AI Video Upscaling for FREE
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- You can easily upscale low resolution videos, images and even animated GIFs for free using the Waifu2x graphical interface by Aaron Feng. Unlike regular video scaling, Waifu2x uses Artificial Intelligence to upscale and enhance videos, sometimes with amazing results.
Links to the free software you will need:
github.com/Aar...
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cant tell u how long ive been waiting for an ai upscaling software for free without watermark and i hope God blesses your soul
as someone who's trying to be an editor on a budget real tight budget (literally like 0$), this'll do wonders for me
Thanks man, appreciate it
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.
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 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
Great Video! Thank you!!!!
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
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
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!
Frame-by-frame pixelation multiplication. Just what I needed. Thanks for this :)
dude thank you for this. I was about to spend $100 on a different program
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.
It's amazing that this is free, thank you so much for this! God bless you🙏
Absolutely clear and concise tutorial. Thank you!
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
Amazing, been looking for something like this since 2020!
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!
Literally perfect video and instructions. Keep this up!
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 :/
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?
A 30 second clip took me about 4 minutes, a movie will take I'm guessing a whole day!
you're whole life
@@strongholdconquistador 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
I swear, people just don't know about this.
This works super well, and its free!!
Thank U so much mate😆
Thank you so much for the tutorial, the video overall is very good, so props to you ❣you earned a new subscriber n_n
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.
Bro this software is amazing, thank you for the in-depth tutorial. You the MVP for real.
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.
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
Too much talking
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?
Awesome.. Nice. Thanks!
It was a comprehensive informative video.
I'm trying it! Of course my PC doesn't have the best graphic capabilities but maybe it works for what I need
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.
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.
It's pronounced "Wife-uw" and it was made for anime not cartoons.
Animes are cartoons. Just Japanese versions
I AM USING A RTX 4050 120WATT TGP GAMING LAPTOP IT TOOK 1 HOUR 15MIN FOR 4500 FRAMES VIDEO IT WAS A GAMEPLAY VIDEO
8 second clip on my laptop is taking 4 hours no joke its a 1080x1920 vertical video, have any tips?
Wow, the quality improvement is insane
saying trial cant change upscaling have to subscirbe to developer now for premium once again greed takes over
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
Super cooles und Verständlches Tutrial vielen dank :D
Might be getting this mixed up with another upscaler but the damn thing is extremely. *EXTREMELY SLOW*
i put a 7 second clip in it and it went on for 20 mins or probably longer. It's unreliable for its speed.
I can go into my editor, make a 5 sec clip, add every single effect on it, export it at 4k and 60fps and it'll still be faster than this
That is because it is using an AI algorithm which analyses each frame and not a simple upscaled algorithm. A lot of the time video editor upscaling is fine and is the best way to go - however AI upscaling can do a better job of the video matches the training of the algorithm
i would to see if you can get a similar tutorial for a Video motion amplification program going.
thanks bro
Very awesome, thanks
Can i use it for gaming videos??
It should work, but you might want to try 3D Real Life under Image Style if it is 3D content. I would run a small test and compare against traditional upscaling (which is faster)
@@freewarefocus Thank you so much ♥♥
Amazing piece of kit. Thankyou.
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.
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
Thank you very much for the explanation, it was a really informative and helpful video!
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
Thanks man 👍
can you make a 4k tutorial?
It is really easy - either set the video scale ratio to a larger number than I did in the video (one which will get your video to 4k) or set a target resolution by entering 3840 Width & 2160 Height in the Custom Resolution box and hit Apply button before pressing Start
@@freewarefocus how do i upscale a video which is in 3d?
@@MyNamesAndrew IF it was the old red & blue shaded video or a side by side stereogram it should work fine, I really have no idea for any other sort of 3d video formats unfortunately
thank you so much for the help, I've looked everywhere and I finally found the answer to my questions about this program :D
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
The way you pronounce waifu is like wife - oo. Also it not used to upscale cartoons, it's used to upscale hentai porn
Thanks - I will try to improve my pronunciation
Which Laptop Is The Best For The App? Can The App Be Used To Upscale Any Music Video From Any Singer? Actually I Had Chinese Music Video But Very Low Quality 640x360 Can The App Upscale That?
the most powerful one you can get. this is very resource intensive. get one with a good graphics card as well
I would only add to try to get one with an Nvidia graphics card with the most amount of VRAM (graphics ram) you can. Often the choice is between 6 and 8 gigs. Go with 8 gigs (or higher) if you can. This will help with AI and gaming
Will it work on Intel HD integrated graphics?
It needs Vulkan support which newer Intel HD integrated graphics have but older do not - so it is pretty dicey. Make sure your display drivers are updated (to give you the best chance) and then give it a try. It does a bunch of tests at the beginning and should let you know if it is going to work or not before you get into actually processing stuff
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.
This was 1 Year ago crazy.
i don't know why am i still watching even if i use linux :/
Big linux fan too - glad you are here. I have some AI upscaling videos that do work with Linux - here is a video about doing the same thing with the command line:
th-cam.com/video/UF05AbZq-sw/w-d-xo.html
And another GUI that should work under Linux: th-cam.com/video/QdYdq3xO7-k/w-d-xo.htmlsi=Ehfo6GIwhY1LrK7s
hello , when downloading it asks for username and password ,what to do please?
