AI Video Upscaling for FREE
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- čas přidán 5. 11. 2022
- You can easily upscale low resolution videos, images and even animated GIFs for free using the Waifu2x graphical interface by Aaron Feng. Unlike regular video scaling, Waifu2x uses Artificial Intelligence to upscale and enhance videos, sometimes with amazing results.
Links to the free software you will need:
github.com/AaronFeng753/Waifu...
www.7-zip.org/
as someone who's trying to be an editor on a budget real tight budget (literally like 0$), this'll do wonders for me
Frame-by-frame pixelation multiplication. Just what I needed. Thanks for this :)
Thanks dude! i just got into this kind of stuff after seeing a lot of people do it for fun. might suscribe and keep watching your content.
cant tell u how long ive been waiting for an ai upscaling software for free without watermark and i hope God blesses your soul
Thank you so much for this guide! You really earned my sub and like!
I hope your videos reach a very large audience one day, and wish you all the best of luck!
Absolutely clear and concise tutorial. Thank you!
Bro this software is amazing, thank you for the in-depth tutorial. You the MVP for real.
Literally perfect video and instructions. Keep this up!
thank you so much for the help, I've looked everywhere and I finally found the answer to my questions about this program :D
Amazing, been looking for something like this since 2020!
It's amazing that this is free, thank you so much for this! God bless you🙏
I swear, people just don't know about this.
This works super well, and its free!!
Thank U so much mate😆
Thank you so much for the step by step guide, you made it super easy and just straight to the point.
thanks for this bro haha i knew my GTX 1080s in SLI would help me some where down the line other then just playing games 😀good video and walkthrough my dude
Wow, the quality improvement is insane
Thank you very much for the explanation, it was a really informative and helpful video!
Worked like a charm! Thanks for the tutorial
Awesome.. Nice. Thanks!
It was a comprehensive informative video.
Thank you for a concise and easy guide! Here are a few observations re. time needed for processing a few old mpeg-videos I found, just to give a rough idea about how long it might take (people seem to ask). This is by no means scientific or exact, just results from a few test runs I did. Video1 was 15 seconds and 320x240 and video2 was 480x360 and 8 minutes (old and shaky camcorder video from family events). All upscaling was 3x scale ratio with 3D Enlarge & Frame interpolation High Quality, and the encoding was done by the GPU, most recent Nvidia drivers. The RTX is slightly overclocked, but disabling that didn't seem to change things all that much. The GTX is not overclocked (it's just an always-on machine doing server/dns/cctv/media center things)
Computer 1, i5-9400K / Nvidia GTX 1650 Super 4Gb: video1 = 6 minutes 30 sec and video2 = 12 hours 20 minutes
Computer 2, i7-10700K / Nvidia RTX 3080 10Gb: video1 = 1 min 15 sec and video2 = 2 hours 12 minutes
I seem to get best quality results using RealESRGAN-NCNN-Vulkan. It is a really interesting piece of software, and I plan to continue upscaling things. If I can afford the electrical bill that is, the RTX was using 340 watts at 71°C during its long run 🙂
Great info, thanks!
I have rtx 3050(laptop) and i5 12th, how much time would it take for ~40 mins 480p video?
@@Sunny-Gupta1it will be very slow.. For normal use of this software NEVER use your laptop or you kill it by constant overheating. You can also open your laptop and use big fan to cool down it. Otherwise it will be constantly overheated. Also you need to know that laptop i5 and laptop RTX 3050 are not the same as desktop ones and are MUCH slower than real i5 and real 3050. And 3050 is the low end card, you need 3080+ to get adequate processing times
@@deaddycruel damn, I knew it, I wanted to upscale an old TV detective show.
@@Sunny-Gupta1it's the work for desktop only. And it will be slow
Thank you for the video, I had no idea there was a free program for this
Thank you so much for the tutorial, the video overall is very good, so props to you ❣you earned a new subscriber n_n
Awesome Tutorial. Thank you! Worked perfectly :D
Amazing piece of kit. Thankyou.
THANK YOU SO SO MUCH! IT WORKED GREAT AND MY VIDEO LOOKS MUCH BETTER NOW!
