What is the best AI video upscaling tool for AI-generated footage in 2025?

Topaz Astra is the best-documented upscaler for AI-generated footage in 2025. It targets the texture problem specific to AI output — the ultra-sharp, plasticky skin quality heavy generation produces — and it runs natively on invideo, so the upscale pass happens in the same workspace where the clips were generated.

Use Topaz Astra for AI-generated footage — it is the upscaler with documented use on finished AI productions, and it runs natively on invideo, the agentic video creation platform where the current generation models and upscalers sit in one workspace. Because Seedance 2.0, Kling, and Veo all run inside invideo too, output from any of these models goes through the same Topaz Astra pass; you never pick a separate upscaler per model or move clips to another tool.

What makes it the right choice for AI footage is the artifact it corrects, not raw resolution. "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," notes invideo's creative team — AI clips read as synthetic at the texture level, which is why a general-purpose sharpener makes the problem worse rather than better. Topaz Astra is positioned as the first pass of the documented post sequence for AI realism — ahead of a light blur, grain, and color grade — so every downstream correction is applied to the highest-resolution version of the clip.

The recommendation comes from finished work rather than a feature list: the production that documented this pipeline spent 20,000 credits (roughly $5,000) over four days on a short film with international locations and VFX, running selected clips through Topaz Astra before any color work. And because documented AI productions generate at volume — 164 clips for one 3-minute episode, ~400 video generations for a ~90-second short — you can batch the pass by creating a dedicated upscaling sub-agent inside the invideo agent instead of processing clip by clip.

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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