Gonna send some $ to this developer. I’m backing up the entire Adventure time series but the dvds look terrible on modern displays. 720p is a quick convert and looks WAY better than the pixelated dvd. I tried 1080p at first. Most scenes looked INCREDIBLE but many small things ended up getting muddy and had that uncanny AI look. Thanks for the tutorial!
Thank you for a concise and easy guide! Here are a few observations re. time needed for processing a few old mpeg-videos I found, just to give a rough idea about how long it might take (people seem to ask). This is by no means scientific or exact, just results from a few test runs I did. Video1 was 15 seconds and 320x240 and video2 was 480x360 and 8 minutes (old and shaky camcorder video from family events). All upscaling was 3x scale ratio with 3D Enlarge & Frame interpolation High Quality, and the encoding was done by the GPU, most recent Nvidia drivers. The RTX is slightly overclocked, but disabling that didn't seem to change things all that much. The GTX is not overclocked (it's just an always-on machine doing server/dns/cctv/media center things) Computer 1, i5-9400K / Nvidia GTX 1650 Super 4Gb: video1 = 6 minutes 30 sec and video2 = 12 hours 20 minutes Computer 2, i7-10700K / Nvidia RTX 3080 10Gb: video1 = 1 min 15 sec and video2 = 2 hours 12 minutes I seem to get best quality results using RealESRGAN-NCNN-Vulkan. It is a really interesting piece of software, and I plan to continue upscaling things. If I can afford the electrical bill that is, the RTX was using 340 watts at 71°C during its long run 🙂
@@Sunny-Gupta1it will be very slow.. For normal use of this software NEVER use your laptop or you kill it by constant overheating. You can also open your laptop and use big fan to cool down it. Otherwise it will be constantly overheated. Also you need to know that laptop i5 and laptop RTX 3050 are not the same as desktop ones and are MUCH slower than real i5 and real 3050. And 3050 is the low end card, you need 3080+ to get adequate processing times
Thank you so much for this guide! You really earned my sub and like! I hope your videos reach a very large audience one day, and wish you all the best of luck!
thanks for this bro haha i knew my GTX 1080s in SLI would help me some where down the line other then just playing games 😀good video and walkthrough my dude
Just tried the same presets with 60 seconds old anime commercial and my Gaming Laptop took 1 minute 17 seconds to AI upscaled the video. Results are good just a bit too ghostly sharp around the edges of anime characters, but it could just be that the video bitrate and compression of the original video was so low and high respectively that's about the best the simple preset can do but man the closeup shots gave out huge improvement. I'll try with something with a bit better source quality next time but overall, I'm quite happy with the results that this program provided. Crazy that this is a freeware.
I have plenty old, ripped MPEG-1 Video CD movie files begging movies to be upscaled, this program seems to be easy enough for me to use and results looks great! Will have to wait and see how well or bad my RTX 3080Ti Laptop do with this program. Thanks a lot!
I was hasty to delete the program until I saw your video. Thank you for making a simple tutorial that makes sense, unlike the countless people who make horrible videos in regards to tutorials. It seems extremely rare in terms of people who actually know what they're doing when it comes to tutorial videos, for a whole range of all sorts of things. btw, is this one of those "trials" that lasts forever?
Thanks! Yes this seems to be one of those endless trials. I consider it “donation ware” - pay if you want to support the developer, but that is optional
@@14reasons58 Why should I have to seek around a video looking for the part I need help on and then wait a couple seconds for someone to speak a sentence when I could just scroll down to a part of a webpage and read what I need to read as fast as I'm able?
This will be a great video for me. I just found a website ri download my old favourite cartoons from childhood. Some of them are in 1080p but many are in 720 or even 480. Will test soon.
@@Goat_Dips It works a champ for me. Sorry it doesn't for you. Maybe read through the available documentation and watch some more YT videos to learn more about how to use the program? That's what I did.
when it spent a few hours doing its thing, it said complete and all. However when I try to play the video it says "we can't play the video for [insert title of video] because its encoding settings aren't supported. you can still listen to the audio" is there a fix for this? I'd appreciate it.
Which method do you suggest that I should follow for upscaling a homemade VHS video to look good on an 1920x1080 display if you factor the processing speed and the output quality of the upscaled file? This video or the one that uses ShotCut and Upscayle?
Video2x is just a python GUI front end (much like waifu2xGUI) so the processing speed and quality really all depends on the engines you select and since they are mostly using the same open source upscaling engines, performance is probably super close with the same engines. I found waifu2xGUI to have more options and to be a little more 'automagic' in it's operation but nothing wrong with Video2x either
I’m in the process of upscaling a 16 video clip from 888x500 to 1920x1080. I’m using Video2x gui that has the waifu2x driver. It’s my first one and I’m 7 hours in. 🥴 but I’m glad to know that the length of time is normal. I can’t wait to see the finished product.
It can take a loooong time to process things depending on both the video and the PC you are using so as long as it seems to be making progress you should be good. One tip is to trim down the video clip to just the part you want to use (if it isn’t the whole video) - but yeah otherwise it is just start it and let it run for as long as it needs
It's literally upscaling images frame by frame and AI is pretty slow at that right now, not sure how much the program written helps with it either. However it could be good to use video editing software and chop up the video so you don't have to leave your system running for too long. If it puts a lot of load on your hardware for a long time it may get cooked.
I am a little late to the party. Thank you so much for posting this instructional video. How does this freeware compare with TopazLabs Video AI? Have you tried it out yet? The free demo allows you to do everything and without limitation in time, but the upscaled videos are watermarked. Also, as a sidenote, with films on DVD great results can be obtained by processing the mpeg2 files in Handbrake whilst applying filters and then playing the films in VLC for example whilst using Nvidia's RTX super resolution and HDR feature. Maybe not as good as AI upscaling but still very watchable.
Just to let you know - "Waifu" is pronounced "Why-Foo" it is a play on the way that Japanese people pronounce "Wife" and is a very popular term among anime fans. So its not tough to say for most gen z and millinial folks. And please for the love of god dont call anime, "cartoons" totally different thing. but thanks for the help today!!! It only took 5 seconds to download the file. wasnt a while at all. and to be honest 2GB-4GB is relatively small. Especially when you frequently work with 40GB-100GB files. Also Winrar is the best way to uzip 7zip. it works with 20 other file extensions as well
Fair enough, it is only tough for me because I always thought it was "WAY-FOO" for so long that so mentally correcting myself is hard. I am (slowly) learning LOL
Hey! I have been using it and it works perfectly fine with files under 5minutes but everytime I try to upscale anything that's longer than 5mins, it fails after 2%, I have 500gb usual storage,16gb ram, i7 12700H and 6700xt. Any idea what may be going wrong?
Not sure what could be going wrong - nothing in the log file at the bottom of the screen? If not you might want to check out my video about running Waifu2x Vulcan without the GUI. This way you will get any error messages and see exactly where in the process you are having trouble: th-cam.com/video/UF05AbZq-sw/w-d-xo.html. You could also ask in waifu2x subreddit and see if anyone has had a similar experience
I am a complete amateur at this, but I have a question: the initial pass of the process creates a file with a bunch of still frames, which are upscaled individually and then re-assembled in the final processing. If I am working with a video conversion from a vintage film which has dust and scratches, can I clean up the film, frame-by-frame, using those stills, by importing them, one-by-one, into photo editing software, cleaning them up and then plugging them back into the file for the final processing? I realize this would be very tedious, but I'm just curious if it's possible (or there may be some video editors which can do this automatically). Thanks! Wonderful tutorial for those of us who don't have a lot of knowledge of video editing! I have a bunch of old Hi-8 analog video tapes which I want to digitize and then upscale the best segments. Subscribed, and I will be looking at your other videos.
You absolutely can extract and combine manipulated frames back into a video again. In fact I show exactly how to do what Waifu2xGUI is doing in the background in this video: th-cam.com/video/UF05AbZq-sw/w-d-xo.html The upshot is there are just 3 steps; extract the frames, upscale the frames and recombine the frames. By just skipping the "upscale the frames" and doing something else to them, you could use that video as a tutorial. HOWEVER personally I would drop that video into the free version of Davinci Resolve and use things like it's clone tool (that lets you seamlessly paint out things), sharpening and maybe some it's movie grade color tools to clean up the video in an editor directly. That might be enough right there. The full, paid version ($300 one time) version of Davinci Resolve Studio gets you a full restoration tool set. You can check them out in the free version with a watermark to try them out. Check out this video from another TH-camr for an example of using the Studio (paid) version: th-cam.com/video/-QX9uf1FSOk/w-d-xo.html
@@freewarefocus , thanks! I watched that 2nd video. With the DaVinci Resolve tools, it looks much easier! And sharpening might be all that's necessary in many cases, saving the upscale process for special uses.
Question: you can do it to one elaborate video multiple times for having a better result? I mean, i take one video, elaborate one time, then take the result video and repeat the process for better quality again
Offhand I would say “no” (but I haven’t tried it). Multiple runs would likely just compound errors. The danger of AI up scaling is introducing weird, unnatural looking images and I think it would just look ridiculous after a few passes. Could be wrong of course, but I would be doubtful
heyy I don't know what to do, seems like the perfect program, but it prints Get resolution of the video and then automatic retry, please help, it's a life and death scenario
Hello there. I made this highlight montage of a game on davinci resolve and exported it in 1440p. Then I wanted to make some final changes on capcut. When I exported it in 2k/4k the quality reduced making the video look less vibrant and more pixelated(size going from 3gb to 900mb). Now I have two choices. Either try to make the adjustments I did on cap cut, on davinci resolve or upscale the video quality using some software. I heard about video2x but it's so hard to setup and I can't find any tutorial on it. Do you think I should try what you are showing in the video? Will it have any benefit?
It would probably be very, very slow to try to upscale the video in either video2x or Waifu2xGUI. Try loading it back in to Davinci and upscaling it from there and see how it looks
I have a GTX 750Ti, a 4th gen core i3 processor for reference, and I want to upscale 720p video game footage captured on a PS4 to 1080p.. The footage will be about an hour long so am I realistically looking at days of processing here and should I just opt for a regular video editor like Davinci Resolve? Great tutorial by the way
You are right, it would likely take a looong time to do AI upscaling so yeah the algorithmic upscaling like in Resolve is the way to go. You can always to a 1 minute clip and see how long that takes to get an estimate of the time but I suspect it would be many, many hours
AI upscaling is very slow - like leave it overnight slow. I am using fast machines and a very small file and a small upscale. Fortunately is is something most people don't have to do too often and once it is done, that video is done. If you want to test various upscaling parameters, use an editor to make a short clip and just upscale that to tweak the upscale and then do the whole thing.
