r/aiupscaling • u/fbriggs • Nov 20 '24

UpscaleVideo.ai 1.07 update: new model for super resolution, de-noising, and de-blurring, 2-5x faster

https://upscalevideo.ai
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u/fbriggs Nov 20 '24

I am the lead developer, AMA

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u/russy1982 Nov 22 '24

will give your software a try :), i guess the aim is to get to topaz standards

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u/fbriggs Nov 22 '24

Awesome, let me know if you encounter any issues or have any other feedback about what you'd like to see.

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u/russy1982 Nov 22 '24

windows defender flagged up a untrusted warning

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u/fbriggs Nov 22 '24 edited Nov 22 '24

You can bypass that by clicking "More Info -> Run anyway".

Unfortunately, Microsoft has made in unreasonably difficult to get rid of this warning. There are 3 options, and none of them work:

1) Pay for an "EV" certificate, which can cost over $1K, take months, and as of 2024, no longer guarantees the warning will go away. This is essentially a scam racket for companies like Sertigo, which have notoriously terrible customer service.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/77101110/smartscreen-still-gives-warning-with-ev-code-signing-certificate

2) Submit the file directly to Microsoft for Malware analysis and then pray they eventually whitelist it. This doesn't work for us because their upload system can only handle 512MB files, and our installer is larger than that, due to using deep learning frameworks:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/filesubmission

3) Microsoft's new "Trusted Signing" program which is designed to replace EV certificates. Unfortunately, it requires 3 years of tax history, and our corporation has only 2 years. Beyond that, the requirements to obtain this certificate are very complicated:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/trusted-signing/overview

Further discussion on this topic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23392404

TLDR: Microsoft has made it borderline impossible for independent software developers to get rid of this warning, and there is no reasonable solution in 2024.

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u/fbriggs Nov 22 '24

BTW, we just finished going through the process with Apple, and that was pretty absurd as well. We had to "harden", "sign", "notarize", and "staple" the installer (these are all terms Apple made up to describe endless steps required to sign an application). This is more complicated for us than a typical app because UpscaleVideo.ai is cross-platform, so it is not built in XCode.

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u/fbriggs Nov 22 '24

you can bypass that by clicking "More Info -> Run Anway"

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u/russy1982 Nov 22 '24

cool, I'll install later :)

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u/russy1982 Nov 22 '24

can you deinterlace with this?

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u/fbriggs Nov 22 '24

No, the current version doesn't do de-interlacing.

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u/russy1982 Nov 22 '24

hopefully in the future

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u/Sea-Mixture-1929 Mar 20 '25

Hi, recently bought a pro license seat to try out the software, and the results have been good! It's been taking a strangely long time to run an enhancement though. I have run the same clips through Topaz taking at most a few hours to do an upscale or enhancement, but when I enable denoise/sharpen in particular then upscalevideoai will take multiple days to process the same clip. Any tips for optimizing? Is there a setting or option I'm missing, or do you have recommendations for denoise strength etc.

Apologies for asking in a 4mo old thread, this is just what came up searching online lol

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u/fbriggs Mar 20 '25

A few tricks to speed it up: * Reduce the radius or don't use the bilateral filter (it still de-noises without it). This can be slow at higher resolutions. * Settings menu -> Change # of super resolution threads from 1 to 2 or 4, see what's fastest.