The Topaz Deception

[@cameraconspiracies]

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[@chinitopinoy1726]

I’m good. ZV1F doesn’t even do 240 fps. 😂

[@ChillieGaming]

Can you tell me your pc specs?

[@AllgoodthingsTv]

I took the dive yesterday and purchased Topaz AI Video to upscale some Canon R 720p footage I had to 4K. It's definitely NOT the same as just dropping that footage in a 4K timeline in FCPX and hoping for the best. Not even close. This stuff is pure sorcery lol. The footage now looks like I actually shot it at 4K. So, yeah, worth the purchase. Of course, the old motto still stands, which is just "get it right in camera" in the first place.

[@visionquest414]

Hello.. do you have an idea of what I can do to those mid 90's home videos? Certainly SOME improvement can become of those? Also, I notice on youtube you change the video to 1080p simply by clicking the button? Is that accurate? Are you able to take those videos and improve them? I don't know where to find programs to try.. I'm new at this stuff.. Thanks in advance

[@chcomes]

"you need it because you dont have the skill... to buy a better camera" words to live by!

[@UNSCPILOT]

Or worse, people with good cameras that arn't using their camera properly, or worse still are not maintaining it properly, trying to use ai to fix that is just a little sad

[@beavis8073]

I’m rich as well, so I agree with you about the lower class not having the right to make good images. Like if you’re poor just get some money you damn hippie!

[@kaseelee4028]

I was going to comment the same lol 😂

[@marylewis3311]

The Doug Stanhope of camera reviews 🤣

[@ohmarvin9086]

Buying something better is a skill?

[@mervfer1162]

When I was your age and wanted to make a slow motion video, I had to take my 3MP camera and take a series of photos at 2.5 fps. Then I had to get the subject to repeat the action thousands of times while I got about 5 photos each time. Then I had to manually sort through them to create a fluid string of them that would look like a video. Once finally rendered I had a 3 second clip that somewhat resembled a 120 fps slow motion video. TL/DR: using the latest software isn't cheating anymore than using the latest hardware.

[@Finfection]

I see a lot of people talking about people using this software to "cheat" their footage. But, I don't see that as the main benefit. I recently bought the program to use it to clean up and upscale some old ass footage I have. Stuff that varies from VHS home movie transfers, old Sony HANDYCAM discs, and even ancient low res 3GP cell phone footage. And I gotta say, this software is AMAZING at cleaning that kind of stuff up and making it suitable for modern displays. Will it make footage look like it was actually shot on HD or 4K? Hell no. But, it makes everything not look like a low resolution, badly compressed mess. It's been worth every penny so far.

[@iamionscat9035]

Hi Can you please describe what you do. I need to do the same from my old Sony MiniDV camcorder, but the other comments say that it doesn't do a good job and looks terrible. I'm confused now since you seem to say that it works great. The majority say it's not worth it. That it doesn't know what to do with the information in the standard definition videos. Can you please tell me what you do and what benefits it provides. Do you directly import the files from MiniDV? Straight from the tape? Or do you convert it first and then into Topaz? Thank you for your help.

[@Finfection]

@iamionscat9035 I have also cleaned up footage from mini DV tapes. You can transfer the footage to your computer as normal then import the files to Topaz. Your milage is always going to vary when it comes to using AI upscale to clean up footage. The software can't create information that isn't there. And of course it can also misinterpret the information that is there. It can be quite a process tweaking the settings and comparing results to find the best ones. I can recommend at least downloading the trial version of Topaz to mess around with. It works exactly like the full version except there will be a watermark over your footage. I was happy enough with the results to want to buy the full version. I was able to clean up a lot of family footage as well as some of my old projects from when I was younger. I can say that I was personally satisfied. The footage can overall look cleaner which was the important thing for me such as getting rid of blurriness and blockyness.

[@iamionscat9035]

@@Finfection Thank you!!!

[@livemusic]

I have been using Topaz to slow 30fps to 60fps for A TON of clips on a big, long event video. When I first used it on my late 2019, fully loaded MacBook Pro it was extremely slow. It took like an hour or more for a 4 second clip. Well, I now have a fully loaded M2 Studio Pro and it takes less than a minute for most. I haven't used it for upres yet. Having the ability to slow the footage totally saved and made my project into something I never could have achieved otherwise. I'm sold!

[@intheblues]

Anthony's channel is awesome folks, give him a sub!

