Video Conversion

Ai or not AI? UH OH

Digitize and Restore Your Images

We use state-of-the-art hardware to digitize your old photos, video, cine ,slides, and negatives. Our digital restoration services include color correction, scratch removal, and repair of tears and other damage.

AI and Video Upscaling

You will have seen stunning AI-restored examples of movies and videos and TV shows. Whilst looking amazing, the cost of the software contains further hidden traps. For example, Topaz Video AI costs £299 for a lifetime software use. However, applying all the models to restore and improve your copied MP4 file from your video source will, running from your computer with a reasonable video card, take, days for even a low resolution 30 minute file.

So Topaz, and Hipaw for example, offer you a short-cut: upload your video to our cloud servers for a quicker conversion: hours rather than days. But it costs credits, which range from 50-400 credits. 50 credits costs $7.99 but will only take one or two hours off a two days operation.

If you had dedicated nvidia card costing 1000's of pounds, I doubt (with my software developer hat) the conversion routines will reduce the processing time by as much as it should: I suspect the digital conversion AI identifies such super-fast cards and cripples the performance. accordingly.

Oh even worse, you can spend two days or many currency units of money on credits from your AI conversion provider, and the process can crash with a internal bug or a resource problem. All that money gone, and you have to start again. Pay or Wait.

This problem is insoluble given the power requirements to run an AI model, and the costs of implementing heat dissipation by the data centre owner make conversion of long videos uneconomic.

Price List

Video/DVD Conversions to USB Stick or Digital Download. Colour Correction at source

VHS, VHSC, Video 2000, VCR, Betamax, MiniDV/MiniDV Pro, Hi8, Digital8, Video8. From £7.50 for 60 minutes to £25 for 480 minutes. SECAM/PAL/NTSC
Super 8, Single 8 Standard 8 Convert to DVD or USB. From £17. for 50 feet
.16mm/9.4mm - ask for quote.

Send or drop off (Special Delivery) : MS Hobbies (Scan), 132b Putney High Street, London SW15 1RG 0203 971 8827 or 07899 845 801

M.S. HOBBIES SUBMINIATURE FILM & VIDEO specialists SINCE 1970

Film processing, Video Transfers, film cameras, accessories

From tape to phone

Transferring analogue films from video to Digital

From tape to phone

THE AI problem with upscaling video

Ai or not AI? UH OH

Digitize and Restore Your Images

AI and Video Upscaling

Price List

M.S. HOBBIES SUBMINIATURE FILM & VIDEO specialists SINCE 1970

Film processing, Video Transfers, film cameras, accessories

From tape to phone

Transferring analogue films from video to Digital

From tape to phone

THE AI problem with upscaling video

Ai or not AI? UH OH

Digitize and Restore Your Images

AI and Video Upscaling

Price List

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