Topaz's video enhance ai is rubbish

[pm-s]

1. It's not ai.
2. It doesn't look good
3. It's paid piece of software


I can get same results with avisynth
https://youtu.be/GkJUSbZfamw (I know I haven't detelecined video before upscaling, sorry)

[manono]

You should remove it from YouTube and IVTC it before doing the comparison.

Although I agree with your 3 points, I don't think YouTube is the right setting to be making comparisons like that.

[krykmoon]

I don't think YouTube is the right setting to be making comparisons like that.

YT has never been the best place for things like that.. but I noticed Youtube's video quality nowadays is a lot A LOT worse than it was only a couple of years ago.

Their actual encoding/compression algorithms are crazy and shitty

[LigH.de]

You may have to be premium partner to get higher quality?... YouTube seems to repel more and more the small content creators which don't help making the big profits with advertizing. Recently they changed their ToS to allow themselves displaying ads without consent of the channel owners.

[lordsmurf]

Recently they changed their ToS to allow themselves displaying ads without consent of the channel owners.

What a coincidence!
Recently (years ago) I changed my ToS to allow Adblock.

[pm-s]

https://youtu.be/-nNgRBKb9t8

here, a different upscale.

both of them suck, but topazs video looks a little bit worse

[LigH.de]

Fortunately, the zoo of "AI upscalers" is just growing... yet, there is no fix for "it has not been recorded in high resolution in the first place".

[sophisticles]

Recently they changed their ToS to allow themselves displaying ads without consent of the channel owners.

What a coincidence!
Recently (years ago) I changed my ToS to allow Adblock.

Adblock does not stop the type of ads being talked about; they are talking about the ads that play at random points during video playback through the video.

There's nothing you can do about those.

[jagabo]

Recently they changed their ToS to allow themselves displaying ads without consent of the channel owners.

What a coincidence!
Recently (years ago) I changed my ToS to allow Adblock.

Adblock does not stop the type of ads being talked about; they are talking about the ads that play at random points during video playback through the video.

There's nothing you can do about those.

uBlock Origin blocks those.

[agisthos]

I found this forum after trying every Topaz Enhance AI conversion mode in their free trial. Every thing I tried in it (VHS raw rips) looked terrible.

I barely even know what I am doing with AviSynth, but still managed to get better looking denoising and post conversion than what Topaz does.