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I have this stage design and I want to render great realistic lights and shadow effects from my 3d software but I don't have a lot of time for rendering because it is just a few hours before the show starts and I have todo everything on my laptop.... It happens too often and this is what I do to speed things up:1) optimize render settings in your GPU renderer. less samples, more noisy and faster. find a balance and then use a built-in DENOISER in your renderer and render out PNG sequences.2) render every 2nd frame of your animation and interpolate (slow down) later3) render at half resolution and AI upsacle4) convert PNG sequence with Alleythis way you can do it many times faster which is a gamechanger ! you can also spice up your old renderings and make it slower and higher resolution.TOOLS

I used Flowframes and Waifu2x but I am switching to VIDEO2X which can do both upscaling and interpolating with a clean interface.

VIDEO2X https://github.com/k4yt3x/video2xFLOWFRAMES https://nmkd.itch.io/flowframes

outdatedWAIFU2X https://github.com/AaronFeng753/Waifu2x-Extension-GUII also tested Topaz Video AI for real video recordings and it worked great. it can do upscaling and interpolation at the same time.

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Kosma

Thanks alot for this 🙏🏻

Ni Ma

I am curious, in your waifu2x screenshot it says denoise level image 4, has this maximum been changed to 3, or is 4 a premium feature?

Ni Ma

Strange, I have v3.114.01, maybe they changed something. My range is -1 to 3. Did they simply remove 6 denoise levels? Just in case I messed something up, here is a screenshoft of the waifu2x hometab. https://ibb.co/5vMM1t2

TAS Visuals

I think this isnt a real full denoiser to get rid of your noise. I think it is more for enhancing the upscaling process.

TAS Visuals

I am working with Redshift renderer which has a built in denoiser that works great. there are denoiser plugins for after effects.

Ni Ma

Meh my whole post got lost lol. I denoise with cycles but I tried a lower denoise lvl with waifu and it didnt look so nice, then I checked back and saw in the screenshot lvl 4 might be possible on the premium version only tho, thats why i asked. thank you sir!

Kosma

Flowframes stopped work correctly and I moved to Waifu2x premium that can do both as well, will try Video2x thanks

Niels

With Video2x, rgba png become rgb with black background. How to upscale and keep the alpha ? Thanks