Old, blurry footage — restored to crisp HD & 4K
Batch-upscale, denoise, stabilize and sharpen your videos on your own PC — a desktop alternative to Topaz Video AI. One-time purchase, no $299/year subscription.
Windows 10/11 Free trial: 10-second clips and 5 full exports, no watermark · No credit card · Runs on your own PC
AI upscaling needs an NVIDIA RTX 20-series or newer graphics card. Denoise, stabilisation and frame interpolation also run on AMD and Intel.
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Before
After
Source: Ivan Besse home movies, 1938 (Prelinger Archives, public domain), in the 320×240 copy archive.org serves. It is film, not tape: we have no VHS capture we can publish. Settings: Denoise Strong (an ffmpeg filter), Upscale 4× with NVIDIA RTX Video Super Resolution, Sharpen Light. Grain and blocks go; detail the film never held does not appear.
The same small patch of one frame, cut from the source and from the restored file. Every square is one real pixel.
Frame at 4.0 s of a 1938 home movie (Ivan Besse, Prelinger Archives, public domain), 320×240 copy. Settings: Denoise Strong, Upscale 4× with NVIDIA RTX Video Super Resolution, Sharpen Light. More pixels give smoother edges; detail the film never held does not appear.
How It Works
- 1
Add Your Videos
Drop video files or entire folders. AI Video Enhancer Studio reads MP4, MKV, AVI, MOV, WebM, and 20+ more formats.
- 2
Choose Enhancement
Select upscaling, denoising, frame interpolation or stabilization, or combine several. Choose a preset workflow or configure your own.
- 3
Enhance
Hit Start. GPU-accelerated AI processes your videos locally. NVENC hardware encoding for fast output.
What you pay over three years
Topaz Video AI is billed at $299 a year, so $897 over three years. The other tools and AI Video Enhancer Studio are one-time prices.
A 1938 home movie, before and after
Restore old home movies with AI: film, VHS and camcorder
Windows · free trial · pay once, no subscription
AI upscaling needs an NVIDIA RTX 20-series or newer graphics card. Denoise, stabilisation and frame interpolation also run on AMD and Intel.
All the Formats You Need
Enhance MP4, MKV, AVI, MOV, WebM, WMV, FLV, M4V, and 20+ more video formats. Output in H.264, H.265, AV1, or VP9 with GPU-accelerated encoding.
AI-Powered Video Enhancement
NVIDIA RTX VSR upscaling and RIFE frame interpolation, plus denoise, stabilize, deinterlace and sharpen filters. Everything runs on your own PC, with no credits to buy.
AI Upscaling (2x–4x)
Upscale 720p to 4K or 1080p to 8K while preserving sharpness and detail. Powered by NVIDIA RTX VSR video models optimized for real-world footage, animation, and archival content.
Watch the video guide →Highlight-Reel Remix
Turn a long video into a short highlight reel — vertical 9:16 for Shorts if you like. Scene and audio detection suggest the clips, you fine-tune with frame previews, add background music, then export one clean MP4 — no timeline editing.
Noise Reduction
Remove grain, noise and compression artifacts from old home videos, high-ISO footage, surveillance recordings and heavily compressed files. Pick hqdn3d for speed or nlmeans to keep edges sharper.
AI Frame Interpolation
Reach a smooth 30 or 60 fps from any source with AI-generated in-between frames: 24 or 30 fps footage plays back at 60 fps. GPU-accelerated RIFE, without the blur and ghosting of frame blending.
Watch the video guide →Stabilization
Remove camera shake and jitter from handheld, action-cam and drone video with two-pass vidstab stabilization in Light, Medium or Strong. Process whole folders of shaky clips in batch.
Watch the video guide →Batch Processing
Enhance hundreds of video files in a single batch. Chain denoise, upscale and frame interpolation in one pipeline. Multi-file queue with progress tracking.
GPU Acceleration
AI upscaling uses NVIDIA RTX Video Super Resolution and requires an NVIDIA RTX GPU (20-series or newer). All other filters - denoise, sharpen, stabilize, deinterlace - plus NVENC/AMF/QSV hardware encoding run on any modern Windows PC.
