Topaz Labs Video AI Review: More than a refresh!
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- Опубліковано 3 чер 2024
- Taking a look at the all-new Video AI from Topaz Labs. Available for macOS and Windows, Video AI can upscale lo-res videos to hi-res (eg, 480 to 1080, 1080 to 4K), create slow motion footage, and improve overall video clarity, sharpness and detail.
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0:00 - Intro
0:38 - What it can do
4:15 - Creating previews
6:32 - Custom settings
8:32 - More examples
9:11 - Worth buying?
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Thanks man that was really helpful and just easy to wrap my head around. What an incredible tool. This is exactly the thing I need to punch up the resolution of this documentary I'm working on. Its been bugging me that I have it in 1080 and that I can't do anything about it. This changes so many things in my filming and editing hopefully. Nice content. You got a sub. Good luck dude.
Yes, rendering takes a while. But look at what it's doing. In a 5 second 4k video at 30fps to do a 2x slo mo, it's having to create 150 4k frames out of thin air. That's 8.2 million pixels per frame or 1.2 billion for this small clip. We've gotten so used to everything, bigger, now and we can't appreciate just how many pixels are being created in a task like this. It's really mind boggling that this can happen at all, let alone with the push of a button and during a quick bathroom break.
Just thought I’d jump in here to say that render time will really depend on your hardware more than anything. The speed of your internet connection will have an effect on your performance too (because it downloads the AI models based on what you’re trying to do.) But ultimately any software that does this is going to be slow no mater what you do. It’s extremely intensive and really doing a lot in the background. Right now (in 2022/23) you’re best not using it on projects with tight deadlines and only using it on short clips that you absolutely need in your final cut. Dumping a ton of raw footage into it is going to just cause frustration.
i love it sir...i wish i could send you a video of mine and improve it's quality with the AI...from Nairobi
You can clean whole film, doing by parts e.g. clean 30 minutes of film, so you video card not overheat
Would this be a good idea to use on Instagram reels or would it make the files too large?
@@Nathanmedia65 It won't make the files too large for reels. You could use it for that no problem.
@@BillStreeter I just had a go and it turned a 15MB file into a 125MB file 😂
I believe this is the third or fourth video of yours I have watched. Informative, concise, upbeat, polished... I hope you get to the 1 million sub mark, soon, you deserve it.
I really like the option of upscaling the footage as I do a lot digitization of older footage.
Thank you for another excellent video. I really enjoy how you explain things for beginners like me. As a beginner I have so much footage I haven’t been able to use so I will be sure to use this now.
Thank you for a brilliant channel. All the best.
The big problem mentioned by others here... is the render time! In this video, Todd showed lots of clips, but didn't say how long they took from start to finish to render. Can you imagine doing individual clips in a 15 or 30 min video this way... it would take ages! Perhaps it's best to wait for version 4 when better and faster render times are developed.
EDIT UPDATE - A short note to say thank you for this excellent review and tutorial which I forgot to write when I first wrote this post. I will probably add this app to FCP.
Cheers and thanks from Montréal. :-)
I was going to go include render time info but the problem with doing so is that times are dependent on many factors and everyone will have different experiences. What I can say is that rendering in general has been improved, but anything involving frame rate changes (eg, slow motion) or stabilization is much slower than upscaling. I think it’s just a more intensive process, so trimming and only encoding what you need is important. If rendering files 30 min or longer, probably best to create a queue and let it run overnight!
Todd, I have great respect for your work and enjoy and appreciate your videos, but I must strongly disagree with your statement that ‘rendering in general has been improved.” In fact, my own experience in processing numerous video clips exactly the same way in Video Enhance AI 2.6.4 and Video AI 3 have shown the newer version to be 3-4X slower than the previous version. In fact, I have found Video AI 3 to be so slow on my two high-end Macs as to be useless for processing video clips longer than 30 sec.
