I have mainly used a preset that de-interlaces, up-scales to 1080p and renders out at 50fps. And there’s a load of different presets you can play with on the left. The Interface for Topaz is pretty simple, input on the left, out put on the right. It’s also worth remembering this is a compressed MP4 (now in HD) and Vimeo will have added its own recompression in order than I can host it here. It’s frustratingly hard to see the difference above, but trust me, it’s there.

The video above is the one that Topaz exported (note, I am using settings that I settled on after lots of tests, there may be better settings to choose).īelow is a side by side comparison of the two – the original SD on the left and the new HD on the right. It was shot in MiniDV PAL (shot fake progressive as the files are in fact interlaced). In others, some may struggle to see much difference if any.Ībove is the export from Topaz of a Behind The Scenes I made for a music video I made in 2008. So far I have done a Behind the Scenes from a Calendar Girls Shoot and one from the Rhode Island Film Festival journey with Gone Fishing. None of this is new, but where Topaz is different to other tools, is they claim to leverage AI to kind of create the missing data when it’s up-scaled.Īs I had a few videos on my blog from many years ago, I thought I would pass them through to see what comes out the other end. It can also double frame rates from say 25fps to 50fps as well as de-interlace rather well. It takes in old footage, typically say Standard Definition video, and then up-scales it to HD, 2k, 4k, whatever you like. I have been experimenting with a tool from Topaz Labs called Video Enhance AI. The old adage used to be, ‘shit in, shit out’.

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