This is it! Since I published that Gigapixel video everybody has been asking the same question "Why not just use Video Enhance" Well here you go, a fair comparison between 3 different upscaling methods using different Topazlabs software, I'll let you be the judge :)

This stuff is pretty groundbreaking. I never would have believed something like this could be done and I always thought whatever resolution you filmed with was all you could ever get. I gotta believe hollywood is going to jump on this. It'd be interesting to see old shows that were shot on SD tape upgraded to at least 1080.

as a videographer and video editor, upscaling video to 4k, video enhance ai for me is the best. it has the least "processing" look and gives what i want for the size and quality. the other 2 add weird details+sharpening and color processing. i think gigapixel and sharpen are really good when it comes to a single photo, but for a video, especially when you tried an old footage of a person talking, it's video enhance ai. maybe it's all just depends on personal preferences.

Something to keep in mind is speed of Gigapixel will depend on compression speed of images, there should be a setting for that somewhere. Another thing is, you can turn off maximum ai quality, which will also speed it up. Difference between fastest and slowest Gigapixel can operate is something like 6-8x.

Outstanding. You did a super job on this comparison and demonstration. Now a new subscriber ... Cheers, Chuck : +)

Thank you very much for this impressive work of comparison! Incredibly well explained with a very clear and precise editing.

Video Enhance Ai: Looks faded and dull compared to the other two options but much faster. Sharpen Ai: Most Natural & the Best of both words for processing time & sharpness. Looks perfect. Gigapixel Ai: LONG waiting time almost 10x of Sharpen Ai with similar quality output. Some other SW option's I've been looking at are: Davinci Resolve 16 Premiere Pro - After Effects

Superb Work Bro, I Liked it :)

You're awesome man, subbed!

thanks for the information, really helpful

Great video comparisons, I followed your first method which saw great results but as you said, a very long process to covert all the frames, but after I tried the second method I haven't gone back to the first. If I only watched this before purchasing software for the first method, oh well.

Very helpful video, thank you 😊

Please make sure gigapixel uses 2060 GPU. And also make sure in video enhance to make AI resource demand to full i.e. 500 in preference, at default it's values are 200%.Make sure everything is running on GPU, AI is GPU favourite parallel computing. Love from Kerala India❤️

Very useful comparison. I'll have to see how well it handles small text such as UI.

This comparison was exactly what I was after. Thank you and great work! How do these compare with much faster motion in video with high motion blur? Since the clip was slo-mo anyway it was hard to tell if Gigapixel might handle motion blurred areas 'too sharply' or such.

Thanks for the Great info...

Thanks. I was almost gonna wait for god knows how many hours to upscale that Linkin Park video. XD

Thanks Alot! I wanted to upscale my old family videos that were shot on a Iphone 5 720p to a better and good looking quality!

Thanks 1st for all your efforts in testing out the 3 different software. My opinion are the 3 are almost the same in quality so next of course is the time for the encoding which you have provided. BUT for most home user given the same quality more or less, the one we most concern about is the size of each video so... I really hope you can supply them since you already encode them for I have a bunch of old videos I wanted to convert but don't know it worth the effort due to the size of the video. Have subscribe and like for all your efforts.

Sharpen looks super!