Thank you for showing us this very helpful program!
The tutorial and precise explanation was well structured and time saving! Thank you for the video!
I got it to work. Your the man. Thank you for lacing us up with game!!
thank you very much! exactly what i was looking for!
Gonna send some $ to this developer. I’m backing up the entire Adventure time series but the dvds look terrible on modern displays.
720p is a quick convert and looks WAY better than the pixelated dvd.
I tried 1080p at first. Most scenes looked INCREDIBLE but many small things ended up getting muddy and had that uncanny AI look.
Thanks for the tutorial!
Damn, all that for adventure time lmao
Just what I need. Thank u Mr awesome uploader dude
This is amazing! Thanks so much for posting
it doewsnt work
@@Goat_Dips It works a champ for me. Sorry it doesn't for you. Maybe read through the available documentation and watch some more YT videos to learn more about how to use the program? That's what I did.
Thank you so much, I have been searching for a good upscaling software and I was about to buy a few programs but you saved me :D!
thank you so much. I was able to upscale my render animation to 4k from 2k without have to render all 3000 frames. Thank you so much
Fantastic! Thank you for sharing :)
I was hasty to delete the program until I saw your video.
Thank you for making a simple tutorial that makes sense, unlike the countless people who make horrible videos in regards to tutorials.
It seems extremely rare in terms of people who actually know what they're doing when it comes to tutorial videos, for a whole range of all sorts of things.
btw, is this one of those "trials" that lasts forever?
Thanks! Yes this seems to be one of those endless trials. I consider it “donation ware” - pay if you want to support the developer, but that is optional
@@holidayeffects3933 k cool
Videos are a horrible format for tutorials in general
@@wiiztec that makes no sense
@@14reasons58 Why should I have to seek around a video looking for the part I need help on and then wait a couple seconds for someone to speak a sentence when I could just scroll down to a part of a webpage and read what I need to read as fast as I'm able?
Good stuff man, Keep it up
Smashing sowfware🤯
Appreciate it!
Thanks for this tutorial! Gonna try this on some cartoons I grew up with! If nothing else just for grins and giggles!😁📼👌
Theres a recent update for it. How do I download it/what path do i download it to
The program doesn't install, it just runs from whatever directory you unzip it to. I just moved the folder it to the desktop cause people can find things there more easily. Just download & unzip it, move the folder if you want, and run the program from the folder like is shown in the video
The original video resolution was 322 x 240
Thank you! Im going to try it!
Thanks, mate, it was really helpful
The Dev is a legend, these corperations charging big money for this
They have to pay salaries to their employees and government , support them if you like their software
I'm trying it! Of course my PC doesn't have the best graphic capabilities but maybe it works for what I need
Fantastic! Thank you :D
Thanks man, appreciate it
A 30 second clip took me about 4 minutes, a movie will take I'm guessing a whole day!
Very awesome, thanks
dude thank you for this. I was about to spend $100 on a different program
Well Explained .
Thanks for the post. I sub'd
thanks for the amazing help
going to use it for my youtube channel
Thank you very much I've always been looking for such a free tool or something that makes one's videos at home more beautiful I of course subscribed to you immediately it's clear I always like to experiment with everything that's possible that's my world I just want mine make your own Hollywood films, so to speak :-) thank you very much, best regards Murat 🙂
Thank you and best of luck in all of your video projects
Thank you soo much brother!
Great Video! Thank you!!!!
amazing!! thanks
I’m in the process of upscaling a 16 video clip from 888x500 to 1920x1080. I’m using Video2x gui that has the waifu2x driver. It’s my first one and I’m 7 hours in. 🥴 but I’m glad to know that the length of time is normal. I can’t wait to see the finished product.
It can take a loooong time to process things depending on both the video and the PC you are using so as long as it seems to be making progress you should be good. One tip is to trim down the video clip to just the part you want to use (if it isn’t the whole video) - but yeah otherwise it is just start it and let it run for as long as it needs
It's literally upscaling images frame by frame and AI is pretty slow at that right now, not sure how much the program written helps with it either. However it could be good to use video editing software and chop up the video so you don't have to leave your system running for too long. If it puts a lot of load on your hardware for a long time it may get cooked.
