as someone who's trying to be an editor on a budget real tight budget (literally like 0$), this'll do wonders for me

cant tell u how long ive been waiting for an ai upscaling software for free without watermark and i hope God blesses your soul

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.

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!

Bro this software is amazing, thank you for the in-depth tutorial. You the MVP for real.

Absolutely clear and concise tutorial. Thank you!

The original video resolution was 322 x 240

Literally perfect video and instructions. Keep this up!

Wow, the quality improvement is insane

thank you so much for the help, I've looked everywhere and I finally found the answer to my questions about this program :D

It's amazing that this is free, thank you so much for this! God bless you🙏

Amazing, been looking for something like this since 2020!

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.

Worked like a charm! Thanks for the tutorial

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?

@holidayeffects3933

Жыл бұрын

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: kzread.info/dash/bejne/h3pkl6ObitSTo9o.html. You could also ask in waifu2x subreddit and see if anyone has had a similar experience

Amazing piece of kit. Thankyou.

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 🙂

@holidayeffects3933

Жыл бұрын

Great info, thanks!

@Sunny-Gupta1

5 ай бұрын

I have rtx 3050(laptop) and i5 12th, how much time would it take for ~40 mins 480p video?

@deaddycruel

4 ай бұрын

@@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

@Sunny-Gupta1

4 ай бұрын

@@deaddycruel damn, I knew it, I wanted to upscale an old TV detective show.

@deaddycruel

4 ай бұрын

@@Sunny-Gupta1it's the work for desktop only. And it will be slow

Awesome.. Nice. Thanks! It was a comprehensive informative video.

The Dev is a legend, these corperations charging big money for this

@angeljo6020

2 ай бұрын

They have to pay salaries to their employees and government , support them if you like their software

Thank you very much for the explanation, it was a really informative and helpful video!

Awesome Tutorial. Thank you! Worked perfectly :D

Thank you for showing us this very helpful program!

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

Thank you for the video, I had no idea there was a free program for this

THANK YOU SO SO MUCH! IT WORKED GREAT AND MY VIDEO LOOKS MUCH BETTER NOW!

A 30 second clip took me about 4 minutes, a movie will take I'm guessing a whole day!

Thank you so much for the tutorial, the video overall is very good, so props to you ❣you earned a new subscriber n_n

Just what I need. Thank u Mr awesome uploader dude

I got it to work. Your the man. Thank you for lacing us up with game!!

The tutorial and precise explanation was well structured and time saving! Thank you for the video!

thank you very much! exactly what i was looking for!

This is amazing! Thanks so much for posting

@Goat_Dips

Жыл бұрын

it doewsnt work

@_cul8r_

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

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!

@azrael_morningstar

6 ай бұрын

Damn, all that for adventure time lmao

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?

@holidayeffects3933

Жыл бұрын

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

@14reasons58

Жыл бұрын

@@holidayeffects3933 k cool

@wiiztec

8 ай бұрын

Videos are a horrible format for tutorials in general

@14reasons58

8 ай бұрын

@@wiiztec that makes no sense

@wiiztec

8 ай бұрын

@@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?

Thanks, mate, it was really helpful

Thanks man, appreciate it

Fantastic! Thank you :D

Good stuff man, Keep it up Smashing sowfware🤯

@holidayeffects3933

Жыл бұрын

Appreciate it!

Very awesome, thanks

Fantastic! Thank you for sharing :)

Thanks for this tutorial! Gonna try this on some cartoons I grew up with! If nothing else just for grins and giggles!😁📼👌

@bigjerm2204

Жыл бұрын

Theres a recent update for it. How do I download it/what path do i download it to

@holidayeffects3933

Жыл бұрын

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

Thank you! Im going to try it!

amazing!! thanks

Thank you soo much brother!

Thanks man 👍

Thank you for this, will download it tomorrow. That's a nice wallpaper, never knew desktop wallpaper moved, where did you get it?.

@holidayeffects3933

10 ай бұрын

That is Wallpaper Engine - about $4 on Steam. Thousands of community created wall papers for free, I love it

Great Video! Thank you!!!!

i would to see if you can get a similar tutorial for a Video motion amplification program going.

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

Amazing stuff .

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!

Great, thanks for this! Is there a different between Waifu2x und Video2x in case of time and quality?

@holidayeffects3933

7 ай бұрын

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

Well Explained . Thanks for the post. I sub'd

thanks for the amazing help going to use it for my youtube channel

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?

@holidayeffects3933

7 ай бұрын

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: kzread.info/dash/bejne/nKmpsLOjpZPeppc.htmlsi=g_E1BgUTLSZSHK7h

I'm trying it! Of course my PC doesn't have the best graphic capabilities but maybe it works for what I need

dude thank you for this. I was about to spend $100 on a different program

Gorgeous

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

@holidayeffects3933

6 ай бұрын

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...

Thanks for this ai❤

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

@holidayeffects3933

Жыл бұрын

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

it works thank u so much bro

Thank you!

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.

