Upscaling your porn collection

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Started watching the "Hollywood ending" match for Storm vs May. Generally not a fan of too gory matches, but wow, this is really something.

 

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For those interest in Topaz, the latest update includes a local version of the Starlight diffusion model. (The one that I've been posting the 10 sec clips of). It's cool that we got a local version, since it was thought that the model was too much for normal GPUs to handle.

That said, it still only renders .2-.4 fps (yes, that's 0.2 - 0.4 fps) on even the 5000 series. But the results on old porn is worth it. It really cleans up the distortion and noise, and once you have that base to work with, you can run all the different models to upscale/HDR/etc.

 

[bearcat22]

Knowing what your platforms can pull and where you want to go with the video output is the difference between "this looks the same but has artifacts. This tech isn't ready, yet"
and "this is amazing"

If you use an upscale and don't click any parameters or tell it what to do, you're gonna end up with an average result.

Topaz itself totes itself as a.i. enhancement, which isn't altogether untrue. But.
From the website:
Topaz Video AI focuses solely on completing a few video enhancement tasks really well: deinterlacing, upscaling, and motion interpolation. We've taken five years to craft AI models robust enough for natural results on real-world footage.

That sounds fine, but the reality is :

a 300$ tv you can get at walmart has been doing those 3 things well since 2016.
The lightning-fast IQ Active™ processor combines superior picture processing with an intelligent 4K upscaling engine to make all your entertainment look incredibly crisp.
https://www.vizio.com/en/tv/v-series/V705-H13

Topaz runs off the local machine, has a 300$ price tag, and does something that's already done well.
It's cheaper to go with a cloud based service and just buy a month, get it all done at once with more than just a few features and use their machines to do it in minute instead of hours. I believe avc labs still has a 30ish per month plan.

Everyone mentioned topaz so i went "but all that's on your local computer. You guys tell it what to do. It isn't pain free. Hrm" but if you're looking for something people - oriented (faces, body motion) then avc is kind of a one and done, let their machines solve it kinda thing.
https://www.avclabs.com/purchase-video-enhancer-ai.html
Ah, its 40$ with a 5 day money back guarantee.

Doesnt hurt to try, right?

This topic deserves to be updated. I've been using WinX products to back up my physical DVD collection, and when they offered WinXvideoAI, I took it.
Unfortunately, I have not figured out how to use it correctly. A lot of buttons/choices and I have no idea what any of them do.

What I wanted was to take 360p and/or 480p videos and upscale to at least 720p. This appears to be impossible.

I've got an original DVD of some Girlfriends Films material. I ripped it and tried to upscale, and it just won't improve. Which is weird because that site upscaled some of it's older content.

There is a lot of information out there about how to upscale video, but it's not written "for dummies".
All the instruction say things like "turn on the blah blah". Well, what is blah blah, and WHERE do I find the button to turn it on?

I've done experiments and the results are all over the place. Often the upscale comes out worse than the original. Pretty much the only practical way to run the software is overnight, when the computer isn't being used for anything else. I've yet to find info that will list the minimum hardware to do what I want the software to achieve.

 

[Torre82]

This topic deserves to be updated. I've been using WinX products to back up my physical DVD collection, and when they offered WinXvideoAI, I took it.
Unfortunately, I have not figured out how to use it correctly. A lot of buttons/choices and I have no idea what any of them do.

What I wanted was to take 360p and/or 480p videos and upscale to at least 720p. This appears to be impossible.

I've got an original DVD of some Girlfriends Films material. I ripped it and tried to upscale, and it just won't improve. Which is weird because that site upscaled some of it's older content.

There is a lot of information out there about how to upscale video, but it's not written "for dummies".
All the instruction say things like "turn on the blah blah". Well, what is blah blah, and WHERE do I find the button to turn it on?

I've done experiments and the results are all over the place. Often the upscale comes out worse than the original. Pretty much the only practical way to run the software is overnight, when the computer isn't being used for anything else. I've yet to find info that will list the minimum hardware to do what I want the software to achieve.

A reasonably insane (2000$) nvidia card with a ton of CUDA cores and you'll still need to render it for hours. Days.

Upscaling is like hosting your own A.I.
You can do it, but it isnt for the layman who has 15 minutes to spare.

You can 'borrow' a google cloud PC (At least you used to. I ran it for voicefakes, last year) for the work, if you are so inclined. But you'd have to know how to install linux packages on a remote machine, run the script and just.. hope it works as intended.

There is still AVClabs or topaz, if you feel like buying it and experimenting.

Again. Still a learning curve.

(btw this assumes you're on windows or know your way around a *nix command line and feel like installing a ton of python stuff. Absolutely forget it on droid/iPhone/mac. Just use the cloud option)

 

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This topic deserves to be updated. I've been using WinX products to back up my physical DVD collection, and when they offered WinXvideoAI, I took it.
Unfortunately, I have not figured out how to use it correctly. A lot of buttons/choices and I have no idea what any of them do.

What I wanted was to take 360p and/or 480p videos and upscale to at least 720p. This appears to be impossible.

I've got an original DVD of some Girlfriends Films material. I ripped it and tried to upscale, and it just won't improve. Which is weird because that site upscaled some of it's older content.

There is a lot of information out there about how to upscale video, but it's not written "for dummies".
All the instruction say things like "turn on the blah blah". Well, what is blah blah, and WHERE do I find the button to turn it on?

I've done experiments and the results are all over the place. Often the upscale comes out worse than the original. Pretty much the only practical way to run the software is overnight, when the computer isn't being used for anything else. I've yet to find info that will list the minimum hardware to do what I want the software to achieve.

Give the trial version of Topaz a shot using the new Starlight model. It used to be cloud only, but we just got model than can be run locally. It's pretty impressive on low-res pron. It just takes a lot of time.

Here's a 320p video I'm working on, and while it's taking days to render, the results are pretty good: