Topaz Video AI is a video enhancement software developed by Topaz Labs. It specializes in completing specific video enhancement tasks like deinterlacing, upscaling, and motion interpolation. This capability has been developed through the careful crafting of AI models over a period of five years to achieve natural results on real-world footage.
The platform offers a high degree of flexibility and efficiency in video editing workflows. It allows users to execute multiple tasks simultaneously, such as upscaling to 4K resolution, stabilizing footage, and adding grain. Users can also run different previews from multiple input video files with varying settings and export several projects at the same time.
Topaz Video AI v3.0 supports script execution using a command line interface, providing advanced users with significant flexibility in customizing scripted processes. It supports hardware encoding for H264, H265, and AV1 across all platforms, along with high-bit output formats such as ProRes 444. This version has made improvements in color space support, color accuracy, and color depth support, now up to 16-bit. Additionally, it has introduced a new cropping tool.
One of the notable features of Topaz Video AI is the stabilization model, which reduces shaky or jittery motion, commonly caused by an unstable camera. The AI estimates camera movements between frames and transforms each frame to make camera movements appear smoother. Another feature, the Apollo model, works on creating slow-motion videos and converting frame rates. Unlike traditional models, Apollo is trained to handle non-linear motion and motion blurs.
Over the versions, Topaz Video AI has delivered performance and stability improvements, including optimizations that improve model quality and make the app run smoother. The latest version, 3.2.7, provides unlimited access to the world’s leading production-grade neural networks for video upscaling, deinterlacing, motion interpolation, and shake stabilization, all optimized for your local workstation.
Topaz Labs provides detailed guides for users to understand how to improve the quality of their videos using Topaz Video AI. There are specific guides for various workflows like upscaling low-quality videos to HD, deinterlacing and upscaling noisy footage, and using Apollo to create smooth slow-motion output.
It’s also recommended to check the system requirements for Topaz Video AI to ensure smooth operation. The more memory allocated, the better the performance, but this may impact the performance of other concurrently running applications.
Lastly, Topaz Labs hosts a community forum where users can discuss new releases, share issues, and find solutions.
