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Topaz Video AI: Restore, Upscale, and Enhance Video with AI

Written by Jeremy Zimmer | Jul 24, 2026 12:18:41 PM

Video quality can make the difference between content that gets ignored and content that earns attention. The new Gen AI App Series course, Topaz Video AI, explores one of the most powerful AI-powered video enhancement tools available today. Whether you're restoring old footage, improving low-quality recordings, or making AI-generated video look polished enough for commercial use, this course shows you what Topaz Video AI can actually do and when it's worth adding to your workflow. The AI Mastery Membership includes this course alongside an expanding library of practical AI education designed to help professionals evaluate and adopt today's most valuable AI tools.

Unlike cloud-based enhancement platforms, Topaz Video AI processes footage locally on your own computer, keeping your video private while using specialized AI models to upscale, denoise, sharpen, stabilize, and restore footage. In this course, Claire Prudhomme demonstrates how different AI models solve different video problems, when AI enhancement produces dramatic improvements, and where its limitations still exist. You'll also gain a realistic understanding of rendering times, hardware requirements, subscription pricing, and how recent industry developments, including Adobe's planned acquisition of Topaz Labs, may influence your purchasing decision.

Through live demonstrations, you'll see how damaged or low-resolution footage can be transformed into publishable content and how AI-generated video can be refined to reduce the artificial look that often limits commercial use. By the end of the course, you'll have a practical framework for deciding whether Topaz Video AI belongs in your creative toolkit and how to get the best results when it does.

What You'll Learn

  • Understand what AI-powered video enhancement can, and cannot, do.
  • Identify the best AI model for the specific issues affecting your footage.
  • Rescue low-quality captured video for professional publishing.
  • Polish AI-generated video to produce more realistic, client-ready results.
  • Evaluate whether the hardware requirements, render times, and subscription model fit your workflow.

How to Watch

Each week, the Gen AI App Series releases a focused walkthrough from Mike Kaput, Claire Prudhomme or members of the AI Academy Instructor Network. You'll see the ins and outs of a single AI tool, from productivity apps and research assistants to image, video, and generative media platforms. We want you to leave with a better understanding of if, when, and how it fits into your workflow.

Courses are also available for individual purchase and are included with AI Mastery Membership. Watch or purchase Gen AI Apps Series: Topaz Video.

This article was written with support from ChatGPT