I saw someone on Patreon doing this thing where they were providing regular content for their subscribers and thought that we could use something like this in our community.
I was planning on just charging per video instead and have yet to put a lot of thought into the prices at this time.
I am more curious if there were individuals in the community who would be interested in paying to have their favorites or any low quality videos AI upscaled.
I know I am excited at the aspect of having some of my favorites improved.
I am still researching the available options as well so I have not landed on a specific software at the moment either. Again, I am just taking a pulse check on the communities interest on this…
I did it on some videos, live and 3d videos are harder to upscale from say 360-480 to 720 and up.
The results are too blurry as the software can’t find clear edges like noses, mouth and such. Lowering the settings makes it redundant.
Animated are almost flawless tho.
Below original was 240p upscaled to 4k then scaled back down to 1080p and then i tweaked the brightness, contrast and saturation. Took something like 15 hours to render with my hardware.
Rendering on CPU is 3x slower than GPU
Render speed on GPU range roughly from 0.50-1.50 frames per second. So 15 to 75 secs spent to render 1 sec of a 30fps video.
I believe the software is optimized for Nvidia so
I did try running Topaz some time ago on this post https://discuss.eroscripts.com/t/haley-ryder-gym-clothes-and-huge-glass-dildo/10780/8?u=nodude
This was from 720p to 4k, which is hard, so im surprised the result was that good.
What it really needs is high fidelity (usually reflected as high bitrate) to work well, as soon as you go SD resolution or low bitrate 1080p it becomes junk.
So I guess that really old videos from 2000-2010 in resolutions like 512x384, 352x240 and such won’t scale well at all despite the all mighty AI?
It would be nice to have these old classics improved a bit. I’m thinking of videos with stars that retired from the business a long time ago, from the era of DVD or even VHS, when avi and vmw were the video file formats that ruled.
Here’s an attempt on 720x404 to 4k with all models from Topaz File folder on MEGA
What’s apparent is that all of them are still somewhat blurry and alot of them exhibit artifacts.
So if you have some old movies you love, it might be worth it, but otherwise it just makes all of them look like old xvideos clips
I upscaled some random classic porn clip from 352x288 to 1920x1572 (545.5%). The results are ok, the image is not crystal clear and it looks like the AI had some problems with upscaling really bright objects. It’s still improvement from the original and someone who love some vintage porn might gain from it. Probably a few more years and we will get something really good.
It took me around 8 mins for this 2 minute clip so it’s not the end of the world. It was supposed to use my GPU over CPU but in the end used only 50% of my CPU, maybe trial version limitation?
For those among us who come from the Kazaa times and battled dial up connections while offering up weak flop sweat explanations to roommates and family members as to what’s always going on with the phone line and why the bill is so damn high, those upscaled Heather Harmon videos mean so much more than just a sharper image of a beautiful woman deepthroating a very long cock.
