Nice photo experience, Mike. Thanks for having me along. I have just made a 9x16 print of a barred owl that I photographed last spring. It is sitting on a limb with a rat or a squirrel it caught and ate. The print goes into an art exhibit later this week by military veterans. Not juried, just for a veterans benefit program. I don't think anyone can tell that I shot it from the kitchen window in a tree in our back fencerow.

Flapping wings seems to be very predictable motion on a clear backdrop. @11:58 the twig in front of the hare's hind is also deformed. But the first swaying twig @11:53 is also in predictable pendulum-like movement. Yet the initiation of the movement is a bit distorted. Bottom line to me is that Topaz is a phenomenal tool but a tool only. It has its applications. But it does not replace figh frame recording. BTW. This is the most educating content on high-level video recording I have seen in months!

Wait a second. It took 30 minutes to generate this 30s clip (slowed down)? I must admit that these generated frames looks very convincing. I would happily trust it to slow down any footage by say x4. But 1 minute to generate 1s of clip seems like a challenge to a workflow.

Clips seems to be G9II,OM-1,G9II,OM-1,G9-1 but not based on details, rather on colors. OM-1 looks oversharpened here and its greens... they seem too green. To the point of being off. But in a pleasing way, I must admit.

4K 8-bit from OM-1 looks frankly speaking bad. I watch it on a big screen and even on YT at times I can clearly see the lack of details. But true magic with G9II happens when you shoot in 5.7K and downsample to 4K in post. Or better yet to 5.1K (I happen to have 5120x2880 monitor). Such a footage looks amazing!

If you try to slow down a footage of something erratic and unpredictable happening really fast by artificially generating frames, sooner or later you will come across the problem of artifacts. If not on an egret then on a dragonfly. Slow motion recording generally is not intended to make something of normal speed seems very slow, but to make something ultrafast, slow enough to view. In such case interpolated frames may just not fit the frames in between. Trust me, there is no replacement for high frame rates. AI slow down works flawless by up to x2 slower than what you have and up to x4 slower in a pinch, but it is risky. Beyond that it is a gamble. And you don't need to swap cameras. You already have one that is vastly superior. And this is G9II. It is better camera in literally every way. th in terms of stills and vide. Both in terms of stills and video. I also find its ergonomics much better, especially for bigger hands. Not to mention customization.

Superb footage and stills of both the Great Spotted Woodpeckers and Little Owl. Having been raised on a farm, I am well acquainted with owls, however, I was surprised to see the Little Owl with the mole. I was unaware that Little Owls could tackle a mole. Did the Owl actually catch and kill the mole or did it pick it up as carrion?

Hello I have the OM1 and the configuration and in the camera I have the first memory card for photos and the second for videos. How can I view the videos? On the Om1 E-m1x it was easy. Thanks

I got rid of Topaz software a couple of years ago for several reasons, but you are making me change my mind again. Thanks for that analyze. As a reminder, you can check which camera, lens and settings you did use through exif tool. It works with clips too.

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I am currently trying out the similar new function in Final Cut Pro. I am impressed so far with the footage I have tried at relatively modest slo-mo effects.

Great video and as you say, why shoot in slow motion when that makes such a good job.

I used to look forward to my Saturday morning shows as a kid, and nowadays I look forward to your videos, It would be interesting to see a test done with the Lumix at 120fps and then run through the Topaz AI regarding the quality.

very impressive, especially on the slow motion footage. Great to have that option. Thanks.

Hi Mike, Excellent Video as always. I have compared the latest Topaz Video AI stabilization with the stabilization performed by Warp Stabilizer in the latest Adobe Premiere Pro software. The degree of stabilization of both software packages is excellent with the Adobe version cropped slightly compared to no crop in the Topaz version. However there is a substantial difference in processing speed. I chose a 30 second long, 4k, 60 fps video clip of a sailboat captured a week ago on an OM-1 Mark 2 using the m.Zuiko150-400 mm lens with the 1.25x teleconverter in use as well as a 1.4x m.Zuiko teleconverter in use. (1,400 mm equivalent full frame field of view). The system was mounted on a tripod with a fluid head but the video had a substantial amount of vibration while tracking the subject. Premiere Pro performed the Warp Stabization in 1.25 minutes. Topaz Video AI required 17+ minutes. Topaz required a lot of time to maintain the original crop but perhaps in some cases this would be important. FTI. I ran the software on a very fast Alienware (Dell) Aurora R16 gaming computer with an Intel i9-14900KF CPU and 64 gig of ram and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 GPU with 24 gig of ram. As a side note, another interesting use of the Topaz software is to upscale 4k video to 8k. The Topaz upscaled video is exellent quality. TWhen imported into Adobe Premiere Pro, the upscalling allows one to double the zoom of a final output 4k video relative to the original 4k. Of course, the crop factor is 2. My video discussed above when processed in this manner has a field of view and degree of magnification the same as being captured with a 2,800 mm equivalent lens. The resulting video quality is also excellent.

