Topaz Labs has launched Video AI Pro. It’s an advanced version of the company’s AI-powered Video AI software tool, designed for enterprise creative teams.
What is Video AI?
Video AI is one of the applications in Topaz Labs’ suite of AI-powered software. It includes models that can upscale your video to 16K while fixing compression artifacts. There are also AI tools to denoise, stabilize and sharpen your footage. In addition, the slow-motion AI models generate new frames to keep your footage smooth. The AI models have been trained on millions of frames to apply subject-based correction, recognizing the difference between human faces and background images. As well as solutions for video, Topaz Labs has a Photo AI application with similar AI models to enhance still images.
What does Video AI Pro add?
Video AI Pro is aimed at enterprise-level customers and adds a range of features for larger creative teams. It offers the full range of AI models to stabilize, denoise, sharpen and interpolate your video clips. The Pro version of the software can also upscale video even further, up to an incredible 24K. The new software specifically maximizes throughput on multi-GPU systems. Topaz Labs says that it works with graphics processors by AMD, Apple, Intel and Nvidia. Working with multiple GPUs also means that Video AI Pro can process your video much faster. Topaz Labs says the application is accelerated “to achieve speeds at two, three, ten times faster and beyond.”
Local processing
With Video AI Pro, you can improve your video using AI models that run completely offline with local processing. As a result, you can be sure your media is kept secure. In addition, Topaz Labs states that content edited in Video AI Pro is not used for any AI model training and never leaves your servers. You can deploy the platform as an on-premises local render farm. Alternatively, you can run within an AWS Outpost for an optimal blend of security and access. With Video AI Pro, you can speed up exports by sending separate files to each GPU. You can also split a single file across multiple GPUs to get your most important shot faster.
Tools to empower
“With concerns of AI threatening creatives in the entertainment industry, enhancement teams need tools that both empower them to improve quality in ways previously impossible, and maintain fidelity to the studio’s original artistic vision,” said Topaz Labs CEO Eric Yang. “Since our first AI model in 2018, Topaz Labs championed the belief that AI should enhance, not replace, creatives’ existing work. With Video AI Pro, large post-production teams can upscale and refine feature-length films more quickly and effectively than ever before.”
What we think
The standard version of Video AI can deliver very impressive results across all of its AI models. Now, with the release of Video AI Pro, Topaz Labs has brought all of those benefits to enterprise creative teams and studios. The option to use multiple GPUs to render the effects will dramatically improve the speed of output from Video AI. This is also important as the software offers lots of options to fine tune the effects of each AI model. Sometimes getting the best results for a particular clip does involve an element of trial and error. As such being able to render faster delivers a huge boost to productivity.
Pricing and availability
Video AI Pro is available in three annual licensing packages depending on your team size. The entry-level package for an individual costs $1,099. For organizations with five to 10 users, Video AI Pro Teams starts at $4,999 and features administrative and permission controls. Video AI Pro Enterprise allows organizations with larger teams to work directly with Topaz Labs to develop custom models and workflows. The pricing for those options is based on engagement level.
