What is Nero AI video upscaling and how to turn on/off it?

Even people who are not so interested in watching movies may agree that watching videos in high resolution (such as Full HD, 4K) is a wonderful experience. With 4K monitors and TVs becoming more and more popular, are you still satisfied with watching blurry SD videos on 4K monitors or TVs?

What is traditional video upscaling?
Traditional upscaling or resize is the easiest way to stretch a lower resolution video onto a larger displayer. The pixels in the lower resolution image are simply repeated and averaged to fill all the pixels of the higher resolution display. The result is that the video fits a 4K monitor, but it usually looks blurry.

What is Nero AI video upscaling?
Nero AI video upscaling predicts high-resolution videos through an AI model and produces incredible clarity and enhanced details that cannot be reproduced by traditional upscaling, such as sharper edges, more realistic hair, and the landscapes with striking clarity.

Before and after: Nero MediaHome playback with Nero AI video upscaling

 

The result video that converted by traditional video upscaling and Nero AI video upscaling

What You’ll Need

  • Nero Platinum or Nero Platinum 2022 installed.🛒 Click and Get Nero Platinum Suite
  • Nero Platinum supports Nero AI video upscaling up from V24.x and higher.
  • Please attach your monitor to the higher performance graphic card, if your PC has dual graphic cards.
  • Windows 10 or higher 64-bit operating system is recommended.

Enjoy a better performance with enabled hardware-accelerated AI enhancement

We recommend using at least a Nvidia GTX 970 or AMD Radeon R9 390 graphics cards for hardware accelerated video AI upscaling of SD source files. If you would like to do video AI upscaling of HD source files, we recommended using at least a Nvidia GTX 1070 or AMD Radeon RX 5600 graphics cards.

 

How to turn on/off Nero AI video upscaling?
In Nero Platinum V24.x and higher versions, you can enjoy the improvement of video quality from Nero AI video upscaling during video playback, converting and exporting.

Video Playback – Nero MediaHome
When you are playing video clips, no matter playing from Nero MediaHome Library or in Nero MediaHome Viewer, you will find a “Video Enhancer” icon in the lower right corner. From there you can turn Nero AI video upscaling on or off.

VSR playback in NMH Library VSR playback in NMH Viewer

The real-time video playback of “Nero AI video upscaling” depends on the performance of your graphic card.
We recommend enabling hardware acceleration under Video Playback in Nero MediaHome > Options > Video.

NMH Option HWA

 

Export – Nero Video
In Nero Video V24.x or later versions, you will find the option to enable or disable Nero AI upscaling in the export settings under “Configure”. Nero Video will apply Nero AI upscaling to your movie project when the target size is larger than your movie resolution settings.

Nero AI video upscaling_configure

Nero AI video upscaling_export
There are two levels for the output quality: standard quality and high quality. With the “high quality” level, you will get a better output file, but it needs more time.

Convert – Nero Recode
In Nero Recode V24.x or higher versions, you will find the “Nero AI upscaling” and its AI hardware acceleration options in Output settings.
Recode_Nero AI upscaling_configure
Recode_Nero AI video upscaling_export
There are no special hardware requirements for the conversion in Nero Recode and the export in Nero Video. The general performance depends on the system performance. But the hardware limitation will not affect the output quality. We recommend running Nero AI upscaling on Windows 10 or higher 64-bit operating systems.

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Release Notes for Nero Platinum 2022 – 2021 Q3

We always improve our product based on your feedback and suggestions on a ongoing basis.

Nero Start
• The new user interface provides you with dynamic and customized tabs such as “Recently used” and “Favorite” pages
• See the latest released apps and most popular apps from users all over the world
• Dedicated “Updates” tabs keep you focus on the apps you have installed
• Provides more than 200 solutions for mobile and PC with easier and faster accessibility and a search bar on the start page
• A brand new category “Experience AI” provides easy access to apps that are powered by AI Launcher-home page Launcher-start-favorite Launcher-start-popular

1001 TVs (PC)
• 1001 TVs – mirror screen from multi-phones to your Windows PC and mirror your Windows desktop to TV

Nero AI Image Upscaler
• Nero AI Image Upscaler – use artificial intelligence to increase image resolution with enhanced sharpness and detail NAIU-start screen

Nero Score
• Nero Score – the real-world PC benchmark. Nero Score measures the multi-core performance of your processor (CPU) and pushes your graphics card (GPU) to its maximum limit with real-world multimedia use cases Nero Score_result

Nero AI Photo Tagger
• Upgraded AI detection optimizes performance to take full advantage of high-end CPUs
• Better structured AI tag list for future extension