Audio Cleanup
One-click background-noise reduction cleans up hiss, hum, and ambient noise in your video's audio. Restore clear, listenable sound without re-recording or external editing tools.
Auto-Analyze & Suggest
Drop in a clip and the app inspects its resolution, codec, frame rate, and noise, then recommends the best preset and settings automatically. No guesswork - start enhancing in one click.
Live Preview & Before/After Compare
Preview the upscaled result on a sample frame before committing, and use the before/after compare slider to check the difference. See exactly what you'll get before processing the whole file.
Trim Before You Enhance
Cut your clip to just the part you need before enhancing. Skip the dead footage and save GPU time - only the section you keep gets processed.
Extract Frames
Batch-extract frames from one video or a whole folder as PNG, JPG or WebP — smart presets (storyboard, thumbnails, social pack, one per scene), exact timestamps, sharpness-aware picking, and optional NVIDIA VSR AI upscale applied to each frame.
Extract Frames and Highlight-Reel Remix, run on a 40 s wildlife clip.
Source: 40 s, 1920×1012Extract Frames
- Storyboard: evenly spaced12
- Thumbnails: five key points5
- Social: extra frames near the end8
- Scenes: one per scene change
Or exact timestamps. PNG, JPG or WebP. Optional 2× to 4× upscale.
Highlight-Reel Remix
A 40 second timeline with six highlighted 5 second segments, then three output frames: wide, vertical and square.
6 clips of 5 s, chosen from scene and audio changes (suggested in 1 s)
One MP4, 30 s, in three shapes
Optional background music that ducks under the original sound.
Measured on 30 September 2026 with the command line on an RTX 3080: the Storyboard, Thumbnails and Social presets gave 12, 5 and 8 stills; remix suggest took 1 s and remix render 9 to 12 s. Clip: Roman Odintsov, Pexels licence, transcoded to 1920×1012.
More than an enhancer: Remix and Extract Frames
Two production tools included with every copy — free trial included — that turn footage you already have into content you can actually use.
Highlight-Reel Remix
Two-hour gameplay sessions, full ceremonies, entire matches — the moments worth sharing add up to thirty seconds. Remix gets you there in four guided steps: trim the part worth analyzing, review the suggested clips, preview the reel, export one clean MP4.
- Scene + audio detection find the moments every scene change and every audio spike (a goal, a cheer, an explosion) is scored, and the strongest beats become suggested clips — even on static-camera footage.
- You stay in control add, remove and retime any clip with live frame thumbnails; pick the target length and the reel ends on a held shot, not a hard cut.
- Made for Shorts and Reels export vertical 9:16 or square 1:1 with one click, add background music with automatic ducking, then send the reel straight into the AI enhancer.
- Private and scriptable everything runs on your PC, nothing is uploaded, and the same engine ships in the CLI (
remix suggest/remix render) for batch jobs.
Extract Frames
Thumbnails for YouTube, a storyboard for a client, a still of the exact moment the camera never photographed — Extract Frames pulls pin-sharp PNG images out of your videos, exactly where you want them.
- Smart sampling presets Storyboard (evenly spaced), Thumbnails (five key points), Social (extra frames near the ending), Scenes (one frame per detected scene change), or custom counts, intervals and exact timestamps.
- Whole folders at once queue hundreds of videos; each one gets its own tidy subfolder of numbered stills — PNG, JPG or WebP with a quality dial — up to 1,000 frames per video.
- AI-upscaled stills optionally enhance every extracted frame with NVIDIA Video Super Resolution (2x–4x), with auto-2x for low-resolution sources.
- Always the sharp frame optional sharpness picking compares five nearby frames and keeps the crispest; the same engine powers the app and
aivideoenhancer extract-framesfor automation.
See it in action
The real app, from setup to finished batch — no mockups.
Built-In Workflows for Every Use Case
Pre-configured pipelines tuned for specific video types and industries.
