Upscale and enhance any footage – Bring your old footage up to modern standards by upscaling to 8K resolution with no artifacts.I do hope Topaz manages to fix these issues as I think it is a great programme in the making but a long way off at the moment.Topaz Labs released a new/rebuilt version of Video Enhance AI with a new interface and improved AI technology: Overall, impressed as I am with the results on a very short section of de-interlaced SD video, the above problems will need to be addressed before I would consider purchasing the programme. Even if I spent another £400 to get the recommended Graphics Card (on top of £160 for the programme) and it speeded things up 10 fold it would still be far too slow for general use.
My PC has an Intel i-7-6700 CPU and a high end Graphics Card so reasonably powerful for home use. The biggest problem for me was the processing speed, 4h to process 30 seconds of video (that’s 20 days continuous processing for 1 hour and I have hundreds of hours of material!).The result was very good, the best I’ve seen with much improved sharpness and no evidence of the lines seen in upscaled inter-laced video. I de-interlaced some SD video in Vegas and put through the ‘progressive’ clip through AI.Video Enhance AI doesn’t work well on interlaced video (as I found out, lots of lovely razor sharp, horizontal lines around any hint of movement!). In the UK at least, pretty much all SD video cameras dating from the late 1990s to the mid 2000s produced interlaced video and I’m sure many of us would rather upscale this format to say BluRay rather than BluRay to 4K.
Thus, if the average video editor needs to know all this stuff to use Video Enhance AI then I’d say it is not fit for purpose. I would class myself as a reasonably competent video editor and can work pretty well with programmes such as Vegas and Adobe Premiere but I do not understand all the technical stuff that lies behind video such as codecs and colour space etc. I downloaded the free 30 day trial of Video Enhance AI to see how it compared with other programmes that claim to upscale SD video (none of which in my opinion produce good results.).
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