Christian SeligJun 30, 2025
Quick blog post about an awesome (free) video upscaling tool I use by the terrific @finnvoorhees https://christianselig.com/2025/06/awesome-upscaling-tool/
A slept on upscaling tool for macOS

I upload YouTube videos from time to time, and a fun comment I often get is “Whoa, this is 8K!”. Even better, I’ve had comments from the like, seven people with 8K TVs that the video looks awesome on their TV. And you guessed it, I don’t record my videos in 8K! I record them in 4K and upscale them to 8K after the fact.

Show threadPenguin
@christianselig @finnvoorhees Thanks, looking forward to trying it on old VHS videos.
Jun 30, 2025 at 7:23pmWeb
Show threadChristian SeligJun 30, 2025
@PenguinToot I’d be curious how well it works on that, I can’t imagine their internal model was trained on content of that style. Topaz has a Starlight model that was however and is pretty remarkable in some cases
Show threadPenguinJun 30, 2025
@christianselig @finnvoorhees I’m sure it wasn’t and I don’t have much hope. Someday my 1980’s VHS-C home videos will be upscaled but my children will have to do it (I’ve tried Topaz with poor results). Thankfully I have later ones in Hi8, the best SD format with great color that makes up for the low resolution. And fortunately HDV & AVCHD for high school videos 🙂
Show threadChristian SeligJun 30, 2025
@PenguinToot nice yeah I was fortunate that most of mine were in Hi8 too