[@vanessagomes]

Agree highly

[@TYWorldAI]

I love this guys personality soo much... Dude makes me laugh so much 😆

[@Tmaxar]

That line, your grandfather invents a time machine…..had me laughing my heads off. You have such an amazing sense of humour.

[@BackusCreativeImaging]

I have used Topaz Enhance AI for over a year now. It works best on lower resolution footage, like 1080p being converted to 2.5K or 4K. I use it in ways many may not think to: The DJI Air 2S drone is 22mm equivalent when shooting in 5.4K. Well, a 3.2x digital crop would put it at 70mm and ~1710x960, quite low resolution with a lot of noise. This is where Video Enhance AI can be used to get a nice 4K result, effectively creating a "fake" optical zoom in a drone for better cinematic framing and perspective compression. Video Enhance AI gives me the fake optical zoom consistent detail I need when I want that sort of semi telephoto shot for dramatic effect. My favorite model is Proteus V3. I scrub to a frame that is sharp and is bordered by sharp frames forward and behind it, so that temporal details are consistent and only thing changing is noise, with ideally no motion blur. This is important. Then click "auto" (the lightning icon button) and see how it looks. Then reduce or tweak any settings such as increasing the Recover Details slider a tiny amount and perhaps lowering the de blur, but it depends on each scene. Topaz is pretty good at removing noise in video but in an extreme case (probably not worth doubling up processing like this), it might be better to remove it first with Neat Video using an actual noise profile shot with the lens cap on at the same ISO you'll be using, and if you're using a sensor crop, do that too with your noise profile shot as the noise pattern gets larger with a sensor crop (as you'd already know Kasey but others might not). I also get nice results upscaling 1080p VFR slow motion critter footage on the GH5 II and PL 100-400 to 4K handheld at ~2000mm equivalent using the 2.6x sensor crop mode (Image Area of Video) such as this: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mZnCdplojt6fhck - Yes, I recorded those busy carpenter bees with manual focus. Don't use focus peaking, it's distracting and gives you false hope. Turn it off, and make sure the diopter in your viewfinder is adjusted ideally to your eyes. I export everything in ProRes 4:2:2 even if sourced from 8 bit footage to guarantee a minimal to no reduction in video quality from re-encoding. I use a computer I built that uses a Ryzen 5950X 16 core CPU and RTX 3090 graphics card. Then import in Resolve and do whatever else is needed. The ethics are very important and I always put in the description if I used Topaz Video Enhance AI. In my opinion, it's worth it as it improves any camera you own :)

[@chinitopinoy1726]

Yeah, it really improves my 720P 1500 fps Chronos 1.4 footage when upscaling to 1440P. I don’t like going over 2X upscale as I get more artifacts.

[@BackusCreativeImaging]

@@chinitopinoy1726 I agree. It's actually a very useful program. Another use I have? Upscaling 5.6K GoPro MAX 360 footage to 11.2K so when reframing I can get sharper results that are at least a respectful 2.5K sharp. Here's an example, watch in 1440p if you can: kzbin.info/www/bejne/foXIn6mherCEhJo - Granted, I only process the 360 footage portion I've already edited in Resolve as upscaling an entire 5 minute clip would take an excessive amount of time :)

[@chinitopinoy1726]

@@BackusCreativeImaging nice result! This is Chronos 1.4 720P 1500 fps super slowmo upscaled to 1440P. kzbin.info/www/bejne/a4fSl4ZsmtNlatk

[@BackusCreativeImaging]

@@chinitopinoy1726 The Chronos model is better than the archaic Optical Flow algorithm Resolve uses. It'll never be perfect but it's quite good :)

[@chinitopinoy1726]

@@BackusCreativeImaging actually the Chronos 1.4 is a super slowmo camera that can do 720P 1500 fps natively (no interpolation) I just upscaled it to 1440P. I find the Apollo model better though for interpolation.

[@DeltaXMusic]

incredible footage brotha. thanks for diving into it

[@kimwood3980]

I use Topaz. The one thing that I think the company does wrong is that the updates are not free. If a new and improved version comes out, you are out of luck unless you pay for it. Come on Topaz, get with the times. If I am paying $150 for a program, I expect unlimited updates. Call me crazy!

[@iamionscat9035]

How do you think Topaz would do to enhance old stuff shot on MiniDV? I have a ton of old things shot on a Sony MiniDV camcorder. Thank you for your time and help. Sincerely Cations

[@ChrisGower]

9:22 the odd thing about that footage is that it sharpens the lower res main in-focus subject, as it should, but then it also sharpens the background, despite it being blurred due to shallow depth of field. So it actually alters the aperture you selected when you shot it. Other than that, it's all actually really impressive, but that was the one where I realised why it looked so strange.

