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Here is a collection of installers and release notes for Topaz Video Enhance AI. Not all versions are available:

Video Enhance AI v1.0.2 -- Initial Release

Download: Windows. Released February 10, 2020. Major features for Windows 10, support nVideo GTX 10xx with >=4GB VRAM Support many different video input format 3 A.I. models for: (1) high-quality video source, (2) computer-generated/animated video, (3) low-quality video source. Preview rendering. Can pause and check for each frame during the looping. Batch processing of multiple videos Output video format: mpeg4, PNG sequence, 8-bit, 16-bit TIF sequence. (video only)

https://topazlabs.s3.amazonaws.com/packages/win/videoenhanceai/VideoEnhanceAI-1.0.1-windows-x64-installer.exe
https://topazlabs.s3.amazonaws.com/packages/win/videoenhanceai/VideoEnhanceAI-1.1.0-windows-x64-installer.exe
https://topazlabs.s3.amazonaws.com/packages/win/videoenhanceai/VideoEnhanceAI-1.1.1-windows-x64-installer.exe

last version with Artemis-MQ model (considered by some to be the best for DVD film content)
https://topazlabs.s3.amazonaws.com/packages/win/videoenhanceai/VideoEnhanceAI-1.2.0-windows-x64-installer.exe

Video Enhance AI v1.2.1 - OpenVino V3 and Bug Fixes

Download: Windows, Mac. Released April 15th, 2020. Major features Artemis models updated. No more Artemis-MQ since it has nearly no difference from Artemis-LQ. Artemis OpenVino support. Only CPU. Improvements Now installers will first totally clean up the folder before installation. Now output file will be checked if it is read-only. GPU cmd line option in. Fixes More stable. Fixed a few bugs that will cause crashes.

https://topazlabs.s3.amazonaws.com/packages/win/videoenhanceai/VideoEnhanceAI-1.2.1-windows-x64-installer.exe

Video Enhance AI v1.2.2 - Stability improvement & old devices support

Download: Windows, Mac. Released May 6th, 2020. Major features Improved the speed performance for MAC version. Now it won’t slow down when processing long videos. Improved stability. Now nearly all the AI engine issues are fixed. Old devices support. Now WIN Nvidia GPUs later than 750TI (with compute capability >= 3.5 & VRAM >=3.0 GB) and older MAC hardware up to 2012 are supported. Improvements Now after installation, there will be a webpage pop up including the key info for VEAI proc…

Video Enhance AI v.1.2.3 - Gaia-HQ model improvement (hotfix)

Download: Windows, Mac. Released May 26, 2020. Major features Gaia-HQ model improvement. Tweak Gaia-HQ model to make it match the quality in version 1.1.1.

Video Enhance AI v.1.3.8 - Theia models, MAC GPU support and stability improvement

Download: Windows, Mac. Released July 10th, 2020. Major features Theia models in. Theia-Detail + Theia-Fidelity. MAC GPU support. GPU support for all Macs running Mac OS 10.15(Catalina) or above for Theia and Artemis. Overall stability improvement. Should be nearly no crashes now. Improvements Overall engine processing speed improvement. Cancelling preview or video batch processing is immediate. Support for high bitrate, HDR, 10bit and 12bit video sources. Add JPEG (lossy) and PNG(lossl…

https://topazlabs.s3.amazonaws.com/packages/win/videoenhanceai/VideoEnhanceAI-1.3.8-windows-x64-installer.exe

Video Enhance AI v1.5.0

Download: Windows, Mac. Released August 12, 2020. Major features Auto Save/Load. Now as you make changes and process videos we will save your changes so if you exit the program you can click to reload your last save. We will even save progress through an image sequence! Improvements Theia Model Update Stability improvements and bug fixes

Video Enhance AI v1.5.1

Download: Windows, Mac. Released August 13, 2020. Major features Saving Model Parameters as Default. The last release broke the ability to save the theia model parameters as default. This should fix this issue. Switch to H.264 video output We have switched the codec from H.263 to H.264.

Video Enhance AI v1.5.2

Download: Windows , Mac . Released August 27, 2020. Fixes Option to Select H.264 or H.263 for Video Output File sizes are smaller with H.263 than H.264, but H.264 is better quality. We consider this a temporary solution while we re-write our video IO engine to better accommodate different formats. UI Fixes and Messaging Improved The phrasing of errors and messages has been changed along with some new notifications to give the user more choice in how the application behaves. Known Iss…

Video Enhance AI v1.6.0

Download: Windows, Mac. Released September 16, 2020. Improved Video IO We have rewritten our entire video IO backend to help fix issues such as audio sync, missing frames, extra frames, and file sizes Bitrate Setting When exporting to MP4 you can now choose your bitrate Improved Theia Models We have made changes to help reduce artifacts Bugfixes Fixed an issue where if VEAI couldn’t connect to the internet the GUI would not open Fixed some command line issues

https://downloads.topazlabs.com/packages/win/videoenhanceai/VideoEnhanceAI-1.6.0-RELEASE-windows-installer.exe

Video Enhance AI v1.6.1

Download: Windows, Mac. Released February 19, 2020. Fixes Fixed issue where software would crash if output size was an odd value. Outputs for video are now forced to be even sized. Added warning that outputting above UHD can cause issues with the MP4 container

https://downloads.topazlabs.com/packages/win/videoenhanceai/VideoEnhanceAI-1.6.1-RELEASE-windows-installer.exe

Video Enhance AI v1.7.0

Download: Windows, Mac. Released November 5, 2020. Major features New AI inference engine AMD GPU support for dedicated GPUs on Windows, including new RX 6000 series Nvidia RTX GPU tensor core and new RTX 3000 series support More efficient use of GPU VRAM, working better with other GPU intensive apps. New v7 Artemis models with better motion consistency, denoising, and sharpening capability. Jpeg and EXR sequence input support Output MP4 h.264 CRF setting to control output video quality/size …

https://downloads.topazlabs.com/packages/win/videoenhanceai/VideoEnhanceAI-1.7.0-windows-installer.exe

Video Enhance AI v1.7.1

Why Windows 10 2004 is minimum requirement? Windows 10 1909 isn’t enough ? For stability most people use 1909…

https://downloads.topazlabs.com/packages/win/videoenhanceai/VideoEnhanceAI-1.7.1-RELEASE-windows-installer.exe