Mario Kart 8 Deluxe in 4K (Topaz Video Enhance AI)

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Handy863

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Published on April 22, 2023 3:00:08 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14AqjAUmgio

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Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (2017)

Duration: 21:53

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First thing I must say before anything else is that this video is definitely much better watched on a larger screen! So if you have any sort of smart TV with YouTube on it, go and watch this video on that!

So yeah, this is a little project I have been working on over the last week. For those who don't know, Topaz Video Enhance is what I have been playing around with with my "Quality Test" videos. But as a gap in my other commitments opened up over Easter, I had a chance to really see what I could do with this software.

This footage was of a quick casual session with the Leannehef community (from the 16th March 2023), recorded with my Avermedia LGX GC550 at 1080p60 60Mbps. I upscaled the footage to 4K in Enhance AI, using the Gaia Computer Graphics model, output as MOV ProRes 422 HQ (which I wouldn't recommend because the video ended up being over 258GB in size!!). Then I put that video back through, this time using Proteus Fine Tune the polish it off.

Out of all the videos I have done with Enhance AI so far, this is definitely the best one yet! To me both the game's quality and colours just pop SO much more. Though admittedly I might be a little biased as this has taken me a while to make, and only until recently I had mostly been playing this game in 720p. I also think it is a lot easier to make the Switch look better then the Wii, simply because it is newer.

Furthermore, I don't think this is going to be something I'll be doing with every video from now on. But I definitely have some potential future projects in mind that would benefit from this! So keep an eye out for those. :)

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