-1088x1056-ox.tz
126544963  22.09.2022  18:13  D:\ProgramData\Topaz Labs LLC\Topaz Video AI BETA\models\chf-v3-fp16-1088x1056-ox.tz

125326643  22.09.2022  19:02  D:\ProgramData\Topaz Labs LLC\Topaz Video AI BETA\chf-v3-fp16-576x384-ox.tz
125326643  22.09.2022  19:08  D:\ProgramData\Topaz Labs LLC\Topaz Video AI BETA\models\chf-v3-fp16-576x384-ox.tz

 49004646  03.09.2022  13:26  D:\ProgramData\Topaz Labs LLC\Topaz Video AI BETA\ghq-v5-gaia-fp16-480x384-2x-rt806-8415.tz
 49004646  14.09.2022  00:38  D:\ProgramData\Topaz Labs LLC\Topaz Video AI BETA\models\ghq-v5-gaia-fp16-480x384-2x-rt806-8415.tz

 26145396  13.09.2022  21:53  D:\ProgramData\Topaz Labs LLC\Topaz Video AI BETA\models\prob-v3-gnet-fp16-480x384-2x-rt806-8415.tz
 26145396  03.09.2022  13:30  D:\ProgramData\Topaz Labs LLC\Topaz Video AI BETA\prob-v3-gnet-fp16-480x384-2x-rt806-8415.tz

 26124209  22.09.2022  18:07  D:\ProgramData\Topaz Labs LLC\Topaz Video AI BETA\alq-v13-gnet-fp16-576x384-2x-rt806-8415.tz
 26124209  22.09.2022  18:13  D:\ProgramData\Topaz Labs LLC\Topaz Video AI BETA\models\alq-v13-gnet-fp16-576x384-2x-rt806-8415.tz

 26118305  22.09.2022  22:36  D:\ProgramData\Topaz Labs LLC\Topaz Video AI BETA\models\prob-v3-gnet-fp16-576x384-2x-rt806-8415.tz
 26118305  22.09.2022  18:04  D:\ProgramData\Topaz Labs LLC\Topaz Video AI BETA\prob-v3-gnet-fp16-576x384-2x-rt806-8415.tz

 17055011  17.08.2022  21:52  D:\ProgramData\Topaz Labs LLC\Topaz Video AI BETA\models\prob-v3-gnet-fp16-288x288-1x-ox.tz
 17055011  01.09.2022  21:32  D:\ProgramData\Topaz Labs LLC\Topaz Video AI BETA\prob-v3-gnet-fp16-288x288-1x-ox.tz

  6687118  22.09.2022  18:07  D:\ProgramData\Topaz Labs LLC\Topaz Video AI BETA\alq-v13-fnet-fp16-576x384-2x-rt806-8415.tz
  6687118  22.09.2022  18:13  D:\ProgramData\Topaz Labs LLC\Topaz Video AI BETA\models\alq-v13-fnet-fp16-576x384-2x-rt806-8415.tz

  6679975  22.09.2022  18:04  D:\ProgramData\Topaz Labs LLC\Topaz Video AI BETA\prob-v3-fnet-fp16-576x384-2x-rt806-8415.tz
  6679975  22.09.2022  22:36  D:\ProgramData\Topaz Labs LLC\Topaz Video AI BETA\models\prob-v3-fnet-fp16-576x384-2x-rt806-8415.tz

  6645812  13.09.2022  21:53  D:\ProgramData\Topaz Labs LLC\Topaz Video AI BETA\models\prob-v3-fnet-fp16-480x384-2x-rt806-8415.tz
  6645812  03.09.2022  13:30  D:\ProgramData\Topaz Labs LLC\Topaz Video AI BETA\prob-v3-fnet-fp16-480x384-2x-rt806-8415.tz

  6503614  01.09.2022  21:32  D:\ProgramData\Topaz Labs LLC\Topaz Video AI BETA\prob-v3-fnet-fp16-288x288-1x-ox.tz
  6503614  17.08.2022  21:52  D:\ProgramData\Topaz Labs LLC\Topaz Video AI BETA\models\prob-v3-fnet-fp16-288x288-1x-ox.tz

  4602743  01.09.2022  21:32  D:\ProgramData\Topaz Labs LLC\Topaz Video AI BETA\prap-v3-fp32-ov.tz
  4602743  22.09.2022  22:31  D:\ProgramData\Topaz Labs LLC\Topaz Video AI BETA\models\prap-v3-fp32-ov.tz

The models download location must has been changed in some latest betas, but we should expect them in the ‘models’ directory not in the root folder.