I need to correct the comment I recently made. I found Video AI 3 to be much slower than Video Enhance AI 2.6.4 when it first came out. However, I have now had the chance to check out the processing speed of the latest Video AI 3.0.6 and it is as fast as the older version. Specifically, upscaling a 720 x 480 interlaced clip to 1920 x 1080 (HD) on my M1 Max MacBook Pro occurred at 0.09 s/frame. The quality was excellent and the interface of the newer version is outstanding. This coupled with the new features, e.g. stabilization, make Video AI a powerful and useful program that I highly recommend.
300 frame 45m to 1 hours with IMDb 1gb graphics card..I m using 2.0 topaz
@@Bengalfan M1 Max isn't really a "high end" workhorse. It's compact and powerful for its size, but an RTX 3080 is almost twice as powerful as the GPU in that computer, and 3080 is a relatively old card now for true power users.
Great Video Todd! I've had Video AI for a while now, and I'm happy with it. The only extra issue I have is they got rid of the 4 view preview compare screen!
Thank you for your quick, to the point, review. Very helpful.
Thanks for this - useful info. I've been running the trial version on some footage shot on a Zoom Q3 - unclear and noisy, really not much use at all. There's a limit to what even Topaz can do, but the reduction in noise really shocked me. Resolve Studio, by comparison, didn't come close. But 1fps processing speed (yes, my GPU is old) - that's an all-nighter and then some for the 40 minutes of material I've got!
You must be using Denise wrong, in DR.
The most detailed about a software I ever seen. I bought it from 8/24/2022😉. It’s really worth buying.
Thanks!
Thank you. This was the review I was looking for!
Amazing video. Love EVERYTHING about this video. Thanks for this.
Great review, thank you for putting this video together you did a super job!
Had a shoot last week and the metabones adapter that we used on the FX6, blurred the quality of the image. It looked bad. So we did a 4x upscale in Topaz, just to see if it was possible (Rendering took 6 hours for a video of 2 minutes). We scaled it back to 4K in Premiere Pro. It looked great! It didn't look weird. Just really clean and sharp. We couldn't believe it. It blew our minds.
Todd, nice review. These days, when I think of enhancement for photos I think Topaz first. Now, with Video AI, I expect to get a lot of useful enhancements for video as well. Topaz does such a great job of AI enhancement for images, and from what I've seen of the videos on Video AI, I can't help but believe it will be helpful in many ways as well. I own Denoise AI, Gigapixel AI, Sharpen AI, Photo AI and now Video AI. Haven't used Video AI yet, but I use the others constantly and am SUPER impressed with the quality of their output, functionality as standalone and plugins with Lightroom and Photoshop, and I'm sure it will be a go-to in my video toolbox. I have so many old videos from action cams, drones, 360 cams, etc that were shot at a variety of frame rates, etc that it can't help but being a great tool for me to get new usage out of that old footage. Thanks for the review. BTW, the Black Friday sale is still on and it's available for $159 instead of $299! For this price, it's honestly a no-brainer!
Great feedback! And yes, I've had a great time digging out old 1080p video and upscaling them to 4K. Really fun to experiment with.
For me, the processing time is too long. It takes 15 hrs to export one video. Any suggestion on how can I make it faster?
I am likely going to give this program a try with the movie that I'm currently working on but not going to need it for a few months so who knows maybe they'll come up with even better upgrades by then but I'm kind of stuck at shooting at 720p with my current cameras and such so it'd be nice to be able to upscale it to 4K
Thanks i just got the Topaz software and bought a eGPU GTX 1060 6GB for my Lenovo Tiny M900, 16 GB RAM, and i7-6700T but i think im going to upgrade the CPU as well. I was thinkering yesterday with my childhood family VHS tapes digitized with elgato video capture and i got really impressed on how vhs can improve to 1080p, 59.94 fps, and enhancement AI, im a real noob here so im tinkering to see what everything does and how i can get the best videos to share with my family :) i even have old 8mm videos from my grampa from 1955 that is also digitized!