[@silverlightphotoco]

Wow, good point about the background, etc.

[@ChrisGower]

@@silverlightphotoco Yeah it took me a moment to work out why it looked so odd!

[@silverlightphotoco]

​@@ChrisGower Interesting...and I wonder if they would be able to add a feature that allows the user to control the amount of bokeh (background blur) which would be similar to the "post focus" option on some newer Panasonic cameras (i.e. the ability to pick where the camera was focused and the amount of depth of field after shooting). It kind of reminds me of that Foveon camera that allowed the user to shoot first, pick the focus later!

[@ChrisGower]

Definitely. Even like a basic masking function to prevent similar weirdness happening!

[@silverlightphotoco]

@@ChrisGower Right! Apple phones are doing it in real time now (i.e. the "Cinematic" mode) and while that technology certainly needs some improvement (looks fake) I think software running on a desktop computer should be able to use more computing power to pull it off😃😃😃

[@TheEverythingMan]

Haha at least you know I watch til the end

[@cameraconspiracies]

Thanks lol :)

[@tsegulin]

I work in vfx and 35 mins or 10 hour render times are not that uncommon for more involved shots. I would imagine Topaz is recent software so I expect it would take advantage of multi-threading and graphics hardware support, so the render times may just reflect the complexity of the task. 3:47 - bricks are sharper, bike and logo on pants appear sharper but edge ringing around big kinetica sign 5:24 - This is a mostly static shot. I see popping in the motion smear at the end of the wingtips, and blurring and distortion at the edge of the fast moving wing trailing edges, otherwise sharpness and interpolation are very good 8:17 - hands passing over cars. I don't think this is commercially acceptable. I would be looking to increase direction blur at fingers or failing that to replace fingers and track cars - fairly involved and a lot of work. Where everything is moving in the same direction the interpolation and uprez works well. where things moving in different directions cross paths (like fingers over bg buildings) it breaks down somewhat. I wonder how well this kind of enhancement would hold up with bluescreen / greenscreen footage? Should 'enhanced by Topaz' be proclaimed when footage is treated this way? Footage has been 'enhanced' for years with techniques ranging from 'bleach bypass' in Eastmancolor or adding a 'Technicolor look' in digital without that being explicitly stated. Frankly with the kind of colour post control we have these days, quite a lot of what makes it to release may well have been significantly but invisibly enhanced. I think that horse may have already bolted. Should Topaz be singled out? Certainly advertising a camera for sale without explicitly stating its footage had been enhanced this way would be dishonest - possibly to the point of litigation. Finally 'The Topaz Deception' is rather a double entendre. It initially suggested to me that you meant Topaz was deceiving potential buyers by not delivering what it claimed, but I see you are using it to say that Topaz is being used in a different kind of deception. If the ambiguity of the title was designed to pull viewers in, it worked on me. Looks like a potentially decent addition to a vfx or editing toolbox, depending on price and required resources. Thanks for the video.

[@tech-utuber2219]

7:41 "I'm seeing that 1000 FPS is about the max you want to do for a slow-mo street crossing." Philip Bloom typically does all of his slow-mo street crossings at 1200 FPS and is quite pleased. Gerald Undone however, strongly disagrees and never shoots a slow-mo street crossing below 2000 FPS, RAW! The controversy continues...

[@aldolega]

I bought it just so I'll have the opportunity to say "ENHANCE!" when I'm editing 😄

[@AddictiveDissolve]

OMG, I think I just realised how Topaz works. 3:37 Look at the word "Kinetica" in the background - the letters are not simply sharpened, they're reconstructed into separate, distinguishable shapes. This looks exactly like the result of vectorising raster images - like the Image Trace function on Adobe Illustrator. Vectors are a type of graphic where lines, shapes and colours are drawn based on mathematical formulas, as opposed to being made up of individual pixels. Converting rasters to vectors is a VERY computationally intensive process, as you need to create a shape for every element in the image: every letter, every freckle, every strand of hair. You can also set a threshhold to avoid painting unnecessary elements, like image grain. This explains the clean image in the squirrel example. You actually came very close with the "sharp but smooth, like waterpainting" remark - if I'm right, Topaz literally turns your footage into a painting! The advantage is, you can scale vectors to any dimension without degredation in image quality - the lines are simply redrawn at a larger scale. However, just like with regular raster images, enlarging a vector does not add detail. Imagine looking at a photograph, then redrawing it using markers. Then you look at the marker drawing, and repaint it at a larger scale, using a thicker marker. The lines remain just as sharp, but no details are added in-between them. Of course they may try to interpolate this information, like they do when "slowing down" footage by painting intermediary frames. But adding frames is easier than adding detail.