Did ut work?
@@tomsterbg8130 Its also the AI, but it also depends on your pc/laptop and mainly gpu/cpu
how long is your video
Amazing stuff .
Thank you for this, will download it tomorrow. That's a nice wallpaper, never knew desktop wallpaper moved, where did you get it?.
That is Wallpaper Engine - about $4 on Steam. Thousands of community created wall papers for free, I love it
Thanks man 👍
I am a little late to the party. Thank you so much for posting this instructional video.
How does this freeware compare with TopazLabs Video AI? Have you tried it out yet? The free demo allows you to do everything and without limitation in time, but the upscaled videos are watermarked. Also, as a sidenote, with films on DVD great results can be obtained by processing the mpeg2 files in Handbrake whilst applying filters and then playing the films in VLC for example whilst using Nvidia's RTX super resolution and HDR feature. Maybe not as good as AI upscaling but still very watchable.
Great, thanks for this! Is there a different between Waifu2x und Video2x in case of time and quality?
Video2x is just a python GUI front end (much like waifu2xGUI) so the processing speed and quality really all depends on the engines you select and since they are mostly using the same open source upscaling engines, performance is probably super close with the same engines. I found waifu2xGUI to have more options and to be a little more 'automagic' in it's operation but nothing wrong with Video2x either
i would to see if you can get a similar tutorial for a Video motion amplification program going.
Thanks for the video. Very helpful.
I have some videos that are 1920 x 1080 but the original source video was very poor quality.
Is there a setting to keep the resolution the same but improve the quality of the footage?
See if you can turn down the Scale Ratio to 1. I don’t have the software in front of me to test. If the GUI won’t let you do it, you can wain waifu2x directly and just change the part of my sample command line from “-s 2” to “-s 1” using this tutorial: czcams.com/video/juuNQju0xv4/video.htmlsi=g_E1BgUTLSZSHK7h
it works thank u so much bro
Thanks for this ai❤
Thanks for this
Thanks! 😊🙏❤️
Thank you!
thanks bro
I am a complete amateur at this, but I have a question: the initial pass of the process creates a file with a bunch of still frames, which are upscaled individually and then re-assembled in the final processing. If I am working with a video conversion from a vintage film which has dust and scratches, can I clean up the film, frame-by-frame, using those stills, by importing them, one-by-one, into photo editing software, cleaning them up and then plugging them back into the file for the final processing? I realize this would be very tedious, but I'm just curious if it's possible (or there may be some video editors which can do this automatically). Thanks!
Wonderful tutorial for those of us who don't have a lot of knowledge of video editing! I have a bunch of old Hi-8 analog video tapes which I want to digitize and then upscale the best segments. Subscribed, and I will be looking at your other videos.
You absolutely can extract and combine manipulated frames back into a video again. In fact I show exactly how to do what Waifu2xGUI is doing in the background in this video: czcams.com/video/UF05AbZq-sw/video.html
The upshot is there are just 3 steps; extract the frames, upscale the frames and recombine the frames. By just skipping the "upscale the frames" and doing something else to them, you could use that video as a tutorial.
HOWEVER personally I would drop that video into the free version of Davinci Resolve and use things like it's clone tool (that lets you seamlessly paint out things), sharpening and maybe some it's movie grade color tools to clean up the video in an editor directly. That might be enough right there. The full, paid version ($300 one time) version of Davinci Resolve Studio gets you a full restoration tool set. You can check them out in the free version with a watermark to try them out. Check out this video from another CZcamsr for an example of using the Studio (paid) version: czcams.com/video/-QX9uf1FSOk/video.html
@@holidayeffects3933 , thanks! I watched that 2nd video. With the DaVinci Resolve tools, it looks much easier! And sharpening might be all that's necessary in many cases, saving the upscale process for special uses.
Gorgeous
great stuff
thank you brother
I have a GTX 750Ti, a 4th gen core i3 processor for reference, and I want to upscale 720p video game footage captured on a PS4 to 1080p..
