Topaz releases Astra 2 with promptable video upscaling in cloud and API

• Topaz rolled out a "next-gen" enhancement release, and Topaz's launch thread positioned Astra 2 as the headline model for cleaner, more detailed image and video enhancement.
• In Topaz's Astra 2 card, the company described Astra 2 as a promptable video upscaler for AI-generated and stylized footage, with cloud and API availability.
• Topaz's product screenshot also shows two control layers, Precise and Creative, plus sliders for Creativity and Sharpness and a prompt box for steering the result.
• The official next-gen update page, linked in Topaz's follow-up post, is where Topaz sent users to see the new enhancement models in action.
• Early creator posts from Topaz's Midjourney example, awesome_visuals, and AllaAisling already place the release inside a familiar finishing stack: generate first, then upscale and polish to a sharper final render.

Topaz immediately showed Astra 2 cleaning up a portrait shot in its launch images, while the Astra 2 feature card framed the model around AI-video repair rather than generic sharpening. You can jump straight to Topaz's update page, check the Astra product page linked from Topaz's promo post, and watch one early 4K workflow in AllaAisling's Seedance clip.

Topaz's own framing is narrow and useful: Astra 2 is aimed at footage that already looks synthetic, flat, or plasticky, then adds detail and texture on top. In Topaz's Astra 2 card, the company specifically calls out stylized content, AI generations, wide shots, crowd scenes, and landscapes.

That same card adds the most concrete product detail in the evidence set:

• Promptable enhancement
• Precise and Creative modes
• Creativity control
• Sharpness control
• Cloud availability in Astra
• API availability

The interesting bit is not just upscaling. Topaz's interface screenshot shows a text prompt field sitting beside the enhancement controls, which turns Astra 2 into a guided cleanup tool instead of a one-click enlarger.

Topaz's copy says the model can add "new, creative detail" to AI video. That puts it closer to a finishing pass for generated footage, where the goal is richer surfaces and less plastic-looking motion, than to a traditional restoration workflow.

Topaz paired the launch with Starlight Precise 2.5 examples, including its own Midjourney post showing an image created in Midjourney and upscaled inside Astra. The company also used the broader next-gen update page to package multiple enhancement models together rather than shipping Astra 2 as a standalone announcement.

That matters because the release reads like a small finishing suite refresh: Astra 2 for promptable AI-video enhancement, Starlight Precise for sharpening and upscale work, and a cloud surface that keeps those tools in the same flow.

The first creator posts are already using Topaz at the back end of AI-video pipelines. awesome_visuals said a piece made with Seedance 2.0 was upscaled and converted to 60 fps with Starlight Precise, while AllaAisling posted a Seedance 2.0 clip upscaled to 4K with Starlight Precise 2.5.

AllaAisling's 4K Seedance workflow

Those posts give the release a clear use case: image and video models make the raw material, then Topaz handles the polish pass for resolution, clarity, and finish.