Thanks for the video. Very helpful. I have some videos that are 1920 x 1080 but the original source video was very poor quality. Is there a setting to keep the resolution the same but improve the quality of the footage?
See if you can turn down the Scale Ratio to 1. I don’t have the software in front of me to test. If the GUI won’t let you do it, you can wain waifu2x directly and just change the part of my sample command line from “-s 2” to “-s 1” using this tutorial: th-cam.com/video/juuNQju0xv4/w-d-xo.htmlsi=g_E1BgUTLSZSHK7h
I've seen people have good results and time with this, but I'm running an RTX 4080, and it took an hour to do a 6 second clip yesterday. The quality also wasn't that much different (so I'd have to play with the settings more). Maybe it's the file format I used, not sure, but so far it's a bust for me. Thanks for the video though, I'll try play with it more.
It really depends on the video and other details but a 4080 should be much faster than that. In the example I was using a crusty old 1070 and the speed was fine. However that was on a very low resolution video and with fast hard drives and such. So much depends on the exact hardware and the resolution of the video and how much you are upscaling
@@freewarefocus Yeah not too sure what my issue was! It was a 720 to 1080, and like I said only 6 seconds. I'm also on an M2, so don't really think it's my hardware. Is there a specific format that it works better with? I'll keep playing with it! Thanks a lot, appreciate the feedback!
That's not right, I have RTX 3080TI Laptop and it only took me 1 minute 17 seconds to do 60 seconds anime video, same preset used as shown in this video.
Depending on the content of the video it can do a very good job or not so great too - you just have to try it. Basically it does smart edge detect and enhancement. That works great on animation because the lines get enhanced. However it does work for regular videos too - just change the setting as mentioned on the tutorial
Thank you very much I've always been looking for such a free tool or something that makes one's videos at home more beautiful I of course subscribed to you immediately it's clear I always like to experiment with everything that's possible that's my world I just want mine make your own Hollywood films, so to speak :-) thank you very much, best regards Murat 🙂
I know this isn't the Waifu2x helpdesk, but I'm getting an error "Unable to split video into pictures." There's literally one other person on the entire planet who has gotten this error, and the developer responded with some generic "well, try turning off hardware acceleration" which isn't ticked on my end.
Try re-encoding your video with the free program Handbreak. Wifu2X GUI uses ffmpeg to split the video into frames and sometimes it can't understand all video formats
Thank you for sharing. I was doing a very long (>12h) video upscalling when the battery went down. Is there a way to resume from where it was interrupted?
Sorry for the slow reply - I am not sure but you could try turning off the "Reprocess Finished Files" to see if that would skip the frames already done. I am not sure about that, just a guess.
Hi thanks for sharing this amazing tool. I wondering if one ia open source for videos colors like a runaway ia. Converting video like a cinema cámara style but this one is no open source. You put the clip and write one text to the style of camera you want and covert the video to look the filming that camera style you choice. Sorry for my English I hope you understand I try to say ahaha.
I tried to time with a video with small resolution (and short, under 1 minute). But time I get error: 1. error: Unable to scale all frames. 2. error without specifications. Just written: failed. The original video is only 2 GB, so I cannot understand what went wrong.
I haven’t seen that before but I would use handbrake to re-encode the video to H264 MP4. It is probably one the funky video formats and can’t be processed by the open source libraries used
If I were to upscale 720p game footage (e.g. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom) should I use the 2D or the 3D preset? Do I need to change the video scale from 2000 to 4000 like you did as well?
Hard to guess with cell shading, but I would go with 3d to start with but best to just do a sample of each. The video scale defaults to 2.000 (not 2000) and that means 2x scaling. 4 (4.000) would do a 4x scale. 2x would double the number of pixels across and down in the video. The fraction is so you can do 1.5 scaling, for example. Also best to do a short (1 minute) section to see how long a longer video would take to process (and in this case test 2d vs 3d).
@@freewarefocus It took around 4 hours to upscale a 1min 30 sec video to 1080p on the best 3D preset but it worked really well. Thank you! Edit: Turns out, it upscaled it to 1440p instead of 1080p. No wonder it took so long.
Do you mean storage or like Internet data usage? On Internet data usage - zero, everything is done locally. As for storage, for the images is actually dependent on the resolution of the video. The GUI program, however, only does about 800 frames at a time to keep the storage pretty reasonable, even with large projects.
LOL Great minds think alike. Here is a video using Upscayl I just got done editing. I use Shotcut as an easy way to export and re-import the frames. Should take you through the whole process step by step: th-cam.com/video/QdYdq3xO7-k/w-d-xo.html
@@freewarefocus Thanks. There is surprisingly little about it to be found. Not even mentioned in the Upscayl guide! I was going to use Vegas Pro to render as image sequence, then run it through Upscayl and then back to Vegas Pro. I have downloaded Video 2x and will install it and compare it. I will certainly watch your new video. Video, images, same stuff under the hood.
