Thanks for a great video tutorial on how to use the 2 software tools. Looks promising. I been playing with different upscaling software for the last 2 years like from Topaz Labs, etc. One thing I noticed like on your videos are either the over-sharpening or extra artifacts. Like on your cartoon video the Ub Iwerks and the night cloud and trees have artifacts. Hopefully they would be able to make tools that can remove these artifacts in the near future.
Me too, you tend to get over sharpening of some parts and under sharpening of others. AI upscaling has saved some really crappy videos from the scrapheap but it certainly isn't a perfect process right now
HolidayEffects, I like this tutorial videos and instruction videos because it’s no cmd required because I try to upscale video frame images and pics to high resolution and high quality video frame images and pics to make a better remasters and restoration for the my favorite old movies, tv shows and videos from my childhood. 😊❤😂
I have since played with this more. It’s amazing. Very time consuming lol but I think running an RTX 3050 is probably the entry level GPU to run on this. I worked out how long it would take to do a 240p video that was about 36 minutes long. It would take 15 hours. Take up 91GB. I’ve heard that the part of the GPU is being used, that if a 3090 did this, would take 5 hours. I can’t verify that but that would be quite an incentive to upgrade it this was extremely important to use. Anyways interesting and cool fun new exciting tech
Hello, thank you so much for this vid... But jst one thing, the Digital Art option on the Upscayl software isn't available any more, is there another specific option I should choose for the Digital Art?
I am assuming Digital Art is their Anime setting now, however that is a very confusing change. You can always just use the command line and run the same upscalers they are using (this program is just a pretty looking interface to open source command line programs). You can check it out here: th-cam.com/video/UF05AbZq-sw/w-d-xo.htmlsi=wlbrr9u6vmBsjgiN
This is pretty cool, took a few times, and unfortunately only the 4x actually works. I was wondering why a 30 second video clip took over an hour when i realized it created a 6K video lol, So i had to re edit the video at a lower resolution high bit rate and it made way more sense after that. But what i need to find is a capture device that automatically does the upscaling for analog video.... But cool idea and ill keep this in the back burner
Your right, AI upscaling is very GPU intensive and can take a very long time. It works much better on low quality older videos that regular upscaling will turn into a mushy mess. It is kinda a "when you need it, you need it" sort of tool
Yeah it made me think of older digital camera videos from 15-20 years ago and those back then on 32mb memory cards couldnt hold that much@@holidayeffects3933
This was perfect timing, as I was wondering if Upscayl is also useful for upscaling video. Is it worth installing Video2x or something else, or are you perfectly happy with Upscayl (I will find out in a few minutes)? Would rather save time messing about with it. Thanks!
Having watched your video, I don't think I'll bother with Video2x. If you did this with a film, it would take weeks and even months lol. At least with our cards (I've got RX-580)
Video2x seems to just be a wrapper over waifu2x-caffe for Windows. I personally would just use the command line for the Vulcan versions which are more platform independent like this video: th-cam.com/video/UF05AbZq-sw/w-d-xo.html. However, that is probably just me, because I like full control and knowing exactly what is going on. Of course, I make these videos mostly for people who just want something easy and gets the job done and hence this one using Upscayl. Probably the biggest potential issue in using a GUI like this is that performance may not be as good. I haven't test waifu2x caffe vs vulcan, vs these Real GAN models. I suspect performance should be similar because this GUI is just calling the underlying commands, but there is definitely * some * overhead involved, you would think. If you try out Video2x let me know what you think. The more free video upscaling options the better :)
@DaveThompsonfairlife4all I am going to try to do one using something like Google Colab (free edition) . They basically let you use a powerful GPU for free but it is all Linux based so will need to try to make it easy to use
@@holidayeffects3933 I am one of those who just wants the job done, but also be happy I am getting a decent result. Good luck with your testing and thanks for making these videos for people.
Upscayl is pretty simplistic and just does a 4x upscale each time (the newest version will do it again for a 16x upscale as an option) so you basically get 4x the size no matter what with Upscayl (a pretty big limitation but it is free and easy to use, so there is that too)
There are some really old school batch image processors like irfanview and you can even put Gimp into batch mode with scripting. However I don't know of any that does AI upscaling AND various batch processing features. If you follow my command line oriented videos for AI upscaling the images are just sitting there before and after the upscale so you could run some sort of processing on them pre or post but I don't know of anything GUI based
This was a Great video Thanks. I have some older VHS copies of films that were digitized such as Martin Mull's History of White People in America vol 1 and 2 and The Kentucky Fried Movie I want to try this on. Besides upscaling I'd like a tool to denoise (remove film grain) these older films or perhaps enhance the faces. I tested a sample using TensorPix for upscaling and denoise and it works well but cannot afford to do the whole film, much less 3 of them. Do you know of tools that enhance in other ways such as denoising?
