# AVCLabs Media MCP

> Cloud video upscaling, image restoration, and SAM3 segmentation without a local GPU.

- **Category:** Upscaling & Enhancement
- **Vendor:** AVCLabs (official)
- **Pricing:** paid
- **Verified:** 2026-08-12

## What it does

AVCLabs' first-party MCP wraps its cloud enhancement backend: upscale and denoise video to 1080p/2K, enhance or colorize stills, and run Meta's SAM3 to pull pixel-level masks from an image by text prompt. Video runs as an async job (create_task then poll get_task_status) so long clips survive the client timeout. For an agent, this is the desktop Video Enhancer AI workflow reachable as tools — useful for cleaning up archival plates or lifting generated footage that came out soft.

## Connect

- Claude Code: `claude mcp add avclabs -e API_KEY=YOUR_KEY -- npx -y @avclabs.ai/media-mcp@latest`
- Local: `npx -y @avclabs.ai/media-mcp@latest`

**Auth:** api_key (env `API_KEY`) — <https://mcp.avc.ai/>

## Capabilities

[video-upscaling](https://mcp.film/capabilities/video-upscaling.md) · [denoising](https://mcp.film/capabilities/denoising.md) · [image-enhancement](https://mcp.film/capabilities/image-enhancement.md) · `colorization` · [restoration](https://mcp.film/capabilities/restoration.md) · `segmentation`

## Sample tools

`create_task` · `get_task_status` · `enhance_video_sync` · `enhance_image_sync` · `colorize_image_sync` · `denoise_image_sync` · `sam3_predict` · `get_sam3_task_status`

## Field notes

Official but barely trafficked: the repo has 0 stars and was last pushed 15 Jun 2026, and npm @avclabs.ai/media-mcp is on 0.2.1 from 22 May 2026. MIT, Node 18+, thin client over AVCLabs' HTTP backend. Ceiling is 1080p/2K — below what Topaz or the Topaz models on fal will give you, so this is the cheap-and-cloud option, not the finishing one. enhance_video_sync blocks and truncates around 50s; use create_task plus get_task_status for anything real. SAM3 segmentation is image-only, so it is a masking tool, not video roto. The vendor documents a JSON mcpServers block rather than a CLI one-liner — the command above is the same command/args/env in claude mcp add form. Pricing is behind a Buy Now page at mcp.avc.ai/pricing that did not render for verification, so per-job cost is unconfirmed; the generic env var name API_KEY will also collide if you set it globally.

## Verification

- Status: Freshly checked (checked today)
- Added: 2026-08-12
- Last verified: 2026-08-12
- Machine JSON: https://mcp.film/api/mcps/avclabs.json

## Links

- Site: https://mcp.avc.ai/?utm_source=mcp.film&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=directory&utm_content=avclabs%3Asite
- Docs: https://www.avclabs.com/avclabs-mcp.html?utm_source=mcp.film&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=directory&utm_content=avclabs%3Adocs
- Repo: https://github.com/avclabs/media-mcp

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