Some tools improve video Topaz Video AI rescues it. You feed it a soft, noisy, or tiny source and, with the right model, out comes a cleaner picture that still looks like motion, not plastic. The appeal is practical: you can upscale archival SD to something you’re not embarrassed to show on a 4K screen, slow shots down without pulldown artifacts, stabilize jittery home movies, and de-noise without sandblasting faces. The 7.x generation adds a calmer UI flow and smarter defaults, while model updates target real bottlenecks: interpolation across scene cuts, film-stock presets, and better handling for pro image sequences.
Key Features
Temporally aware AI models. Instead of treating frames as islands, Topaz tracks motion across time. That’s why upscales, de-noise, and de-blur look more “filmic” than single-frame filters. Pick a model, preview a region at full quality, then commit when it feels right. (Topaz highlights ~24+ models with distinct strengths.)
Slow-motion and interpolation that respect edits. Enabling scene detection for frame interpolation prevents ghosting at hard cuts; each shot is treated as its own mini-timeline so transitions don’t smear. It’s a small switch with outsized results on long reels.
Film and tape sensibilities. Ready-made film-stock presets (Light/Medium/Strong) plus a MiniDV interlaced preset give you sensible baselines for noisy emulsions and 90s/00s camera tapes. You can lean on these, then tweak.
Pro-format friendliness. You can export EXR with alpha, and work directly with DPX sequences without converting to TIFFs first. That alone removes a bunch of tedious glue work in finishing pipelines. VP9 outputs even stretch to 16K if you need giant canvases.
Local export previews. As you render, you can compare the enhanced frame against the original—confidence for long overnight jobs and a sanity check before committing hours.
Predictable setup. Teams keep a standalone installer and a tiny note with version tags and release notes so every bay runs the latest version consistently. It’s boring hygiene that prevents “why is my output different?” headaches.
What’s New
Cross-Scene Artifact Suppression for interpolation (via scene detection), minimizing blend/smear at hard cuts.
Film Stock presets (Light/Medium/Strong) with stabilization enabled by default, plus a MiniDV interlaced baseline—useful for family archives and broadcast-era tape.
EXR Alpha support and DPX non-conversion, making sequence workflows more direct.
VP9 16K output support and selectable GPU for Pro accounts.
7.1.1 fixes: stability around ffmpeg when applying watermarks, corrected audio concatenation with scene detection, and minor auth fixes.
