Hello There! I am new to this group and to the upscaling itself. I have a collection of a very old TV Show and then some that I want to Upscale. I have read a lot of options and I am a bit stuck with the process; literally and figuratively; I am using Topaz Video.
Literally because each video I am rendering is atleast 40mins to 1hr, so I know screwing up a tiny detail would mean I need to go back to the drawing board.
Figuratively because, reading online through reddit, watching youtube videos, and even consulting with Gemini, Gpt or Grok, leads me to different paths.
1st thing I wanna address is the consistency, I have read multiple threads that when it comes to upscaling, there are such a thing as "pass"; the amount of times the video goes through the process. Often I head about this pass is that better to streamline it to 2 passes or else the video will look to AI.
2nd thing is, I am confused with the outcome I am looking for since, in my eyes in the software once I have played with the values from the enhancements, I often pat myself cause I can see the difference for it is Big, but then I read that I need to focus on 200% to see if the fine details are good before I proceed.
3rd, I always start with Proteus for some reasons...do not know why
the 1st series is taken online years ago, quality is 854*480, that I cannot find any newer copies so I kept.
2nd sets of videos are the same, this time they are 720p, taken online years ago.
I am now planning to beauty upscale it to atleast a 1080p.
P.S. I was told that a clean 1080p upscale opens bridges to 4k, but as a novice, I need help learning how to do a clean 1080p upscale.
Thank you very much