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Video AI by Topaz Labs
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Desktop and cloud AI software for upscaling, sharpening, denoising, and restoring photos and video at professional quality.
3.0M visits/mo7.0K saves
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unbg.video
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AI tool that removes and replaces video backgrounds without a green screen, exporting transparent or edited clips.
2.4K saves
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Nero Software
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Long-running Windows multimedia suite for disc burning, video editing, backup, and AI media enhancement.
1.6M visits/mo9.7K saves
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WayinVideo
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All-in-one AI video clipping and repurposing tool that turns long videos into captioned, reframed shorts for social platforms.
1.5M visits/mo
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Apowersoft
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Multimedia software suite: screen recording, video/audio editing, format converters, PDF tools and phone mirroring for desktop and mobile.
612K visits/mo
Pricing
Topaz Image Web: $12/mo (introductory, up to 32MP, unlimited cloud rendering)
Astra Standard: $19/mo (introductory, 400 credits/month, 4K video output)
Topaz Studio: $34/mo billed annually (all apps, 300 monthly video cloud credits)
Topaz Studio: $69/mo (all apps, 300 monthly video cloud credits)
Topaz Photo: $39/mo (photo restoration and enhancement models)
Topaz Gigapixel: $29/mo (image upscaling models)
6,000 Credits: $6 one-time (approx. 4 min of standard processing)
20,000 Credits: $18 one-time (approx. 13 min 20 sec of standard processing)
60,000 Credits: $48 one-time (approx. 40 min of standard processing)
140,000 Credits: $98 one-time (approx. 1 hr 33 min of standard processing)
270,000 Credits: $180 one-time (approx. 3 hr of standard processing)
Free trial available
Nero Platinum Suite 2026: $44.95 (discounted from $59.95)
Standard: $4.99/month (1,500 credits/month, 1080p export)
Pro: $9.58/month (3,500 credits/month, 2K export)
Pro+: $69.99/month (20,000 credits/month, 4K export)
No public pricing
Core features
- ✦AI image and video upscaling up to 4K/32MP
- ✦Denoising and sharpening models
- ✦Photo restoration and dust/scratch removal
- ✦Face enhancement and recovery
- ✦Background removal and colorization
- ✦Cloud rendering with concurrency limits
- ✦Bundled multi-app Studio subscription
- ✦AI subject detection across people, products, and moving objects
- ✦Background removal without requiring a green screen
- ✦Background replacement with color, image, or video
- ✦Transparent export formats including WebM and ProRes 4444
- ✦Standard and Pro processing modes for different footage difficulty
- ✦Free trial credits for new accounts
- ✦Nero Burning ROM disc burning
- ✦Nero Video editing
- ✦AI image and video upscaling
- ✦Media management (MediaHome)
- ✦Backup and duplicate management
- ✦Web-based AI tools
- ✦Auto-clips long videos into short highlight reels
- ✦Searches video/transcript content to jump to specific moments
- ✦Summarizes videos into an outline with timestamps
- ✦Generates speaker-labeled transcripts
- ✦Creates animated multilingual captions
- ✦Reframes video into 9:16, 1:1, or 16:9 automatically
- ✦Offers an API for programmatic video processing
- ✦Screen recorder (ApowerREC)
- ✦Video editor and converter
- ✦Audio recorder
- ✦PDF editor and converter
- ✦Phone mirroring (ApowerMirror)
- ✦Watermark and background removers
- ✦Online and desktop tools, plus AI utilities
Use cases
- →Photographers restoring or upscaling old photos
- →Video editors upscaling footage to 4K
- →Studios batch-enhancing large image libraries
- →Creators removing backgrounds or colorizing images
- →Removing backgrounds from creator or social media video clips
- →Producing transparent product demo videos for compositing
- →Replacing backgrounds in tutorials without studio equipment
- →Creating ad and marketing videos with custom backgrounds
- →Burning CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray
- →Editing home videos
- →Upscaling photos and video
- →Backing up and organizing media
- →Repurposing podcasts or streams into short-form social clips
- →Creating subtitles for multi-language audiences
- →Quickly finding and reviewing key moments in long recordings
- →Batch-processing video content via API for content pipelines
- →Building highlight reels for gaming or event footage
- →Record and edit screen/video content
- →Convert between media formats
- →Edit and convert PDFs
- →Mirror a phone to a computer
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