@holidayeffects3933

10 ай бұрын

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: kzread.info/dash/bejne/h3pkl6ObitSTo9o.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 KZreadr for an example of using the Studio (paid) version: kzread.info/dash/bejne/X4WMm9efYam5f84.html

@Bobchai

10 ай бұрын

@@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.

Thanks for this

Thanks! 😊🙏❤️

thanks bro

8 second clip on my laptop is taking 4 hours no joke its a 1080x1920 vertical video, have any tips?

What was orginal video resolution? Thank you for tutorial video 👍👍

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?

@holidayeffects3933

Жыл бұрын

It *should* but I haven't tried it.

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.

@holidayeffects3933

3 ай бұрын

That PC is running a old Nvidia 1070

great stuff

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 brother

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

@holidayeffects3933

Жыл бұрын

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.

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

@holidayeffects3933

Жыл бұрын

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

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?

@holidayeffects3933

12 күн бұрын

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.

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?

@holidayeffects3933

9 ай бұрын

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

@unknownlamalll

9 ай бұрын

@@holidayeffects3933 You mean re exporting it cause I don't have davinci pro which comes with the upscaling software.

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.

@holidayeffects3933

Жыл бұрын

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

@tomsterbg8130

Жыл бұрын

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.

@Prawncrab

Жыл бұрын

Did ut work?

@worthydiscipline

Жыл бұрын

@@tomsterbg8130 Its also the AI, but it also depends on your pc/laptop and mainly gpu/cpu

@swashyhimself

Жыл бұрын

how long is your video

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 🙂

@holidayeffects3933

Жыл бұрын

Thank you and best of luck in all of your video projects

This is real magic

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?

@holidayeffects3933

9 ай бұрын

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: kzread.info/dash/bejne/g5iNxtNsqLKdXc4.html

@DaveThompsonfairlife4all

9 ай бұрын

@@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.

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.

@SachaSilva-is6kn

Ай бұрын

i'm having the same issue :/

Thank u sm man

Any ideas how much data the upscaling process uses, assuming I use the same settings in the video with a 20 second clip

@leonardgallion6439

10 ай бұрын

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.

great video .. do you know whats the maximum upscaling resolution ?

@holidayeffects3933

Жыл бұрын

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

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

@holidayeffects3933

Жыл бұрын

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

I know this isn't the Waifu2x helpdesk, but I'm getting an error "Unable to split video into pictures." There's literally one other person on the entire planet who has gotten this error, and the developer responded with some generic "well, try turning off hardware acceleration" which isn't ticked on my end.

@holidayeffects3933

11 ай бұрын

Try re-encoding your video with the free program Handbreak. Wifu2X GUI uses ffmpeg to split the video into frames and sometimes it can't understand all video formats

Mine completed an hour long file to 720p but it has been stuck on the “processing” status for 3 1/2 hours. My CPU (i7) has been maxing out at 100% through the whole thing. Is this normal?

@holidayeffects3933

Жыл бұрын

Very likely everything is normal, the processing is a two step process - 1) extract pictures of each frame and up scale them and 2) it recombines the pictures into a video. The recombining part is usually the 'long pause' at the end. All of this processing is very intensive either on the GPU or CPU (or both) depending on what is going on

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?

@holidayeffects3933

6 ай бұрын

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).

@BlazeAlchemist991

6 ай бұрын

​@@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

Does it matter what disk I install this application on? Will the video process faster on an SSD drive?

@holidayeffects3933

7 ай бұрын

This program breaks down a video into frames, upscales each one, saving it back out and then combines all of those files into a video again. However the vast majority of the time is in the upscaling, while the breaking down and recombining the video is pretty fast. I wouldn’t run it in an SD Card but I don’t think a spinning disk would make a major difference in the time overall (slower, yes but not a lot slower overall).

I tried to time with a video with small resolution (and short, under 1 minute). But time I get error: 1. error: Unable to scale all frames. 2. error without specifications. Just written: failed. The original video is only 2 GB, so I cannot understand what went wrong.

@holidayeffects3933

Жыл бұрын

I haven’t seen that before but I would use handbrake to re-encode the video to H264 MP4. It is probably one the funky video formats and can’t be processed by the open source libraries used

@aloeveraforever

Жыл бұрын

@@holidayeffects3933 thanks for the answer.

rtx 3060 upscaling to 4k and adding frames; time = 3h, GPU temp = 70c . TY !!!

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?

@holidayeffects3933

10 ай бұрын

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.

@mostafaazouz9978

10 ай бұрын

@@holidayeffects3933 ill try these things out. Thanks for the help

was trying to do a little old video into hd. its only 8 min long. why it takes like 20 hours to get it done? did i mess up wrong?

@holidayeffects3933

8 ай бұрын

It takes a powerful graphics card to do AI upscaling quickly. A fairly modern nvidia card is the best but older stuff works, just slower.

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

@Lord_common_sense

Жыл бұрын

Prob parameters

@Burlychicken88

Жыл бұрын

@@Lord_common_sense how does prob parameters work on video2x without changing the aspect ratio by keeping the aspect ratio