ECCV2022-RIFE VS VideoRenderer

Check out RIFE.

Using Flowframes with the RIFE model, run 2x interpolation on a folder of video frames.

Personally I have mine set to use RIFE AI via TensorRT for frame interpolation(x2), if the FPS is 30 or less.

Oh now that I saw this comment, I started to investigate frame interpolation techniques using AI and found this: https://github.com/megvii-research/ECCV2022-RIFE

Yes but you need to use a different AI first. There are multiple AI like RIFE (there are apps for it if you don't like code) that will smooth out your animation. Then you can use those frames with Novel AI to get a more organic look in the end.

To have more smooth effect you can reduce frame per second and add FILM or RIFE between frames.

Interpolated with https://github.com/megvii-research/ECCV2022-RIFE

Sure! This would be my approach (and tools) if I was smarter:

If you make the generations with some similarities and use the right interpolation, you don't need 1000 images like my video and can obtain a smooth movement.

First, generate images with some kind of visual anchor (background, an object). You can use frames generated using the previous frame as reference image, or the same seed but different prompt/parameters, or you can go wild using img2img/inpainting (btw I struggle to find an inpainting tool for Stable Diffusion: they seem to be just img2img with a mask, without contest).

Then pass the generated images to one of the most recent interpolation algorithms, like this one https://github.com/megvii-research/ECCV2022-RIFE or the one used in the replicate we are commenting on (someone posted this reference: https://github.com/google-research/frame-interpolation )

The first link reports some free and paid implementation and a Colab, so depending on how deep you want to go, you have a lot of choices.

In the end, I'd use some good app to stabilize the image if needed, to get a more "calm" look. I use Luma Fusion, but it's a paid app (cheap, one-time payment, for iOS). I'm sure there are a ton of open-source implementations.

It's an approach similar to the animation on replicate, but it allows a lot of fine-tuning and you can add new animation ideas/tools to the process.

Nothing revolutionary, but I hope it helps!

> You have generated some pretty cool designs.

Thanks! I put in a lot of work in the last weeks. The project has a mission, I wrote something, but it's not ready yet. I believe it will be with the launch of Dall-E 8 :-/

You'd probably get way better results by using something like RIFE to do interpolation and recreate missing frames, instead of minterpolate. I understand though that it's more effort as you'll need to install and setup RIFE.

Update: I got it working with MPC-BE 1.6.6 and this extension: https://github.com/emoose/VideoRenderer/releases/tag/rtx-1.1 It is no game changer for 3D VR, but I does feel slightly sharper. But for 480p anime it is a huge difference, but that is not something I watch in VR anyways.

Releases · emoose/VideoRenderer (github.com)

Recent drivers for 30 and 40 series added VSR, or Video Super Resolution, which upscales all videos in chromium browsers and some other media players that added support for it like MPC and VLC. I recommend following this guide for MPC as VLC is still in development and has a huge memory leak right now https://github.com/emoose/VideoRenderer/releases

NVIDIA's AI upscaling technique, requires: GeForce RTX 40 or 30 Series GPU. If you have mediaplayer classic black edition MPC-BE + emoose-VideoRenderer. For PC that's what I ended up using.

I don’t think you’re correct, that one is in “maintenance mode” with the last release in January while emoose’ fork has been constantly adding new features and is much more commonly downloaded https://github.com/emoose/VideoRenderer/releases/tag/rtx-1.1

I haven’t messed around with 4K to 8K (might not even be available), but the new-ish nVidia Video SuperRes modded into MPC has been pretty wild for upscaling blurry VR content, considering it does it in real time.

You already can with MPC-BE. check it out

[https://github.com/emoose/VideoRenderer/releases/tag/rtx-1.0](https://github.com/emoose/VideoRenderer/releases/tag/rtx-1.0)

If you are looking to upscales the file themselves, I don't really know any free Video AI Upscale app, but if you want to use RTX Super Resolution on video playback, although I don't know if or when stuff like MPC or VLC would be able to implement it in their video player, I know that there is a person that was able to make it all work on any fork of Media Player Classic either it be MPC-HC(k-Lite codec pack), MPC-BE or etc! You can get it there; https://github.com/emoose/VideoRenderer/releases/tag/rtx-1.0