HitPaw VikPea User Guide

1. Main Panel and Output Settings

You can find the Video Enhancer feature from the function navigation bar on the left side on the main screen.

HitPaw VikPea’s AI Video Enhancer includes three powerful AI-driven enhancement modules to meet diverse video quality needs.

General Model

The General Model includes seven specialized AI sub-models—General Restoration, Video Quality Repair, UHD Restoration, AI Generative, HD Sharpen, Fast Sharpen, and Animation. Whether you're restoring old home videos, sharpening blurry recordings, or enhancing animated content, this model gives you the flexibility to choose the right enhancement for your specific needs. It’s perfect for users who want more control over the enhancement process and quality.

AI Pilot

AI Pilot is your intelligent assistant for video enhancement. If you're not sure which model to pick, simply choose AI Pilot—this smart feature automatically analyzes your video’s quality issues and recommends the best enhancement model for you. With just one click, you can preview and export the optimized result, saving time while ensuring high-quality output.

Portrait Model

Designed specifically for videos with people, the Portrait Model offers two powerful options: Face Restoration and Face Generation. It enhances facial clarity, repairs blur, and even reconstructs missing features, making it ideal for interviews, vlogs, close-ups, and family memories. Whether you’re restoring old footage or beautifying new recordings, this model brings faces back to life with impressive detail.

Professional Model

Professional Model, designed for users who demand the highest level of video clarity and precision. This advanced enhancement model brings together three specialized AI modes—Decompression, Denoise, and Sharpen—to deliver professional-grade restoration and detail optimization for any video.

Preview

HitPaw VikPea offers a free 3–5-10 second preview that allows users to see a real-time before-and-after comparison of their video enhancement results. This feature helps you evaluate the effect of each model before committing to a full export, ensuring you get the desired outcome without using up credits or processing time unnecessarily.

You can click the Preview dropdown to choose between a 3-second or 5-second preview. HitPaw VikPea will then apply the selected enhancement model starting from the current playback position, allowing you to see how the next 3 or 5 seconds of the video will look after enhancement.

Cut

The Cut feature allows you to trim your video before enhancement or export. After clicking the Cut icon, two draggable bars will appear on the timeline. Simply drag these bars to set the start and end points of the segment you want to keep. The portion between the two bars is the selected clip that will be used for preview and export. This ensures you're enhancing only the specific part of the video you need—saving time and resources.

Export Settings

Within the Resolution section, you can define the output dimensions of your video. Selecting the dropdown will display a full list of standard resolutions, along with a customizable option.

Cloud Export vs. Local Export

At the right bottom of the progrm, you may find two options: Export and Cloud Export.

Cloud Export: It leverages HitPaw VikPea’s cloud rendering technology, powered by high-performance servers. This option provides faster, more efficient exports compared to most local systems—especially for users with limited hardware capabilities. Cloud Export offloads heavy processing tasks to the cloud, freeing your computer’s resources and reducing wait times. To use this feature, you’ll need to purchase and use cloud credits. On the other hand, Export refers to local rendering, where video processing is done using your own device’s hardware.

Note: Cloud Export is only available for models that support cloud acceleration. If the option doesn’t appear, it means the selected model does not currently support cloud rendering.

After you set up the AI model and export settings, click the Cloud Export button on the bottom. A popup appears showing the video info and the credits that will be consumed to use cloud export.

Click Export Now button to start processing the video with fast speed.

In the Cloud Task window, you can click Add button to add a new task. In the pop-up window, you need to define the video resolution, AI model, crop settings, format and bit rate. Click OK button to start processing.

Once a task is completed, you can access to the file in the Completed panel. In the Completed panel, the file is still in the cloud. Click the cloud icon to download the file to computer.

2. General Model Overview

The General Model in HitPaw VikPea is designed to handle a wide variety of video enhancement tasks. It provides users with five specialized AI models that target different quality issues—from low resolution and blurriness to old footage restoration and anime-specific optimization. Whether you’re enhancing family videos, mobile footage, or online clips, the General Model gives you the flexibility to choose the right tool for your content.

• How to Use General Restoration Model
• How to Use Video Quality Repair Model
• How to Use UHD Restoration Model
• How to Use AI Generative Model
• How to Use HD Sharpen Model
• How to Use Fast Sharpen Model
• How to Use Animation Model

General Restoration Model

The General Restoration Model is designed to enhance old, low-quality, or damaged videos. It intelligently restores clarity, reduces visual artifacts, and improves overall detail, making it ideal for reviving vintage footage, archived materials, or videos affected by noise, compression, and poor lighting.

The General Restoration Model supports customizable parameters, allowing you to fine tune the restoration process for different types of footage. You can manually adjust the following settings:

• Detail Restoration: Enhance fine textures and recovers lost visual details.
• Sharpen: Improve edge clarity and overall sharpness of the video.
• Denoise: Reduce grain and digital noise commonly found in low light or old footage.
• Decompress: Minimize compression artifacts such as blockiness or pixel distortion.
• Dehalo: Remove halo or ringing artifacts that often appear around edges after compression or sharpening.

Import your video into the software. Turn on the General Restoration Model in the right sidebar. Adjust the parameters according to your needs. Click Preview to see the before and after comparison and click Export to save the enhanced video.

Video Quality Repair Model

This model focuses on removing noise and recovering lost details from low-quality or heavily compressed videos. It intelligently analyzes each frame to reduce visual artifacts such as blockiness, grain, and blur—while enhancing textures and restoring clarity without over-sharpening. It's especially useful for videos recorded in poor lighting, old digital footage, or clips affected by aggressive compression.

After importing your file, please toggle the Video Quality Repair Model on the controls sidebar, and then click the Preview button to preview a side-by-side before-and-after comparison.

