Upscaling

[Vizioen]

I didn’t have any problem running the creative mode locally on a 4090. This was a few months ago. Not sure if this has changed. I guess this was Gigapixel.

Not a ton of controls for the creative mode, but you can prompt it as well.

I kind of wish they would just have one program instead of so many different ones. I have the bundle and don’t even know what I get, lol.

I bought Gigapixel AI, Video AI, Sharpen AI and Denoise AI 3.5 years ago (I think it was a bundle), and haven't upgraded since. In the meantime they released Photo AI, which looks like a combo of Gigapixel, Sharpen and Denoise. I tried it once but it was not what I expected so decided to just leave it and work with what I got. Don't know if the upscaling models gotten a lot better since then.

[Joelaff]

Yeah, I got some bundle when it first came out, and have been renewing the subscription any time I actually use the tools. Since most of what I do is VFX and starts with quality footage I haven't needed them as much as some other people might, but when I do they are very handy.

That big upscale I did was in January, and whatever version was out then did have some nice improvements. Like I said, I could run it locally as well, and locally on a 4090 was about the same speed they quoted for their cloud (This doesn't surprise me, as the GPUs in datacenters generally aren't much faster, but just have more RAM). I am sure my new 5090 will do even better. I hope they keep permitting local. I hate cloud credit BS-- especially when it is a pre-buy bundles of credits type setup, rather than simply a charge me what I use setup.

They do seem to be constanlty improving the AI models, which at least makes the renewals a little more worthwhile.

[Vizioen]

Yeah, I got some bundle when it first came out, and have been renewing the subscription any time I actually use the tools. Since most of what I do is VFX and starts with quality footage I haven't needed them as much as some other people might, but when I do they are very handy.

That big upscale I did was in January, and whatever version was out then did have some nice improvements. Like I said, I could run it locally as well, and locally on a 4090 was about the same speed they quoted for their cloud (This doesn't surprise me, as the GPUs in datacenters generally aren't much faster, but just have more RAM). I am sure my new 5090 will do even better. I hope they keep permitting local. I hate cloud credit BS-- especially when it is a pre-buy bundles of credits type setup, rather than simply a charge me what I use setup.

They do seem to be constanlty improving the AI models, which at least makes the renewals a little more worthwhile.

5090 nice, I'm jealous, I'm still on a 2080ti and 3080ti. Which one did you get? I'm also doubting to get one, I wanted the Founders edition though because it's compact but not sure about the temps.

As for the cloud credits, the creative enhancements are new since 8.3.0 (at least that's what the website says, not sure if it's different from the redefine model) which launched in march, so maybe that changed.

[Joelaff]

Ah, I was using Redefine. If Creative is different from that I have not tried it. My bad.

Got the MSI something or another. They were very hard to find at an even halfway reasonable price. I got this for retail direct from MSI. Haven't actually had time to install it yet. Mainly got it for Redshift, but any other GPU task as well of course.

[Buck]

in Nuke I've used TVI 2x upscale in a pinch, and it's worked a lot better than just a regular scale up. I wouldn't want to rely on it as a normal workflow, but as a last minute plan B it works pretty well.

[jackieteh]

If you can point me to a good upscaling method (maybe using comfyUI) that doesn't change anything like Topaz I'd be happy to try but I tried a lot of SDXL, Flux upscaling and all of them were severly lacking.

For regular upscaling I like to use Topaz it's the best thing I found out there. I had a very tight deadline once (most of the time actually, but this time I had only 1 night to render 15 images on 1 TR 3990x), so I rendered at 2000px and upscaled to 5000px. Granted it's not as good as rendering on 5K immediately but for that purpose it did the job just fine.

For creative upscaling I use Magnific, also haven't found a better one out there either.

Edit: There's also the AI upscaler inside V-Ray (denoiser element > Nvidia > AI upscale), that renders at half the resolution and then scales up. But I find Topaz a little bit better.

The AI upscale blur some part of the final rendering in my case.