Nero Video
• Support importing and editing of 8K video footage Nero Video_8K video editing
• Nero Video supports Nero AI upscaling for video during export. Nero AI video upscaling predicts high-resolution video with AI models and produces incredibly sharp and enhanced details such as sharper edges, more realistic hair, and landscapes with amazing clarity. Nero AI video upscaling_configure
• Now it’s easier to create slide shows after your vacation – because in Nero Video’s media library, you can use the media information already applied in other applications (e.g. Nero MediaHome, Nero AI Photo Tagger) to find the photos you want more easily Smart library - group by AI Tags Smart library - group by Places

Nero Recode
• Support importing and playback 8K video footage
• Nero Recode supports Nero AI upscaling for video during conversion Recode_Nero AI video upscaling_export

Nero MediaHome
• Support for 8K video playback
• Support Nero AI upscaling in real-time video playback – enjoy high definition quality with standard definition sources

Nero BackItUp
• Now supports a new backup option: automatically start backup when an external USB drive is attached auto backup once attached the external backup drive
•  Nero BackItUp allows now encryption independent from compression allowing encryption independent from compression
• Now Nero BackItUp supports browsing and relocating backup files if you move them to a new location

Nero Burning ROM & Nero Express
• Now you can create Raspberry Pi OS on your USB stick or SD card in Nero Burning ROM Create Raspberry Pi OS to USB stick in NBR_1
• Nero Burning ROM & Nero Express support editing CD-text in multiple languages

Nero USBxCOPY
• Now you can write ISO images (e.g. operating system images) to multiple USB drives with one click
• Improved user interface and better usability Create ISO to multiple USB in USBxCOPY

🛒 Click and Get Nero Platinum Suite

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Release Notes for Nero Platinum Suite (Subscription) – 2021 Q3

We always improve our product based on your feedback and suggestions on a ongoing basis.

Nero Start

  • The new user interface provides you with dynamic and customized tabs such as “Recently used” and “Favorite” pages
  • See the latest released apps and most popular apps from users all over the world
  • Dedicated “Updates” tabs keep you focus on the apps you have installed
  • Provides more than 200 solutions for mobile and PC with easier and faster accessibility and a search bar on the start page
  • A brand new category “Experience AI” provides easy access to apps that are powered by AI

Launcher-home page Launcher-start-favorite Launcher-start-popular

1001 TVs (PC)

  • 1001 TVs – mirror screen from multi-phones to your Windows PC and mirror your Windows desktop to TV

Nero AI Image Upscaler

  • Nero AI Image Upscaler – use artificial intelligence to increase image resolution with enhanced sharpness and detail NAIU-start screen

Nero Score

  • Nero Score – the real-world PC benchmark. Nero Score measures the multi-core performance of your processor (CPU) and pushes your graphics card (GPU) to its maximum limit with real-world multimedia use cases

Nero Score_result

Nero AI Photo Tagger

  • Upgraded AI detection optimizes performance to take full advantage of high-end CPUs
  • Better structured AI tag list for future extension

parent-sub structure

Nero Video

  • Support importing and editing of 8K video footage Nero Video_8K video editing
  • Nero Video supports Nero AI upscaling for video during export. Nero AI video upscaling predicts high-resolution video with AI models and produces incredibly sharp and enhanced details such as sharper edges, more realistic hair, and landscapes with amazing clarity. Nero AI video upscaling_configure
  • Now it’s easier to create slide shows after your vacation – because in Nero Video’s media library, you can use the media information already applied in other applications (e.g. Nero MediaHome, Nero AI Photo Tagger) to find the photos you want more easily Smart library - group by AI Tags Smart library - group by Places

Nero Recode

  • Support importing and playback 8K video footage
  • Nero Recode supports Nero AI upscaling for video during conversion Recode_Nero AI video upscaling_export

Nero MediaHome

  • Support for 8K video playback
  • Support Nero AI upscaling in real-time video playback – enjoy high definition quality with standard definition sources

 

Nero BackItUp

  • Now supports a new backup option: automatically start backup when an external USB drive is attached auto backup once attached the external backup drive
  • Nero BackItUp allows now encryption independent from compression allowing encryption independent from compression
  • Now Nero BackItUp supports browsing and relocating backup files if you move them to a new location

Nero Burning ROM & Nero Express

  • Now you can create Raspberry Pi OS on your USB stick or SD card in Nero Burning ROM Create Raspberry Pi OS to USB stick in NBR_1

Nero USBxCOPY

  • [Now you can write ISO images (e.g. operating system images) to multiple USB drives with one click
  • Improved user interface and better usability Create ISO to multiple USB in USBxCOPY

🛒 Click and Get Nero Platinum Suite

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How can I get the latest updates for my Nero Products?

 

Checking for Online Updates will get the updates for

  1. The basic components, free applications or Content Packages.
  2. The applications in the product which are selected in the Nero Account -> My product page.

Here is one map guide for you to understand the whole working flow.

One guide map

Let’s say you have both Nero Platinum Suite subscription and Nero Platinum 2021 available in your Nero Account.

