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Desktop and cloud AI software for upscaling, sharpening, denoising, and restoring photos and video at professional quality.
Suite of AI tools for upscaling, enhancing, blurring, and editing video and photos, aimed at creators and restorers.
Desktop AI video/audio enhancer offering upscaling, denoising, colorizing, and face enhancement with optional cloud credits.
AI video-to-VFX suite for relighting, rotoscoping, background removal and PBR passes, with a node-based compositor.
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- ✦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
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- ✦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
- ✦AI video upscaling up to 16K
- ✦AI denoising and face enhancement
- ✦Black-and-white video colorization
- ✦Audio upmixing to surround sound (EAC3/DTS)
- ✦Support for 1,000+ video format conversions
- ✦Optional cloud processing via FabCloud credits for GPU-less machines
- ✦Node-based AI compositor (Canvas)
- ✦Video-to-VFX transformation (SwitchX)
- ✦AI rotoscoping and background removal
- ✦PBR pass generation from footage
- ✦Real-time 3D relighting editor
- ✦Export/plugin support for DCC tools
- →Photographers restoring or upscaling old photos
- →Video editors upscaling footage to 4K
- →Studios batch-enhancing large image libraries
- →Creators removing backgrounds or colorizing images
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- →Improving low-resolution video quality
- →Blurring faces and plates for privacy
- →Restoring and colorizing old photos and footage
- →Removing watermarks and unwanted objects
- →Video editors restoring old or low-quality footage
- →Creators upscaling videos for higher-resolution delivery
- →Users converting videos between formats without a GPU
- →Hobbyists colorizing black-and-white home movies
- →Relighting shots in post-production
- →Rotoscoping and removing backgrounds
- →Generating relightable VFX passes for compositing