Video Process Improvement Demo

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I hope this post isn’t out of line, but I was so impressed with what Topaz did for the footage that I thought I’d share it with everyone. I posted it on my YouTube channel and credited Topaz Video AI.
If anyone has a suggestion for how I can do better in the future, please let me know. If this is the wrong place to post this, or if it’s inappropriate, please let me know that as well. I don’t mean to waste anyone’s time.

When I was much younger, I was a firefighter. One night I took my brand new camcorder (this was 1995) along on a call. I recently found the footage and decided to see what Topaz could do for it. I’ve uploaded four demos to YouTube for your entertainment. Any criticisms or ideas would be welcome.

#1: Control video: No processing. Raw captured video
https://youtu.be/wTZIzbPxa1c

#2: Filtered and stabilized only
Resolution: Original: 720x480
Frame Rate: 29.95fps
Stabilization: Full Frame
1st pass: Iris - Auto
2nd pass: Nyx - Auto
Output: H265, Dynamic, High, mp4
https://youtu.be/ItAwh9u1Uzw

#3: Resolution: 2x Upscale, 1440x960
Frame Rate: 29.95
Stabilization: Full-Frame
Strength: 50%
Enhancement:
1st pass: Iris - Auto
2nd pass: Nyx - Auto
Output: H265, Dynamic, High, mp4
https://youtu.be/ZVBGoThthE4

Resolution: 4K Upscale (3840x2160)
Cropped from 4:3 to 16:9
Frame Rate: 29.95fps
Stabalization: Full-Frame
Strangth: 50%
Enhancement:
1st pass: Iris - Auto
2nd pass: Nyx - Auto
Output: H265, Dynamic, High, mp4

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Thank you for posting these. The improvements in quality are substantial, encourages me for working on my old DV cam footage.

Do I understand correctly that each of the processes began with the original footage? That is, you didn’t feed the output from one proc less into the next, serially?

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The original footage was used for all of them.

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