Waifu2x can actually do de-noising. I briefly mentioned it but didn’t go into any detail. Here is the command and option: -n (-1/0/1/2/3, default=0). -1 is no de noise, 3 is max. You can try it on a short segment of video and see if it produces OK results for you. You can also try this software - they seem to do some default denoising and the interface is easy to use: th-cam.com/video/QdYdq3xO7-k/w-d-xo.htmlsi=6HUSwbXQU5uzb1vj
Hi, great video. I have a problem with upscaler, I get an error message saying " your GPU Drivers are acting funny or not compatible " Any advice ? Thanks
Basically you will often find slightly blurry patches because the AI has decided to sharpen this object and maybe not another one. Overall videos often look WAY better than a simple scaling algorithm, but they aren't perfect in a free frame.
For whatever reason, Shotcut is extremely slow on my machine. Davinci can do the same thing in a fraction of the time. But I'm a very novice editor. All I'm doing is editing old personal videos, and as such I really don't know the ins and outs of Davinci. I haven't been able to figure out how to make it export the whole video as images, etc.
Have another otion for upscale images? upscay not run on my laptop,i try install several time and appear the same error message ' image error or gpu'. Any solution? Thanks
I suspect your laptop's graphics doesn't support a modern version of Vulkan (which a lot of these AI upscalers use if you don't have an NVidia graphics card). Try updating your graphics driver and give it another go.
@@holidayeffects3933 Thank you. Unfortunately it seems that my graphics card doesn't support it. The solution would be to use the program hosted on google colab and I found some videos talking about it
I must be doing something wrong. I've tried this method and aside from a dramatically increased file size, I can see no difference at all. Even when I use ultramix balanced or other options. The new video is larger but looks exactly the same. Followed what you did step-by-step, twice. Very slow process. There is one difference: weird artifacting in the new video. I'm guessing a bad render. I had that from time to time when I started editing and was using shotcut, before moving to davinci. Anyway, your videos look demonstrably better. I don't get it.
This video uses the free & open source version that run on your PC. Of course they would like you to buy their cloud version that uses their servers, but that is totally optional. I have never paid a dime for AI upscaling personally
There are commercial products available in the $200 to $300 range but that is way more than most people want to spend on maybe a one time upscale of an old family video. There are also some wrapper programs around these command line programs that make it look nicer. However I suspect that better tools based on Stable Diffusion will be coming out. This stuff is kinda "Gen 1".
Nothing on the Internet can be considered 100% guarantied safe, HOWEVER, I don't recommend these software programs at random. 1) It is open source and is just basically a pretty front end to other, popular open source projects (if you want to run them directly without this software see this video: th-cam.com/video/UF05AbZq-sw/w-d-xo.htmlsi=DkYDijClYlTrl0PM) , 2) the windows installer is totally clean on VirusTotal (uses dozens of antivirus engines to check) and as far as collecting data, you can run this offline and the only traffic I noticed was a update check back to github.
If you think that's weird, I use Open Shell too. My start button is dragon that flaps his wings, breathes fire and Roars when you click on it. Open Shell is Great!
What GPU do you have? Upscayl uses Vulcan and not every GPU supports that (or does but not very well). Make sure your drivers are updated but if that doesn't fix it, you can try the software in this tutorial which might have broader support: th-cam.com/video/AKFjn0DgYmM/w-d-xo.htmlsi=ZLqAhnqLQxWTYa98
@@holidayeffects3933 Intel Xeon Processor E3-1220 v3 Yes, it's getting old! I use Linux so Windows software won't work. PS: Thanks for responding. So few You Tube people ever do! It's appreciated.
@@TheDavidfallon Np, I try to help when I can. Yeah the AI stuff is pretty much all require fairly new GPUs. It is basically newer NVidia top tier, Vulcan/AMD RocM, DirectML supported if you are lucky. That is changing but slowly, unfortunately. The good news is Linux is well supported and then Windows and finally spotty coverage for Macs - so at least you have that going for you
I installed the program and upscaled an image and it was horrible. I cannot imaging how bad the future videos will be, and it took a long time to upscale a screenshot image. Worthless is what this is.
This program is just the front end to several very popular AI upscalers. The thing is sometimes the AI has been trained on similar types of video and does an amazing job and sometimes it falls flat and a regular algorithmic upscaler is better and faster. Basically you just have to try it and see how it works on a particular video.