The footage will be about an hour long so am I realistically looking at days of processing here and should I just opt for a regular video editor like Davinci Resolve? Great tutorial by the way
You are right, it would likely take a looong time to do AI upscaling so yeah the algorithmic upscaling like in Resolve is the way to go. You can always to a 1 minute clip and see how long that takes to get an estimate of the time but I suspect it would be many, many hours
Awesome...
Oh! I think I've purchased your products if you made the Halloween pumpkins with songs and stories.
I don’t make any products (just CZcams videos). You are probably thinking of AtmosFX, HallowFX or The Singing Pumpkins - they all make great video decorations and I have videos on how to remix and customize them
Thank u sm man
Question: you can do it to one elaborate video multiple times for having a better result? I mean, i take one video, elaborate one time, then take the result video and repeat the process for better quality again
Offhand I would say “no” (but I haven’t tried it). Multiple runs would likely just compound errors. The danger of AI up scaling is introducing weird, unnatural looking images and I think it would just look ridiculous after a few passes. Could be wrong of course, but I would be doubtful
Hi thanks for sharing this amazing tool. I wondering if one ia open source for videos colors like a runaway ia. Converting video like a cinema cámara style but this one is no open source. You put the clip and write one text to the style of camera you want and covert the video to look the filming that camera style you choice. Sorry for my English I hope you understand I try to say ahaha.
Thank you for sharing. I was doing a very long (>12h) video upscalling when the battery went down. Is there a way to resume from where it was interrupted?
Sorry for the slow reply - I am not sure but you could try turning off the "Reprocess Finished Files" to see if that would skip the frames already done. I am not sure about that, just a guess.
What was orginal video resolution? Thank you for tutorial video 👍👍
Hi, thanks for this video
If I have a i5 10th and a amd rx 6750xt
Can I have some better performances or it remains slow?
Thanks for your demostration
AI upscaling is very slow - like leave it overnight slow. I am using fast machines and a very small file and a small upscale. Fortunately is is something most people don't have to do too often and once it is done, that video is done. If you want to test various upscaling parameters, use an editor to make a short clip and just upscale that to tweak the upscale and then do the whole thing.
This is real magic
Hello,
It is amazing!
I would like to ask for some help.
Where can I increase the video frame rate?
I swear I can't find it anywhere :D
I think the "Multiple of FPS" is what you need, but it is one of the premium features. Probably best just to do that in your video editor. Davinci Resolve free version would be a good choice
Friend, thank you for your tutorial, unfortunately I don't speak English, I understand little and from what I watched I didn't understand at some point you mentioned the model of graphics card you use, I think I didn't say, could you say here? Thanks again for your excellent didactic tutorial
It is an Nvidia 1070 however you can use it without a graphics card theoretically but in real practice you need one to get reasonable speed
Would this work with recorded gameplay too? I have this footage recorded with a PS4, but it is very pixilated. Would this help improve that too?
It *should* but I haven't tried it.
rtx 3060 upscaling to 4k and adding frames; time = 3h, GPU temp = 70c .
TY !!!
great video .. do you know whats the maximum upscaling resolution ?
There doesn't seem to be a hard limit in the Waifu2x GUI * BUT * in the actual engines like waifu2x-ncnn-vulkan the maximum scale factor is 32 times the video resolution
Hello there. I made this highlight montage of a game on davinci resolve and exported it in 1440p. Then I wanted to make some final changes on capcut. When I exported it in 2k/4k the quality reduced making the video look less vibrant and more pixelated(size going from 3gb to 900mb). Now I have two choices. Either try to make the adjustments I did on cap cut, on davinci resolve or upscale the video quality using some software. I heard about video2x but it's so hard to setup and I can't find any tutorial on it. Do you think I should try what you are showing in the video? Will it have any benefit?
It would probably be very, very slow to try to upscale the video in either video2x or Waifu2xGUI. Try loading it back in to Davinci and upscaling it from there and see how it looks
@@holidayeffects3933 You mean re exporting it cause I don't have davinci pro which comes with the upscaling software.
If I were to upscale 720p game footage (e.g. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom) should I use the 2D or the 3D preset?
