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# Proteus

### Model Overview

**Proteus** delivers high quality results across a wide range of sources and is recommended as the default model for most common video upscaling projects. A versatile, general purpose enhancement model for upscaling, denoising, and sharpening a wide range of low to medium quality video sources.

Proteus performs especially well on low to medium quality footage, including old, grainy, or heavily compressed video.

### Key Capabilities

* General purpose and most recommended video enhancement model
* Effective on both progressive and interlaced footage, commonly used to upscale legacy low resolution content to 4K
* Offers modifiable parameters for fine tuning results, including controls for compression recovery, detail enhancement, sharpening, noise reduction, dehalo, and anti aliasing or deblur

### Pricing

| Duration | 720p | 1080p | 4K  |
| -------- | ---- | ----- | --- |
| **1s**   | 1    | 1     | 1   |
| **5s**   | 1    | 1     | 3   |
| **10s**  | 1    | 2     | 6   |
| **1m**   | 4    | 8     | 31  |
| **5m**   | 17   | 38    | 151 |
| **10m**  | 34   | 76    | 302 |

{% hint style="info" %}
The above credit costs are all estimates calculated at 30fps. For more accurate pricing, we recommend checking out our [Credit Calculator](https://developer.topazlabs.com/credit-calculator).
{% endhint %}

### Getting Started

**Endpoint**

* [https://api.topazlabs.com/video/](<https://api.topazlabs.com/video/&#xA;>)
  * `model` — `"prob-4"`

**Model-Specific Parameters**

* `video_type` — `"Progressive"`, `"Interlaced"`, or `"ProgressiveInterlaced"`
* `auto` — `"Auto"`, `"Manual"`, or `"Relative"`
* `field_order` — `"TopFirst"`, `"BottomFirst"`, or `"Auto"`
* `focus_fix_level` — `"None"`, `"Normal"`, or `"Strong"`
* `compression` — decimal between -1 and 1
* `details` — decimal between -1 and 1
* `prenoise` — decimal between 0 and 0.1
* `noise` — decimal between -1 and 1
* `halo` — decimal between -1 and 1
* `preblur` — decimal between -1 and 1
* `blur` — decimal between -1 and 1
* `grain` — decimal between 0 and 0.1
* `grain_sigma` — decimal between 0 and 1
* `grain_size` — decimal between 0 and 5
* `grain_type` — `"silver_rich"`, `"gaussian"`, or `"grey"`
* `recover_original_detail_value` — decimal between 0 and 1

### Examples

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