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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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Kapwing
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Browser-based video editor with AI tools for creating, editing, subtitling, and repurposing content.
5.6M visits/mo
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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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UniScribe
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Converts uploaded or linked audio/video into text with AI summaries, mind maps, and multi-format export in 63 languages.
1.4M 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
Nero Platinum Suite 2026: $44.95 (discounted from $59.95)
Free: $0/month (120 minutes/month, 3 files/day)
Basic: $6/month (1,200 minutes/month, $72/year billed yearly)
Standard: $12/month (3,000 minutes/month, $144/year billed yearly)
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
- ✦Browser-based video editor
- ✦AI video generation from prompts
- ✦Auto subtitles and transcription
- ✦Dubbing and translation into 40+ languages
- ✦Repurpose long video into social clips
- ✦Text-to-speech and audio cleanup
- ✦Nero Burning ROM disc burning
- ✦Nero Video editing
- ✦AI image and video upscaling
- ✦Media management (MediaHome)
- ✦Backup and duplicate management
- ✦Web-based AI tools
- ✦Audio/video-to-text transcription from file upload or YouTube link
- ✦Support for 63 languages and 11 input file formats
- ✦Automatic AI summaries and visual mind maps
- ✦Speaker recognition and translation
- ✦Export to txt, pdf, docx, srt, csv, and vtt
- ✦Shareable transcript links
- ✦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
- →Editing videos without desktop software
- →Creating social-media clips
- →Adding captions and translations
- →Generating videos from text prompts
- →Team and marketing content creation
- →Burning CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray
- →Editing home videos
- →Upscaling photos and video
- →Backing up and organizing media
- →Researchers transcribing interviews
- →Students converting lectures into notes and mind maps
- →Podcasters and creators generating subtitles
- →Professionals needing multilingual meeting transcripts
- →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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