Unfortunately it sounds like your hardware doesn’t support these features, at least with the tools used by Waifu2x GUI. You might look directly at the tools the program is using (it is just a visual shell around other open source programs) like ffmpeg. I believe ffmpeg can do interpolation, but slowly. I think the GUI is using Vapersynth or AviSynth which you can check into too
I don’t 100% know but I would think it is very unlikely. My understanding is it by default uses the massively parallel processing of a graphics card (Cuda cores and the like) and not so much encoding. However the software is free so it is worth a try. Let me know, would be happy to be wrong.
I don’t make any products (just TH-cam videos). You are probably thinking of AtmosFX, HallowFX or The Singing Pumpkins - they all make great video decorations and I have videos on how to remix and customize them
Whenever I choose an option from the Optimize Settings, I see an error with the lines of "Unable to optimize engine setting" and "Engine not compatible." Any ideas? Thank you.
Oooooh God, i downloaded that all and i want to convert a 4k mkv file into 4k mp4 file, but this can't, do you maybe know one program like that? I want put the audio in german into a 4k movie and convert it to mp4 with the same quality like Freemake Video Converter can do it. But he can't convert files into 4k 3840p🤔
The best open source program for any sort of conversions like that (and much more) is Handbrake (handbrake.fr/). Free, open source, all the good stuff - highly recommneded
as someone who's trying to be an editor on a budget real tight budget (literally like 0$), this'll do wonders for me
That's not a budget.
@@JeremyWinston-f4h you’re not a budget
@@ALUMINOS HOW DARE YOU :o
@@JeremyWinston-f4h oh I’m daring 😏
cant tell u how long ive been waiting for an ai upscaling software for free without watermark and i hope God blesses your soul
Frame-by-frame pixelation multiplication. Just what I needed. Thanks for this :)
Gonna send some $ to this developer. I’m backing up the entire Adventure time series but the dvds look terrible on modern displays.
720p is a quick convert and looks WAY better than the pixelated dvd.
I tried 1080p at first. Most scenes looked INCREDIBLE but many small things ended up getting muddy and had that uncanny AI look.
Thanks for the tutorial!
Damn, all that for adventure time lmao
Yo approximately how long did it take ? I'm planning to upscale 480p 2 hours movie to 720 or 1080p.
Thank you for a concise and easy guide! Here are a few observations re. time needed for processing a few old mpeg-videos I found, just to give a rough idea about how long it might take (people seem to ask). This is by no means scientific or exact, just results from a few test runs I did. Video1 was 15 seconds and 320x240 and video2 was 480x360 and 8 minutes (old and shaky camcorder video from family events). All upscaling was 3x scale ratio with 3D Enlarge & Frame interpolation High Quality, and the encoding was done by the GPU, most recent Nvidia drivers. The RTX is slightly overclocked, but disabling that didn't seem to change things all that much. The GTX is not overclocked (it's just an always-on machine doing server/dns/cctv/media center things)
Computer 1, i5-9400K / Nvidia GTX 1650 Super 4Gb: video1 = 6 minutes 30 sec and video2 = 12 hours 20 minutes
Computer 2, i7-10700K / Nvidia RTX 3080 10Gb: video1 = 1 min 15 sec and video2 = 2 hours 12 minutes
I seem to get best quality results using RealESRGAN-NCNN-Vulkan. It is a really interesting piece of software, and I plan to continue upscaling things. If I can afford the electrical bill that is, the RTX was using 340 watts at 71°C during its long run 🙂
Great info, thanks!
I have rtx 3050(laptop) and i5 12th, how much time would it take for ~40 mins 480p video?
@@Sunny-Gupta1it will be very slow.. For normal use of this software NEVER use your laptop or you kill it by constant overheating. You can also open your laptop and use big fan to cool down it. Otherwise it will be constantly overheated. Also you need to know that laptop i5 and laptop RTX 3050 are not the same as desktop ones and are MUCH slower than real i5 and real 3050. And 3050 is the low end card, you need 3080+ to get adequate processing times
@@deaddycruel damn, I knew it, I wanted to upscale an old TV detective show.
@@Sunny-Gupta1it's the work for desktop only. And it will be slow
Wow, the quality improvement is insane
Literally perfect video and instructions. Keep this up!
Amazing, been looking for something like this since 2020!
It's amazing that this is free, thank you so much for this! God bless you🙏
Thanks dude! i just got into this kind of stuff after seeing a lot of people do it for fun. might suscribe and keep watching your content.
I swear, people just don't know about this.
This works super well, and its free!!
Thank U so much mate😆
Bro this software is amazing, thank you for the in-depth tutorial. You the MVP for real.
Absolutely clear and concise tutorial. Thank you!
Thank you for the video. I will follow the video, as before, I used Nero AI Video Upscaler. Now, I could use other free solutions.
Thank you so much for this guide! You really earned my sub and like!
I hope your videos reach a very large audience one day, and wish you all the best of luck!
thanks for this bro haha i knew my GTX 1080s in SLI would help me some where down the line other then just playing games 😀good video and walkthrough my dude
Just tried the same presets with 60 seconds old anime commercial and my Gaming Laptop took 1 minute 17 seconds to AI upscaled the video.