It was great to find your video and see this comparison. I had heard of Video Enhance A.I. and ended up getting all three of their main products (for different uses -- I'm a photographer as well). I find the Video Enhance A.I. quality to vary greatly by the codec used to upscale. Although Artemis seems faster, and on a frame by frame analysis looks better, it adds artefacts that make some videos look like plastic, where Gaia doesn't seem to do that so much, but isn't as sharp. I have not found any low quality video (e.g. SD video) that any of the codecs can upscale to decent quality HD or 4K (no shocker there!). But the most troubling upscaling is of interlaced DVD videos--there are only a couple deinterlace codecs (I think Dione TV and Robust?) and they have limited effectiveness, but do a credible job--not excellent, but ok. I noticed 2 issues with VE A.I.: 1) The MP4s it makes for upscaled videos have extremely high bit rates (impractically high), and I usually have to compress to make them manageable (= playable over my gigabit home network without significant rebuffering). I usually reencode them to H.265 to get a video a fraction of the size of the MP4 VE produces with no loss in quality. Often the reencoded video is an order of magnitude smaller (GB -> MB). 2) Though there is no indication of it in the interface, VE A.I. downsamples 5.1 mc & stereo audio to stereo 96kbps regardless of the original audio bit rate. This forces me to separate the video/audio streams and use VE to upscale the video, then rejoin the video and audio streams. This is impractical for the 100s of DVD videos I would upscale. Thanks for doing this comparison--I had planned to do something similar to determine best approach for a long list of videos I want to upscale (mostly DVD), but this has saved me much time. Great work! One enhancement I'd suggest: for any future comparisons, it's useful to use videos with different content, like faces or fast moving vehicles or sports events or dark scenes with lots of shadows. I suspect that some codecs will perform better on some video types, with no overall 'best' codec. That would make it easier to pick a codec based on the type of video content. But that's a lot of work. Wouldn't blame you if you didn't want to take on that much. Seems like Topaz Labs ought to do it as a marketing tactic to sell their products!

Thank you so much for this.

Nice work, MDMZ! Thanks very much for the info.

I tried to use Video Enhance but I got some weird cuts to the sound and noises that weren't before in the video. So I would probably need to merge the original sound back in the video after the process is done which is a bit of a hassle. Overall it's a nice tool to upscale old footage.

Thanks for the great test! My opinion is that for video it is better to use Video Enhance A.I. This program gives the most optimal result in terms of time-quality ratio.

Many people complain about the process time but they have to understand,that 1.the soiftware has to add pixels of a picture in video frame,row by row and it's not a quick process when you have a several minute long vid,with 60 frame per sec with who knows how many pixels in each.2,cpu power and memory or the lack of both can also add to the process time.

Love your videos man! Question...Can you do this for an old video or dvd? I would love to restore some old family videos I have on VHS and DVD. Thanks so much.

THX, Your video was very impressive, I saved it to my bookmarks. But: I don't see a very important information: Which SW versions (GpAI, ShAI, VEAI) did you use? E.g.: The older versions of VEAI used H.263, codec to encode video, the newer (1.7.x+) are using h.264.

Grweat Job bRo

THE BEST VIDEO FOR LEARNING GIGAPIXEL AI

Thank you so much

All 3 appear to have pros and cons. I Noticed in the video that all 3 add noticeable artifacts too. I guess to me 720P still isn't bad. I have seen higher res streaming video look worse. What I can say though is I really love what AI upscaling does to even lower res video, as well as what they are doing to old video games.

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thank you

Test all three of these methods on VHS footage. I can provide you with some VHS footage if you require some that I can shoot myself. I have a working camera that I can use for you to try to scale it up to 4K but I also want to see it in 8K zoomed in if you can.

MDMZ, since you posted this useful tutorial Topaz Labs’ Video AI (for both platforms) does run faster, and it has a range of features that include upscaling, de-noising, sharpening, slow motion, stabilisation and interpolating.

hello, i have a problem with this software it doesn't output my videos that i trying to upscale, the prosses ends but the video doesn't saved in the location that i pick

Very nice

🤯🤯 Mannnn If there was a PLUS 46K SUBS button, I'd click it for you! 😀😀😀 This was extremely thorough and niche to put your pc through. Suggestion - Part 2: Use different kinds of video besides just slow mo! Event and commercial videos are much more common for us pros.😻😻

SuperScale in Davinci Resolve 17 is also great.

I always thought that quality can only be downgraded, but technology is changing things out of the box.

Great.awesome

Would you do an upscaling comparison using just YOUR editing software (Premier Pro, Final Cut, Magix Vegas, etc.) with these 3? Because ... should it look as good as either of these there that you show (which do look great, btw) there would be no need to spend yet more money on achieving similar results. And ... some of us are kinda spent out on buying more and more software. Thanks again, Chuck : +)

Good tutorial. One note though. Don't use MP4 output with VEAI yet (they are working on it). It creates artifacts. For better quality use PNG or TIFF sequence output. Then add them to Media Encoder or whichever software you prefer and then use that to encode the video. You will see better results. Trust me.