Do I need to change the video scale from 2000 to 4000 like you did as well?
Hard to guess with cell shading, but I would go with 3d to start with but best to just do a sample of each. The video scale defaults to 2.000 (not 2000) and that means 2x scaling. 4 (4.000) would do a 4x scale. 2x would double the number of pixels across and down in the video. The fraction is so you can do 1.5 scaling, for example. Also best to do a short (1 minute) section to see how long a longer video would take to process (and in this case test 2d vs 3d).
@@holidayeffects3933 It took around 4 hours to upscale a 1min 30 sec video to 1080p on the best 3D preset but it worked really well. Thank you!
Edit: Turns out, it upscaled it to 1440p instead of 1080p. No wonder it took so long.
thankyou
Hey! I have been using it and it works perfectly fine with files under 5minutes but everytime I try to upscale anything that's longer than 5mins, it fails after 2%, I have 500gb usual storage,16gb ram, i7 12700H and 6700xt. Any idea what may be going wrong?
Not sure what could be going wrong - nothing in the log file at the bottom of the screen? If not you might want to check out my video about running Waifu2x Vulcan without the GUI. This way you will get any error messages and see exactly where in the process you are having trouble: czcams.com/video/UF05AbZq-sw/video.html. You could also ask in waifu2x subreddit and see if anyone has had a similar experience
which GPU you used while up scaling this clip ? I have used this software few times but never saw this hardware encoding with my GPU.
That PC is running a old Nvidia 1070
I was going to use Upscayl to enhance a 1 minute video as an image sequence, so would that be OK or should I use this instead?
LOL Great minds think alike. Here is a video using Upscayl I just got done editing. I use Shotcut as an easy way to export and re-import the frames. Should take you through the whole process step by step: czcams.com/video/QdYdq3xO7-k/video.html
@@holidayeffects3933 Thanks. There is surprisingly little about it to be found. Not even mentioned in the Upscayl guide! I was going to use Vegas Pro to render as image sequence, then run it through Upscayl and then back to Vegas Pro. I have downloaded Video 2x and will install it and compare it. I will certainly watch your new video. Video, images, same stuff under the hood.
thanks man
instant subscribe from me
8 second clip on my laptop is taking 4 hours no joke its a 1080x1920 vertical video, have any tips?
I've just tried it. It said it will take 8 hours to render a 6 seconds video lol. Inmediately deleted it.
But thanks for the effort bro.
when it spent a few hours doing its thing, it said complete and all. However when I try to play the video it says "we can't play the video for [insert title of video] because its encoding settings aren't supported. you can still listen to the audio" is there a fix for this? I'd appreciate it.
i'm having the same issue :/
Any ideas how much data the upscaling process uses, assuming I use the same settings in the video with a 20 second clip
Do you mean storage or like Internet data usage? On Internet data usage - zero, everything is done locally. As for storage, for the images is actually dependent on the resolution of the video. The GUI program, however, only does about 800 frames at a time to keep the storage pretty reasonable, even with large projects.
This was 1 Year ago crazy.
Hi, great turorial. The software was working perfectly fine at first for me but then it started giving ridiculously long times. At first a 15-20 second video took maybe 4-5 hours but now its 24 hours. The number of frames, the big number that slowly goes up, has also gone up from 400-500 to 3000. Any ideas why this has suddenly happened?
Of course every video is different in the number of frames, resolution and such. If the same video is giving wildly different times I would suspect your PC is busy with some other tasks or something is consuming your video memory or RAM. Try upgrading to the latest version in case they had a memory leak bug and I would reboot between upscales to free up resources. Hopefully that solves the issue.
@@holidayeffects3933 ill try these things out. Thanks for the help
Hi hoilday effects my name is bradley I have a question does video2x work with 16:9 aspect ratio is there a setting for that when starting to upscale because I tried a family guy star wars special it was 480p the upscaled and then the aspect ratio changed from 16:9 into 4:3 is there a way to fix that
Prob parameters
@@Lord_common_sense how does prob parameters work on video2x without changing the aspect ratio by keeping the aspect ratio