[@yeah493]

I think you're probably right. This definitely seems like the (primary) technique it uses. It would also explain the accidental denoising.

[@menditsa]

You get the same effect with BSRGAN. Topaz are using the old 2.X models with the new 3.X series and they are rubbish.

[@colinblin1723]

When I wear my toneh t-shirt while taking photos and videos, I will state "Enhanced with Camera Conspiracies"

[@GlenAndFriendsCooking]

Yeah... but can it re-create the frames my GoPro Hero 10 / 11 didn't capture because the firmware glitched?

[@abranchesf]

Welcome, friend!

[@Finite-Tuning]

Yaaay, finally 👏. Welcome to the Topaz family. Cheers 🍻

[@rocheuro]

hi there! this is one of the best topaz samples I have seen on the web. really good job my friend!

[@TomScryleus]

*Just so you know, the 7680fps is actually interpolated on the huawei. (from 1920fps, which is impressive still).*

[@chinitopinoy1726]

Yeah, the only real frame rates on the P40 Pro are the 960 fps and 1920 fps modes. Sadly, every other model after the P40 Pro are all interpolated and not as fast in frame rates.

[@iamionscat9035]

How long of a shot can you take on the p40? Like time length.

[@misterbigglesworth]

I've had success running footage through it at original resolution but using the settings to tweak noise and edge sharpening. It's very fast this way but does noticeably improve some footage.

[@chinitopinoy1726]

Yeah I do the same. 👍

[@thissidetowardscreen4553]

Eventually, he will slow it down so much it becomes stills! Then his videography days are over and he enters the world of photography :) I wonder how it would deal with SD footage? Great for older cameras!

[@ArcanePath360]

Not very well. I have some 240p footage I tried out for giggles. It came out looking like spaghetti

[@ericaceous1652]

You definitely need detail there in the first place - it can enhance detail, if you make it try to create detail you'll have a bad time

[@ArcanePath360]

@@ericaceous1652 It seems to work better on certain things like leaves, wood, water. Things that it can scale up with it's catalogue of what it should look like.

[@ericaceous1652]

@@ArcanePath360that's good to know, I tried it on 90s camcorder footage and the results were not pleasant

[@harrison00xXx]

What a great, already copied joke "He’s slowly turning into a photographer. Videos so slow that it’s now a picture." -Classic Dice And it doesnt deal well with SD content, but it also depends on the content (dont think about human faces which are not frame filling in low res content!) I got pretty good results with old movies in 480p and 480i, but 200% upscale was horrendous looking and you can do at best something like 720p in some situations even less. The best thing you can do with this software when it comes to old/low res footage... deblock/denoise to add some missing details, a bit sharpness and have it in a proper codec instead of a 20 year old, storage consuming, still bad looking codec.

[@NOTLeavingLV]

Topaz Photo AI is one rare case where I actually purchased the software. It is fantastic, and I cannot say enough good things about it. I am not paid or a bot... I was as skeptical as anyone, but it really works well. Now their video software? I would never pay for it. It might work under perfect circumstances, but no... It just fails to do much good to video, and takes FOREVER even on a year old M1 Macbook Pro.

[@Jack-Tactical]

I have the photo software suite also and it helps because is “don’t have the skill” to buy the extremely expensive L series large objective high magnification lenses to make birds fill the frame on a Canon R6. I’ve also used it to help some photos at events with really poor lighting. No surprise the video software is so slow with every frame being essentially a photo that must be analyzed and processed. I may try it for further slowing down some go pro footage but for what I usually do I doubt it would work very well.

[@electricsnut]

It’s great software, I hate the toxic photographer BS that its cheating. Take great photos and enjoy them, it doesn’t matter what tricks you use nor do you need to announce it to the world like anyone cares.

[@Jack-Tactical]

@@electricsnut Only if using the photos to promote a certain camera or lens. Aside from that, the only thing that matters is the end product.

[@zapa1pnt]

@@electricsnut: Enhancing photos and videos has Always been part of the photographer's trade. It used to be done manually, now we have software. So what? Woodworking used to be all manual, now we have power tools. So what? Musical instruments used to be all acoustic, now we have electric. So what?