I don't know why people say gooy. It's G.U.I - those are initials that do Not spell a word. Say the initials out Gee You Eye. It's the same pet peeve I have when you youngsters say Iny as a word instead of saying INI. It's an Eye EN Eye file, not an Iny file. My experience in this comes rom being in to computers since the late 70's. it wasn't until the home computer got popular with the World Wide Web in 1995 that people started to hear these things by people who were uneducated in computer lingo and repeated the mistakes ad nauseum. It Must be Stopped!
@@directmagicyt9054 Nope. You can call it that if you like because most people today do not know it's wrong because most people make that same mistake.. but it's G.U.I. Show me in English anywhere where the initials of a phrase is made into a word - it does Not happen.
Thank you so much, sir, for providing such a thorough and well explained tutorial on how to upscale a video using Upscayl and Shotcut. ✅☑✔🏁🇬🇧 I've downloaded both programs, but it's too late for me to even start tonight as my bed's been calling me for ages. I'll 'give it a go' in the morning as I've downloaded a video presentation about ADHD by Dr. Russell Barkely that's in poor resolution. As I have friends that have a child with ADHD, I'd like to give them something that I found very interesting, to add to their arsenal.
I never realized that I can combo shotcut and upscayl.
Amazing method!!
A truly excellent video. You have a real talent in transferring your knowledge. Thank you.
Thanks. I've been looking for something like this for a while. I use Linux and Shotcut, this will help me up scale-my old home videos.
thanks a lot man i was hunting for long time to get upscalling video didnt find one but here its really helped me bro thanks
so informative and very very stern in words and pace of your teaching i love it, i can understand it very well and very nice, you are awesome man! +1
You are genius nice work ❤
Thanks for a great video tutorial on how to use the 2 software tools. Looks promising.
I been playing with different upscaling software for the last 2 years like from Topaz Labs, etc. One thing I noticed like on your videos are either the over-sharpening or extra artifacts. Like on your cartoon video the Ub Iwerks and the night cloud and trees have artifacts.
Hopefully they would be able to make tools that can remove these artifacts in the near future.
Me too, you tend to get over sharpening of some parts and under sharpening of others. AI upscaling has saved some really crappy videos from the scrapheap but it certainly isn't a perfect process right now
Thanks for this. It would have been nice to see some sort of comparison of the before and after videos though.
Thanks! I do a quick comparison at about 25 minutes in, although because I have upscaled this video in like 3 or 4 prior videos I kept it pretty short
HolidayEffects, I like this tutorial videos and instruction videos because it’s no cmd required because I try to upscale video frame images and pics to high resolution and high quality video frame images and pics to make a better remasters and restoration for the my favorite old movies, tv shows and videos from my childhood. 😊❤😂
Wonderful! Thanks!
thanks!!!(for a couple of years i search for ai upscaling free video software for macs!!!)
I have since played with this more. It’s amazing. Very time consuming lol but I think running an RTX 3050 is probably the entry level GPU to run on this. I worked out how long it would take to do a 240p video that was about 36 minutes long. It would take 15 hours. Take up 91GB. I’ve heard that the part of the GPU is being used, that if a 3090 did this, would take 5 hours. I can’t verify that but that would be quite an incentive to upgrade it this was extremely important to use. Anyways interesting and cool fun new exciting tech
GREEEAAT!
thank you
thanks
Hello, thank you so much for this vid... But jst one thing, the Digital Art option on the Upscayl software isn't available any more, is there another specific option I should choose for the Digital Art?
I am assuming Digital Art is their Anime setting now, however that is a very confusing change. You can always just use the command line and run the same upscalers they are using (this program is just a pretty looking interface to open source command line programs). You can check it out here: th-cam.com/video/UF05AbZq-sw/w-d-xo.htmlsi=wlbrr9u6vmBsjgiN
This is pretty cool, took a few times, and unfortunately only the 4x actually works. I was wondering why a 30 second video clip took over an hour when i realized it created a 6K video lol, So i had to re edit the video at a lower resolution high bit rate and it made way more sense after that. But what i need to find is a capture device that automatically does the upscaling for analog video.... But cool idea and ill keep this in the back burner
Your right, AI upscaling is very GPU intensive and can take a very long time. It works much better on low quality older videos that regular upscaling will turn into a mushy mess. It is kinda a "when you need it, you need it" sort of tool
Yeah it made me think of older digital camera videos from 15-20 years ago and those back then on 32mb memory cards couldnt hold that much@@holidayeffects3933
This was perfect timing, as I was wondering if Upscayl is also useful for upscaling video. Is it worth installing Video2x or something else, or are you perfectly happy with Upscayl (I will find out in a few minutes)? Would rather save time messing about with it. Thanks!