Each built-in preset is a fixed recipe. These are the steps it runs, in order.
Old Video Restoration
- Stabilize medium
- Denoise strong
- Upscale 2× RTX
- Audio clean-up
VHS, Hi8, MiniDV and DVD transfers: steadies the picture, removes tape noise, doubles the resolution and cleans the hiss.
Drone & Action Camera
- Stabilize strong
- Denoise light
- Upscale 2× RTX
- Smooth to 30 fps
GoPro, drone and handheld action footage: strong stabilization, a light clean-up, twice the resolution and 30 fps.
Content Creation
- Denoise light
- Upscale 2× RTX
- Smooth to 30 fps
Phone, YouTube and social clips: a light clean-up, twice the resolution and a smooth 30 fps.
Surveillance Enhancement
- Denoise medium
- Upscale 4× RTX
- Audio clean-up
Low-resolution security clips: removes noise and enlarges 4× so plates and faces are easier to look at. It cannot add detail the camera never recorded.
Video Archival
- Stabilize light
- Denoise medium
- Upscale 2× RTX
Footage you want to keep: light stabilization, a medium clean-up and twice the resolution, saved in H.265 or AV1 if you choose.
Animation & Anime
- Denoise light
- Upscale 4× RTX
Animation and anime: a light clean-up and a 4× upscale. It uses the same RTX engine as live footage; there is no separate anime model.
Enhance (No Upscale)
- Denoise light
- Clean up at the same size RTX
Already HD? Removes compression blocks and noise without changing the resolution.
Smooth Motion (30fps)
- Denoise light
- Smooth to 30 fps
Choppy clips below 30 fps: a light clean-up, then RIFE adds in-between frames up to 30 fps. Choose 60 fps in the settings for more.
Steps marked RTX need an NVIDIA RTX card (20-series or newer); the others run on any Windows 10/11 PC. An interlaced source (DV, DVD, TV capture) also gets deinterlaced automatically. You can change any step before you press Start.
How AI Video Enhancer Studio Compares
See how we stack up against Topaz Video AI, HitPaw, and AVCLabs.
| Feature | Topaz Video AI ($299/yr) | HitPaw ($350 lifetime) | AVCLabs ($300 lifetime) | AI Video Enhancer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upscaling (2x–4x) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Noise reduction | ✔ | Limited | Limited | ✔ |
| Frame interpolation | ✔ | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Stabilization | ✔ | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ |
| Batch processing | Limited | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| HW encoding (NVENC) | ✘ | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ |
| Runs on your own PC | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| GPU acceleration | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Highlight-reel remix (scene + audio AI, 9:16 export) | ✘ | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ |
| Frame extraction (presets + AI upscale) | Limited | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ |
| Cost | $299/yr | $350 | $300 | One-time |
CLI & MCP Server
Automate AI video enhancement from scripts, CI/CD pipelines, or AI agents. CLI and MCP server included with every license.
CLI Commands
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
aivideoenhancer enhance | Enhance a video with denoising, stabilization, NVIDIA RTX VSR upscaling and RIFE frame interpolation |
aivideoenhancer analyze | Analyze a video file — resolution, codec, duration, bitrate, noise level assessment |
aivideoenhancer presets | List all 8 built-in enhancement presets with their AI pipeline configuration |
aivideoenhancer status | Check license, GPU availability, and AI model status |
aivideoenhancer serve | Start the MCP server for AI agent integration (stdio transport) |
aivideoenhancer remix | Suggest and render highlight-reel remixes — clips, aspect, music, audio weighting |
aivideoenhancer extract-frames | Extract still frames from a video or folder using presets, count, or timestamps, with optional AI upscale |
# AI upscale to 4x with GPU acceleration aivideoenhancer enhance video.mp4 --upscale 4x --gpu auto # Denoise and stabilize old footage aivideoenhancer enhance old_tape.mp4 --denoise strong --stabilize # Apply a built-in preset aivideoenhancer enhance clip.mp4 --preset old_video_restoration # Frame interpolation to 60fps aivideoenhancer enhance video.mp4 --interpolate 60fps --json # Analyze a video file aivideoenhancer analyze video.mp4 --json # Extract 10 evenly spaced frames, AI-upscaled 2x aivideoenhancer extract-frames video.mp4 --output frames/ --count 10 --upscale x2 # Batch-extract a storyboard preset from every video in a folder aivideoenhancer extract-frames videos/ --output frames/ --preset storyboard
MCP Server — AI Agent Integration
Run aivideoenhancer serve to start a Model Context Protocol server. AI agents like Claude can then analyze, enhance, and process videos through natural language.