Very nice overview. Thanks Todd ☺️
Great video, really like the way you present. Informative and interesting all the way through. Thanks for the explanation of how it works. I’m definitely getting topaz.
Thank you. Not just a review but a practical tutorial.
Question: what capacity computer is probably best for using video ai? Specifically MacBook.
I haven't checked the new version yet, but I will start a project in a month that will require upscaling from SD to HD. There is a preliminary step of de-interlacing. I bought the Topaz photo plugins as well (all of them). I have been extremely happy. I wonder why the software doesn't cost more. It's often miraculous.
deinterlacing? QTGMC. its fantastic. QTGMC deinterlace and then topazing SD video, the end result must look stunning. cant say anything about topaz since im getting less than a frame when rendering so it would take a day for like 25min of footage, lol.
Great video I would like to see a walk through on how you enhance your drone clips. After estimate what parameters do you normally adjust? I just pushed detail all the way to 100.
Great video, thanks for putting it out. I'm primarily interested in improving quality of older footage and would truly like to see you do something like this video using older footage.
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@@glaciusex681 Have upgraded to V3.1.4 and getting good results.
@@glaciusex681 Why is that?
Great review, and I’m sold on taking advantage of the black Friday sale.
me too
I do notice the upscaled 4k footage has a tiny bit of that "over-sharpened" look, but besides that - what a tool!
Helpful video explaining the basics :)
Amazing 😱 I love this. Thank you so much
Great review! Thank You! 👌
Excellent review. Thank you
how well does it work in Apple silicon chips? can you give us some render times on the new Mac M2pro chips? thanks!
Hey. How is the workflow if you just want to enhance a section of a clip that is in a fcpx timeline already?
Thanks
Excellent video, thank you!
Thanks!! Great Review.
Thanks For Another Great Video On Video AI. Keep Them Coming. 🎥📹🍿🎬
Excellent review, one of the best that I've seen, and I've looked at many!
Appreciate it - thanks!
great video ! just what I was looking for . I filmed a short-film on a Canon 70d and the 1080p footage just doesn't sit right with me. I will try the software to see if its make a big difference.. thank you so much
Great tutorial very insightful
GAIA is a lower invasive model used for HQ (Film) upscale. New version of Topaz Video AI has a second enhacement feature you can activate doing two models in one wish. There are combinations for HQ Vids that works you can give a try: "Gaia + Artemis V12 HQ" or "Theia Fine Tune + Artemis V12 HQ" or "Gaia + Theia Fine Tune"
I have the VIDEO AI. I love it so much. Im curious about one thing. Is the de-noise results better with de standalone application or is the enough with the ones that we get with Video AI?
Outlandish tech. Thanks for a great video. I trust the original was shot in 144p and upscaled? :)
Can I put a whole music video in Topaz or do I need to import each file then start editing after? I want to upscale and reduce noise
when talking about slo-motion and filling in frames how do you feel it compares to davincis retiming and scaling?
All I can say Topaz AI video the new version is just amazing wasn’t expecting it be that good … Render times can be long, but I can live with that
Excellent video thank you
so do you put your finished video from PP into this application?
What is the best setting to upscale old VHS videos that were transfered to AVI years ago?
great review thanks
I'm thinking for this to be any real time use the render times need to be vastly improved. Or do you buy a complete top end Mac Studio to be a expensive render farm while you still put stuff together. I bet Adobe will buy out whoever and add it to their Cloud, but they will wait until this new tech has all the issues ironed out.
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Hey, Leokimvideo! So happy to see ya here!
Excellent, thanks 👍
looking to adjust things like LRC Dehaze, Clarity, Contrast ect What does the best job
Adjust Highlights down bump shadows up
I thought this would do all that but no luck so far
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Do you think the workflow is best to make a sequence, edit and color then go into topaz or take raw clips enhanced them than drop that export into your editing software?
