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Elochai, I'd assume probably Topaz Labs. If so, you can still get their free beta version (google search) which is probably not nearly as refined of a release but I've had good luck with it. Has a small UI but I predominately use in cli so not for everyone. I have found it better than the other product you mention for most stuff I've done.
Since a competitor with PD's "Video Enhancement" technology which is a very poor upsampling and sharpening technology one probably can't write too much or the thread will be locked and/or removed.
Jeff
You would be correct, I am using Topaz Labs Enhance AI and it blows DVDfab version out of the water.
Can't really post any video clips of my convertions as people on the videos wouldn't like that to much. But nothing stopping people to try it out.
I can't see CyberLink locking or closing the thread tho as they don't have a product that does the same thing. PD's "Video Enhancement" technology doesn't use AI or machine learning to generate new upscaled video.
This is a great tool tho to upscale your low res videos and then work on them in PD.
I was gonna post a few frames from an old 1993 clip homevideo but it looks like I would have to host them myself or go through the trouble of an image host for these forums.
So far I only used the Gaia HQ and Gaia-CG for the AI option, the other two Artemis options for AI seem to result in a lot of noise and blocks during upscale.
I have found Gaia-CG (The version of AI that computer generates new pixels) to work very well when it comes to faces in a video being upscaled. I have footage where even the 480p version of the footage has a lot of blocky-ness on a face and it upscaled it and generated the face to near prefect. Was better then the original. Now yes I also got results where you can tell it had pixels added in but the results were still better then no upscaling at all.
I was more amazed yesterday (as I said I was upscaling a 1 hour and 30 min video for 14 hours, well it was done after 20 hours total upscale time). In one of the videos, there was a wedding dress with lace. On a close up shot, the lace was very burry and blended into a blocky pixelated area. When upscaled with Gaia-CG option, it came out with each area of the lace highy visible and detailed. each hole and lace pattern clear and shape.
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