r/upscaling

So I am about 75% done with this abosolute monster of an episode to edit into the full 2 hour american release version. but i thought you all might want a little sample of the progress.

For those who do not know these scenes were never released in the US and were cut from the grand finale of the show. What they contain are a scene which shows data and statistics about the whole run of the show, and more importantly the infamous 'Entrance of the Challengers' which every former challenger came back for the end of the show, unbelievable that this was cut from the US release.

Cool fun fact during the march of the challengers, as far as I know and maybe someone can help me if I'm wrong this is the only time that the song 'Show Me Your Firetruck' from the movie Backdraft appears in it's entirety due to the shear length of the scene.

These two scenes alone took over a week to edit and remaster, using over 11 different pieces of software to fix video, remove overlays, isolate audio, remaster audio, create new voices, new sound effects, new overlay graphics, and so forth. The final 2 hour special will be posted to the Iron Chef HD archive when done. but for now... ENJOY!

I'm a photographer, and I got tired of opening ComfyUI every time I just wanted to enlarge or sharpen a photo. So I made a small desktop app for it, called Citrine Photo.

You drag in a photo (or a whole folder), pick how big you want it, and hit go. Everything runs on your own PC, no cloud.

It has two engines:

Fast is Real-ESRGAN (ncnn-vulkan). It works on pretty much any GPU, with optional GFPGAN face restore.

Pro is SeedVR2, for NVIDIA 20xx to 50xx cards. The app checks your VRAM and picks the 7B model if you have 12 GB or more, or the 3B model for 6 to 10 GB. There's a low VRAM mode too.

Other things it does:

• Target size presets (2 / 8 / 16 / 24 MP or custom), and it shows the output dimensions before you run
• Before/after preview with a draggable wipe line
• Batch queue, plus a Regenerate button to re-run the whole list with new settings
• Never overwrites your files, and each output is tagged with the engine name
• Keeps your EXIF
• Reads JPG, PNG, WebP, TIFF, BMP and HEIC
• English and Traditional Chinese (you can switch in Settings)

SeedVR2 isn't bundled. You install it from Settings, and the app sets up its own Python, torch and models. It's about 8 to 9 GB, the downloads can resume, and it checks your disk space first.

For anyone curious, the Pro pipeline is a port of the Upscale_by_SeedVR2_v4 ComfyUI workflow: 3x3 tiles with 15% overlap, SeedVR2 on each tile, wavelet colour match, then a feathered merge. It calls numz's standalone CLI in a separate process.

Right now you run it from source (pip install the requirements, then run.bat). There's also a script to build a portable version. I've only tested it properly on an RTX A4000, so I'd really like to hear how it runs on other cards, especially 6 to 8 GB ones.

Links:

GitHub: https://github.com/Garionhk/Citrine-AI-Photo-Enlarger
Video: https://youtu.be/gTbiOipvP0I

Big thanks to numz for the SeedVR2 ComfyUI code, AInVFX for the GGUF models, ByteDance for SeedVR2, and xinntao for Real-ESRGAN.

Bugs and ideas are welcome. It's free and open source (Apache 2.0).