That's max sharpen, max restore detail, 30% reduce noise and looks awesome! I'm going to set it to do the full gig with these settings, about 90 minutes of video. I just took at look at the lastest test- a noisy but detailed 1280x720p 50FPS video converted to 1920x1080p 50FPS with no noise and even more detail.

I'm currently testing it on some live concert video, proshot and high bitrate 1280x720p, that I think I can get to 1920x1080p around 27Mbps with added visible detail without anyone knowing it was originally released as 720p. I don't think I can post a link here (without getting banned). If you search hard enough, you'll find the movie. Like the DS9 article, I also saw the best results with the Gaia-CG model. Still, the increase in detail is impressive. The final version is an honest 1116x576p. tiff images and fixed 949 frames with Photoshop. I used all the tricks I know: IVTC, QTGMC and got it to 706x346p before I fed it to Topaz VEAI. I wanted to get the RTX 3080 but it seems mostly unavailable at this point so I settled for a GTX 1080 Ti.Īfter 3 weeks of testing, I created a better version of one of my most favorite movies ever, originally released at 480i letterboxed with a poor film to DVD transfer that appears to have had no digital cleaning. Immediately I could see even at 6 sec/frame it was creating detail like magic.Ī week later I spent $200 and bought the program, plus $200 for Windows 10 Pro Retail and another $800 in hardware to build a minimal gaming machine (I don't game), to give it the GPU it needed (about 10 times faster than CPU). I found it on usenet and began testing on my little NUC Win10 box (I hate 10, I use XP for most things). I would find it hard to believe that I know about something the rest of the world doesn't know.Ī month ago I read this about Topaz Video Enhance AI:

Topaz upscaling