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

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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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Do Nero Video and Nero Recode support exporting AVC 2K files?

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The answer is “Yes”.

Nero Video

In the new generation of Nero Video, we added 4 AVC 2K resolution support into the profile “AVC Ultra HD (4K)”. Select 2K resolution to export AVC 2K files.

Nero Recode

In the new generation of Nero Recode, in the profile “AVC Ultra HD (4K)” you can also find 4 AVC 2K resolutions. Select 2K resolution to export AVC 2K files.

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How can Nero Video export or package media files which are used in the project?

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While using Nero Video to create your own movie, Nero Video can import your own media files like Video, Music or Pictures from different folders or different devices like TV or Camera. At the same time, all media files can be managed in the “My Media” palette.

Sometimes, if you want to consolidate your media files in your disks, or edit the Nero Video project in another PC, you have to

Manually check and copy all used files in the Nero Video project to a specific folder.
Copy or save the Nero Video project to the specific folder again.
It is possible that you have to fix the Nero Video project file issue first before opening the project again. If certain files cannot be set correctly, these files and related applied effects will be removed.

Nero Video 2021 now supports exporting or packaging the project file and used media assets.

Once you have finished video editing and click “Save”, you can “Save project file and assets” by clicking the button “Save As …”.

Then the Windows folder selection dialog pops up, and you can select the folder which you want to export or package the whole folder. You can even select a removable device or network drive.

Folder

Depending on the number of the files you need to export and package, the whole export process will take some time. After the process is finished, you can open the folder to check the exported project and files.

Finish

Other info: Nero Video will create a folder with the project name and the date info.

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Best Practice: Multi-Cam Editing with Nero Video

Series of five video tutorials showing you how to edit footage from a stage performance shot with four cameras which were recording continuously.

Access the playlist with the five tutorials as summarized below here:

Part 1: Stage Recording, Importing & Arranging Camera Sources
Introduces the background scenario of the recorded footage, shows you how to import and pre-trim the sources, and how to arrange the four camera sources in a multi tracks timeline based on shot priorities

Part 2: Match AV-Sync between Camera Sources
Shows you how to match AV-sync and have lip sync between the camera sources in four tracks.

Part 3: Match Color & Lighting between different Camera Sources
Shows you how to match color and lighting between the four camera source tracks.

Part 4: Use Master Audio, Intercut Scenes, Add Global Effects
Shows you how to use a master audio track, intercut scenes between the four camera source tracks, and how to add titles and global effects.

Part 5: Optimize Audio, Export Video, Watch Sample
The final part shows you how to optimize your master audio, how to export video for sharing to YouTube in good quality, and gives some tips for multi-cam live recording. Finally you will see the video of a stage performance of PopJazzChor Wiesbaden.

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How can I drag a sequence of clips in one track as a whole and this way synchronize edit points in Nero Video within two tracks ?

In Nero Video ‘Advanced Editing’ there are different tools available that will help you multi-selecting clips in one or more tracks, so that you can drag them to the desired position in the timeline.

Such tools can be accessed via the list of selecting/trimming tools at the right hand side of the timeline. Inside of the tool box just click on the little arrow bottom left of the box.

Marquee Tool

The ‘Marquee Tool’ allows you to draw a selection mark around clip sequences in one or more tracks of the timeline so that you can drag sequences of clips without losing your already made edits inside of the selection. This tool is pre-selected in the tool box.

1. click on the ‘Marquee Tool’
2. mark the clips that you want to move
3. select the ‘Standard Tool’ again
4. drag the sequence of clips to the wanted position

Select Track Tools

There are also more selective track selection tools associated to one track only, so that you can drag sequences of clips without losing your already made edits inside of the track. To access the options click on the small triangle located in the tool box bottom left.

mark all clips in the given track
mark only those clips located right of the selected clip
mark only those clips located left of the selected clip

Click on one of the tools and follow steps 2-4 as already described under ‘Marquee Tool’.

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