Has anybody been able to successfully render 1/2 resolutions and upscale them in something like Topaz? I have about 60 images to render in three weeks and hope for a shortcut. I have tried, and I am underwhelmed. I am thinking rendering 1920X1080 and upscaling - any settings to be aware of?
I remember all kinds of tricks I used back in the day to render scenes my computer couldn’t handle. I look back now and am amazed I pulled it off. I am hoping to learn some new tricks using AI. I hope one of you says yes. I do it all the time and would never waste time rendering full resolution again—please!
Yes, you can choose 1x2 or 1x4 to get 200% or 400% enlarged images, but please choose SDXL or Flux models, topaz ones are lacking in my opinion. For online upscaler, you can try kreaai.
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.
Recently upscaled a print render in Topaz. Did it with two different upscale models, normal and the “creative” one and then blended them in PS. Didn’t take much work for my subject.
Good to try a number of methods or if all the images are similar you could train something CooyCat in Nuke to upscale for you by showing it a few low res and the ground truth high res renders as training.
Ok, if you could post a little crop of a before and after, would be nice. I still have magnific untill october, but rather not pay as I’m not using all of my credits at all every month.
I’m not going to bother to try uploading anything because this forum is still f**ked and gives errors when I try anything other than a text reply.
The results aren’t as ‘good’ as magnific IMO and you have to use cloud for the generative stuff which costs credits. There are fewer levers to play with and I’m more comfortable with magnific’s foibles as they are. I do like in Gigapixel that you get a little preview window of a specified area but it’s still fairly slow.
The generative model using cloud computing:
5k image without upscaling is 6 credits.
5k image with 2x upscaling is 22 credits.
Credit costs are anywhere from $0.25 to $0.66 depending on how big your purchase is.
Possibly, but I think perhaps these creative models are really too much to be run locally. Krea has the same problems. Magnific is just tuned fairly well to handle massive images without toooo many tiling artefacts.
Yeah possible, when I tried creative upscaling in comfyUI on my RTX3080Ti, it took about 20-40 minutes to go from 1500px to 3000px. And results were…unsatisfactory. Although I wouldn’t mind waiting 20 minutes locally if I knew the outcome was good. Also that Topaz pricing is just ridiculous.
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.
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.
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.
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.
