AI Video Upscaling for FREE

You can easily upscale low resolution videos, images and even animated GIFs for free using the Waifu2x graphical interface by Aaron Feng. Unlike regular video scaling, Waifu2x uses Artificial Intelligence to upscale and enhance videos, sometimes with amazing results.

Links to the free software you will need:

[ALUMINOS]

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

[joshd]

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!

[gseric]

Frame-by-frame pixelation multiplication. Just what I needed. Thanks for this :)

[Ethe-sqfv]

cant tell u how long ive been waiting for an ai upscaling software for free without watermark and i hope God blesses your soul <3

[MKnife]

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 🙂

[TinaRivieris]

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

[abitofaviation]

Wow, the quality improvement is insane

[山本春樹-nx]

I swear, people just don't know about this.
This works super well, and its free!!
Thank U so much mate😆

[MrcLL]

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

[dillonc]

Literally perfect video and instructions. Keep this up!

[jytvreal]

Amazing, been looking for something like this since 2020!

[GODFADED]

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

[harikumar]

Absolutely clear and concise tutorial. Thank you!

[hijesscia]

Thank you for the video. I will follow the video, as before, I used Nero AI Video Upscaler. Now, I could use other free solutions.

[Vane_MA]

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!

[Vastfill]

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

[wezz-t]

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.

[freewarefocus]

The original video resolution was 322 x 240

[barebarekun]

Just tried the same presets with 60 seconds old anime commercial and my Gaming Laptop took 1 minute 17 seconds to AI upscaled the video.
Results are good just a bit too ghostly sharp around the edges of anime characters, but it could just be that the video bitrate and compression of the original video was so low and high respectively that's about the best the simple preset can do but man the closeup shots gave out huge improvement.
I'll try with something with a bit better source quality next time but overall, I'm quite happy with the results that this program provided.
Crazy that this is a freeware.

[reasons]

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?