| MCP Tool | Description |
|---|---|
analyze_video | Analyze a video — resolution, codec, duration, bitrate, noise level, and enhancement suggestions |
enhance_video | Enhance a video with denoising, stabilization, NVIDIA RTX VSR upscaling and RIFE interpolation options |
list_presets | List all 8 built-in presets with AI model and pipeline details |
get_status | Check GPU availability, AI model status, and license info |
// claude_desktop_config.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"aivideoenhancer": {
"command": "aivideoenhancer",
"args": ["serve"]
}
}
}
Use it from your AI agent
AI Video Enhancer Studio ships an MCP server, so Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, VS Code and other agents that run on your PC can enhance your videos through it. Your files stay on your computer.
# In Claude Code, two commands:
/plugin marketplace add contentasoftware/contentasoft-ai-video-enhancer-plugin
/plugin install contentasoft-ai-video-enhancer@contentasoft-ai-video-enhancer-plugin
It works during the free trial, with the same limits as the app. Plugin source on GitHub, launcher package on npm: GitHub · npm
What Users Say
Restored my dad's wedding VHS to 1080p. The frame interpolation made old home movies look like they were filmed yesterday.
Anime upscaling rivals Topaz at half the price. One-time purchase instead of a $299/year subscription sealed it for me.
Cleaned up 200 hours of drone footage overnight on my RTX 4070. Batch mode actually works on consumer hardware.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. AI Video Enhancer Studio does upscaling (NVIDIA RTX VSR), AI frame interpolation (RIFE) and denoising for a one-time price instead of the $299/year Topaz subscription. Stabilization and batch processing are included.
NVIDIA RTX VSR for upscaling and RIFE for frame interpolation. Everything else is an FFmpeg filter: hqdn3d or nlmeans denoising, two-pass vidstab stabilization, yadif or bwdif deinterlacing, unsharp mask or CAS sharpening. It all runs locally on your machine.
Yes. Upscale 2x, 3x or 4x with NVIDIA RTX Video Super Resolution: 720p to 1440p (2x) or to 4K (3x), 1080p to 4K (2x). One engine, so there is no model to pick.
$129 once for a lifetime license, or $29 every three months if you prefer to subscribe. There is no yearly bill like the $299 a year Topaz Video AI charges.
On your own PC, on its processor and graphics card. Upscaling runs on your NVIDIA RTX card with RTX Video Super Resolution. The software sends anonymous install, crash and usage statistics and license checks, as described in the Privacy Policy.
Yes. The Old Video Restoration preset combines denoising (hqdn3d removes analog noise and tape grain), stabilization, a 2× upscale with NVIDIA RTX VSR and audio noise reduction. When the tape capture is interlaced, it also turns on Yadif deinterlacing. Add RIFE frame interpolation if you want smoother motion.
AI upscaling uses NVIDIA RTX Video Super Resolution, so it requires an NVIDIA RTX GPU (20-series or newer) with a current driver - there is no CPU, AMD, or Intel fallback for upscaling. Every other enhancement (denoise, sharpen, stabilize, deinterlace) and hardware encoding work on any modern Windows PC.
H.264, H.265 (HEVC), AV1, and VP9. Hardware-accelerated encoding via NVENC (NVIDIA), AMF (AMD), or QSV (Intel) for fast output. Configurable quality, bitrate, and container format.
Yes. Batch-process entire folders of video files and chain several enhancements in one pipeline. Multi-file queue with progress tracking and automatic output organization.
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