What about first using Sharpen AI, then using the Gigapixel method to upscale the now sharpened image?

I think, to test the SharpenAI, you should have upscaled the footage to 4k first then applied SharpenAI. Would that give better result ? It would take longer time, of course.

Very important to always export as a png or tga instead of a video file! That way you can can resume from desired frame if pc crashes or anything goes wrong!

Excellent video bravo MDMZ! 1 - Gigapixel AI best quality! But for a long time 2 - Sharpen AI is very good! Time is acceptable 3 - Video Enhance AI is better than the source, but average quality, a lot of soap. It looks like the MP4 codec is not configured correctly in the program itself! We must wait for fixes in the program version update. For now, it's better to save as PNG or TIFF sequence output and then merge it into video in a good program! And the cookies are all good, all three! )))

PROCESSING SPEED is a deciding factor for me, specially when the results are great.

Hi! I have the latest version 2.0, and I’m having trouble with previewing my video. I’m trying to upscale the video from 720p to 2160p. Every time I try to preview 30 frames I get the error: “the selected model cannot be run”. Any help, Thank you!

So 10 sec video takes 9hrs to encode in Gigapixel, 17mins in Video Enhance and 40mins in Sharpen AI. How much time would take to upscale my video of 49mins and 30secs?

The VEAI artemis model imo is amazing now. If you get a chance you should test it out!

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9:15 also gigapixel does something to the colors so that makes it look less natural.

So what about if we go with; Sharpen>Gigapixel>Video Enhance or Sharpen>Video Enhance I think to this way we will have better quality video. I got the idea why you choosed 720p from start. But the thing is you should have chosen 240p from start so we could understand how good the program could be!

i would go with video enhance, with a bit more sharpening, and a bit more saturation/ vibrance. but damn this tech is impressive.

When I convert 16:9 into potreit 4:5 quality get decreased even vedio resulation is 1080p which software best for this situation tell me bro please

Thanks for the information given in this great video, I don't think I would have chosen a gigapixel because it was too heavy to process on my computer, hahaha.

Bro which version you are using in video enhance AI??

Gigapixel is not good at upscaling 480p videos, though.. looks like paint blobs up close from tests that I've done. At 9:01 If you want want to upscale a 720p video video to 4k and make it look as clear as Gigapixel, you can manually sharpen it after after you upscale a video using Video Enhance AI. I took took a frame from the original video and ran it through Gigapixel and used it as a reference to sharpen the upscaled video I ran in Video Enhance AI.

Sir really nice explanation 👏 i just wanted to know that at 0.44 which template you have used and from where can i have it. I am talking about background and in which KZfaq is opened is shown that's really really good. I also want that for me if you can tell me please .. ... Please sir

The future of film making is going to be crazy. I wonder if we will get to the point where its far more efficient to film in 720p and then jist post process your images??? Also can ai do a good job at stuff like going from interlaced to progressive?

Thank you very much for this!

video enhance is so much better especially once you use the more advanced models and dial in your look.

All 3 amaze me. Will adobe be incorporating this technology into their suite at any point?

I think gigapixel's output is at first then sharpen ai then video enhace .... What you say??

Can i upscale a video 480p to 720p thanks

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For sharpening method, why didn’t you upscale to 4K using PP then split frames and then sharpen later?

Gigapixel がしっかりした絵になっている。いっぽうで不自然にきれいすぎて人工物のように見える。 Video Enhance は自然にアップスケールされている。 ただ Gigapixel に比べるとぼけた絵になっている。 Sharpen は用途としては比較対象にするには不利な立場になってしまっているが、健闘している。 時間があるのなら Gigapixel を選択する。 短時間に処理したいなら Video Enhance を選択する。 DeepL Gigapixel is well pictured. On the other hand, it's unnaturally clean and looks too artificial. Video Enhance is naturally upscaled. But compared to Gigapixel, the picture is blurred. Sharpen is at a disadvantage in terms of applications, but it's doing well. If you have time, Gigapixel is chosen. If you want to process in short time, select Video Enhance.

