Best Upscaling Software? — Video Enhance AI vs ScaleUp vs Detail Preserving Upscale in After Effects

Is this the best upscaler? Compare Topaz Labs' Video Enhance AI versus ScaleUp (a plugin for After Effects and Premiere Pro) versus After Effects' Detail Preserving Upscale effect when upscaling from 720 to 4k across a variety of video footage. Overall, Video Enhance AI provides excellent results, but the software comes with some annoyances and lacks some professional features.

0:00 Intro
0:32 Detail Preserving Upscale (free) vs ScaleUp (plugin)
1:22 Using Video Enhance AI
3:23 Comparison example with the upscaling methods
3:52 YUV to RGB conversion color space issue
5:02 Other problems with Video Enhance AI
5:49 Testing methodology
6:49 More comparisons
9:04 Upscaling text
9:36 Outro

Grab a trial of ScaleUp here: https://aescripts.com/scaleup/
Video Enhance AI trial here: https://www.topazlabs.com/video-enhance-ai

An interesting comparison of Topaz Labs' upscalers by  @MDMZ : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=305Rso8-A7E

All footage shown in the video is available from Artgrid: https://artgrid.io/Linden-501741 (referral link)

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