Select Nero Platinum 2021 as the default product.

np2021

Then only the updates for installed applications in Nero Platinum 2021 will be listed in the Updates screen.

update item empty for np2021

If you switch to Nero Platinum subscription as the default product.

np 365

Then only the updates for installed applications in Nero Platinum will be listed in the Updates Screen.

update items for np 365 -1

After the check, a number badge will be shown in ‘Updates’ tab in the sidebar menu to indicate that how many applications are available to update.

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To update the Install & Online Update configuration, click ‘Apply’ in the Options screen for the updated configurations to take effect.
For installing or updating, the applications need to run in administrator mode, so a UAC dialog will pop up to get permission while the installation is in progress.

option configured success

 

How to configure Install and Online Update
In the Options screen under section ‘Install & Online Update’, it is possible to set the Install and Update configurations.

  • Install location for Nero Products:

The root folder in which Nero Start will install all Nero products or applications.
• Change the install location setting will only apply to the next installation or update.
• The space size of the target drive for installations should exceed 5GB or more available space.

  • Temporary files

The folder used to store the temp downloaded files. Click the button ‘Delete’ to remove the whole folder and files.
The space size of the drive for storing temporary files should exceed 5GB or more available space

  • Online Update

Online update policy for Nero Products.
Click the button ‘Check for updates’ to skip the current modification in Option screen and open the ‘Updates’ tab to check the latest updates for installed applications in the selected product.

  • Download updates but let me choose whether to install them

While Nero Start launches, check and download the latest updates for the installed applications. After the installer packages have been downloaded, a notification will appear. Click the notification to continue with the installation.

  • Check for update but let me choose whether to download and install them (recommended)

While Nero Start launches, only check if there is any update for installed applications with selected product. The badge number will update at the same time.

  • Never check for updates (not recommended)

Never check updates for the selected product any more.

options-install and update

 

How to update or install applications in ‘Updates’ page
When the auto update check for the Nero Application is set, every time Nero Start launches, the application will check if there are any updates for the selected product.

In addition, you can check manually in the ‘Update’ tab by clicking ‘Check for updates’ button.

check for update

Below screenshot means that all applications are updated to the latest version.

update item empty for np2021

If there is any application available to update, it be listed up. You can click ‘Update’ button on each application or click on ‘Update all’ button.

highlight update or all

Click the button ‘Update’ will start to download. A progress bar will indicate the whole process.
At the same time, the downloading can be canceled by clicking the button ‘X’. While the application installing/updating begins, the whole process cannot be canceled any more.

highlight cancel botton

You can also click the button ‘Update all’ in the top-right to update all available applications to the latest version.

While the Nero application updating begins, you can leave the Updates screen. Nero Start will handle the whole process in the background, and you will be notified once complete.

notified after finish

If you exit Nero Start during updating or installing, a warning dialog will pop up.

exit during updating

Exiting Nero Start will cancel updating and installing. You can restart the update process by clicking ‘Update all’ or ‘Install all’ when launch Nero Start again.

If you failed to update application, you can click ‘Try again’ to try to download and install the application again.

In most cases it will fix the issue.

If the issue still exists, click the button ‘Send ticket’ to create a support ticket and our engineers will check and fix the issue.

 

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Frequently ask questions for Nero DVD Player subscription and billing

In general, your subscriptions are managed by Microsoft. You can check the official document from Microsoft: Manage a Microsoft subscription.

We listed some frequently asked questions below:

Q1: I would like to trial the subscription features before I pay. How to do it? Will I be billed?
You will not be billed in your free trial phase.
The free version comes with a watermark that appears when you play the main video. You can remove the watermark during the free 7-day trial for a full viewing experience and access to all features.

Q2: How do I cancel my subscription?
If you subscribed via your Microsoft account, you must cancel your subscription through your Microsoft account.
In order to cancel your subscription, please follow the following steps:

  1. Go to Services & subscriptions and sign in with the Microsoft account you used to purchase your subscription. It’s important to use that account.

  2. Find your subscription and select Manage. If you don’t see Manage, but see Turn on recurring billing instead, this means your subscription will expire on the date shown and you don’t need to do anything else.

  3. On the next page, select Cancel (or it might say Upgrade or Cancel, depending on your subscription type).

  4. Scroll through and follow the instructions on the page to proceed with cancellation.

    To view the complete cancellation policy, see Microsoft Store Terms of Sale.

Q3: Does deleting the application cancel my subscription?
No, uninstalling an app will not automatically stop your subscription. You must cancel your subscription to end it. If you uninstall the app without canceling your subscription, you will still be charged. If an app you’ve purchased a subscription for is removed (discontinued completely) from Microsoft Store, your future subscription will be automatically canceled but past subscriptions will not be refunded.

If you have more questions, please contact us at support@nero.com.

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