Would you use this software before of after you grade your footage?
If i shoot 60 fps with sound, can I slow it to 120 in Video AI and maintain sound? I unfortunately can't capture sound in R5 when I shoot 120fps.
very well explained
awesome video !!!!!! I might get topaz now!
Is there any features where the program can remove or diminish any Horizantal Video tracking lines from a VHS or other analogue formats ?
Thx..😁
Hi Todd,
Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us 👍
Quick question : I am confused with the new workflow. Do we need to use Topaz as a first step with the D-LOG version of the videos, or we need to use the usual software like final cut/Premiere, export, then load them into topaz?
I can answer that. I use an Insta360 x3 camera and film in 5.7k/30fps/H264 DLOG to get the most info from the video (the camera has a very small sensor). Once done framing in Insta360 studio, the final product is 1920x1080/29.97 fps for the framed shot. I then run the footage through Topaz AI and upscale it to 4K/29.97 fps and use the Proteus enhancement to fix the compression, bring back the details, etc. The software is absolutely amazing. The 4K looks better than the source video! My final step in the process is to color correct in your choice of software and then render the final result. Topaz allows me to surpass what the camera is capable of doing hardware-wise and bring it to a whole new level. Hopefully you took advantage of the black Friday sale and got 60% off the software. It isn't cheap, but worth every penny if you want the best video. Hope this answers your question.
What computer do you have and how long on average did it take you to export
Mindblowing.
I want to use this to upscale insta go3 2.7k footage to 4k. Being that the but rate is 50mbps, would it make a difference? Thanks!
Thanks for the helpful video with good examples 😊 Do you think it's better to pre-convert to rec709 or Topaz Video AI works well with the log-color?
Yeah, interesting question. For me there's always something a little different about enhanced Log footage from Video AI compared to the original Log footage when converted to Rec.709. Maybe it's because of unexpected changes to file format...I'm really not sure. But it can look a little different. Personally, I like converting finished / color graded footage because then it's easier to see details when adjusting enhancement settings in Video AI.
Would an Asus G14 2024 with the top option of graphics card be good enough for this? I currently have a 2021 G14 with the basic graphics card and it struggles even with Denoise AI in Lightroom. I think I need to upgrade it
how do I resize it tho? 8gb for a 2.5min video is tough lol
A Hardware Upgrade is a must
Thank you for the great video. Can you tell us the specs of the computer your are running this on? I'm planning to get this and will be running it on a beefy Macbook Pro M1 that's almost maxed out.
I was using a 32GB M1 Max Mac Studio, which is my main work computer for everything.
Thanks!
What GPU is recommended? I wanna build a pc and i wanna make sure i have the right graphics card in order to use this safely
Todd - Thank you. Any experiments running on Bootcamp for Windows version? Curious if there is a marked performance difference on an Intel iMac…
Sorry but no idea (don't own a Windows machine). Perhaps someone else can reply with Windows feedback.
Hey thanks for the video, I have been trying to upscale a clip of 720 X 576 scale up to 1080 but each time it shows Ai error on the timeline. Do i need to download additional module.
after a reboot now its working, i"ve done a few tests to upscale a letterbox to full HD but cropping is very niceable, is there any way to upscale without cropping.
Yes! I will buy this!
Nice Video. How is your render time? Could you share your numbers and specs? I use it mainly to upscale old videos from early camcorders HDV format (1280x720p, 1440x1080i & 1920x1080i to 1080p or 4K). I find the render time quite slow. A 3 minutes clip took around 60-90 mins to render on my i7 10th, RTX 3070ti depending on the output setting. I have a lot of videos that are 30 mins to 1 hour long. It will take ages to render everything.
To be fair it's doing a lot of work with newer code and newer models, also it does more than one action during the render. The old version could only do one thing at a time so would naturally be faster. We have to accept it's not a fast process, but what it does is better than anything i've ever tried.
