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Video AI by Topaz Labs logo
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
Nero Software logo
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
Maestra logo
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
AVCLabs logo
AVCLabs
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Suite of AI tools for upscaling, enhancing, blurring, and editing video and photos, aimed at creators and restorers.

183K visits/mo3.7K saves
Any Video Converter logo
Any Video Converter
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Video converter and AI enhancer for format conversion, upscaling, and a suite of AI photo and video editing tools.

2.1K 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)
Nero Platinum Suite 2026: $44.95 (discounted from $59.95)
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

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Free trial available

No public pricing

Free trial available

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
  • Nero Burning ROM disc burning
  • Nero Video editing
  • AI image and video upscaling
  • Media management (MediaHome)
  • Backup and duplicate management
  • Web-based AI tools
  • 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
  • Video upscaling to HD/4K/8K
  • Facial detail restoration
  • Automatic face, object and license plate blurring
  • Watermark and object removal
  • Image colorization and denoising
  • Video stabilization
  • AVCLabs Media MCP server for AI agents
  • Video format conversion (MP4, MKV, AVI, etc.)
  • AI video and photo enhancement/upscaling
  • Audio extraction and conversion
  • AI generation (text-to-image/video)
  • Editing: trim, merge, compress, subtitles
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
  • Burning CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray
  • Editing home videos
  • Upscaling photos and video
  • Backing up and organizing media
  • 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
  • Improving low-resolution video quality
  • Blurring faces and plates for privacy
  • Restoring and colorizing old photos and footage
  • Removing watermarks and unwanted objects
  • Converting videos between formats
  • Enhancing and upscaling footage
  • Extracting audio from video
  • Basic AI-assisted video/photo editing
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