Today, I saw that as of v2.3 there is a new motion interpolation option within their application.
How does this compare to that of Rife? I’m curious to see as I use that application too, but do not have the chance to update now.
Great to know! Would be nice to see head to head comparisons online with this as this seems like the only real viable opponent to RIFE.
I know this is made by like a very small team or perhaps a single dev, but this gets me really pumped up to see what can be changed within the next year!
Hopefully batch processing will come again soon!
All competition is good and hopefully will push both!
Now all we need is AV1 and NVENC encoding options with the ability to pass through HDR/10-bit video.
Anything I’ve added in is downsampled to 8-bit.
There is too much degradation if you’re converting an already 10-bit HEVC file down to 8-bit H.264 and then back to HEVC.
I know this seems like a lot of tall orders for one app and may be years down the line, but having to go from Handbrake to MKV tool GUI, to Stax rip, fastflix, or Just another AV1 Encoder to get one video/movie finalized is a lot of encoding and then re-encoding through a ton of apps; it’s beginning to make my head spin haha. Ideally having a one-stop for adding in audio tracks, subs, and getting a H.264 file ala BD iso into a converted 10-bit 60fps AV1 file with all audio tracks, chapters, and subs would make this the envy of all conversion software that would even make Handbrake jealous.
So far, I'm not impressed with their Chronos AI interpolation model.
I'm seeing more image fidelity loss on the big picture, not to mention the much longer render times. The only thing I can say good about it is that you have more framerate options, but anything but whole number multipliers makes for uneven framerate degradation that's producing below-expectation results. Especially at 4k and above. It behaves like RIFE with Motion Smoothing always enabled, so sometimes quick motion seems less jumpy and synthetic in appearance, but blurred in the interstitial frames.
If they can combine the Artemis enhancement models with a viable version of Chronos so it's just 1 process, not two steps, it might become more attractive. But for now I'll stick to RIFE for the more consistent results and far better rendering speed.