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You could just cut it out. Cut Video App by AnywaySoft is good if you want to keep it compressed.

What upscaler do you use? Looks fantastic.

TopazAI is the best upscaler. And honestly you can get much better results if you upscale them a little slower than he is doing on these videos. You need some powerful hardware to perform these upscales and even then it will take some time.

so let me add 5 min of NOTHING - everybody has huge hard drives they won't mind the bloat

You could just cut it out. Cut Video App by AnywaySoft is good if you want to keep it compressed.

Is this upscaled? 4k family therapy vids are so rare

Yes

What upscaler do you use? Looks fantastic.

TopazAI is the best upscaler. And honestly you can get much better results if you upscale them a little slower than he is doing on these videos. You need some powerful hardware to perform these upscales and even then it will take some time.