Video AI 7.0 - NEW Starlight Mini (Local) AI Model

I’m surprised that I haven’t seen anyone mention what I can only call “color bloom” on the Starlight Mini output.

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This isn’t a result of any codec output settings as I have it set to encode as FFV1 12-bit 4:4:4 MKVs.

I can’t be the only one who thinks the videos run through Starlight are rather “soft” looking?

I’ve also noticed at times, instances of tiling squares.

An annoying issue is losing the very first frame at the beginning. For whatever reason it just skips it. This consistently happens and I don’t see any way around that barring adding a blank or duplicate but that’s really not something one should have to do.

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