We Remastered My First Video in 4K!

Thanks to MSI for sponsoring this video!

What's the worst that could happen when trying to upscale compressed 240p footage? We're going to remaster our first video and find out!

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MUSIC CREDIT
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Intro: Laszlo - Supernova

Outro: Approaching Nirvana - Sugar High

CHAPTERS
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0:00-1:54 Intro
1:54-4:06 First run-through: Nightmare Fuel
4:06-5:40 Why it looked so BAD
5:40-8:13 Remastering my firetruck video using VEAI
8:13-9:18 How VEAI works
9:18-9:59 Watching the finished product
9:59-11:11 Comparing to the original
11:11-11:54 Conclusion and use cases
11:54-12:42 The MSI Creator Z16P

[HarryUK]

You probably would have had better results using the Proteus model. In my experience Artemis heavily smooths and makes things look 'painted'. The newer Proteus model is genuinely amazing though and offers much more control over denoising, sharpening, anti-aliasing, etc.

[timellis]

The issue is not the resolution or the interlacing on that first video. It’s the compression. 240p with zero compression would probably do a lot better.

[PsRohrbaugh]

I feel like the real breakthrough will be when AI is able to incorporate external references. For example, upload the 320x240 video, but also the NCIX logo, a few good pictures (or 3d model) of the cooler and motherboard, and maybe even a photo of Linus. Then it can use that data to extrapolate more intelligently.

[jsmurray]

Please do more of this type of video! Would be really cool to see you guys look into the tech being used to remaster historical footage such as what was used in They Shall Not Grow Old

[Rdebo_]

Young Linus looks like someone that would recommend me a Celeron for gaming.

[dylanlockemp]

this ai has helped me with CGI render times. simply rendering at a lower resolution and then upscaling with the ai, saved me hundreds of hours of rendering.

[JoelCreates]

My issue with these algorithms is that they are never as good as your brain at interpreting what you are seeing, and the changes they make end up further obscuring some details from the original footage.

[BRUHItsABunny]

Proteus fine tune almost always gives me a better result, even when then defaulting to auto variables

[shmee]

Unusually if you were upscaling something, you would go scene by scene and pick the best method for what was being shown, and then re-edit them back together. Not just pick one mode and then hope for the best. It is cool tech though.

[Sketchitect]

Now Linus Tech Tips is Rick Rolling us, getting influenced by Mrwhosetheboss

[TheBx]

YES! Very cool this finally got coverage on your channel! I wrote to Topaz (presumably before development began) asking them to make this software, and and I got to private test the alpha version of the AI. It was an online service only at that time, so no front end GUI running locally. Cool to see how far its come since then! Gigapixel at the time was ok, but slow and not temporally coherent, which was the main thing that prompted me to write to them after seeing the results of the older FMA 2003 upscale attempt

Also, I don't know every exact detail the coming D-VHS video will cover, but during your research and writing, would you take a quick look at LD-decode, even if you don't mention it in the video? Its a really interesting project, one that I haven't undertaken myself, but VERY intriguing IMO. Its for VHS too, not just laserdisc.

cheers :)

[thrillhouse-five]

2:22
Linus (internally): don't say acid don't say acid

[EposVox]

Hah, definitely wasn't the right model for it, BUT Video Enhance AI is freaking awesome. I used it on VHS tapes and had decent results on some tapes w/ the DV/Analog methods
Also FW900 my forever unattainable holy grail T_T

[YouLose]

2klicksphilip made an in-depth video on his use of Topaz Gigapixel AI. He specifically goes over how to bypass the negative effects of interlacing when using the upscaler. His video is called "Upscaling my Videos using AI". He could probably masterfully upscale your first video. Definitely try to get in touch with him.

[MegaroadProducciones]

0:35
Wow, that was a clever way to rickroll us...

[maximusdecimus]

I just lost a bunch of paintings (along with my apartment) in a catastrophic flood in my town (Lismore, Australia). Some of them were for an exhibit I have coming up, and I was able to use a few programs of the Topaz software suite to upscale and sharpen some of the pictures I had which weren't on my phone (phone and camera got destroyed by the mud and water). It has absolutely saved me as I've been able to print the paintings I had, and work further with them making works which reference the flood itself.

[ThisSteveGuy]

Proteus is really the way to go with VEAI, at least most of the time. It lets you fine tune all sorts of things, from how sharp the image should be and how much noise needs to be removed to the strength of compression artifact removal. Also a CRF of 0 is insane, you'd be fine with 14 or even higher.

[Burssty]

This makes me wonder what it would look like with old gaming videos, since it's trained primarily to upscale real life footage
Alternatively (and possibly even better) what if it could be trained to specifically remove h.264 artifacts?

[incredibil]

10:34 the ladder on the firetruck 4k is going nuts

[heywoodjablowme]

@5:20 you made me blow milk out my nose.
I wasn't even drinking milk!😂