Shotcraft
Upscaling and restoration

Topaz Video

Desktop application that upscales, denoises, deinterlaces, stabilises and interpolates frames in existing footage using a library of purpose-built models including Proteus, Iris, Nyx, Rhea, Rhea XL, Artemis, Gaia, Theia, Apollo, Chronos, Aion, Themis and Starlight Precise.

An upscaling and restoration tool by Topaz Labs · read 2026-08-14 · sourcing high

Weights
Not released
API
Yes
Commercial use
Permitted subject to conditions

Rendering runs locally on NVIDIA, AMD or Apple Silicon GPUs, with cloud rendering available for the heavier Starlight Mini/Sharp/HQ/Fast variants. Adobe announced on 2026-06-25 that it is acquiring Topaz Labs; Adobe states Topaz products will remain available standalone through the Topaz website.

Commercial use — Permitted subject to conditions

Personal tiers carry limited commercial use; full commercial rights and seat management come with Pro / Studio Pro licensing per the Topaz pricing page.

  • Depends on your plan tier. Personal tiers carry limited commercial use; full commercial rights and seat management come with Pro / Studio Pro licensing per the Topaz pricing page

The conditions above were extracted from the licence notes recorded during research, and each one shows the sentence it came from so you can check the reading. Read the licence before you rely on any of this. Nothing on this page is legal advice, and this site does not tell you a model is cleared for commercial use.

Specification

Vendor figures, read 2026-08-14Read from Topaz Labs's own documentation on 2026-08-14. Vendors change these between model versions without announcing it, so check theirs before you commit a shot to a number. Sourcing for this entry is strong: the figures came from pages we retrieved and read. Check the vendor's current documentation

What it takes in
video
What it makes
video
Maximum resolution
not established
Aspect ratios
not established
Controls
upscale-factor, frame-interpolation, denoise, face-recovery
Weights
Not released
API
Yes
Pricing
Seat subscription for the desktop app: Personal $299/yr or $39/mo (annual commitment) / $59/mo no commitment. Bundled in Topaz Studio $399/yr (300 monthly video cloud credits) and Topaz Studio Pro $799/yr (600 monthly video cloud credits). Separate API tiers: Starter free at $0.12/credit, Developer $50/mo for 500 credits ($0.10/credit), Scale $240/mo for 3,000 credits ($0.08/credit), Enterprise custom.
Released or updated
not established

Maximum resolution and supported aspect ratios are not established here. That means no page we could retrieve stated them, not that the model lacks them.

Strengths

  • Deep model library targeted at specific footage problems rather than one generic upscaler
  • Local GPU rendering means no per-minute cloud cost for the classic models
  • Same models reachable through an official API for batch pipelines

Weaknesses

  • Vendor pages do not publish an explicit maximum output resolution or duration limit
  • Model selection has a real learning curve; wrong model choice produces visible artefacts
  • Ownership is changing hands to Adobe, so roadmap continuity is uncertain

Best for

Where the sources disagree

Recorded rather than resolved. Picking the tidier number would hide the fact that the vendor's own pages do not agree.

What to understand before using it

Explainers naming the mechanisms this model's own documentation mentions.

MCP servers that front Topaz Labs

Servers in the media MCP directory whose own description or homepage names this vendor. Absence of a server here is not evidence that none exists: most publish no tool list at all.

See it from the vendor

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Sources

Read on 2026-08-14. A source that has changed since then will not be reflected here until the next pass.