{"id":2517,"date":"2021-02-26T01:03:55","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T09:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/?p=2517"},"modified":"2021-02-26T11:10:35","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T19:10:35","slug":"upsize-video-400-8k-new-topaz-video-enhance-ai-2-double-discounted-save-172","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/upsize-video-400-8k-new-topaz-video-enhance-ai-2-double-discounted-save-172\/","title":{"rendered":"Upsize video 400%\/8K! New Topaz Video Enhance AI 2, double-discounted (save $172!)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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What Topaz Gigapixel AI<\/a><\/strong> does for still photos, Video Enhance AI<\/a><\/strong> does for videos! Both products take small, compressed and quality-challenged input and covert them to very usable final upsized results. Or make your good photos and videos even better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Video Enhance AI<\/a><\/strong><\/strong> version 2.0.0 was just released earlier today, and Topaz is offering it FREE<\/strong> for existing customers, and at HALF OFF<\/strong> for new customers. Readers of this blog can use coupon PLUGSNPIXELS for an additional 15% off<\/em> \u2013\u00a0bringing the original $299.99 retail price way down to only $127.49<\/strong>, through March 12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I gave the redesigned and improved Video Enhance AI<\/a><\/strong><\/strong> a spin on my 2011-build i7\/2600k computer with dedicated video card, the closest thing I have to a workhorse computer. Obviously the better your computer (and yours is surely better!), the faster you can do this intensive type of processing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As always on this blog, I am working with VERY quality-challenged input, in this case video shot way back in 1985 on an archaeological dig at The City Of David in Jerusalem<\/strong>. That summer I ran into young Australian filmmaker John Classic<\/strong>, now of Messageweek Media Ministries<\/a><\/strong>, who documented the dig and related tours on his very early version portable Panasonic A2 video camera rig.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After a couple of decades went by and technology caught up to us, John was finally able to share these invaluable videos with me on DVD and data CD. The sample video I am using here was not from one of his nicely edited and presented DVDs, but a 30-minute .avi file of raw footage, unfortunately only saved at 320×240 and written to the data CD back in December 2000!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s an actual-size screenshot of that .avi as viewed in VLC. It’s really not useful for any sort of contemporary presentation at that small size!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So I loaded up the file in Video Enhance AI<\/a><\/strong><\/strong>, chose an appropriate upscaling method (“Artemis Low Quality”, designed for source videos with high noise and compression), and cranked the upscaling to 400% [1280×690] (because that’s what we do here…).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here is a still frame of the result (open any screenshot in a new tab or window to view at 100%<\/em>)!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That’s quite impressive! Noise is gone and details are restored, even with this aggressive level of enlargement. Now this video can be incorporated into a contemporary documentary and not draw unwanted attention to itself due to its age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Video Enhance AI<\/a><\/strong><\/strong> 2.0 is FREE for existing customers, and HALF OFF<\/strong> for new customers. Readers of this blog can use coupon PLUGSNPIXELS for an additional 15% off<\/em> \u2013\u00a0bringing the original $299.99 retail price way down to only $127.49<\/strong>, through March 12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let’s look at some other Video Enhance AI<\/a><\/strong><\/strong>-salvaged scenes from the raw video reel. Here’s another view of John doing a (sit-down) stand-up, before and after:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A handy feature which I used here is to export each frame of a video as a still image. The donkey and rider was saved as JPEG and color-corrected in Photoshop:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Enough stills, let’s see some video!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve uploaded a few short sample clips with sound, upsized in Video Enhance AI<\/a><\/strong> to 1280×690 from this same 320×240 original: Clip 1<\/a> | Clip 2<\/a> | Clip 3<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Video Enhance AI<\/a><\/strong><\/strong> 2.0 is FREE for existing customers, and HALF OFF<\/strong> for new customers. Readers of this blog can use coupon PLUGSNPIXELS for an additional 15% off<\/em> \u2013\u00a0bringing the original $299.99 retail price way down to only $127.49<\/strong>, through March 12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s more detailed info about the latest Video Enhance AI<\/a><\/strong><\/strong> from Topaz:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Major Features<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022Two new model updates: Artemis v11, and Dione v2
\u2022Artemis LQ and MQ v11 evolve from Artemis v10 with added ability to handle over-sharpening artifacts in medium or low-quality progressive input videos
\u2022Dione TV and TD v2 are enhanced from v1 that also remove over-sharpening artifacts in medium or low quality interlaced input videos
\u2022UI has been updated and overhauled to provide for a better experience

Improvements<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022Menu toolbar has been added on Mac
\u2022When multiple videos are selected, settings in the right panel now apply to all selected videos
\u2022Able to open videos in their containing folder when videos are done processing
\u2022Model parameters and post process settings have been changed to sliders to provide for better fine-tuning
\u2022Reset Settings button has been added
\u2022Output FPS has been added to the footer at the bottom of the program
\u2022Reset Trim button has been added to the scrubbing toolbar<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Video Enhance AI<\/a><\/strong><\/strong> 2.0 is FREE for existing customers, and HALF OFF<\/strong> for new customers. Readers of this blog can use coupon PLUGSNPIXELS for an additional 15% off<\/em> \u2013\u00a0bringing the original $299.99 retail price way down to only $127.49<\/strong>, through March 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What Topaz Gigapixel AI does for still photos, Video Enhance AI does for videos! Both products take small, compressed and quality-challenged input and covert them to very usable final upsized results. Or make your good photos and videos even better. Video Enhance AI version 2.0.0 was just released earlier today, and Topaz is offering it Read more about Upsize video 400%\/8K! New Topaz Video Enhance AI 2, double-discounted (save $172!)<\/span>[…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3,25,31,4,7,1],"tags":[281,810,362,223,240,815,684,811,804,385,312,808,363,809,812,813,814,807,153,805,806,337,802,803],"class_list":["post-2517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discounts","category-general","category-photography","category-post-processing","category-reviews","category-software","category-uncategorized","tag-ai","tag-artemis","tag-city-of-david","tag-coupon","tag-coupon-code","tag-dione","tag-enhance","tag-export","tag-footage","tag-gigapixel","tag-interpolation","tag-israel","tag-jerusalem","tag-messageweek-media-ministries","tag-mov","tag-mp4","tag-mpeg","tag-panasonic","tag-topaz","tag-upscale","tag-upscaling","tag-upsizing","tag-video","tag-videography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2517"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2558,"href":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517\/revisions\/2558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}