Having watched your video, I don't think I'll bother with Video2x. If you did this with a film, it would take weeks and even months lol. At least with our cards (I've got RX-580)
Video2x seems to just be a wrapper over waifu2x-caffe for Windows. I personally would just use the command line for the Vulcan versions which are more platform independent like this video: th-cam.com/video/UF05AbZq-sw/w-d-xo.html. However, that is probably just me, because I like full control and knowing exactly what is going on. Of course, I make these videos mostly for people who just want something easy and gets the job done and hence this one using Upscayl. Probably the biggest potential issue in using a GUI like this is that performance may not be as good. I haven't test waifu2x caffe vs vulcan, vs these Real GAN models. I suspect performance should be similar because this GUI is just calling the underlying commands, but there is definitely * some * overhead involved, you would think. If you try out Video2x let me know what you think. The more free video upscaling options the better :)
@DaveThompsonfairlife4all I am going to try to do one using something like Google Colab (free edition) . They basically let you use a powerful GPU for free but it is all Linux based so will need to try to make it easy to use
@@holidayeffects3933 I am one of those who just wants the job done, but also be happy I am getting a decent result. Good luck with your testing and thanks for making these videos for people.
wow!..quick question, IF i don't want to upscale to 4k but only 1920x1080 do i use the same method and just change end size?
Upscayl is pretty simplistic and just does a 4x upscale each time (the newest version will do it again for a 16x upscale as an option) so you basically get 4x the size no matter what with Upscayl (a pretty big limitation but it is free and easy to use, so there is that too)
ist there some free tool like upscayl but including some Image enhancement filters (no test version with picture processing limits or something) ?
There are some really old school batch image processors like irfanview and you can even put Gimp into batch mode with scripting. However I don't know of any that does AI upscaling AND various batch processing features. If you follow my command line oriented videos for AI upscaling the images are just sitting there before and after the upscale so you could run some sort of processing on them pre or post but I don't know of anything GUI based
This was a Great video Thanks. I have some older VHS copies of films that were digitized such as Martin Mull's History of White People in America vol 1 and 2 and The Kentucky Fried Movie I want to try this on. Besides upscaling I'd like a tool to denoise (remove film grain) these older films or perhaps enhance the faces. I tested a sample using TensorPix for upscaling and denoise and it works well but cannot afford to do the whole film, much less 3 of them. Do you know of tools that enhance in other ways such as denoising?
Waifu2x can actually do de-noising. I briefly mentioned it but didn’t go into any detail. Here is the command and option: -n (-1/0/1/2/3, default=0). -1 is no de noise, 3 is max. You can try it on a short segment of video and see if it produces OK results for you. You can also try this software - they seem to do some default denoising and the interface is easy to use: th-cam.com/video/QdYdq3xO7-k/w-d-xo.htmlsi=6HUSwbXQU5uzb1vj
@@holidayeffects3933 Very kewl, Thank you sir!
Hi, great video. I have a problem with upscaler, I get an error message saying " your GPU Drivers are acting funny or not compatible " Any advice ? Thanks
buy new GPU
Thank you!
Thanks a lot, how about the image quality after upscaling, it's blurry or clear, fine?, thanks again.
Basically you will often find slightly blurry patches because the AI has decided to sharpen this object and maybe not another one. Overall videos often look WAY better than a simple scaling algorithm, but they aren't perfect in a free frame.
@@holidayeffects3933 I'm not able to install this software due to admin login is there a alternate way i can install it without admin login?
For whatever reason, Shotcut is extremely slow on my machine. Davinci can do the same thing in a fraction of the time. But I'm a very novice editor. All I'm doing is editing old personal videos, and as such I really don't know the ins and outs of Davinci. I haven't been able to figure out how to make it export the whole video as images, etc.
I have an amd RX 7700 on linux. Is this going to work for me?
Have another otion for upscale images? upscay not run on my laptop,i try install several time and appear the same error message ' image error or gpu'. Any solution? Thanks
I suspect your laptop's graphics doesn't support a modern version of Vulkan (which a lot of these AI upscalers use if you don't have an NVidia graphics card). Try updating your graphics driver and give it another go.
