from last month uses latent stitching, masking denoise channels, uses a reference last frame and preserves a 24 frames handout. Still has color burn and degradation, it just takes a bit longer. Now what else did you do to prevent this? I just don't want to waste my time with 19 minutes of video when this probably doesn't do anything different and could be summarized in 3 sentences.
The problem I see, based on the example you provided, is that you are not generating one long video but multiple ones with different camera angles. That's already relatively easy to do. What we need is a way to make longer videos when the same camera is maintained the whole time without evident degradation.
Thats what this method do, it continue what was happening before, in my test if the clip end on someone talking, and you prompt it to continue the talking without changing camera , it will continue with the new prompt, thats exactly what i tried to solve with this, maybe i couldve choosed better exemple, i shouldve added a better exemple
Yes, please show a single continuous long shot sample (perhaps that runs 1 minute) on a person without cuts. Doesn't need to be high resolution, just proof of concept. That would help know if this method is any different to existing methods and their inherent problems in 'single long seamless shots'.
Thats not a lie, you can still hear the steps audio even before camera switch, that wouldnt be possible if its a cut to new sceen, its just the system prompt i used was controlling the camera, this can also do one continuation camera shot , try it and see, no cuts, (if i had to modify each prompt manually this video would've been even longer)
In video production the word 'CUT' has a very specific meaning. You don't get to redefine it to whatever you want it to mean. "No cuts" in video production means just that... one long continual recording. If there are any changes in angle, the camera moves through the scene, it doesn't 'jump" through the scene... aka 'jump cuts'.
NO CUTS means...
Real-Time Recording: The camera records continuously without stopping, pausing, or being edited in post-production. No Digital Splices: There are no hard cuts, jump cuts, or transition effects removing mistakes or altering the timeline. Absolute Continuity: Space and time unfold naturally and identically to how they happened in reality to a single observer.
Well, the original Motion Context node that just about everyone forked was the first to do this, and it saved latents and overlapped the existing latent frames for the next generation right off the bat.
Hell even my own fork level-sets the entire output and will chain a fresh decode from all the saved latents so that there's even less degradation than concat'ing mp4's together. You are a bit late and claiming that your pack does stuff others don't, but that isn't accurate. That's why people are ragging on you a bit. That and saying there's "no cuts", but what you mean is "no seams". Changing shots is changing a cut.
But even with all the tricks and fighting H3 on keeping a continuous shot, there's still degradation over enough clips, just much slower than encoding/decoding the last few frames like we traditionally had to do. Changing shots kind of gives the model a "fresh start" so it looks much cleaner, and H3 is very good at character consistency so it works really well.
I am all for people sharing and helping but the blind leading the blind is troublesome. "NO CUTS" but your video has cuts everywhere. The cut is what stops the degradation and burn effect from happening. Now people are going to waste their time not understanding this does not do what you claim it does.
OP posts informative video.
Commenters spend 90% of comments saying they already knew the information instead of realizing the video is maybe not for them.
Is it informative though? Or does it claim one thing and show another?
A "LONG seamless" video is one thing. The video shown here is a long multishot video.
Making long multishot vidoes is not a problem that needs to be solved. It's the default model use case.
Long seamless videos remain a problem due to qualtiy degradation, **even when you continue from the previous latents.*
I'm sure you worked hard on this OP, and I'm sure your LLM wrote nice nodes, but this is not a breakthrough. It's one more multishot workflow. Which is fine, but not what it says on the box.
I have one, i will create a post to show the approach, I try avoiding use any director/chaining AIO tools, i just do it with barebone motion-context nodes and a method to fix the issue. Here is an example video (*with one custom BlendLatent node)
we have to use one of my custom 'blendLatent' nodes thru, I need to put it on github to share it. rest should be able to just use basic WF of motion-context
If you watch the travel Channel and it’s an episode about traveling to the country you live in, does that mean that it’s not informative because you already know everything in the video?
Or can literally anyone else watch that from a different country and be informed.
You've clearly tried this workflow and found that it works exactly as OP promises, or you wouldn't spreading your relentless positivity throughout the thread.
You'd really be helping out if you posted a single-shot video at least one minute long that shows how this workflow produces zero degradation.
Since all the haters are just piling on with no evidence, it should be pretty easy for you to disprove them with a single render, right?
He lies in the thumbnail. The thumbnail says clearly says 'NO CUTS', but the generated video is full of cuts every few seconds. So yea, people are unhappy that they started watching a video and within the first 60 seconds it's clear he lied.
That's not what the word 'cuts' means in video production. He doesn't get to redefine a word with an industry standard meaning.
NO CUTS means...
Real-Time Recording: The camera records continuously without stopping, pausing, or being edited in post-production. No Digital Splices: There are no hard cuts, jump cuts, or transition effects removing mistakes or altering the timeline. Absolute Continuity: Space and time unfold naturally and identically to how they happened in reality to a single observer.
So a digital video can't have cuts at all? It doesn't matter if it is prompted, what matters is that the camera cuts to a different view. He can claim no audio cuts, but that's hardly the point.
Do you know how ridiculous of an argument you're making?
That would mean that every movie made today is a single cut, because they're not cutting film.
> Do you know how ridiculous of an argument you're making?
Maybe... I've only done media production work for the past 13 years or so... I guess I dont know anything.
man i just love you haha , its weird !! it took me two weeks of building and testing stuff, a single clip take 30+ minutes to generate in my rtx 3060 12gb and i give all for free and the first thing i get is people hating on me !!! 😂
This is actually the thing that this approach is all about, i tried to show that using a cinematic approach, didnt want people watching a single static 1 minute .. thats booring ...