Results are good just a bit too ghostly sharp around the edges of anime characters, but it could just be that the video bitrate and compression of the original video was so low and high respectively that's about the best the simple preset can do but man the closeup shots gave out huge improvement.
I'll try with something with a bit better source quality next time but overall, I'm quite happy with the results that this program provided.
Crazy that this is a freeware.
Awesome.. Nice. Thanks!
It was a comprehensive informative video.
Thank you so much for the tutorial, the video overall is very good, so props to you ❣you earned a new subscriber n_n
thank you so much for the help, I've looked everywhere and I finally found the answer to my questions about this program :D
The original video resolution was 322 x 240
I have plenty old, ripped MPEG-1 Video CD movie files begging movies to be upscaled, this program seems to be easy enough for me to use and results looks great!
Will have to wait and see how well or bad my RTX 3080Ti Laptop do with this program.
Thanks a lot!
Thank you for the video, I had no idea there was a free program for this
Thank you so much for the step by step guide, you made it super easy and just straight to the point.
I was hasty to delete the program until I saw your video.
Thank you for making a simple tutorial that makes sense, unlike the countless people who make horrible videos in regards to tutorials.
It seems extremely rare in terms of people who actually know what they're doing when it comes to tutorial videos, for a whole range of all sorts of things.
btw, is this one of those "trials" that lasts forever?
Thanks! Yes this seems to be one of those endless trials. I consider it “donation ware” - pay if you want to support the developer, but that is optional
@@freewarefocus k cool
Videos are a horrible format for tutorials in general
@@wiiztec that makes no sense
@@14reasons58 Why should I have to seek around a video looking for the part I need help on and then wait a couple seconds for someone to speak a sentence when I could just scroll down to a part of a webpage and read what I need to read as fast as I'm able?
The Dev is a legend, these corperations charging big money for this
They have to pay salaries to their employees and government , support them if you like their software
A 30 second clip took me about 4 minutes, a movie will take I'm guessing a whole day!
you're whole life
@@Tatti_ka_hamla Been having the same PC since 2018 😅
I AM USING A RTX 4050 120WATT TGP GAMING LAPTOP IT TOOK 1 HOUR 15MIN FOR 4500 FRAMES VIDEO
OH YEEEAAAAH@@PCTECH9065
THANK YOU SO SO MUCH! IT WORKED GREAT AND MY VIDEO LOOKS MUCH BETTER NOW!
Worked like a charm! Thanks for the tutorial
dude thank you for this. I was about to spend $100 on a different program
Super cooles und Verständlches Tutrial vielen dank :D
Amazing piece of kit. Thankyou.
This will be a great video for me. I just found a website ri download my old favourite cartoons from childhood. Some of them are in 1080p but many are in 720 or even 480. Will test soon.
The tutorial and precise explanation was well structured and time saving! Thank you for the video!
Thank you very much for the explanation, it was a really informative and helpful video!
This is amazing! Thanks so much for posting
it doewsnt work
@@Goat_Dips It works a champ for me. Sorry it doesn't for you. Maybe read through the available documentation and watch some more YT videos to learn more about how to use the program? That's what I did.
I'm trying it! Of course my PC doesn't have the best graphic capabilities but maybe it works for what I need
Thank you for showing us this very helpful program!
Awesome Tutorial. Thank you! Worked perfectly :D
Just what I need. Thank u Mr awesome uploader dude
I got it to work. Your the man. Thank you for lacing us up with game!!
Thanks man, appreciate it
i would to see if you can get a similar tutorial for a Video motion amplification program going.
when it spent a few hours doing its thing, it said complete and all. However when I try to play the video it says "we can't play the video for [insert title of video] because its encoding settings aren't supported. you can still listen to the audio" is there a fix for this? I'd appreciate it.
i'm having the same issue :/
thank you very much! exactly what i was looking for!
Very awesome, thanks
Good stuff man, Keep it up
Smashing sowfware🤯
Appreciate it!
Which method do you suggest that I should follow for upscaling a homemade VHS video to look good on an 1920x1080 display if you factor the processing speed and the output quality of the upscaled file? This video or the one that uses ShotCut and Upscayle?
Great, thanks for this! Is there a different between Waifu2x und Video2x in case of time and quality?
Video2x is just a python GUI front end (much like waifu2xGUI) so the processing speed and quality really all depends on the engines you select and since they are mostly using the same open source upscaling engines, performance is probably super close with the same engines. I found waifu2xGUI to have more options and to be a little more 'automagic' in it's operation but nothing wrong with Video2x either
thank you so much. I was able to upscale my render animation to 4k from 2k without have to render all 3000 frames. Thank you so much
Thanks, mate, it was really helpful
I’m in the process of upscaling a 16 video clip from 888x500 to 1920x1080. I’m using Video2x gui that has the waifu2x driver. It’s my first one and I’m 7 hours in. 🥴 but I’m glad to know that the length of time is normal. I can’t wait to see the finished product.
It can take a loooong time to process things depending on both the video and the PC you are using so as long as it seems to be making progress you should be good. One tip is to trim down the video clip to just the part you want to use (if it isn’t the whole video) - but yeah otherwise it is just start it and let it run for as long as it needs
It's literally upscaling images frame by frame and AI is pretty slow at that right now, not sure how much the program written helps with it either. However it could be good to use video editing software and chop up the video so you don't have to leave your system running for too long. If it puts a lot of load on your hardware for a long time it may get cooked.