Great Video, can it work with 360p or 480p resolution videos?

once you turn it into photos how do you get the audio back? sorry im really new to this.

From what I understand, the better the graphics card, the faster things render and export in a program like Premiere. But would a better graphics card speed things up in a program such as Sharpen Ai? Sorry if this is an obvious question. I'm quite new to this kind of thing.

what type of GPU works with Video Enhance A.I? may I ask what GPU do u have? need to upgrade my gpu, dont want to get buy one that doesnt work with it

i have a movie from 1998 in standard quality 360p if i use Video Enhance Ai to change it to 4k hd 2160p how long is it going to take to finish?

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I have 1080p@60fps footage. I want to upscale it to 4K@60. How? I wasn't able with this Video Enhancer. I'm always getting 30fps and bit choppy video compared to original 60fps. At the end I'm getting much better results upscaling video with Sony Vegas and 10 times better rendering speeds. So, if I want to upscale 60fps footage, which software to use? Thx for help.

How do you remove the black bars on topaz ai video please help me!

Its taking a lot time on rtx 2060 gaia high quality (240p>480p.) Im converting old lectures.50 min per lec. Is there any way to combine cpu and gpu both ? Video enhance ai is not using my 100 % gpu.but heating a lot. V ram is also not full (2 gb/6 gb dedicated) in high vram mode.help. Its taking 2-3 hour converting a 240p 50 min lectures to 480 p😭😭(i locked temp at 65 for heating in gpu😭,)

I think that you made a mistake when using video enhance. You exported the video to mp4 and then re encoded it again, which will undoubtably affect the quality of the final video. For it to actually be fair you should have exported the video to .jpeg sequence and then encode as you did with the other ones. Great video BTW! I couldnt help but notice that mistake though 😅

Do you have any idea if there's some video enhancers for phones?? (in my case Android)

I am curious if you can enhance 4k footage with it? For instance taking 4k native footage and enhance it to get a clearer image.

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Gigapixel is not meant for videos. Unlike VEAI it gives you control to fine-tune the upscaling. Also, you set the sharpening and de-blur to 50 instead of using the auto-detect feature. You over-sharpened it. Otherwise, it would produce much more natural results for the video.

Video Enhance looks like it's really good now! However, the Sharpen AI is my favorite personally. The Video Enhance is definitely faster and looks very natural, but the Sharpen AI produces a finished product almost as good as doing every individual frame with image upscaling... How is that not the best? lol. To be honest, I highly doubt it's worth anyone's effort, but I wonder what it would look like to have a video enhanced with Video Enhance, and Sharpen AI, then have the Sharpen AI video playing overtop of the Video Enhance clip, but with transparency. Would probably takes years to render everything lol.

this video was made a year ago. it's almost 2022 now has there been any improvements on these programs?

Wow, it's amazing but i don't know What was Your Gigapixel run as ? if it's run as GPU, it's really so slow for 9 hours and because I was tested with RTX 3070, it was just completed about a hour

in your previous video you used png and know jpeg, which one is better?

So the only real way to see 8K HD (15360x 8640P) is on Expensive tvs from sony??

How to make video upscale more fast using video enhance AI? Im try upscale 4k avengers infinity war to 4k take 30 days.

Can 240p video be enhanced to 720p or 1080p as well??

hey please answer can you tell me. is it possible to get good results with vhs? should i try?

Hi is it one time payment or yearly subscription?

I`ve got lots of old footage taken with pre-1080 equipment; got to give this a try to see if it upscales AND removes those Zaggies! Edit: Yep, DV 720i with "Stairways", almost eliminated; upscaled to 4K. Now wondering if I can afford £200 in 32 days time.

How much does it take to upscale 720p to 1080p for a 5min video?

Can you do tiktok video edit the or is just image?

is it for free? i tried but they leave the watermark when im export my video

Wait, what if you take a 720p video and upscale it to 1080p, and upscale that to 2k, and upscale that to 4k, and upscale that to 8k. Will that even work?

So where's pixilated cookie from thumbnail?

Video Enhance is best, you can edit around in premiere and get similar sharpening to gigapixel/sharpen A.I in 1/100th of the time