Topaz Starlight Precise 2.5: AI Video Enhancement Upgraded
A New Step Forward in AI-Driven Video Quality
Built to cover the widest possible range of video content, Precise 2.5 raises the bar for what AI can do when it comes to restoring, upscaling, and refining footage.
What Starlight Precise 2.5 Brings to the Table
Optimized for AI-Generated Video
Precise 2.5 is specifically designed to work with content produced by the latest AI video generation platforms, including tools like Seedance 2.0. The results focus on realism: facial details, skin texture, and material surfaces all benefit from the model's improvements. Text rendering has also seen major progress, which makes Precise 2.5 particularly useful for product-focused content featuring logos or written elements. Wide-angle shots are handled with equal care, with small faces in the background and fine scene details preserved accurately.
Suited for Film and Archival Footage
For traditional and archival video, Precise 2.5 is best suited to medium-quality content at 480p resolution or footage filmed after the year 2000. It also produces solid results with digitized archival material, provided the source has enough visible structure for the model to recover detail reliably.
The Technology Behind Project Starlight
Powered by Diffusion AI
What sets Project Starlight apart from conventional enhancement tools is its use of a diffusion AI model rather than the older GAN-based approaches. This allows the system to understand the semantics of a scene, including objects, motion, and physical behavior, at a level that produces significantly more natural results. Rather than processing each frame in isolation, the model analyses hundreds of surrounding frames to reconstruct each one, delivering temporal consistency that earlier methods could not achieve.
Automatic, All-in-One Processing
Starlight Precise 2.5 handles upscaling, denoising, de-aliasing, and sharpening in a single pass without any manual slider adjustments. The process runs automatically, which keeps things straightforward regardless of the user's technical background.
Available Through Astra
Starlight Precise 2.5 is available now through Astra, Topaz Labs' creative video upscaling platform, at astra.app. It is presented as a direct upgrade for existing users, with no changes to existing workflows required.
Integrated Into ComfyUI
The model is also available as a partner node in ComfyUI. Users working in that environment can find it by selecting Starlight Precise 2.5 from the model dropdown within the existing Topaz upscaling node. The update is accessible through Comfy Cloud or by updating a local ComfyUI installation.
Enterprise and Cloud Availability
Because diffusion models are more computationally intensive than traditional methods, Starlight currently operates as a cloud-based solution. Enterprise deployment options are available for production teams and studios requiring commercial-scale video restoration capabilities. Topaz Labs continues to work toward greater speed and efficiency as the technology matures.
Pricing Remains Unchanged
Despite the quality improvements over its predecessor SLP-2, Starlight Precise 2.5 is offered at the same per-frame pricing. There is no price increase, which makes the upgrade a straightforward choice for anyone already using the Starlight Precise lineup.