I've been using the software extensively for quite a while now, and by far my biggest pet peeve is that it will not under any circumstances use the full power of my GPU. Doesn't matter if I max out the settings in the preferences or not, it rarely uses more than 30-40% of my RTX 3080's compute power.
Despite that, the results are amazing.
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9 hours for 27 minutes of Video Artimis 1920 x 1080 H264
Really??? I need whole 6 hour event to do and from two cameras 😕. Sounds like a whole weekend render. Hopefully my RTX4090 and my AMD 5950x does the work!
My problem is this, and maybe you can help me....If I am shooting a 2 minute promo video and there are clips within my edit that I want to apply sharpening to, or noise reduction to, or add slow motion to....just for particular clips within the edit, what is the best workflow to do that, using this video enhance AI? If they made this a Premiere pro plugin I would be so happy. Any helpful advice is much appreciated, thanks!
select your clip in premiere, click “/“ on your keyboard. this should set In - Out points over that clip. make sure other effects like text or sfx are hidden or muted, export that clip out of premiere and drag it into Topaz. There might be a more efficient way of doing this but that’s how I do it
@@natheman5248 Thank you!
Be really nice if we could use AI to clean up the world’s problems and provide humanity positive clarity and hope for it’s future.
whats the music at 0:35 if you dont mind?
I have Video AI but I really need some guidance - particularly as to the export settings. I have chosen Proteus, and MP4, but when the exported clip pops up on my desktop, it won't play! It says "acps which is not supported!" What am I doing wrong?
Sounds like the exported file is a ProRes video, which is one of the options for exporting.
But it should be in a .mov container, and not in a . mp4 container.
Anyway, if it's in ProRes format, you should re-encode it, as ProRes is not meant for end user playback.
It's mainly a pro camera/NLE format. I'm not even sure, that mp4 supports ProRes codecs.
Does this make the file size larger as well? Like a normal 4k 60fps video size?
Yes. If you take a 1080 file and scale it up to 4k 60 it will definately be a larger file. Because you will then have a 4k 60fps file. But the codec you use will also have an effect on the file size.
Also consider where it will be seen. On a 32" screen you can't see the difference between 1080p and 4k. On a cellphone 480p looks like UHD.
I heard that we can make image sequences into videos and enhance those with VIdeo AI. Got a tutorial on that?
Would this work for old VHS that have been already converted to movie file? For example, there are some old (1980's) tv shows I'd like to fix.
It would, but buying the old shows on DVDs might be a better way to spend your time and money ;-)
Loved the old version V 2.64 but the new version is slow like hell on my pc system. I feel like a beta tester of a unfinished product with this version . There is a lot to work on for Topaz
New models, frame analysis over multiple frames and multiple actions in one render. It's always going to be slower than v2.64 because it's doing more.
I have used Video Enhance AI 2.6.4 for upscaling low resolution video clips to 1080p HD for quite some time on both my late 2019 12-core Mac Pro with 32 Gb Video ram and my 16 in. M1 Max MacBook Pro (fully maxed out). I was excited when Video AI 3 came out a couple of months ago. Unfortunately, I found the exact same clips processed with the exact same settings that I had used in Video Enhance AI 2.6.4 were processed 3-4 times slower in Video AI. In fact, I found Video AI 3 to be so slow on both of the above powerful Macs as to be useless and I have reverted to using Video Enhance AI 2.6.4 for processing my low resolution video clips. None of the recent beta releases of Video AI 3 have addressed the tremendously slower processing speed issue, and I am rapidly losing hope that Topaz can salvage Video AI 3.
May be worth noting the new version seems to be twice as fast now on my system
slow on every system.
What are the average file sizes for 4K Ai upscaled video vs 8K Ai upscaled video in your experience? Ty for your great video :)
Most likely 4x.
