The Best AI Tools to Upscale Video Quality!

[00:00] if you need to upres your footage and

[00:03] simply scale it up chances are it's not

[00:06] going to look great thankfully there are

[00:09] quite a few AI video tools out there

[00:11] that allow you to upres your video

[00:14] footage and retain those details in this

[00:18] video I'm going to talk about a few of

[00:19] the options available to you and we'll

[00:22] compare each one to figure out the best

[00:24] option for you as a video creator let's

[00:28] get to it for our example we will use

[00:30] this scene here the entire scene is in

[00:33] about 720p so pretty small resolution

[00:37] but we want to upscale it to 4K so you

[00:40] can see here we have a wide variety of

[00:41] shots an establishing shot medium shot

[00:43] and then a closeup let's see how the

[00:46] tools do so the first tool that I think

[00:48] you should know about is called cap cut

[00:51] while a lot of people know that cap cut

[00:52] can be on your phone you may not realize

[00:55] that cap cut actually can work on a

[00:57] desktop computer and the best part is

[01:00] you can actually use the software online

[01:02] as well cap cut is super easy to use all

[01:04] you have to do is go to the upload

[01:06] button and upload your file I have ours

[01:09] already uploaded right here we'll just

[01:11] double click on it and when you're ready

[01:14] to export it in a higher resolution you

[01:16] don't have to apply any effect or

[01:18] anything like that all you have to do is

[01:20] go to export download and then you can

[01:24] select the resolution that you want to

[01:26] export it as so for our example we will

[01:28] scroll down to 4K and we'll change the

[01:32] quality from recommended quality to high

[01:35] quality you want maximum quality from

[01:37] your export and for the format we're

[01:40] going to select mov that's a less

[01:42] compressed format so you'll get maximum

[01:45] resolution and when you're ready go

[01:47] ahead and click export so here's a

[01:49] comparison of the original and then the

[01:52] cap cut version on the left I went ahead

[01:54] and zoomed in so you can see the

[01:57] differences between the two clips and as

[01:59] you can see even though we exported the

[02:01] cap cut clip in 4k it's not doing a

[02:05] great job at getting us really nice

[02:08] details it still feels pretty low

[02:11] quality so generally speaking the uprer

[02:14] inside of cap cut is not my favorite the

[02:17] next tool we're going to take a look at

[02:19] is Korea Korea is an online platform

[02:21] that has a lot of really helpful AI

[02:23] tools including having the ability to

[02:25] upres footage to use Korea to upres your

[02:28] footage just go to the website and

[02:30] scroll down and click on the enhance

[02:33] button and you can simply drag and drop

[02:35] your video clips into the timeline I

[02:37] should note that video clips are limited

[02:40] to 5 Seconds long so you will have to

[02:42] upload your individual Clips one at a

[02:44] time we'll go ahead and drag and drop

[02:47] that into Kaa and on the right here

[02:49] you'll see we have upscaling Factor so

[02:52] we're going to go ahead and select 1.5

[02:55] unfortunately that is the current

[02:57] limitation of using Kaa you can't go

[03:00] beyond 1.5 and then for frame rate

[03:03] you'll also see we only have 30 frames

[03:06] per second 60 frames per second and 120

[03:09] but our core video footage is in 24

[03:11] frames per second so that's not ideal if

[03:14] you're working in a film making context

[03:17] so when you're ready go ahead and click

[03:19] enhance so here's the result here we

[03:21] have Korea on the left and the original

[03:23] footage on the right and honestly I

[03:26] think Korea did a worse job than simply

[03:28] scaling up the footage so when it comes

[03:30] to enhancing footage I don't think that

[03:33] Korea does a great job the next tool

[03:35] that we're going to talk about is the

[03:37] uprising feature available directly

[03:39] inside of Runway so after you've created

[03:42] a video clip using Runway you actually

[03:45] now have the ability to upscale the

[03:47] video to 4K all you have to do is go

[03:50] down to the actions menu and select

[03:52] upscale to 4K it takes just a couple of

[03:55] minutes and then you can download the

[03:57] video footage directly to your computer

[04:00] here's a before and after with runway on

[04:02] the left and the original on the right

[04:04] and you would see that Runway did a

[04:06] really good job there's tons of extra

[04:08] detail and Fidelity in the upred footage

