AI enhancing video?
Discussion
I've recently digitised my old family home movies from the 90s. Obviously the quality of 8mm video was never great, so there's a limit to what can be done with traditional upscale/colour balance settings. Now I'm dealing with 30+ year old degraded footage I'm hoping that some AI magic could help. Upscale, deinterlace, frame interpolation, noise reduction. Not necessarily in that order.
I'm currently feeling YouTube fatigue on seeing comparisons of a seemingly huge number of tools! Has anyone had a good experience with anything they'd be happy to recommend?
I've got a decently powerful Windows PC (i9, 3080, 64GB, water cooled), and whilst I'm a bit of a noob at driving Da Vinci Resolve I have made some decent edited videos with it in recent years.
I've already ruled out Project Starlight as it would be literally £1000s to do all my tapes.
Topaz and the built in tool for DaVinci Resolve Studio edition are both promising but $300 is a lot to swallow. However... If everything else is rubbish I could might be able to persuade myself.
I'm currently feeling YouTube fatigue on seeing comparisons of a seemingly huge number of tools! Has anyone had a good experience with anything they'd be happy to recommend?
I've got a decently powerful Windows PC (i9, 3080, 64GB, water cooled), and whilst I'm a bit of a noob at driving Da Vinci Resolve I have made some decent edited videos with it in recent years.
I've already ruled out Project Starlight as it would be literally £1000s to do all my tapes.
Topaz and the built in tool for DaVinci Resolve Studio edition are both promising but $300 is a lot to swallow. However... If everything else is rubbish I could might be able to persuade myself.
Topaz is what you need. It is remarkably good. It is pricey and up to you as to whether it's worth the investment.
They are running a try-it-free offer on their project Starlight product which is probably all you need: https://www.topazlabs.com/starlight
They are running a try-it-free offer on their project Starlight product which is probably all you need: https://www.topazlabs.com/starlight
Thanks - Starlight pricing ends up being about $500 for 90 minutes of video - they need to pay for their back-end server farm I suppose. I've got many many hours of video hence avoiding that one!
Have you tried Topaz yourself? I've seen a lot of YT videos where the results look decent but they're all (unsurprisingly) video editing channels so not really amateurs having a play like me.
Have you tried Topaz yourself? I've seen a lot of YT videos where the results look decent but they're all (unsurprisingly) video editing channels so not really amateurs having a play like me.
donkmeister said:
Have you tried Topaz yourself? I've seen a lot of YT videos where the results look decent but they're all (unsurprisingly) video editing channels so not really amateurs having a play like me.
Yes. And I am a pro.It's an essential for pro filmmakers but agree it's a bit pricey for others. But you do get what you pay for.
There is a balance though. I've seen it over used and pushed too much which can result in cartoon like results or over saturated images that require further adjustment in edit. It sounds odd but for old films, you want them to look old, not like they were shot last week on an 8k Red Komono Cine Camera. Enhance - not upscale.
Final Cut Pro is my editor of choice and has some exceptionally good enhancement tools baked in. I believe the free version of Davinci Resolve has similar but is steep learning curve if you're not familiar with either.
Update: I've bought a Blackmagic Speed Editor controller. Turns out this comes with a Da Vinci Resolve Studio licence included, so effectively the controller is almost free!
£350ish inc VAT, bit more than a Topaz video AI licence but I already use DaVinci Resolve Free for my video editing so it seemed worth the upgrade.
Again, just an amateur who does a couple of videos a year but hopefully the Speed Editor will reduce the learning curve I have to climb each time!
£350ish inc VAT, bit more than a Topaz video AI licence but I already use DaVinci Resolve Free for my video editing so it seemed worth the upgrade.
Again, just an amateur who does a couple of videos a year but hopefully the Speed Editor will reduce the learning curve I have to climb each time!
StevieBee said:
donkmeister said:
Have you tried Topaz yourself? I've seen a lot of YT videos where the results look decent but they're all (unsurprisingly) video editing channels so not really amateurs having a play like me.
Yes. And I am a pro.It's an essential for pro filmmakers but agree it's a bit pricey for others. But you do get what you pay for.
There is a balance though. I've seen it over used and pushed too much which can result in cartoon like results or over saturated images that require further adjustment in edit. It sounds odd but for old films, you want them to look old, not like they were shot last week on an 8k Red Komono Cine Camera. Enhance - not upscale.
Final Cut Pro is my editor of choice and has some exceptionally good enhancement tools baked in. I believe the free version of Davinci Resolve has similar but is steep learning curve if you're not familiar with either.
To enhance crap video use this.
Free to try £30 it has AI and does a reasonable job.
https://www.videoproc.com/
Free to try £30 it has AI and does a reasonable job.
https://www.videoproc.com/
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