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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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Banva
✓ verifiedFreemium
Browser-based AI tool that generates, styles and burns subtitles and transcribes audio across 90+ languages.
15K visits/mo
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Maestra
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Web platform for AI transcription, subtitling, translation and dubbing across 125+ languages, aimed at video creators and teams.
1.5M visits/mo
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Streamrun
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Cloud relay adding disconnect failover, multistreaming, and vertical reframing between a creator's encoder and platforms like Twitch.
12K visits/mo
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Video Compress
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Free-tier browser video compressor supporting 40+ formats with credit-based limits on file size and monthly usage.
1.4M visits/mo1.1K saves
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)
No public pricing
Pay As You Go: $12 (60 credits)
Lite: $23/mo (180 min)
Basic: $39/mo (360 min)
Premium: $79/mo (900 min)
Free trial available
Streamrun Go: $25/mo (up to 2 destinations, 14-day trial)
Streamrun Pro: from $0.39/hour (pay-as-you-go, unlimited destinations)
Free trial available
Free: $0/mo (30 credits/month, up to 1GB per file)
Basic: $9/mo (750 credits/month, up to 10GB per file)
Pro: $29/mo (5000 credits/month)
Premium: $59/mo (7500 credits/month)
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 subtitle generation from video or audio
- ✦Translation across 90+ languages
- ✦Caption styling with fonts, animations and presets
- ✦Export as SRT, VTT, TXT or JSON
- ✦Burn subtitles directly into video
- ✦Fast parallel processing of long files
- ✦Automatic transcription with speakers and timestamps
- ✦Subtitle generation, translation and editing
- ✦AI dubbing with voice cloning and lip sync
- ✦Real-time transcription, translation and captioning
- ✦Text-to-speech voiceovers in 125+ languages
- ✦Auto-reconnect failover to keep a stream live through disconnects
- ✦Simultaneous multistreaming to several platforms from one source
- ✦Automatic dual-format output (horizontal plus vertical)
- ✦AI-based background noise cancellation
- ✦Visual workflow editor and REST API access (Pro)
- ✦Mid-stream device switching without interrupting the broadcast
- ✦Target file-size or advanced bitrate compression settings
- ✦Support for 40+ video formats
- ✦Cloud-based processing with no software install
- ✦Automatic file deletion after processing
- ✦Companion tools: crop, trim, video-to-MP3, video-to-text
- ✦Credit-based monthly usage tiers
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
- →Adding captions to marketing and social videos
- →Transcribing recordings and podcasts to text
- →Translating subtitles to reach global audiences
- →Styling on-brand captions for short-form content
- →Subtitle and translate videos for global audiences
- →Transcribe meetings, interviews and media files
- →Dub audio and video into other languages
- →Caption live events and streams
- →IRL streamers needing stable connections while mobile
- →Creators simultaneously broadcasting to Twitch, YouTube, TikTok, and Kick
- →Productions building custom routing/overlay workflows via API
- →Streamers wanting a mobile-optimized vertical feed without a second encoder
- →Shrinking video files to fit email attachment limits
- →Compressing videos to meet Discord's upload size limit
- →Reducing storage costs for large video libraries
- →Preparing 4K footage for faster social media uploads
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