[@NOTLeavingLV]

@@zapa1pnt additionally to that, unless you have a good subject, proper exposure, and good composition then topaz or any other software won’t help you.

[@randycates9577]

I love the humor in this video because I too own TOPAZ Video and like you, it's almost too slow for real world production. I too render things over night and based on the length to render, it may not be done in the morning. Forget about trying to work simultaneously - both apps will choke as a result. One thing I have requested from TOPAZ is a before/after example with the settings used to achieve the results. Let's face it, if something takes this long just to test, wouldn't it make sense for TOPAZ to at the very least give you some starting points with a description of what you should adjust if you want better results and why? It would drastically help with the learning curve and if you had half the work done by way of a supplied preset, your test time could be cut in half.

[@urbsketch]

6:04 Let's fly together!!! More of these slow-mo pigeon videos, please! There's something uplifting about them. I can use this as my daily soundtrack...!

[@bearbearingston7696]

"You don't have the skills to buy a better camera/gear" has now entered my quote library, goddamn that stings so much

[@NicholasAndre1]

It worked pretty well for 2x uprezzing old 1992 family hi8 tapes. It also clears up interlacing and other artifacts. I am not really sold on the other use cases but it was great for the family to enjoy.

[@hawknet9933]

This is exactly the use case I have for this software. Thank you for the comment!

[@NicholasAndre1]

@@intranix IIRC on an intel MacBook Pro from 2016 it ran at about 0.7 fps going from 720x480 to 2x upscale. I’d either use an old computer or rent an AWS virtual machine - it’s not going to be fast, something like 30 hours for 1 hour. Also I did have some audio sync issues but you can just grab the audio from the original clip.

[@hawknet9933]

So if it’s helpful, since reading your comment, I went out and bought a 14 inch M1 Pro MacBook Pro, with a 16GPU core. Upscaling and deinterlacing 480i Video8 tape to 1080p at 29.97fps, runs at about 10.5fps in Topaz. I can upscale multiple (2-3) tapes per day now on this MacBook. I would highly recommend, since topaz is optimized for Apple silicon.

[@NicholasAndre1]

@@hawknet9933 very cool! Yeah the intel MacBooks aren’t so competitive these days unfortunately.

[@wackzingo]

@@hawknet9933 with the streaming services becoming more fractured I am starting to rip DVDs for a plex/jellyfin library. I am noticing how many DVDs don't look so good compared to most 1080p streaming services and many aren't available on Blu-Ray so I am hoping to pickup this up to start upscaling them.

[@deanjericevic8912]

You have a great sense of humour which is great for presentation. Topaz comes across as exceptional software! What is it like for stabilization?

[@jamaicansole1]

1:01 "we wanted to see the quality of the damn $hit" 🤣😂🤣😂🤣 bro im sorry for laughing, but that was so true and so funny in the delivery.

[@aengusmacnaughton1375]

Watching in KZbin 4K, squirrel footage -- sharpness looks the same (I paused a number of times), but tremendous noise reduction. Kasey -- are you sure that you did not select NR????

[@bluemarblemark]

I LIKED the chickdee-prune/hand! that's a lotta frames to process

[@chinitopinoy1726]

These are two Sony RX10 IV 960 fps samples I used Topaz on. In the bird seed shot, it did pretty good bringing detail back up in rock and bird, but it erased a good amount of the texture on the feeder. So Topaz can still improve on those areas. kzbin.info/www/bejne/n564nWuNiqllbZY kzbin.info/www/bejne/fZ2oZHyhibmAprM This one was Chronos 1.4 720P 1500 fps footage upscaled to 1440P. kzbin.info/www/bejne/a4fSl4ZsmtNlatk

[@pb8039]

Your moderation is so crazy! But I love it! Go ahead!

[@HJN67]

Topas - The Auto-Tune of the photographic industry.

[@chrishollomanphoto]

If Bob Ross and Bill Burr had a child, it would be this guy. lol. But seriously, this video was solid. - Subscribed!

[@lavapix]

I would need another 100 years to Topaz AI all of the old footage I've shot so far. Glad to see you're enjoying the GH6.

[@electricsnut]

I use Topaz for noise reduction and detail in photos, works great and comes in handy shooting infrared as the optics take a hit to sharpness

[@drum009]

i bought this several months ago to upscale, delace, and denoise my old vhs tapes. For that purpose, I am happy with it. I haven't checked it against 1080p or better video yet.

[@experience_media]

OMG! your sense of humour is the best part of your videos... please do standup comedy somewhere$$$$$ great review of Topaz A.I.