Did ut work?
@@tomsterbg8130 Its also the AI, but it also depends on your pc/laptop and mainly gpu/cpu
how long is your video
Fantastic! Thank you for sharing :)
Thank you so much, I have been searching for a good upscaling software and I was about to buy a few programs but you saved me :D!
I am a little late to the party. Thank you so much for posting this instructional video.
How does this freeware compare with TopazLabs Video AI? Have you tried it out yet? The free demo allows you to do everything and without limitation in time, but the upscaled videos are watermarked. Also, as a sidenote, with films on DVD great results can be obtained by processing the mpeg2 files in Handbrake whilst applying filters and then playing the films in VLC for example whilst using Nvidia's RTX super resolution and HDR feature. Maybe not as good as AI upscaling but still very watchable.
Fantastic! Thank you :D
Just to let you know - "Waifu" is pronounced "Why-Foo" it is a play on the way that Japanese people pronounce "Wife" and is a very popular term among anime fans. So its not tough to say for most gen z and millinial folks. And please for the love of god dont call anime, "cartoons" totally different thing. but thanks for the help today!!! It only took 5 seconds to download the file. wasnt a while at all. and to be honest 2GB-4GB is relatively small. Especially when you frequently work with 40GB-100GB files. Also Winrar is the best way to uzip 7zip. it works with 20 other file extensions as well
Fair enough, it is only tough for me because I always thought it was "WAY-FOO" for so long that so mentally correcting myself is hard. I am (slowly) learning LOL
calm down smartass
Thanks man 👍
it works thank u so much bro
Hey! I have been using it and it works perfectly fine with files under 5minutes but everytime I try to upscale anything that's longer than 5mins, it fails after 2%, I have 500gb usual storage,16gb ram, i7 12700H and 6700xt. Any idea what may be going wrong?
Not sure what could be going wrong - nothing in the log file at the bottom of the screen? If not you might want to check out my video about running Waifu2x Vulcan without the GUI. This way you will get any error messages and see exactly where in the process you are having trouble: th-cam.com/video/UF05AbZq-sw/w-d-xo.html. You could also ask in waifu2x subreddit and see if anyone has had a similar experience
I am a complete amateur at this, but I have a question: the initial pass of the process creates a file with a bunch of still frames, which are upscaled individually and then re-assembled in the final processing. If I am working with a video conversion from a vintage film which has dust and scratches, can I clean up the film, frame-by-frame, using those stills, by importing them, one-by-one, into photo editing software, cleaning them up and then plugging them back into the file for the final processing? I realize this would be very tedious, but I'm just curious if it's possible (or there may be some video editors which can do this automatically). Thanks!
Wonderful tutorial for those of us who don't have a lot of knowledge of video editing! I have a bunch of old Hi-8 analog video tapes which I want to digitize and then upscale the best segments. Subscribed, and I will be looking at your other videos.
You absolutely can extract and combine manipulated frames back into a video again. In fact I show exactly how to do what Waifu2xGUI is doing in the background in this video: th-cam.com/video/UF05AbZq-sw/w-d-xo.html
The upshot is there are just 3 steps; extract the frames, upscale the frames and recombine the frames. By just skipping the "upscale the frames" and doing something else to them, you could use that video as a tutorial.
HOWEVER personally I would drop that video into the free version of Davinci Resolve and use things like it's clone tool (that lets you seamlessly paint out things), sharpening and maybe some it's movie grade color tools to clean up the video in an editor directly. That might be enough right there. The full, paid version ($300 one time) version of Davinci Resolve Studio gets you a full restoration tool set. You can check them out in the free version with a watermark to try them out. Check out this video from another TH-camr for an example of using the Studio (paid) version: th-cam.com/video/-QX9uf1FSOk/w-d-xo.html
@@freewarefocus , thanks! I watched that 2nd video. With the DaVinci Resolve tools, it looks much easier! And sharpening might be all that's necessary in many cases, saving the upscale process for special uses.
Question: you can do it to one elaborate video multiple times for having a better result? I mean, i take one video, elaborate one time, then take the result video and repeat the process for better quality again
Offhand I would say “no” (but I haven’t tried it). Multiple runs would likely just compound errors. The danger of AI up scaling is introducing weird, unnatural looking images and I think it would just look ridiculous after a few passes. Could be wrong of course, but I would be doubtful
heyy I don't know what to do, seems like the perfect program, but it prints Get resolution of the video and then automatic retry, please help, it's a life and death scenario
8 second clip on my laptop is taking 4 hours no joke its a 1080x1920 vertical video, have any tips?
Thank you! Im going to try it!
Hello there. I made this highlight montage of a game on davinci resolve and exported it in 1440p. Then I wanted to make some final changes on capcut. When I exported it in 2k/4k the quality reduced making the video look less vibrant and more pixelated(size going from 3gb to 900mb). Now I have two choices. Either try to make the adjustments I did on cap cut, on davinci resolve or upscale the video quality using some software. I heard about video2x but it's so hard to setup and I can't find any tutorial on it. Do you think I should try what you are showing in the video? Will it have any benefit?
