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Topaz Labs - Video AI 6 $209
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I have not used this software (normally $299) before, but always been intrigued. It rarely goes on sale, and Black Friday had a bundle that included their Photo AI + Gigapixel + Video AI for $299. I have no interest in the Photo AI/Gigapixel, so getting the Video AI for $209 seems uncommon.
Available for Windows and macOS.
I'm only an enthusiast, not a pro, so I will just be using this to clean up some low-quality content. Any tips or tutorials for doing such is appreciated!
ALSO - they just updated Video AI to version 6 this week. So you should get updates for a good while. https://community.topazlabs.com/t/topaz-video-ai-6-0/84254 [topazlabs.com]
https://www.topazlabs.c
Available for Windows and macOS.
I'm only an enthusiast, not a pro, so I will just be using this to clean up some low-quality content. Any tips or tutorials for doing such is appreciated!
ALSO - they just updated Video AI to version 6 this week. So you should get updates for a good while. https://community.topazlabs.com/t/topaz-video-ai-6-0/84254 [topazlabs.com]
https://www.topazlabs.c
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I have not used this software (normally $299) before, but always been intrigued. It rarely goes on sale, and Black Friday had a bundle that included their Photo AI + Gigapixel + Video AI for $299. I have no interest in the Photo AI/Gigapixel, so getting the Video AI for $209 seems uncommon.
Available for Windows and macOS.
I'm only an enthusiast, not a pro, so I will just be using this to clean up some low-quality content. Any tips or tutorials for doing such is appreciated!
ALSO - they just updated Video AI to version 6 this week. So you should get updates for a good while. https://community.topazlabs.com/t/topaz-video-ai-6-0/84254 [topazlabs.com]
https://www.topazlabs.c
Available for Windows and macOS.
I'm only an enthusiast, not a pro, so I will just be using this to clean up some low-quality content. Any tips or tutorials for doing such is appreciated!
ALSO - they just updated Video AI to version 6 this week. So you should get updates for a good while. https://community.topazlabs.com/t/topaz-video-ai-6-0/84254 [topazlabs.com]
https://www.topazlabs.c
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TLDR: This is good software, it requires a pretty high-end PC (or hefty amount of $$ for cloud credits) to get results, and the company itself keeps trying to grab more money from customers any chance they get.
Topaz used to be known for their cheesy over-the-top extra-extra-extra-HDR styled plugins for many years, and fortunately discontinued those to focus on some really useful tools: Remask (masking out subjects in photoshop), Gigapixel (upscaling images), Sharpen (sharpening images/adding detail) and Denoise (Denoising images). These were all great apps, and very affordable. I think I paid $39 each for them for a "lifetime license, free upgrades for life!"
They nixed Remask and then made PhotoAI which basically combined Gigapixel+Sharpen+Denoise into one app, and gave it away free to anyone who owned those 3 apps. Awesome, love it, still a great app.
But around that time, they changed those apps from "Gigapixel" to "Gigapixel AI", and "Sharpen AI" and "Denoise AI" and jacked the prices up ($39 w/ lifetime updates to about ~$100-150 + paid annual update licenses), they sold Photo AI as a standalone product for quite a bit of money (also with paid annual update licenses).
This already left a bad taste as the apps I paid $39 for (for "free updates for life" were now charging me $79/year to get updates, per app).
VideoAI came by, price was affordable, software was very good.. Bought it ($120) and enjoyed it. It requires a very high end system to get decent results. My setup is a 24-core CPU, 64GB Ram, 3060 w/ 12GB Ram and a bunch of M.2 SSD's and it chugs along so slowly when trying to upscale video, I get a couple frames per second.
Prices kept going up to where Video AI is now $299 (+ additional for annual update licenses). Their updates are frequent, but often unreliable (most people stick to a stable version rather than updating it as new features/UI changes break other things). Once your 12 months end, you get to keep the most recent version of the software. For me, my latest version was something like Version 5.0.0 and I needed to pay another annual license to get the many bug fixes that came after that. Every time I open the software now, I get a "Renew now to get these updates!" with about 50 bugfixes.
They released "Pro" versions of many of these apps, locking some features behind those. They recently released "Cloud Credits" for them (pay them to convert your video in the cloud) but the prices are just stupid expensive.
The software works. It can deliver great results.. but as a company, I feel like they just keep trying to grasp for money (whether it's raising prices, selling Pro versions, eliminating lifetime updates or introducing the cloud features with a big push towards them).
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