[@D29.H45]

used it for stabilizing footage, works decently.

[@motorspeed300]

I am quite drunk watching this video and in the first 15 seconds of it i found it immediately hilarious. Loved it. As a complete amateur in photography i saw a bunch of videos showcasing this software, not focusing on it but showing it as an option and i found it amazing. For noise reduction in photos it seems to do great. Yeah it's cheating and, again as a complete amateur, just having the possibility of salvaging a good photo that turned out bad due to my incompetence is a relief to say the least. Haven't used it yet, but can definitely see myself giving it a try for photos.

[@zapa1pnt]

Definitely, give it a try. It is Not cheating. 👍👍👍

[@TaskSwitcherify]

You're genuinely funny and interesting. I wish you did other types of videos like product reviews or standup comedy

[@Leptospirosi]

Well, what did we learn today? "1000fps is probably too much for street crossing". (Casey: Camera Conspiracy Channel). ... Better then nothing! 👍

[@hankhouke]

Old pro here, I did the same thing, wasn't happy at first, but I've loved the new version.

[@NautilusGuitars]

As a poor man who shoots on an old thrifted Canon 1200D/T5, but needs clean high quality images of my guitars, Topaz has been incredible. My friend has the whole suite, and every time I do a shoot, I take my final jpegs (doesn't seem to work as well on RAW or tif) to him for a quick clean-up before posting them. It's incredible how well it works at denoising and sharpening. I thrifted a nice Sigma lens, so I usually don't need to sharpen, but the denoise is excellent. We've tried it on videos, but my god does it take forever.

[@framingthewild]

Thanks for featuring my video! This was entertaining🙂

[@EvelynNyte]

The metallic smoothness of topaz marries perfectly to my reptilian colors on my Sony a7iv.

[@CassidyHansen]

Incredible. Thanks for showing us

[@herrreinsch]

1000fps in 4k for us peasants. what a time to be alive. :)

[@DIPLMATHVB]

@Camera Conspiracies: i also use topaz video ai. With my extremely fast PC workstation, the renderings don't take as long as with normal PCs. What bothered me was that loading the models sometimes delayed the start of rendering considerably. With the help of a script I was able to generate all conceivable models in the corresponding model folder. When I now call topaz video ai OFFLINE, the software takes the model from the local folder and the rendering starts immediately. The most important thing for me is the joy of using the software and the fact that only my workstation can do all the renderings in a very short time. 🥰😍🤩😜🤪

[@joshtomato]

damn you were having so much fun i can see it in your eyes bro. i'm definitely getting this topaz veai.

[@Abdi_Mohamed_]

These thumbnail needs to be explained. I do not understand why I clicked but I needed this info for sure!

[@DeejaySlamBB]

I've bought it 3 days ago. Works pretty well. On thing they have to improve is that it tends to smoothen the image. And for noise reduction, if your video is very noisy it won't work at all, while Neat Video will still remove a lot of noise although you will loose a lot of details.

[@JerryHazard]

Maybe the best photo channel on KZbin, well, my favorite at least. Thanks for reviewing this stuff!

[@Magickman93]

You made me laugh out loud! Subscribed!!! ;)

[@PoetryFilms]

Always good to see someone enjoying a new toy. But rarely this entertaining. Subbed

[@serge_stauffer]

I stopped my tests with Topaz when I realized that it just fixes edges but distant faces turn to meatballs …

[@harrison00xXx]

So true, especially with very low res content its just unusable and human faces. The eyes turned like evil/dead/undead, idk just super ugly eyes thats the biggest issue. For these type of low res content the best is to just denoise/deblock, maximum a 140% upscale if at all and convert it to a proper h265 file for LESS SPACE WASTED and BETTER IQ And the missign h265 is another thing. I converted a bunch of movies from my archive, the upscaling took already LONG, but then i realized i need to convert it even to a file size saving h265, another BIG, performance eating long queue

[@josesimasyt]

Yes, you can see that clearly(!) in the pigeons footage. The face original was out of focus, it is AI but no miracles performed (yet).

[@styx85]

What have you got against meatballs

[@budthecyborg4575]

Your use case of super slo-motioning already slow-motion footage is probably ideal for this software. What it can't handle is objects popping in and out of frame, but when you're recording in slow motion from the start there are almost no sudden movements anywhere.