It would probably be very, very slow to try to upscale the video in either video2x or Waifu2xGUI. Try loading it back in to Davinci and upscaling it from there and see how it looks
@@freewarefocus You mean re exporting it cause I don't have davinci pro which comes with the upscaling software.
Trying to do this on a 3 minute video with a very old PC build is excruciating
Yep, it is a slow process - you really need a “gaming” class PC to get the times down
I have a GTX 750Ti, a 4th gen core i3 processor for reference, and I want to upscale 720p video game footage captured on a PS4 to 1080p..
The footage will be about an hour long so am I realistically looking at days of processing here and should I just opt for a regular video editor like Davinci Resolve? Great tutorial by the way
You are right, it would likely take a looong time to do AI upscaling so yeah the algorithmic upscaling like in Resolve is the way to go. You can always to a 1 minute clip and see how long that takes to get an estimate of the time but I suspect it would be many, many hours
What was orginal video resolution? Thank you for tutorial video 👍👍
Hi, thanks for this video
If I have a i5 10th and a amd rx 6750xt
Can I have some better performances or it remains slow?
Thanks for your demostration
AI upscaling is very slow - like leave it overnight slow. I am using fast machines and a very small file and a small upscale. Fortunately is is something most people don't have to do too often and once it is done, that video is done. If you want to test various upscaling parameters, use an editor to make a short clip and just upscale that to tweak the upscale and then do the whole thing.
Thanks for the video. Very helpful.
I have some videos that are 1920 x 1080 but the original source video was very poor quality.
Is there a setting to keep the resolution the same but improve the quality of the footage?
See if you can turn down the Scale Ratio to 1. I don’t have the software in front of me to test. If the GUI won’t let you do it, you can wain waifu2x directly and just change the part of my sample command line from “-s 2” to “-s 1” using this tutorial: th-cam.com/video/juuNQju0xv4/w-d-xo.htmlsi=g_E1BgUTLSZSHK7h
I've seen people have good results and time with this, but I'm running an RTX 4080, and it took an hour to do a 6 second clip yesterday. The quality also wasn't that much different (so I'd have to play with the settings more). Maybe it's the file format I used, not sure, but so far it's a bust for me. Thanks for the video though, I'll try play with it more.
It really depends on the video and other details but a 4080 should be much faster than that. In the example I was using a crusty old 1070 and the speed was fine. However that was on a very low resolution video and with fast hard drives and such. So much depends on the exact hardware and the resolution of the video and how much you are upscaling
@@freewarefocus Yeah not too sure what my issue was! It was a 720 to 1080, and like I said only 6 seconds. I'm also on an M2, so don't really think it's my hardware. Is there a specific format that it works better with? I'll keep playing with it! Thanks a lot, appreciate the feedback!
That's not right, I have RTX 3080TI Laptop and it only took me 1 minute 17 seconds to do 60 seconds anime video, same preset used as shown in this video.
Its been almost an hour and it rendered only 4 frames from 1800 (I used 3D Enlarge & Frame interpolation High Quality)
amazing!! thanks
Some of my TH-cam videos are 720p and TH-cam downgraded 720p and I want to make them up to 1080p just so they can be seen very well I'd that helpful
Depending on the content of the video it can do a very good job or not so great too - you just have to try it. Basically it does smart edge detect and enhancement. That works great on animation because the lines get enhanced. However it does work for regular videos too - just change the setting as mentioned on the tutorial
Thank you very much I've always been looking for such a free tool or something that makes one's videos at home more beautiful I of course subscribed to you immediately it's clear I always like to experiment with everything that's possible that's my world I just want mine make your own Hollywood films, so to speak :-) thank you very much, best regards Murat 🙂
Thank you and best of luck in all of your video projects
I know this isn't the Waifu2x helpdesk, but I'm getting an error "Unable to split video into pictures." There's literally one other person on the entire planet who has gotten this error, and the developer responded with some generic "well, try turning off hardware acceleration" which isn't ticked on my end.
Try re-encoding your video with the free program Handbreak. Wifu2X GUI uses ffmpeg to split the video into frames and sometimes it can't understand all video formats
Thank you for sharing. I was doing a very long (>12h) video upscalling when the battery went down. Is there a way to resume from where it was interrupted?
Sorry for the slow reply - I am not sure but you could try turning off the "Reprocess Finished Files" to see if that would skip the frames already done. I am not sure about that, just a guess.
Hi thanks for sharing this amazing tool. I wondering if one ia open source for videos colors like a runaway ia. Converting video like a cinema cámara style but this one is no open source. You put the clip and write one text to the style of camera you want and covert the video to look the filming that camera style you choice. Sorry for my English I hope you understand I try to say ahaha.
rtx 3060 upscaling to 4k and adding frames; time = 3h, GPU temp = 70c .
TY !!!
Thank you for this, will download it tomorrow. That's a nice wallpaper, never knew desktop wallpaper moved, where did you get it?.
That is Wallpaper Engine - about $4 on Steam. Thousands of community created wall papers for free, I love it
Great Video! Thank you!!!!
thanks for the amazing help
going to use it for my youtube channel
Well Explained .
