Topaz Labs, the company responsible for AI-powered editing tools such as Gigapixel AI and Photo AI, has announced Video AI Pro. Targeted towards teams and enterprise clients, the company says it’s “the first commercially available AI video enhancement tool for enterprise creative teams”.
A bold claim, but they also offer a single-user account, with features including multi-GPU rendering and commercial use of the files the application churns out. Multi-GPU rendering will be a boost in performance that’s certainly worth buying for some users.
Video AI Pro – Not your regular Video AI
Topaz Labs Video AI is not a new application. It’s been around for a little while, and it’s extremely popular. It works very well, probably the best of any application I’ve seen, for the needs this satisfies. Its big drawback is that it’s pretty slow.
Even with a fairly high-end GPU, it may often only produce a handful of frames per second, at most, for things like upsampling 1080p to 4K, for example. The new Video AI Pro helps to overcome this by offering multi-GPU support, amongst other things.
Video AI Pro has support for all of the major plays when it comes to GPUs. Nvidia, AMD and Intel are all supported. Topaz Labs doesn’t specify exactly which cards it supports, however it does say that the GPUs should match each other as closely.
Ideally, this means identical cards. Or similar cards within the same series (all RTX 4000 series, for example). Try not to mix series, even within the same brand and certainly don’t mix brands. The most important factor to match is probably the RAM, as software that utilises multiple GPUs typically limits all GPUs to the amount of RAM in the lowest card.
Subscription not perpetual
Now, there is one big difference between the company’s Video AI application and the new Video AI Pro. That’s the pricing structure. Video AI is a one-time fee for a perpetual license for a given version of the software. Video AI Pro is an annual subscription. And it’s not an inexpensive one.
The extra expense gets you a lot of value, though, for those that need it. Of course, multi-GPU support for faster renders, but also seat management use. The Pro version also permits commercial use of the clips you create through the software.
Outside of this, the regular perpetual license Video AI and the subscription-based Video AI Pro are essentially the same, with all of the same tools and features available to you. Here’s a quick rundown of the features in the latest Video AI 5.
Now, for many users, those things aren’t really needed and the regular Video AI app is enough. Of course, multi-GPU support would be nice, but that alone is probably not worth the cost of “Pro” for most small-scale creators. For many studios and larger teams, though, it will be.
Price and Availability
Topaz Labs Video AI Pro is currently available in three subscription tiers. Video AI Pro individual licenses are $1,099 per year. Video AI Pro Teams starts at $4,999 per year for teams of 5+. The third tier is Video AI Pro Enterprise, and if you have to ask, you can’t afford it.