Question hoping someone can answer. Say I upscale a 1080/30fps to 4k/60fps, is it actually rendering new frames or is it duplicating the existing?
hey can you do a video, comparing this please, 4k 30p to 60p vs 1080p 60p upcale to 4k, which one looks better, pleaseeee i need this big favor, i need to buy a lens wider for my real estate videos but is i can just use 4k 30 or 1080 on my sony a7v with this software will be amazing , again thanks so muchhhhh
I didn't know they added so much.
Tried to render 4k sony zv1 footage using "Enhancement" only. The clip was 2 minutes long. It took 38 minutes on MacBook Pro M1 Max... I tried Atomos ProRes HQ recorded with the Atomos and exported previously to mp4 and it took 28 minutes.
How is your rendering experience?
That is actually insane. I have a similar setup as you with a ZV-1, but actually "only" a MBP M1 Pro (I mean, still a super capable new machine!). Having 40min render for a 2 minute clip segment just wouldn't make me happy. It'd be really frustrating. Have you been able to somewhat optimise the render time or found a solution for it? The M1 Max really is a top spec machine, this should never take that long. What would happen with a 30min part?! Insanity!
@@marsfuture no, I gave up:) Perhaps it's not optimised for M1 or maybe that's just the way it is.
@@ShutterTwist Dziękuję, Maciej! I was just about to purchase the software, as it looks really awesome. But with an "inferior" machine than yours (that still cost me close to €3000!) I won't make it labour through 45min of painful rendering for a 2min 4k clip. Super sad, but I appreciate your info!
@@marsfuture Nie ma za co:) Yes, same here. I would imagine this would apply only to some super important work that had be remastered. But again, this could be a compatibility issue. That's why I am asking around too:)
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Is slo mo encoding faster??
Mmm....I'd say incrementally faster. Frame interpolation is inherently a slow process, for the software has to invent frames and stick them in-between the real ones. So it's the kind of thing I think will always be slow compared to upscaling.
How can I scan peoples physical/paper pictures and put them in here ?
Maybe my question is stupid. I create videos with replaced background (usually live for yt). The quality is acceptable but it could be better of course.
Would this tool be able to enhance quality of such videos?
And how about improving quality of old VHS videos?
Im using ryzen 9 7900x , and rendering time is not bad, its fast actually
Hi bro can you tell me that Which one graphic card you have? Do you think that Nvidia RTX 4070 will be enough?
i have 6900xt bro, 4070 is enough tho@@ladlashahzada8998
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What about dynamic range and extreme backlight fixing?
Not sure I understand the question. Can you provide an example?
@@domineyDose the Video ai help with with harsh lighting? Of course nothing can "fix" black or white clipping. However, if there is still information in the highs & lowes can Video ai help even out the lighting without turning the image grey? On a side note, I bought the software only to find that it will not install on my laptop because the CPU doesn't support AVX instructions.
I see. No, the software doesn't change or affect exposure, contrast, or color. It focuses on details, sharpening, and frame rate.
@@dominey Thanks
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Im using m2chip Mac mini and holy shit the renders are so fast. I render 1 minute clips fully enhanced and upscaled all in 5-10mins
That sounds pretty slow to me. What kind of task are you doing?
I put a 5 second sports clip and it took over 6 minutes just to preview. I'm guessing this isn't going to be good for what I need it for. Time is everything. I wish I could do Speed Ramping with this also.
300 dollars ? 🤯
Excellent, but what we really need is to AI-upscale in the player in real-time, be that an android player, Windows Media Player, etc. Then we won't have to remaster all our videos!
That would never work.
There's a reason why there are different options in the software, and that's because it can't guess, what you're trying to achieve.
@@akyhne there is existing software that does exactly that, just not in real time. Check out Topaz AI and other resolution enhancing apps
this is just another sales pitch for Topaz Video AI!! It took 'many hours' just for upscaling a 40 seconds MP4!
Does topaz AI upload any video content to it's own servers while processing your video?
No