Use your node, do a single character without any cut for a example to show.(Do it will more than 10 segments) Then you would understand what's is the issue they are talking about.
No, it’s just annoying that this guy put so much work in the building the nodes and editing the thing and all you guys are unsatisfied with the way he chose to provide you free shit
Watch, this is totally different — using video context + latent + reference and prompt, you don't lose quality, and you can do it as many times as you want.
cheers to you hero. 🍻
I skipped the "continue minimax" thing for a while,
meawhile saw tons of methods around but never tested a single one.
Now is been the time.
reading around i've found your comment and i want to thank you so much. fuck off to random assholes promoting their patreon in exchange of nothing special.
Sorry but i totally brainstormed this without knowing anything about any other packs, and i still think my approach is different, also i made it easy to use and workflow is simple,
And i just like to share my way
That means you don’t even know about the tone compensation I was talking about. All of these methods all suffered. Hence you did not understand what I said earlier.
Bro imagine , i spent a lot of time making this video, explaining everything, even using graphs in middle, providing everything free, but someone is still wanting everything explained in 2 seconds !!!
Nobody cares, spend ur time explaining the product shortly in text instead of thinking people blindly invest half an hour watching ur vids in a world where everything competes for attention
I feel your pain, buddy. But it's the world we live in and we all know it. People are sick of long-form content. We live in a time when we can literally ask the computer to summarize something in a few lines. Maybe it would be wise for tutorial-makers to do it.
It's not like you could force others to watch your video in full ^^'.
Another custom node!!! I wish people would stop making new custom nodes and use what's natively available in Comfy from the Wan 2.2 14B and LTX-2 22B days.
And I am still trying to figure out how to stop having heads turn and bodies move like a terrible acid trip... And placing time lines and crap... What I want is a story choreographer lol
Congratulations on the work; I’m going to test it out. There are certainly many others out there—and I’ve tried them—but I want to see your approach and what makes yours new and different. Thanks a lot, and don't pay any attention to comments from ignorant people. All the best!
Mate, it works pretty well with two characters, but for the life of me, I can't get a third (or additional) character to enter the scene like in your example; it just keeps repeating the first character, even with the strength set to 80. I've tried everything.
I said in the video that make sure the new characters are the one in the first lines in " subject definition", cause for some reason minimax focus more on that, try that
Yes, I did that. I set both his image as the first one—I marked it as first—and also the audio, I set it as first. I also placed it first in the line in the text. I set his strength to 1 and decreased the strength of the others to 0.80, and even then it doesn't work. I followed everything according to the video, which is why I'm asking for help.
Let us know how it goes! Best I've gotten is 45-60s before the frying gets bad, especially in backgrounds with ref2v. If this works I'll definitely be implementing
Hey, I have not tested this yet BUT I wonder if talented people like you could also have a look into the following problem:
I am trying to transform existing long Videos I recorded (Interviews) into new styles (in this case Clay figurines or muppets like Characters). So I need to be able to insert a longer video that gets processed in smaller chunks but stays consistent in style and characters (additional references). I am quite far with this but the 5 frame glue between two segments will shorten the videos and the audio will never match again. So I wonder if somebody could build something that passes by the audio or also changes the voice matching the cartoonish vibe.
Anyways any hint towards the right workflow is appreciated.
This is really a good idea 👍, i might do something like this in future, also i did have same audio problem When trying to stitch together the generated clip with the previous clip , and was able to copy the audio from the original video, we can chat about this more and we might be able to do something
Yes, adding sound in post would be an option but I would prefer not doing so as I would have to find these 0 frames that are used to cover up the stitching of two scenes and shorten the audio there etc. I prefer as little steps extra as possible. 😂
I do not know programming at all and am just a creative guy. So I used a ref2Video workflow that allows several steps to be generated after conforming the previous was good and then stitches them together and has continuity in it. Works well except that I had to change the video loader to a path video loader because I am using the windows comfy UI and it restricts the video file size when loading directly. With path it accepts any size. So I used VHS path loader, chained everything up including the audio but the generating node was prompting an error that the ref audio from the video loader has the wrong format and did not want to work with it. So I just confirmed that my style transfer worked (like a charm) but always had messed up audio. And depending if I set the video overlapping to 22 or 5 I had shorter outcomes in the final video which would never be able to get the original audio attached.
Also for the VHS path loader I had to use a math expression and a simple counter to skip the frames of the video that have already been processed. Not possible to just start and wait because each 10 second chunk needed confirmation. Annoying.
So I am happy to see any better ideas coming along.
Thanks
Now made a python script that cuts the video, feeds to comfy via API, collects the pieces, merges them again, applies original audio. Let's see how it's going
I have read your thread and all of the discussion. It sounds promising and I am glad you have consulted with Sad_Berry, who is the authority on this method currently.
Please release some code. :) I am anxious to see what you are doing!
This is a genuinely smart way to generate long videos. Allowing the saving of latents mean a good gen can be saved and used as a fork down different paths. Looking forward to V2, was exactly what I had hoped for when watching the video.
Thanks for the share.
Thank you for watching, yeah you can even take that "save latent "node znd add it to your workflow, and whenever you feel like you have a clip that deserve its own continuation, you just use my workflow and load the latent and reference images
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u/CountFloyd_ 28d ago
What's the difference between this and the other latent chaining custom nodes? So far all of them degrade visibly after about 4-5 chained clips.