A free video converting tool, unbelievably good
I (with a design and artistic background) stumbled upon this product today by chance. I was very desperate with the poor output quality of the AI-generated videos I've encountered so far (especially on desktop screens). Meta.ai video generator, for example, only produces 480p videos, and many others offer a maximum of 720p. Even the 1080p videos, which are usually only available with quite expensive and quickly credits-depleting subscription plans, are heavily compressed - as far as I can see. To me, they look like images with a JPG compression of 5%, or even less ...
OK. I upscaled a five-second test video (480p, 535 kbit/s and 371 KB small) to 1080p using this free tool (many thanks to the original developer Eric Petit from France). I honestly had no hope at all. How should it be possible to conjure something good out of something so bad, especially when greatly enlarged? It defies all logic and all my previous experience. But when I saw all the possible settings in this tool, I was simply amazed. I deliberately chose the highest possible output quality and code-settings that my old Mac Pro could still handle without problems (because I wanted to be able to do some decent post-production work). The result (after 2 seconds), a 1080p video at 20 Mb/s and 13.4 MB size. I still can't believe that such a large scaling can produce such a result. I see no big difference from the original, and it is much larger now in resolution.
Unfortunately the 480p source material is so heavily compressed, otherwise the result would of course be even better. It's clear that it can't become a high-end video in the end. Anyway, for me, this is THE tool. Free, offline (!), professional settings, super fast, and maximum quality.
N O T E: I tested another 480p video from the Meta.ai video generator (which is great in itself), and it doesn't look that good after upscaling. It was already a particularly poor-quality 480p video to begin with. It seems to me that the video output from the Meta.ai video generator is the worst of all, and it's also only 480p. No wonder that this video generator is free. The Meta.ai image generator is also top-notch in itself, but the output is unfortunately also heavily compressed. All of this is apparently only good enough for casual use on a mobile phone. It's best to avoid it altogether or at most just test it, but you can't really do anything more demanding with it, in my opinion. My "problem" generally is that I work on a desktop computer, which has different requirements ...
18 december 2025
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