

Here you can select the speed of slow motion you want (eg, None, 2x, 4x, etc) and which AI model should be used (more on this a little later in this review).Įnhancement improves image quality using four AI model options: Proteus (fine-tune and enhance footage), Artemis (denoise and sharpen footage), Gaia (upscale footage), and Theia (improve details and clarity). Stabilization examples in Topaz Labs Video AIįrame Interpolation controls how additional frames are inserted into exported footage. I think the main benefit of this feature is baking stabilization into exported footage for faster timeline editing and processing later in post. Edges can however get a little wobbly and warpy, similar to what you see when using stabilizing effects in video editors (eg, Warp Stabilizer in Premiere Pro). In my tests, handheld footage with light wobbles and bumps stabilized acceptably well using both options. The quality of stabilization is entirely dependent on how shaky a source video is. The latter is basically the video version of "Content Aware Fill" in Photoshop. This filter helps stabilize camera shake either by cropping-in ("Auto-Crop") or retaining field of view and intelligently filling-in gaps and empty spaces ("Full Frame"). Stabilization is a new feature in Video AI. Each filter may then be further customized to fine-tune (and in some cases improve) the results generated using the pre-built presets. The aforementioned presets work by enabling and configuring encoding filters using saved values. This makes exported files easier to read and find compared to the first version of the app. Video AI also automatically names exported video files with hashed numbers and abbreviated acronyms for the enhancement settings used. This new version of Video AI also makes file naming and exporting simpler by always exporting videos to same folder as the source file (by default, but you can change this in the app settings). The preview and export queues are the most fundamental change in Video AI, for not only can the new app generate previews and exports simultaneously, but it also allows users to import more videos and work on them while the app is churning away in the background. Similar to the previews queue, multiple videos may be queued for export as well. This allows you to queue up however many previews you want, pick whichever preview you like best, then click Export to export the enhanced video. Queued previews in Topaz Labs Video AIĮach preview saves the enhancement settings used to generate it. Video AI allows multiple previews to be generated from the same video, or multiple imported videos.

When settings are adjusted and Preview is clicked again, a new preview is added to the Previews queue. Only encode what you actually need! Preview button in Topaz Video AI Tip: trimming footage can also substantially decrease preview and export encode times (especially slow motion). This encodes a few seconds of the source video, then displays the enhanced and original videos side by side for comparison. Presets (and custom enhancements) are previewed by clicking the purple Preview button under the video. Presets now play a more dominant role, with a number of helpful built-in options for common tasks, including: The layout and labeling is clearer and easier for non-professional users to understand. Topaz also made considerable improvements to Video AI's user experience. This new multithreaded architecture makes Video AI far more usable especially when batch processing multiple videos. The app is now fully usable while video is encoding, unlike the first version that locked users out until it was finished exporting. The biggest change to Video AI's interface is its ability to preview and export multiple videos simultaneously. Topaz Labs Video AI user interface (macOS) The colors, typography and controls all derive from the same design system used in its sibling enhancement app, Photo AI. The entire user interface of Video AI has been redesigned with improved visual aesthetics and usability.
