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Keep in mind that Autofocus on any camera is trained the same way as AI and usually can only focus on a face or eye. So technically, if you use a Canon autofocus (or whoever) instead of pulling focus manually, you are using ancient AI. But in cine work autofocus is too unpredictable (especially when its trained subject leaves the frame and enter again) and when it does work its too digital and unnatural. So far lidar based focusing seems to be moving in the right direction so ethically I think it comes down to what is real and what is not. Command line or computer/fantasy invention of a photo or video is NOT real and may be unethical on a case by case basis and will eventually implode if it is left to its own course. This is why. I call it the Red Duck postulate. Suppose you and 2 million friends did a command line invention of a Red Duck and all of you got a fantastic image of a red duck in return. Now suppose that the global compendium of duck images (say brown ducks) totaled 1 million duck images and in a matter of a few weeks your friends uploaded your two million "photos" of red ducks onto the net. AI training itself on ducks would begin to think red ducks are natural when they are only AI inventions. The model then begins to collapse on itself because its been fooled by 3 million ducks of which only 1 million are real. So the AI training model collapses into unreality or better termed an image idiocracy. Furthermore small children will be told by AI that red ducks are real when they are not as the line between reality and fantasy is blurred beyond hope of recovery causing a backlash by the "organics" i.e people that have seen a lot of ducks in nature but never seeing a red duck do not believe they exist despite what AI now tells people.

I had no luck with enhancing old videos. It always looked bad no matter what i tried. In my opinion topaz can make ok footage better but it does nothing for 480 p videos from the past. The slomo feature is very good tough.

"It takes away the skill level." TOUGH! Suck it up. The progress of technology and the world shouldn't be held back by a bunch of crying babies.

The only downside of Topaz Video is the processing time. I have a fairly high end PC and graphics card and it still will take around 8 hours plus to upscale a 1 hour hour video.

Casual out of focus is part of the real good cinema.

Now Luma solves video generation, waiting for better sioftware tho

And.... it looks a *little* bit better. Let's not forget that the best technology in the world still cannot compensate for poor film-making. Same with audio production... something I've dabbled with my whole life... despite improved access to higher end tech... 90% of what I do is still crap.

Great Video!

AI has is drawback for sure. But having the possibility improve the resctiction of my gear is really neat. I don't need a 10k camera to have a good low light movie, my APSC will do the job even without a gimbal. This is so convenient ! And with or without AI, a boring video will stays boring.

Eventually, the quality of AI will not be affecting by learning on self collected media vs public/paid content. With the software getting better, it will need less content to learn from. Eventually, a big AI company could suffice with a tiny studio collecting exactly the kinds of source media to train its AI off. Disagree? Please tell me so I can learn.

Do filmers intentionally shoot in a wider than needed angle, to anticipate post stabilization? Framing an image too perfectly in real time gets it cropped too much, I imagine? Can cameras project a smaller frame on the view finder, customized by filmer?

I'm pretty sure a cheap rig would be more stable than a handheld. Handheld cameras are a lot more wobbly than you might think. Even a basic rig can stabilize most of the major issues.

Making my work look better is not undoing my work. It's enhancing it. If I use After Effects, it's still my work.

Next time compare side-by-side

yes, it's ethical.. we used Twixtor to slow down footage before and nobody cared because it wasnt labeled as AI

Could you do a video on topaz video ai stabilization vs mercalli 6 stabilization?

If verticals and horizon line are important (real estate - architecture) - maybe gimbal the better choice. That said, the software is impressive - the ability to use a lower frame rate in lower lighting scenarios and still get that quality of slow-mo is maybe worth the price

The Iris looks to smushy for me. It looks like an instagram filter, or Oil painted somehow.

I tried to upscale 1min video 2.7k to 4k. On i5 11th gtx3050ti 48Go Ram. It took 12 hours to render. Can you share best setting or best entry level computer that can handel topaz

Makes her looks like a SIM

How would the software fare with upscaling 360p or 480p to 1080? for old videos I shot in the 80s and 90s? Those I really want to upgrade and conserve for posterity in good condition. Can it actually do a good job?

How strong of a computer do you need to use this software? It seems like it needs a VERY strong computer for all the calculations on each frame.

i can never see the differennce no matter what settings i pick .even this guy who knows what he is doing i can barely see the differences in this video. im not sure its worth leaving your pc runnng at 100% for 5 hours just to very very marginally improve a 10 minute clip.

the more similar an AI works like a human, the more obvious should be that complaining humans complain about themself. this also means: the more the AI generates photos, videos and stuff the more the AI learns from its own generated stuff ...

Sample footage unstabilized and stabilized are not even the same shots. 🤡 🤡 🤡

it's so hard to find documentation on which presets to use and parameters

Did I just see dude's head detach?

Footage that went through AI software for these enhancements cannot be classified as AI generated since the footage was not AI generated. You wouldn't classify photos touched up by Photoshop as AI generated.

any free options/ alternatives?

I have an out of focus shot from an ARRI Amira UHD ProRes 422HQ. If I run it through Topaz, will I still retain the metadata?

The fact that Topaz don't do dust or scratch removal is disappointing. Can't find any sotware that can do a great automated job with that. Non that work for me at least.

At 5:18 the gimbal shot is cropped alot more than the A.I version..and in my opinion the A.I version wins hands down...

That slow mo feature was a thing of Sci Fi just two years ago. People would say it's a blasphemy to shoot in 30fps and slow that to 120fps.

This was the point of technology, to progress humanity making everything easier to do.

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I use Topaz to upscale old videos that are originally 480-720p to 1440p-4k. I justvwant to enjoy older videos with higher quality. I never share them as my own work.

I have this and if you have HD video, it will look a little better if waxy, forget 360 the stuff that really needs rescuing.

thanks for the breakdown!

Welcome to our fully-rendered plastic world, loosely inspired by reality

about june or july i downloaded the topaz demo. I was so impressed with it I wanted it immediately. I waited til their black friday sale instead. I have some old videos from 10-15 years ago that were recorded 480p 15 fps, and after topaz, if you look now it's1080p 60fps, as if I used a regular modern cell phone to shoot them. It's literally like magic, i never get tired of it. I'm redoing my entire backlog of home videos and reuploading. The difference in quality is just staggering.

10:47 Overall Topaz is great software, but this "Mosaic" images are sellers examples! The contrast is greatest here and there is no noise, the software can calculate the gradations between this clean pixels and shows you a dream result, but in reallity this situation is rare

@3:20 the bottom lip looks very weird it added very shiny bright ridges and they sort of move around instead of staying put.

Its really good software for repairing footage. I know a lot of fans of really old shows are using Topaz Video Enhance A.i. to upscale their favorite old shows. A lot of these old shows may never get a HD scan and its even more of a issue with Sci-Fi shows as they would record the film back to video tape and then do their special effects on computers. So those shows need to be rescanned and the special effects need to be redone.

Original video, focus disappear in 3, 2, 1...

My good sir where can I install this program 💗

Ok, i NEED to point out some stuff: 1. The unfocused video of the M50 is still visibly out of focus, maybe a little more sharp but still out of focus. In all my experience with topaz i found out that no matter how much you try to make an out of focus shot look good it's simply impossible. The model does not fix focus, it fixes details, so if you take an out of focus image at 720p and make it 4K it will always look like an out of focus 4k shot. The Topaz Video AI enhancement tab does not fix shooting mistakes or lens mistakes, it fixes file size and compression thus making the image look "sharper" 2. The non gimbal stabilized footage looks great BUT it won't stabilize a shot as good as premiere or davinci if it's too jittery and even with little movement it can show abberations 3. You need to respect the 180 degree rule or at least shoot at fast shutter speeds if you know you footage will be slowed down, or if there's a small chance it will be slowed down, because it will simply look blurry if you shot you footage at 1/50 and slowed it to 120 or 240 fps. No software can fix the insane ammount of motion blur a 1/50 shot at 120fps has. Great video tho !

OK just finished the video, the quality of your video editins is INSANE man.