I've been seeing a lot of 'upscaled' videos posted. Vintage and such, and some old JAV as well. What I don't see is the name of the software being used. Some of the work is amazing and I know of a LOT of Jav that would benefit from some sharpening and upgrading. I really don't want to shell out $$$ for software that doesn't do what I need it to do. So far, none of the posters I've messaged have gotten back to me on the subject.

Does anyone know of or use upscaling software, and would you recommend it?

RK

Hi,
From what I was able to find, there is at least these two:
- https://www.videoproc.com/video-converting-software/feature-ai-super-resolution.htm?ttref=w1bd-dhm2311-askw
- https://www.topazlabs.com/downloads?srsltid=AfmBOooo84T3efMMg8rxsPhNzPplhadLDIW8Uso2FHw2EjMYzcohr5JF

But both are not free, and I never used them (I don't have enough powerful computer anyway).

I use You Cut video editor on Android. I have the free version which does the job, but the file size is disproportionately high on upscaling.

It's free so I suppose beggars cannot be choosers.

Disproportionately high is an understatement. It also has a size/time limit. Had to slice a movie in 30 minute chunks. First chunk would be upscaled to 2164p and 8GB. Minimal results in picture quality. Thanks though.

I tried it a few times, and pretty much gave up. Trying to process them took an insane amount of time, and the file sizes were insanely big once it did finish. Quite often with artifacting that I absolutely detested.

Most of my adjustments are still done the "old fashioned" way. Most of what I work with are "classics" (1980s and older film releases), that suffer from various forms of vinegar syndrome or simply bad contrasting when originally converted to videotape three decades ago. So for those I just do the best I can in my editing software.

I tend to see myself more as an "archivist" than anything else.

Topaz is probably best to use if you don't want to install AI/Python stuff.

Topaz can also work offline and it have GUI.

But newer version and model nowadays demand a modern CPU and a decently good GPU to make it fast. Otherwise one video will take you hours to days and maybe weeks if you want size like 8k?

Youtube have many tutorial and guide if you want to use AI. There is also many website that offer it as a paid services.

Avidemux is not Ai enhanced but if you want to do some modest upscaling with sharpening and similar simpler (non Ai) video picture enhancements/changes then Avidemux is a very fast free tool. The UI is not particulrly friendly but this is a swiss army knife amazingly effective tool for reformating videos often with no loss of quality (which similar tools even commercial ones suffer from). I often reformat .TS files to .mkv or .mp4 files because these formats allow faster scrolling ,fast forwarding etc in VLC and doing it in Avidemux is blindingly fast and the method they use does not change quality at all.