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Morning Edition · Monday, August 24, 2026Published at 3:20 AM EDT · New York
Black Forest Labs Splits Resolution Off Into a Separate Video Upscaling Endpoint
FLUX Upscale regenerates video at 1.5, 2 or 3 times its input scale, reaching roughly 4K from high-definition source, and is tuned to repair the specific artifacts FLUX 3 leaves behind.
Black Forest Labs has shipped FLUX Upscale as a standalone tool and endpoint that regenerates video at higher resolution, accepting input from 480p and supporting scale factors of 1.5, 2 and 3, which from a high-definition source reaches ap…
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Generative Video Becomes a Production Pipeline
Generative video vendors keep unbundling their stacks into separately priced generation, editing and finishing steps, moving the category from clip demos toward commercial post-production workflows where iteration cost, not peak quality, decides adoption.
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