Ggreat video Mike, thanks. Food for thought. Of course, being able to slow mo standard video means that we can make use Z of af. I don't think there is af in slow mo. I shall definately be playing around with this .

How much of a CPU and GPU are needed to run Topaz AI?

Nice one Mike mate very informative sir .. May I ask - have you got a link etc please to the fluid head 'plate and long lens support' cheers. Thanks a lot. Cheers.

Very cool results. Have you ever tried Davinci Resolve? There is a free version and a "Studio" paid version. The free version is VERY robust. It would be interesting to see what Davinci creates in slowing down the footage.

Amazing! Thank you for taking time to do this.

Awesome job as usual! I have a spunky machine so it can handle Topaz quite well. Now, I just have to practice a bit more and see what all it can do. 😊😊

The Topaz AI for the heron grabbing the fish is amazing. It appears that it actually generated frames where the bird closes its eyes as it strikes. This was not in the original footage, but if Topaz is trained upon photos and videos it would know this happens. Very impressive....

Great video as usual Mike. Any time you are up in Scotland give me a shout and I'll buy you a pint

Another interesting video, Mike. Thanks for posting.

Ive never shot video but I did find this very interesting.

Amazing footage from Topaz Ai video editing software even though not perfect. Thanks for sharing. 1 LIKE from Singapore.

Th.anks Mike,good information

Great video once again mr Lane. The reason the Rook footage doesn't work so well is because AI motion interpolation struggles with occluded objects or objects leaving the frame, it works by analyzing how pixels move between frames and since it can't see the hidden or out-of-frame parts, it has to guess, leading to distortions and artifacts. The artifacts are also very visible in the Godwits footage, if you pay attention whenever a bird will overlap another, the Ai can't distinguish which bird went which way and just creates a whole new bird out of thin air. It works great on the Heron footage because the subject is isolated.

Excellent and thank you for sharing. It's good to see the comparisons from Topaz

That looks really impressive, especially the Heron 👍

Very good, Mike. I'm so tempted to get that. Would it suit my style of video? Maybe, but I'll sit on the fence for now and give it to next year when they may have sorted the render time out.

Fantastic Mike, very helpful indeed along with some fabulous clips. Thanks for taking the time to make this 👍

A great video Mike I’ve been playing with Winxvideo which is similar but 1/10th of the price of Topaz AI, I’ve compared it against Topaz AI and am not sure yet whether there is a significant difference. One thing I have noticed is that whilst upscaling is similar to Topaz AI the difference is marginal and not as dramatic as the advertised images and as for video improvement from poor footage from the DJI NEO drone (which is my real reason for testing WINXVIDEO) not very convincing, but yes a slight improvement; however very slow! Let us know what your final conclusions are Mike.

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Frame Generation has been a thing in video games for a year or so, and it works amazingly well. Severely cuts down on the graphics processing required. Very impressive here as well!

Very special and very funny episode Mike!! I had to laugh very often... You might consider someday start working as a film director! ;)

Delicious and amazing indeed!!

Always something new to learn from you Mike, thanks indeed! I wonder what do you like most; filming/photographing or just being close to nature! :)

Love your videos Mike.

Thank you. This provided a useful comparison of the two units.

That is really nice! If I shoot lots of video, yes Topaz video would be very handy and would definitely get one! Thanks for sharing the information Mike!

Welcome to another episode of Hardware unboxed…😂

Amazing footage of grouse and landscape. Great slow-motion video too. A big LIKE for your video. Thanks for sharing. Greetings from Singapore.

The opening for your video is breathtaking!

I'll have to try this, I've had loads on the end of my fishing rods when i'm carp fishing, but didn't do photography then

Thanks for everything you do. Your videos help a lot. I have a Panasonic G9 (original). I know you are using, or used one. Do you think that replacing it with an E-M1X would be an upgrade for bird photography?

Great work as always :)

Beautiful grouse and landscape photos/videos. Well done Mike!

Lovely images and video. The red grouse in heather are very photogenic.

Great video!Such good explanation of the menus !You really have a talent! Great Job ! Thank You