The two day long Amazon Prime Day deals are now live on those pages at Amazon US, Amazon CA, Amazon DE, Amazon UK, Amazon FR, Amazon ES, Amazon IT, Amazon NL, Amazon AUS and Amazon SE/PL/JP/BE/Singapure/Mexico other stores

Deal selection:

Amazon USA:

• Lumix S5 with dual lens kit for $1,699.
• $200 Amazon Gift Card Instantly Upon Approval and 10% cashback on electronics
• Save big on Sandisk storage and SD cards (it’s also available at BHphoto).
• Save big on Lexar storage and SD cards
• Save big on Adobe Creative Cloud plans at Amazon and BHphoto.
• Big rebates on Viltrox accessories
• Save big on Samsung storage
• Extra 20% Off SelectAmazon Resale Used & Open Box Items (discount automatically applied at checkout).

Amazon Germany:

• Save big on Sandisk storage and SD cards
• Save big on Lexar storage and SD cards
• 14% off on the Lumix S5II
• 13% off on the Sigma 35mm f/2.0
• 9% off on the Sigma 28-70mm lens
• 32% off on Adobe Creative Cloud

Amazon UK:

• Save big on Sandisk storage and SD cards
• Save big on Lexar storage and SD cards
• 14% off on the Lumix S5II
• 36% off on Adobe Creative Cloud

Amazon FR:

• Save big on Sandisk storage and SD cards
• Save big on Lexar storage and SD cards
• 14% off on the Lumix S5II
• 36% off on Adobe Creative Cloud

Amazon IT:

• Save big on Sandisk storage and SD cards
• Save big on Lexar storage and SD cards
• 14% off on the Lumix S5II
• 42% off on Adobe Creative Cloud

Amazon ES:

• Save big on Sandisk storage and SD cards
• Save big on Lexar storage and SD cards

Third Party Lenses:
Save 15% on all Pergear products (Click here) with code PRIMEDAY24 during 13 July-17 July

Accessories:
Save 15% on all Pergear products (Click here) with code PRIMEDAY24 during 13 July-17 July
Up to 30% off on Smallrig products sold by Amazon. Examples: 20% off on their NP-FZ100 battery and A7 series half cage.
22% off on the Hollyland Lark M2 Wireless Lavalier Microphone sold by Amazon.

Today only you save big on a list of Lexar storage and cards sold by Amazon US (Click here). Two examples:

• 31% off on the Lexar 1Tb SL500 external SSD storage
• 13% off on the Lexar dual 128GB V60 SD cards

Topaz just released the new Video AI 5.2 version (Click here to see th product page). Press text:

This release includes the new Rhea Enhancement model, Pro seat management, Frame Interpolation for After Effects, Alpha layer support, and many UI and backend fixes.

1. Rhea Enhancement Model

Rhea represents a combination of Proteus and Iris. The model is intended to be more accurate in preserving fine details across a wider range of subjects, while also handling text in a less destructive way.

This model and Rhea internally processes inputs at 4x scale and then downscales to your selected output resolution.

We’re very excited to see your results with Rhea, here are some example frames from this model:

2. Frame Interpolation for After Effects

Today we are also launching Frame Interpolation in Adobe After Effects. This plugin addition includes access to all Frame Interpolation models for up to 16x slow motion conversion.

For more information on using the After Effects Frame Interpolation plugin, see this post in the Video AI Plug-ins forum section. 62

3. Alpha (transparency) layer support

Video AI can now copy alpha layers from inputs and merge them back with AI model output videos. Alpha layer copying is supported in the following codecs:

• QuickTime Animation
• TIFF
• PNG

Pro seat management

After a pre-launch period with several Pro teams around the world, Video AI Pro will be officially launching later this week. This new license tier offers seat management, commercial usage rights, and multi-GPU support for teams working with Video AI.

As part of this transition in licensing, we will be discontinuing the previous implementation of multi-GPU rendering for the standard license. Our team found that less than 2% of users made use of the multi-GPU setting, and further development will be focused on multi-GPU optimization for Pro teams.

If you are affected by this change and would like to discuss further options, please contact enterprise@topazlabs.com

Bug fixes & other improvements:

• Preview set saving functionality restored.
• UI lag greatly reduced, specifically for long operations.
• Ensures colorspace correctness for input videos with a wider list of colorspace related flags.
  – Uses the setparams filter instead of -colorspace, ... flags to explicitly override the input metadata to ensure only the metadata tags are updated without changing the video data itself.
• Timeline width now adjusts correctly between different video inputs.
• Export preferences now save consistently.
• Added pause/resume controls to right-click menu.
• Fixed crop settings auto-populating after first digit.
• Time remaining/elapsed toggle now available for both Previews and Exports.
• Fixed “Open in Explorer/Finder” button for previews and exports.
• Disabled automatic generation of TIFF sequences for Previews. These temporary files are no longer in use and the app now reads preview files in the selected Export format.

Lumix cashback at FotoErhardt, Calumet, WexUK,

Lumix S9 plus lens rebates at FotoErhardt, Calumet, WexUK,

Two months ago Topaz released the brand new Photo Ai 3.0 (Click here). It now got the very first $20 discount that will end o July 2.

The new S9 is finally in Stock and shipping in most US stores: Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama, BestBuy, Panasonic US. If you had one on preorders enjoy the delivery and unpacking moment 🙂

For the next three days you can save on a ton of gear sold in BHphoto’s Mega Deal zone (Click here). A couple of highlights:

• Save big on SD and CFexpress cards
• Save big on internal and external storage
• $300 off on the Venus Optics Laowa 12mm T2.9 Zero-D Cine Lens
• $450 off on the Sirui 24mm f/2.8 Anamorphic 1.33x Lens L Mount
• $250 off on the Zhiyun CRANE 2S Handheld Gimbal Stabilizer Combo Kit
• $165 off on the Benro MeFoto GlobeTrotter Aluminum Travel Tripod Kit Titanium
• $150 off on the Lowepro ProTactic BP 300 AW II Camera and Laptop Backpack Black