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Of course I know there is no magic, and it seems that everything now revolves around AI, and they advertise everything, but the reality is that AI still comes at a very slow pace, at least as far as the area of image and videos and their improvements, there are a lot of lies about AI in these two areas, what I've seen is that these so-called AI softwares just INVENT where they don't exist or existed and it was cut so for me, who work with systems, I know AI is learning above of what existed, it requires a real model, to be able to create and/or invent what no longer exists in a compressed source and as you very well report in a "committed" source on Youtube. That's important to me, because it's a personal hobby, as it must be for many who like old series that didn't come out in HD/FHD/UHD either, and that's what makes all the difference. Look my friend lordsmurf, I agree with you and respect your opinion for being a professional for years in this area, editing videos, since I am an IT Systems Analyst, who knows very little about this universe of video and photo editing, I just use photoshop basics for editing photos and some commands in DaVinci Resolve to tidy up some videos for my enjoyment, not like you being a pro, but let me give you the opinion of an end user, not a pro OK.įrom my point of view, I just want to have a better definition of my Show DVD's, on my TV Samsung TU8000 4K 50K, which unfortunately didn't come out of HD/FHD/UHD, and I confess that I'm excited with some results, both using Avisynth like Topaz. The only reason that upscale gets "better" is merely because the sources get better. It's the same basic artifacts that you're fighting, and that's unlikely to ever change. I've been upscaling images (still and video) since fractal methods came out in the 90s. I've even uninstalled and reinstalled the Hybrid, but it keeps giving the CRASH error. Here are my Hybrid settings, where am I going wrong? The fact is that when I use the parameter "overwrite input scan type to: bottom field first" I get a CRASH error on Hybrid and it doesn't convert the file to progressive, it doesn't actually generate any file at all, and I don't know how to solve this, so I'm counting on the masters here to help me unravel the reason for this error and how to solve it on my Windows 10 Pro 21H1. It turns out that in the Topaz community, I received a file that I had sent in 480i and someone improved it using some parameters of the QTGMC filter to 480p, but when using the same parameters (my friend's machine was a MAC running Hybrid) it gave a CRASH error at a certain point.Īfter discovering that the files that I had been testing with some Topaz models, in reality and although MPCHC and MediaInfo claim to be progressive, they are not, and how do I know? I used this script here: and verified that really, only the file my friend sent me truly reflects being progressive, generated by Hybrid :/.Īnd looking closely, I can see that the files I generated without using the parameter "overwrite input scan type to: bottom field first", the comb/alias effect of the interlaced files is visible. Guys I need a lot of help here with the Hybrid :/. New artifacts emerge, and the net result can be worse. It doesn't simply make video better, but merely different. So upscaling to appease Youtube is equally pointless. They change ingest specs as often as some folks change their underwear (not literally, I hope, but you get the idea).
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They can (and do) whatever dumb thing they want, in terms of encoding. Well, so what? Youtube has never been the yardstick for quality. For example, "Youtube insists on 1080p uploads".
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You can butcher sharpness in SD already, HD not needed.Īll of this pointlessly bad upscaling get amplified when the upscaler sucks (ie, Topaz).įYI, Youtube is too often used as a yardstick for what to do. Recordings of video games, mostly from consoles that really weren't even base SD quality.įar too many people also confuse upscale with "crank the sharpen knob to 11". Few actually upscale retail DVD sources, aside from scenes for editing sources (again, mixed content). Many more try to upscale VHS - and from a bad capture that had no TBC nor a quality VCR. Too many "restore" bottom-quality Youtube videos. Those are valid.īut the vast majority of people doing upscale is for pointless nonsense. The only real exception is where you have mixed-content projects (almost exclusively documentaries).