@@holidayeffects3933 Thank you. Unfortunately it seems that my graphics card doesn't support it. The solution would be to use the program hosted on google colab and I found some videos talking about it
I must be doing something wrong. I've tried this method and aside from a dramatically increased file size, I can see no difference at all. Even when I use ultramix balanced or other options. The new video is larger but looks exactly the same. Followed what you did step-by-step, twice. Very slow process. There is one difference: weird artifacting in the new video. I'm guessing a bad render. I had that from time to time when I started editing and was using shotcut, before moving to davinci. Anyway, your videos look demonstrably better. I don't get it.
How do I know if my comp supports Vulcan?
The vast majority of anything modern will support Vulcan however you can also look for your card at vulkan.gpuinfo.org/
Those ALL-IN-ONE AI products are cost prohibitive for us Non Pro users!!. Thanks
This video uses the free & open source version that run on your PC. Of course they would like you to buy their cloud version that uses their servers, but that is totally optional. I have never paid a dime for AI upscaling personally
Someone could do automation script with Python and it would be amazing.
8x the video size. Need idea but I think we will see better single step products in the future.
There are commercial products available in the $200 to $300 range but that is way more than most people want to spend on maybe a one time upscale of an old family video. There are also some wrapper programs around these command line programs that make it look nicer. However I suspect that better tools based on Stable Diffusion will be coming out. This stuff is kinda "Gen 1".
My Question - is Upscayl Safe? Does It Collect Information? Is it an Virus?
Nothing on the Internet can be considered 100% guarantied safe, HOWEVER, I don't recommend these software programs at random. 1) It is open source and is just basically a pretty front end to other, popular open source projects (if you want to run them directly without this software see this video: th-cam.com/video/UF05AbZq-sw/w-d-xo.htmlsi=DkYDijClYlTrl0PM) , 2) the windows installer is totally clean on VirusTotal (uses dozens of antivirus engines to check) and as far as collecting data, you can run this offline and the only traffic I noticed was a update check back to github.
Damn THX@@holidayeffects3933
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your start button looks weird..
That is Open Shell a free & open source start button replacement
If you think that's weird, I use Open Shell too. My start button is dragon that flaps his wings, breathes fire and Roars when you click on it. Open Shell is Great!
upscayl is the shit
upscayl doesn't like my GPU!
What GPU do you have? Upscayl uses Vulcan and not every GPU supports that (or does but not very well). Make sure your drivers are updated but if that doesn't fix it, you can try the software in this tutorial which might have broader support: th-cam.com/video/AKFjn0DgYmM/w-d-xo.htmlsi=ZLqAhnqLQxWTYa98
@@holidayeffects3933 Intel Xeon Processor E3-1220 v3 Yes, it's getting old! I use Linux so Windows software won't work. PS: Thanks for responding. So few You Tube people ever do! It's appreciated.
@@TheDavidfallon Np, I try to help when I can. Yeah the AI stuff is pretty much all require fairly new GPUs. It is basically newer NVidia top tier, Vulcan/AMD RocM, DirectML supported if you are lucky. That is changing but slowly, unfortunately. The good news is Linux is well supported and then Windows and finally spotty coverage for Macs - so at least you have that going for you
I installed the program and upscaled an image and it was horrible. I cannot imaging how bad the future videos will be, and it took a long time to upscale a screenshot image. Worthless is what this is.
This program is just the front end to several very popular AI upscalers. The thing is sometimes the AI has been trained on similar types of video and does an amazing job and sometimes it falls flat and a regular algorithmic upscaler is better and faster. Basically you just have to try it and see how it works on a particular video.
I don't know why people say gooy. It's G.U.I - those are initials that do Not spell a word. Say the initials out Gee You Eye. It's the same pet peeve I have when you youngsters say Iny as a word instead of saying INI. It's an Eye EN Eye file, not an Iny file. My experience in this comes rom being in to computers since the late 70's. it wasn't until the home computer got popular with the World Wide Web in 1995 that people started to hear these things by people who were uneducated in computer lingo and repeated the mistakes ad nauseum. It Must be Stopped!
But it’s gooy
@@directmagicyt9054 Nope. You can call it that if you like because most people today do not know it's wrong because most people make that same mistake.. but it's G.U.I. Show me in English anywhere where the initials of a phrase is made into a word - it does Not happen.
Ah shut up 😊
You must be a miserable person.
You know this boomer says jif
Thank you so much, sir, for providing such a thorough and well explained tutorial on how to upscale a video using Upscayl and Shotcut. ✅☑✔🏁🇬🇧
I've downloaded both programs, but it's too late for me to even start tonight as my bed's been calling me for ages. I'll 'give it a go' in the morning as I've downloaded a video presentation about ADHD by Dr. Russell Barkely that's in poor resolution. As I have friends that have a child with ADHD, I'd like to give them something that I found very interesting, to add to their arsenal.