

Trial software allows the user to evaluate the software for a limited amount of time. Demos are usually not time-limited (like Trial software) but the functionality is limited. In some cases, all the functionality is disabled until the license is purchased. Demoĭemo programs have a limited functionality for free, but charge for an advanced set of features or for the removal of advertisements from the program's interfaces. In some cases, ads may be show to the users.

Basically, a product is offered Free to Play (Freemium) and the user can decide if he wants to pay the money (Premium) for additional features, services, virtual or physical goods that expand the functionality of the game. This license is commonly used for video games and it allows users to download and play the game for free. There are many different open source licenses but they all must comply with the Open Source Definition - in brief: the software can be freely used, modified and shared. Programs released under this license can be used at no cost for both personal and commercial purposes. Open Source software is software with source code that anyone can inspect, modify or enhance. Freeware products can be used free of charge for both personal and professional (commercial use). Haven’t look too much into that, though, as I always use 200x (either 720p to 1440p or 1080p to 4k).Freeware programs can be downloaded used free of charge and without any time limitations. If I’m correct it works best like that when using gigapixel, and the algorythm should be the same for VEAI. Also, depending on the resolution of the source and your taget resolution, MAYBE it is best to do the upscaling in steps, like from 480p to 1080p, then 4k (if you want to upscale SD material to UHD). But I always use HQ (now Gaia-HQ) as it’s the one with better results by my judgement and using my videos, it can be different with your videos and taste.

What preset you use (Gaia or Artemis) probably depends on what your source material is, so there’s not a ‘recommended setting’. If one thing can be said, though, is that some users have better final results if first only using the 100% denoise/deblock and then upscaling, but that can take up to double the time compared to if you only upscale, more like using a second-pass while encoding video, so you should think what’s better. I had to rollback from 1.2 to 1.1 (1.2 was taking way too long to encode), but in 1.2 using 100% or 200% in resource priority wouldn’t change anything, and anything more than that would result in either the same or crashes. You can choose what preset (Gaia-HQ ,Gaia-CG, and the Artemis flavours, but artemis still looks like garbage for most cases) it will use and that’s pretty much it. To be fair, as of now, we don’t have much settings to go.