Download from the Github or Sourceforge links. They will never ask for a user name or password
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.
Thanks for this ai❤
THANK YOU SO SO MUCH! IT WORKED GREAT AND MY VIDEO LOOKS MUCH BETTER NOW!
Thanks for this tutorial! Gonna try this on some cartoons I grew up with! If nothing else just for grins and giggles!😁📼👌
Theres a recent update for it. How do I download it/what path do i download it to
The program doesn't install, it just runs from whatever directory you unzip it to. I just moved the folder it to the desktop cause people can find things there more easily. Just download & unzip it, move the folder if you want, and run the program from the folder like is shown in the video
Cant open the the videos after upscale
Usually that means there was an error somewhere in the scaling part. Check the log at the bottom of the screen and see if you can see anything that might have gone wrong.
Do mobile phone video upscaler exist?
There are some that claim to but AI video upscaling is a very intensive process which would be beyond most phones. They can do some mice stuff with images but that is a lot easier. Of course traditional video upscaling is available in most good video editing apps
Its been almost an hour and it rendered only 4 frames from 1800 (I used 3D Enlarge & Frame interpolation High Quality)
rtx 3060 upscaling to 4k and adding frames; time = 3h, GPU temp = 70c .
TY !!!
Its not a virus is it? Casue this is the only pc i have
This isn't some sort of hacked commercial software, it is simply an open source front end to various free, open source AI packages. I have checked it for viruses and it was OK when I tested it, however I suggest you virus scan anything you download too (not only this program, any program). However, if you want to skip this whole front end and just use the underlying software (Waifu2x) software directly, check our my latest video: th-cam.com/video/UF05AbZq-sw/w-d-xo.html
u say it as why fu not wih fu and wifu is just a other word for anime girl
It was just my cultural ignorance - thanks to comments I am pronouncing it better now :)
it works thank u so much bro
great video
Would this work on a movie? I want this to uoscake a movie with lengths around 2 hours 30 mins will it work?? If it will then how much time will it take??? Please reply
It will work BUT AI upscaling takes a long time. How long? It depends on your hardware so it is impossible to guess. I recommend you cut out a 1 minute clip and upscale it to get a sense for how long it would take on your hardware.
@@freewarefocusbtw how much size will it be if my original size is 2.66 gb please reply?
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
Fails very often, actually lowers the resolution instead of increasing it, in general wasted 2 hours and didn't get a single good upscale.
this would help with making an actual HD version of BLOSC or Naruto
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.
DONTWORKFOR 64BIT SYSTEM IT SAYS
Where exactly does it give you that message? All of the systems I have ran this on are Windows 64 bit systems
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
Awesome Tutorial. Thank you! Worked perfectly :D
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
my file downloads say 1.8 of 1.8 g but it never full finishes its like its hung up before it turns into a rar my file says unconfirmed?
Try downloading from one of the alternate sites or use a different web browser
@@freewarefocus i used the japanese link as it was just a file share site it worked great thank you so much for this video and your reply most people dont read comments or ignore ya ;) cheers happy 4th of july
What was orginal video resolution? Thank you for tutorial video 👍👍
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
Friend, thank you for your tutorial, unfortunately I don't speak English, I understand little and from what I watched I didn't understand at some point you mentioned the model of graphics card you use, I think I didn't say, could you say here? Thanks again for your excellent didactic tutorial
It is an Nvidia 1070 however you can use it without a graphics card theoretically but in real practice you need one to get reasonable speed
Its good but takes way to much time
Not worth the pain
Even if u have a biffy pc
Can we use this on google colab
This is Windows only, however this is just a front end. The software it uses behind the scenes is actually all open source and runs on Linux. Check out this video on using the command line version of the tools this program uses. I haven't tried in in Colab but you should be able to create a Colab script by using the steps in the video. Use the Linux commands in the video description (it has Windows and Linux versions) th-cam.com/video/QdYdq3xO7-k/w-d-xo.html&lc=Ugx8-V-wEQA8Z61E_GR4AaABAg
Worked like a charm! Thanks for the tutorial
i make a clip but in your video the folders and the other file delete and appears de new video, in my case i dont have the video but the folders still in my desktop, why?
Make sure you aren't closing the program until you get the "completed" box pop up. It builds the video as the last step
@@freewarefocus I solved the problem but my videos don't play in any videoplayer, like they corrupted but in the pop up window say finished 1 successfully 1
Can you download it on Mac?
Unfortunate the GUI is Windows only - however you can run the upscaling software it uses yourself on a Mac using these instructions: th-cam.com/video/juuNQju0xv4/w-d-xo.html
Thanks, mate, it was really helpful
Can I run this on google colabs
Not the GUI interface since it is Windows only. However you can run the actual Waifu2x software itself using the command line . Linux commands are explained in this video: FREE AI Video Upscaling for Windows Mac and Linux
th-cam.com/video/UF05AbZq-sw/w-d-xo.html
Thank you for the video, I had no idea there was a free program for this
it will take days tho.. i cant let my computer run for that long
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.
Awesome...
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