UHD Restoration Model

The UHD Restoration Model is designed for enhancing higher resolution videos (720p and above). It improves detail clarity, removes compression artifacts, and refines textures while maintaining a natural and balanced sharpness. The UHD Restoration Model is ideal for video creators, photographers, and anyone who requires high image quality. It effectively enhances camera footage, creator content, and live stream recordings, delivering sharper textures, clearer visuals, and more natural details for professional looking results.

The UHD Restoration Model now supports customizable parameters, giving you more control over the enhancement process. You can manually adjust the following settings:

• Detail Restoration: Enhance fine textures and recover details.
• Sharpen: Improve edge clarity and overall sharpness.
• Denoise: Reduce grain and visual noise.
• Decompress: Remove compression artifacts such as blockiness
• Dehalo: Reduce halo or ringing effects around edges

How to Use UHD Restoration Model:

Step 1. Import your high-resolution footage (720 p or above) to VikPea and choose the UHD Restoration Model under the Generation Model.

Step 2. Customize Detail Restoration, Sharpen, Denoise, Decompress, and Dehalo to match your video quality. Click Preview to compare the enhanced video with the original and check details such as edges, textures, and faces.

Step 3. Once satisfied, click “Export” to process the entire video enhancement.

AI Generative Model

The AI Generative Model in HitPaw VikPea is specifically engineered to restore and enhance low-resolution videos, delivering dramatically clearer and more detailed results. Whether you're working with sub-720p footage, old film reels, or VHS recordings, this model reconstructs missing details, sharpens textures, and rebuilds frames with advanced generative intelligence—bringing aged or low-quality videos back to life.

The model now includes two modes: General and Portrait, allowing you to choose the best enhancement method based on your content.

• General Mode: Suitable for most low resolution videos, helping restore textures and improve overall clarity.
• Portrait Mode: Designed for ultra low resolution videos, especially those below 720p. It significantly improves facial details and performs better than the General Restoration Model and standard portrait enhancement models for extremely low quality footage.

After you import the low-res video(s), choose AI Generative Model from the right panel, then select General or Portrait mode depending on your video. The default output is 2x upscale, and you can customize the resolution up to 4K in the Output Settings.

Click Preview to check the enhanced result with a short sample. This model runs on secure cloud servers due to high computational requirements. After previewing, click Cloud Export to process and export the full enhanced video.

HD Sharpen Model

The HD Sharpen Model focuses on refining high-definition videos that appear soft or slightly blurred. It enhances edge definition and detail while preserving natural textures, making your HD footage look sharper and more polished.

Import the source video, and choose HD Sharpen Model from the sidebar, then click the Preview to instantly see a side-by-side before-and-after comparison.

Fast Sharpen Model

This model offers a faster sharpening process for users who want quick results with good clarity. It’s optimized for speed while still providing noticeable improvement in sharpness and contrast, ideal for batch processing or quick edits.

Import the source video, and choose Fast Sharpen Model from the sidebar, then click the Preview to see a side-by-side before-and-after comparison.

Animation Model

Tailored specifically for animated content, this model enhances color vibrancy, line clarity, and frame smoothness. It’s perfect for upscaling anime, cartoons, or game footage without losing stylistic details or introducing noise.

Import the source video, and choose the Animation Model from the sidebar, then click the Preview to see a side-by-side before-and-after comparison.

3. AI Pilot

The AI Pilot model in HitPaw VikPea is your intelligent assistant for effortless video enhancement. Designed for users who are unsure which model to choose or what their video needs, AI Pilot takes the guesswork out of the process by automatically analyzing your video and recommending the optimal enhancement strategy.

Use AI Pilot when:

• You're not sure which enhancement model fits your video.
• You want a quick, all-in-one analysis of quality issues.
• You're processing user-generated or downloaded content with unpredictable quality.

How AI Pilot Works

After you import a video, toggle on the AI Pilot from the controls sidebar, this program will automatically start analyzing the source video. In s short while, it will display the key quality issues including Compress, Noise, Sharpness and Grain. Each issue is given a severity rating: High, Medium, or Small, based on its impact on visual quality.

Click the Preview button to let the program process the first 3 or 5 seconds of the source file for a side-by-side before-and-after comparison.

4. Portrait Model

The Portrait Model in HitPaw VikPea is designed specifically for videos that feature people, with a focus on enhancing facial details, clarity, and natural appearance. Whether you're restoring old footage, refining vlogs, or enhancing low-quality clips featuring people, this model ensures faces look vivid, sharp, and lifelike.

Portrait Restoration Model

This model specializes in repairing and enhancing real human faces in your video, delivering clearer, more natural-looking results. It reduces noise, restores facial features, improves skin tone, and enhances overall clarity—without over-sharpening.

This model provides two options:

• General Mode: Designed for everyday portrait restoration. It works best on low to medium-quality videos, helping recover blurred facial features and improve overall clarity in a natural, balanced way.
• Detail Mode: Tailored for 1080P+ high-resolution videos, especially close-up or mid-range faces. It enhances fine textures like skin details and facial structure with greater precision, making it ideal for AI-generated videos or content that requires more refined facial quality.

Choose the mode that fits your footage to achieve the best visual results.

Click the Preview button to let the program process the first 3 or 5 seconds of the source file for a side-by-side before-and-after comparison.

Portrait Generation Model

The Portrait Generation Model uses AI face generation to reconstruct and enhance facial regions that are too damaged, obscured, or missing in the original footage. It intelligently fills in facial features with high realism, offering a powerful tool for advanced restoration or stylized enhancement.

Click the Preview button to let the program process the first 3 or 5 seconds of the source file for a side-by-side before-and-after comparison.