[04:11] especially if we take a look here at

[04:13] that first establishing shot the walls

[04:16] look really good obviously there's some

[04:18] strange stair stepping here on this this

[04:21] building but that was just really deep

[04:23] in the original video footage so it's

[04:25] doing the best it can there there's a

[04:27] lot more resolution in this detail here

[04:30] on the building and then moving on to

[04:32] the shot of the soldier you can see we

[04:34] have a lot of pixelation going on in the

[04:38] helmet whereas over here it's much more

[04:40] smooth sharp around the edges and it

[04:42] just generally looks better and then

[04:44] finally if we look at this shot here

[04:47] much more detail in the hair the uh skin

[04:50] has a lot more detail versus the

[04:52] original it's just kind of just very

[04:54] blurry and doesn't look that great the

[04:56] big downside to using Runway is of

[04:58] course the fact that you have to use

[05:00] Runway to generate the video footage so

[05:03] if you didn't generate the AI footage

[05:05] directly inside of Runway it's honestly

[05:07] not that helpful and that brings us to

[05:10] our final way to upres your footage this

[05:14] is my favorite way to upres footage and

[05:17] it has a ton of customizable options to

[05:20] allow you to get maximum quality from

[05:22] the tool and I am of course talking

[05:24] about topaz video AI topaz video has a

[05:28] version that works in the cloud and

[05:30] basically you can pay for credits but

[05:32] they also have a version that works

[05:34] directly on your computer you basically

[05:36] download the application to your machine

[05:38] and you can upres the video locally so

[05:40] you buy one license of the software and

[05:42] then you basically just have access to

[05:44] it forever so in order to use topaz all

[05:47] you have to do is drag and drop your

[05:50] video clip here so we have our clip

[05:53] loaded into topaz and you can select

[05:55] your output they have tons of presets

[05:57] here and then you also have the ability

[05:59] to set a custom resolution if you have a

[06:02] specific aspect ratio or resolution that

[06:04] you're going for and under the AI model

[06:07] section you have the ability to select

[06:10] all sorts of AI models depending on what

[06:12] type of video footage you inputed the

[06:15] Proteus model which is the default model

[06:17] tends to work the best but you do have a

[06:19] lot of other good options here I really

[06:21] like working with the Thea model but it

[06:24] can be pretty intense on your computer

[06:26] now you also have the ability to change

[06:29] the frameware R you can change the frame

[06:31] interpolation and basically Slow Down

[06:33] the video footage if you wanted to and

[06:35] those features work really well but for

[06:37] our example we're just going to export

[06:39] it as it is so here's a quick comparison

[06:42] from topaz again topaz on the left

[06:45] original on the right and you can see we

[06:47] have a ton of resolution here it looks

[06:50] really really nice especially this last

[06:53] shot here you can see there's a lot of

[06:55] detail in the hair there's a lot of

[06:57] detail in the skin and it just looks

[06:59] much more sharp than the original

[07:01] footage which has a ton of resolution

[07:04] issues so the cool thing about using

[07:06] topad is the fact that you can bring in

[07:08] any type of video clip it doesn't have

[07:10] to be a clip that was generated in a

[07:12] specific tool whether you shot a wedding

[07:15] and you're looking to upres it or if you

[07:17] legitimately are trying to go through an

[07:19] old archive and upres footage to use in

[07:22] a documentary you have the ability to

[07:24] upres using all sorts of really awesome

[07:27] features using topaz so let's take take

[07:29] a quick look at a comparison here we

[07:31] have Korea in the top left cap cut top

[07:33] right runway in the bottom left and then

[07:36] topaz in the bottom right and you can

[07:38] see that very clearly Runway and topaz

[07:42] are kind of In A League of Their Own the

[07:44] resolution just looks so much better

[07:46] there's tons of fidelity there and the

[07:48] cool thing about topaz specifically is I

[07:51] feel like it doesn't over sharpen the

[07:52] footage inside of Runway sometimes it

[07:54] can feel like it's adding a little too

[07:56] much sharpness at the cost of cinematic

[07:59] qual quality whereas with topaz it still

[08:01] understands lens Dynamics and is able to

[08:04] upres the footage in a more natural way

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