[@robbiefishingextravideos]

This was the most awesome KZbin video that I have ever seen. Haha 😅😅😅😂😂

[@jakubrostkowski6420]

acutally it saved my footage once. god bless for this

[@ltmikepick]

Ridiculously good video

[@karadytube]

Love your personality a lot 😂

[@michaelthiessen3901]

I was amazed at how much watching this stoned made me laugh! Thanks I needed a good chuckle. Cause I am a chucklehead..

[@andreasrochow5170]

Outstanding, Especially valuable and worth watching.

[@Antidote4369]

I love your videos! Very entertaining and informative

[@scrawlerrovmia5513]

may i know what was your pc specs when doing those render?

[@bernardoquina]

"You don't have the skill to buy a better camera" 😆

[@kurtnelle]

Also, enhanced photos are not allowed in photo competitions because they are considered compositions (i.e. photoshopped).

[@kurtnelle]

@@silbay yes, lut transformations are allowed. Things like decreasing the saturation are allowed too.

[@RandumbTech]

A7Siii and Zeiss Batis + pro mist footage looks fire 🔥 today. Welcome to the cinema my friends…

[@ivandj707]

Ok, Topaz is not for everyone, but for someone who does commercials, up to 30 seconds, there is no doubt that it is an excellent tool.

[@harrison00xXx]

why tho? Because the processing take that long? Who cares, my M1 Pro Mac ran for about 3 days nonstop, but i managed to upscale about 100 movies in full lenght, about 200GB of bad, inefficient compressed DVD movies i dont have the original DVD anymore or its broken already, upscaled to 1080p some nearly look like the original bluray if you dont have a side by side comparison. Also, at least on the M1 mac, upscaling is pretty fast (at maximum 1080p files to 4K!), only the slow mo processing takes much longer especially if you try this: 1080p 120 fps file.... upscale to 4K 120, make a 4K 240 slow mo out of it and then the hardest step for the computer: Denoise/Deblock 4K240 (so basically 100% "upscale") so the artifacts and not as sharp 240 fps footage gets a bit recovered/sharper again. But its not worth it, 1x upscale to maximum 200% and 1x slow mo maximum 300-400% is more than enough.

[@menditsa]

@@harrison00xXx 100 films at 90 mins duration = 6 days 6 hours. You'd be lucky to get 0.50s per frame encoding so I'd say your talking bullshit.

[@harrison00xXx]

@@menditsa i would say you have no clue and so you dont know what you talk about

[@zezem]

"The reality you live in - is not the reality I live in"

[@Dangerousdaze]

The clip at 03:28 shows clear artefacting (yes thats a word) in the background, especially the signage above the shops which look, frankly, terrible in the Topaz version. I mean, it really *would* take magic to get that right so it's fair enough!

[@john.rc.3274]

Been using Topaz AI for a few months and you did reveal that the rendering time is S-L-O-O-O-W...... I rendered some circa 1980 VHS home movies from digitized VHS (awful) to 720p semi HD (way less awful). The 2 hour digitized VHS tape (.avi file?) took about 20 hours to convert/render. This is not a Topaz AI program failure, it's a failure of the capabilities of the current consumer grade hardware. Let's hope NASA and DOD have some surplus CPU, GPU hardware on eBay soon that will speed things up a bit. Or I can use that time machine you referenced to go into the future - render that 2 hour .mp4 file in 15 seconds and return to the present. Great video.

[@mikesweetman3828]

Loved it! What was the studio footage shot on btw?? Colours, resolution, toneh were all done of your best ever.... 👌

[@Battery-Powered]

Love your humour man. I don’t even watch the videos 😂

[@Sjrick]

I just bought a new Mac mini and I plan on editing my old home movies from VHS and seeing if I can boost the pic significantly

[@ValiRossi]

Topaz for stills is awesome. If you start out with a sharp image, it works really well.

[@sparkestudio]

I heard those Topaz files get huge, now that you said it... I am a believer. The files are huge; confirmed

[@DennisSchmitz]

I can definitely see that it tries to create artificial texture with foliage especially. Looks a lot like what the DJI Mini 3 Pro does with standard sharpening and nr settings. Thankfully both can now be lowered, the image is less noisy, not oversharpened and has more actual detail/texture.

[@jwate]

That’s pretty cool. Thanks for the upload.

