How do you automate video upscaling in a post-production pipeline?

Automate upscaling by creating a dedicated sub-agent inside the invideo agent — name it 'Upscale Artist' — and task it with batch-upscaling every clip that survives editorial selection through Topaz Astra, which runs on invideo. Position it as the first post-production step, immediately after the cut is selected, before any other processing pass.

Set the automation up as a standing role, not a per-clip task: invideo is an agentic video creation tool with the current AI generation models/upscalers available in one place, so the upscaling step can live inside the same system that generated the footage.

1. Create a dedicated upscale sub-agent. Spin up a sub-agent inside the invideo agent and name it for the job — 'Upscale Artist' works. Give it one single-function role: take every clip that survives editorial selection and upscale it in batch, without you touching each file. One documented production ran exactly this named-sub-agent pattern, letting upscaling run automatically while the team kept generating shots.

2. Route the batch through Topaz Astra on invideo. Astra is the upscaler the sub-agent calls, and because it runs on invideo, the footage never leaves the project context that generated it — no exporting clips, opening a separate desktop tool, and re-importing. The sub-agent handles the handoff for every clip in the queue.

3. Position upscaling first in the post order. Run the upscale pass before anything else touches the footage. The reason is a specific generation artifact: "When you are generating a lot with Seedance, there tends to be this ultra-sharpness, there's this very plasticky feeling on the skin," as invideo's creative team puts it. Upscaling first gives every downstream pass a clean, full-resolution base — running it after softening passes would re-sharpen exactly what those passes corrected. The downstream realism passes themselves (blur, grain, grade) are their own workflow and sit after this step.

4. Size the automation to your clip volume. Documented productions generated 164 clips for a 3-minute episode (41 made the final cut) and roughly 400 video generations for a ~90-second short. At those counts, per-clip manual upscaling becomes the slowest step in post; a batch sub-agent removes it as a manual step entirely, and the processed clips go straight to assembly in your NLE at your delivery format.

Beyond upscaling itself: the same automated loop can send the assembled rough cut back to the invideo agent for a pacing and sound check before delivery.

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When you are generating a lot with seed dance, there tends to be this ultra-sharpness, there's this very plasticky feeling on the skin.

— invideo's creative team