Thanks for the post. I sub'd
Thanks for this ai❤
I tried to time with a video with small resolution (and short, under 1 minute). But time I get error:
1. error: Unable to scale all frames.
2. error without specifications. Just written: failed.
The original video is only 2 GB, so I cannot understand what went wrong.
I haven’t seen that before but I would use handbrake to re-encode the video to H264 MP4. It is probably one the funky video formats and can’t be processed by the open source libraries used
@@freewarefocus
thanks for the answer.
I've just tried it. It said it will take 8 hours to render a 6 seconds video lol. Inmediately deleted it.
But thanks for the effort bro.
which GPU you used while up scaling this clip ? I have used this software few times but never saw this hardware encoding with my GPU.
That PC is running a old Nvidia 1070
Amazing stuff .
I got it downloaded but it keeps saying "Unable to scale all frames" when I try using it.
Looks like that might be the amount of RAM on your graphics card. See this thread: github.com/AaronFeng753/Waifu2x-Extension-GUI/issues/8
If I were to upscale 720p game footage (e.g. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom) should I use the 2D or the 3D preset?
Do I need to change the video scale from 2000 to 4000 like you did as well?
Hard to guess with cell shading, but I would go with 3d to start with but best to just do a sample of each. The video scale defaults to 2.000 (not 2000) and that means 2x scaling. 4 (4.000) would do a 4x scale. 2x would double the number of pixels across and down in the video. The fraction is so you can do 1.5 scaling, for example. Also best to do a short (1 minute) section to see how long a longer video would take to process (and in this case test 2d vs 3d).
@@freewarefocus It took around 4 hours to upscale a 1min 30 sec video to 1080p on the best 3D preset but it worked really well. Thank you!
Edit: Turns out, it upscaled it to 1440p instead of 1080p. No wonder it took so long.
Any ideas how much data the upscaling process uses, assuming I use the same settings in the video with a 20 second clip
Do you mean storage or like Internet data usage? On Internet data usage - zero, everything is done locally. As for storage, for the images is actually dependent on the resolution of the video. The GUI program, however, only does about 800 frames at a time to keep the storage pretty reasonable, even with large projects.
Would this work with recorded gameplay too? I have this footage recorded with a PS4, but it is very pixilated. Would this help improve that too?
It *should* but I haven't tried it.
I was going to use Upscayl to enhance a 1 minute video as an image sequence, so would that be OK or should I use this instead?
LOL Great minds think alike. Here is a video using Upscayl I just got done editing. I use Shotcut as an easy way to export and re-import the frames. Should take you through the whole process step by step: th-cam.com/video/QdYdq3xO7-k/w-d-xo.html
@@freewarefocus Thanks. There is surprisingly little about it to be found. Not even mentioned in the Upscayl guide! I was going to use Vegas Pro to render as image sequence, then run it through Upscayl and then back to Vegas Pro. I have downloaded Video 2x and will install it and compare it. I will certainly watch your new video. Video, images, same stuff under the hood.
Is there a way to install all the super-resolution engines, pluggins and frame interpolation engines? It ran the test and I barely got 3 checks : (
Unfortunately it sounds like your hardware doesn’t support these features, at least with the tools used by Waifu2x GUI. You might look directly at the tools the program is using (it is just a visual shell around other open source programs) like ffmpeg. I believe ffmpeg can do interpolation, but slowly. I think the GUI is using Vapersynth or AviSynth which you can check into too
was trying to do a little old video into hd. its only 8 min long. why it takes like 20 hours to get it done? did i mess up wrong?
It takes a powerful graphics card to do AI upscaling quickly. A fairly modern nvidia card is the best but older stuff works, just slower.
I have over 30 hrs dv tape in SD i will try upscale it to HD .
Don't forget, it is a hardware intensive slow process so I would recommend a fairly small starter project to see how your hardware handles it
@@freewarefocus thing is i have over 30 hours each tape have close to 70 minutes .I dont want 4k i want HD only
I have an hardware mpg2 encoder from hauppauge can i utilize its hardware for rendering?
I don’t 100% know but I would think it is very unlikely. My understanding is it by default uses the massively parallel processing of a graphics card (Cuda cores and the like) and not so much encoding. However the software is free so it is worth a try. Let me know, would be happy to be wrong.
Oh! I think I've purchased your products if you made the Halloween pumpkins with songs and stories.
I don’t make any products (just TH-cam videos). You are probably thinking of AtmosFX, HallowFX or The Singing Pumpkins - they all make great video decorations and I have videos on how to remix and customize them
Whenever I choose an option from the Optimize Settings, I see an error with the lines of "Unable to optimize engine setting" and "Engine not compatible." Any ideas? Thank you.
See what the diagnostics say. You may not have a compatible video card or it has too little VRAM
@@freewarefocus Oh alright. Thanks again, subbed btw
Oooooh God, i downloaded that all and i want to convert a 4k mkv file into 4k mp4 file, but this can't, do you maybe know one program like that? I want put the audio in german into a 4k movie and convert it to mp4 with the same quality like Freemake Video Converter can do it. But he can't convert files into 4k 3840p🤔
The best open source program for any sort of conversions like that (and much more) is Handbrake (handbrake.fr/). Free, open source, all the good stuff - highly recommneded