[@mattkolf9689]

290 GIGABITES - Who could even hold it??? 😅🤣

[@digitaldevigner4080]

I use their photo software. They are nice tools to have but not an end all solution of course. It's an option to take old material and make it better. Where I find it has the most benefit is only scaling up 2x. That way the software doesn't have t work as hard and it has more data to work with. For example going from a 20 MP photo to a 80 MP photo. More so just to enhance fine detail a little bit so it looks a little less soft. Sometimes I even end up scaling back down to 20 MP using it in a way as an over sampling tool. Same goes for video. It works best if you start with 1080p to only go up to 4k. This way there is still some fine detail there already and it's just basically turning it into retina detail to reduce jagged edges. Going from VHS video to 4k isn't exactly realistic. With that said it's better in some cases than it was before. I think it's more realistic to expect good 720x480 DV video to be able to go up to 1280x720p and maybe in some rare cases 1920x1080 but that may be pushing it. Is it as good as starting with HD in the first place? Of course not. Thats not the point. The point is can the 480p video be improved on to be a little bit more modern. The answer is yes but it's goign to be slow. It's more a tool to use when it's actually needed. For example working on a documentary where you need to incorporate some old SD footage. You can make it look a bit better by using this tool and it may only be a few shots needed to incorporate into the new shot interviews.

[@hukl3945]

Off topic comment and potential question: I've watched a lot of your old content and recently I watched the first couple of Fuji XT-4 videos and man, you had it - you already had it. At least for youtube your videos have never looked better and magical :) It might not be the perfect camera but it sure as hell came quite close in terms of results vs cost vs size vs weight. Why did you give it away? Even if you test other cameras, I feel the XT-4 was a keeper. Oh well back to uninspiring, uncinematic footage - and just because - I bought a used XT-4 for cheap :)

[@JohnDrummondPhoto]

There was one thing wrong with the X-T4: autofocus. If he turned his head while walking, it lost him. And he had to stay in the central focal area. You know Kasey loves his rule-of-third framing. Couldn't do that with the X-T4.

[@reedmckenzie]

One thing I've found with Topaz is that their stabe is good. In my experience, better than results I've gotten from Catalyst and FCPX.

[@harrison00xXx]

Ok... i have the exact opposite experience, FCP does stabilize probably not as good, but to be real, FCP allows for so much custom settings in stabilization while topaz is targeting more like the "1 click stabe" audience. FCPs stabe with "1 click" is ofc absolute garbage, especially when the footage is really shaky, but with little modification of the sliders its pretty great (and especially i can choose better if i want to sacrifice the stability for less crop or more stability at the cost of additional crop!)

[@reedmckenzie]

@@harrison00xXx yes there’s more customization in FCP and it works for “most cases.” But sometimes it just can’t cut it. Best settings I’ve found for FCP is “smooth cam” rotation 4.5, crop between 2.5 and 4.5, and then adjust “translation” to taste (usually down between zero and .7). The Topaz stabe might be one slider, but it’s been able to save footage that would’ve been unusable with only FCP tools.

[@ILLADVISEDFILMS]

How to you increase fps in topaz? Or is it done in post after or before the upscale?

[@elementary8963]

I think I've worked it out. You're slowly working your way towards taking stills.

[@ridobahar6547]

"you need it because you dont have the skill... to buy a better camera" hurts my poor ass soul.

[@styx85]

That is pretty bananas though.

[@Zicrixdoesart]

The funny thing is they advertise it for live action content, but it actually works an order of magnitude better for animated content. Like it's seriously awesome at upscaling cartoons, probably just due to the nature of animation

[@xaviergonzalez4800]

Gave me some laughs but also nice editing.

[@nm-conceptfilms]

Watching this, was like an Trip… Thank you.. 🤔😊

[@geronimomiles312]

I don't do moving pix ... But the humor is excellent. 👍

[@roxikoko3744]

How does it look when you render the already rendered footage? A different image a day?

[@AGENT-J-bt2mm]

All I want is the perfect editing. All I want is the perfect editinggg.

[@business-addict]

bruh ur craaaaazy.... AND I LOVE YOU!!!!

[@russmartin4189]

So, does this make shooting fast events, like hummingbird's wings fmovine, easy for the average person?

[@hitmusicworldwide]

I looked at the SD to HD demonstration video on KZbin. The enhanced video had less detail than the original footage. How this can be called AI without using any AI synthesis techniques, I don't understand. I use the Black Magic Terranex on my Betacam SP footage and THAT looks like HD. And it does it in real time. Colour resolution and depth is everything when converting old video into HD. Remember that folks. I spent lots of money in the late 80s to shoot with the best quality because i knew HD was coming. I'm still making money with my content from over 30 years ago. Always shoot for the future. Don't listen to the naysayers that tell you "people can't tell the difference" and "that level of quality is overkill".