Topaz Labs Proteus 4
Proteus 4 is Topaz Labs' general-purpose video enhancement model for upscaling and restoring a wide range of footage. It improves handling of noise, compression artifacts, faces, interlaced material, and scene transitions while maintaining stronger temporal consistency than earlier Proteus versions. Use it for broad video cleanup and enlargement workflows where the source does not call for a more specialized model.
Tuning the enhancement weights How to tune Topaz Proteus 4 with settings.enhancement: what the auto, relative, and manual modes do, and how the compression, noise, details, and halo weights change a result.
Keeping grain and texture in an enhanced clip How to stop Topaz Proteus 4 from over-smoothing: prenoise before the pass, recoverOriginalDetail to blend the source back in, and grain with grainSize on the way out.
Enhancing interlaced and tape-sourced footage How to enhance interlaced footage with Topaz Proteus 4: matching settings.videoType to the source, when settings.fieldOrder matters, and what either one gets wrong.
Rescuing soft and out-of-focus footage How to rescue soft footage with Topaz Proteus 4: settings.focusFixLevel for out-of-focus subjects, and the preblur and blur weights for aliasing and sharpness.
Upscaling and enhancing video with Proteus 4 How to upscale and enhance video with Topaz Proteus 4: the request shape, width and height as an envelope, the frame rate floor, and what auto mode repairs on its own.