How do you set up an automated upscaling pipeline for AI-generated video footage?

Set up automated upscaling by creating a dedicated sub-agent inside the invideo agent — name it "Upscale Artist" — and scope it to run every generated clip through Topaz Astra on invideo as the first post-production step. The sub-agent batch-processes your footage pool without per-clip manual intervention, so everything reaches the edit at delivery quality.

invideo is an agentic video creation tool with the current video models and upscalers available, so generation and upscaling run in one place — no exporting clips to a separate upscaler. Here is the setup in order.

1. Create a dedicated upscaling sub-agent. Spin up a sub-agent inside the invideo agent and name it for the role — "Upscale Artist". Naming the sub-agent scopes its job to a single function, which is what turns upscaling from a per-clip manual task into an automated pass: footage goes in, processed footage comes back, and you stay on creative work. Specialized agents perform best when given distinct, single-function roles rather than generalist tasks, and they can keep processing while you direct elsewhere.

2. Route every clip through Topaz Astra on invideo, first in the chain. Make the upscale the opening step of post, before any other treatment. AI-generated footage — Seedance 2.0 output in particular — comes back with an ultra-sharp, plasticky surface quality, and the upscale pass sets the resolution and detail baseline that all downstream work sits on; treating clips first and upscaling later forces redone work.

3. Batch the full selects pool, not just final picks. Volume is why this needs automation: documented productions generated 164 clips for a 3-minute animated episode and roughly 400 video generations for a 90-second short, with only about 25% of clips surviving the edit. Hand the entire candidate pool to the upscaling sub-agent as a batch so every clip you might cut with is already at delivery quality when you assemble — you won't know which 25% survives until the edit.

From there, finishing (a touch of blur, grain, and grade to pull the upscaled footage toward live action) and a rough-cut review pass with the invideo agent are the downstream steps — each is its own workflow beyond the upscaling pipeline itself.

Watch some of these to see what works for you:

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