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Starlight Precise 2.5 is the latest release from Topaz Labs.
This transforms any AI video by upscaling it to new resolutions, keeping the video intact, but also adding more frames as well.
This works with any video, and works on your browser and the cloud.
Here's the pipeline I'm running right now:
Midjourney 8.1 alpha to generate the image. Seedance 2.0 to animate it. Topaz Starlight Precise 2.5 to upscale it to 4K.
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STEP ONE - IMAGES
We are in a time of amazing AI image models. Google Nano Banana 2, Seedream 5.0, Midjourney etc are all available for you.
Midjourney just dropped V8.1 alpha, and it's the biggest architectural upgrade since V5. This isn't an incremental update.
They rebuilt the whole codebase from scratch on a GPU-native foundation. The result: generation is roughly 5x faster than V7, and image quality has jumped noticeably.
Text rendering has also improved significantly. If your prompt includes words in quotation marks, MJ8 handles them reliably. Not perfect, but useful.
Midjourney remains the most known AI image model, but it faces critcism for the latest release due to a lack of detail especially with hands and limbs. I believe this model still remains so strong because of how it can create unique aesthetics.
STEP TWO - VIDEO
Seedance 2.0 is the world’s greatest AI video model so far (as of today!). It is diverse, able to receieve image, video and audio inputs.
Combining your images with Seedance 2.0 is a fantastic way to get incredible footage.
Write a detailed prompt, that can even include scene cuts, and you’ll get rapid outputs at 720p, 24FPS that can look like the video above or even more realistic.
Test out what works best for you, creating a video directly from a text prompt or guiding it with a start frame image.
STEP THREE - UPSCALE
With Topaz Labs, you can upscale any video with the new Starlight Precise 2.5 release. Fast, effective and you can go up to 4K footage.
Topaz's Starlight series is specifically designed for AI-generated video. Not archival footage. Not webcam recordings. AI video.
The model knows what GenAI output looks like and how to enhance it without destroying the aesthetic.
Starlight Precise 2.5 does four things simultaneously: upscales resolution, removes noise, corrects aliasing, and maintains temporal consistency across every frame.
That last one is the killer feature. Other upscalers introduce flicker between frames, you can see it on edges and fine details.
Starlight is virtually flicker-free.
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