Upscale models

Upscale Models

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Three models (Creative Upscaler, Upscaler and Mago SDR-to-HDR) live in the Upscale workspace. Upscaling is almost always a final pass — fix the look first, then upscale.

Creative Upscaler

Partially reconstructs the render at higher resolution. Adds detail, can fix artifacts. Best for restoration work or when more detail is desired.

Settings

Setting	Tooltip	Default	Range
Prompt	Write the prompt here	A detail-oriented upscale prompt is pre-filled	Free text
Output size	Size of the longest side of your output. Aspect ratio from original video is always respected.	1920	1280–1920
Steps	Total diffusion steps: more steps result in sharper and more detailed results but slower processing. Lower steps can help achieving less refined styles.	6	3–10
Detail enhancement	Higher values will give AI more freedom to invent elements from the original input. It’s good to retrieve quality and/or correct artefacts but could lead to other artefacts in some cases. Keep this value low if your input video is well detailed already.	0.4	0.1–0.9
Interpolation	The interpolation mode renders only one every two frames and use interpolation to fill in the gaps. As a result, the render is quicker and costs less credits. The output might be less detailed in occasions.	Off	On/Off
Images format	Choose the format for the image sequence export. EXR formats provide higher quality for professional compositing workflows.	PNG	PNG / EXR 16-bit
Tile width count	A higher count will allow for more detailed upscaling, but might create artefacts. A lower count will maintain overall consistency.	2	1–4
Tile height count	A higher count will allow for more detailed upscaling, but might create artefacts. A lower count will maintain overall consistency.	2	1–4
Context size	When doing long renders, the render is split in smaller parts and attached together. The Context size is the number of frames of those parts.	77	9–101
Context overlap	Number of frames that overlap between consecutive context windows. Higher values provide better continuity but slower processing.	10	1–10

Use cases by detail enhancement

• Light detail enhancement — 0.3. Adds a small amount of detail to a working render.
• Mid-level reconstruction — 0.5. Visible detail while keeping the original mostly intact.
• Heavy restoration — 0.7–0.9. For damaged, blurry, or very low-res input. Output deviates noticeably.

Upscaler

Simple, non-creative upscaler. Clean enlargement without reconstruction. Use when the input is already what you want, just at the wrong size — final-pass output preparation.

Settings

Setting	Tooltip	Default	Range
Upscale factor	Choose the upscaling factor. x2 doubles the resolution, x4 quadruples it.	x2	x2 / x4
Images format	Choose the format for the image sequence export. EXR formats provide higher quality for professional compositing workflows.	PNG	PNG / EXR 16-bit

Mago SDR-to-HDR

Expands brightness and colour range for HDR displays. It does not add detail — pick it when the grade needs HDR headroom. The longest side of the output follows Output size. Output is always written as a 16-bit EXR image sequence.

Settings

Setting	Tooltip	Default	Range
Output size	Size of the longest side of your target output resolution. Lower resolutions will give faster and cheaper results, at the expense of quality	1280	512–1920
Context size	When doing long renders, the render is split in smaller parts and attached together. The Context size is the number of frames of those parts	49	24–81
Context overlap	Number of frames where a render part overlaps with the next one. Small values work best for high movement while higher value is better for more static/slow movement	10	0–24

Render length runs from 8 to 2000 frames. Available in Relaxed and Unlimited modes.

Upscaling workflow

1. Validate the look at lower resolution (1280).
2. Render the full clip at 1280.
3. Click Edit this Render on the final track.
4. Switch to the Upscale tab.
5. Pick Upscaler for predictable enlargement, or Creative Upscaler (detail enhancement 0.3–0.5) for reconstruction.
6. Generate full clip.

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