300% FASTER Renders in Blender Cycles with AI

[@KaizenTutorials]

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[@Smeaf]

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[@sunsetprune]

I have actually done this before for a client when I was running low on time. It worked very well, and they did not seem to notice. Very cool technique. Great tutorial!

[@KaizenTutorials]

Thanks for sharing, awesome. Love to hear this works in practice for client work as well.

[@cchance]

Honestly the 2 frame skip version even most people wouldn’t notice lol only the artist doing it tends to lol

[@FBNgamesBR]

Now they do. lol

[@demp11]

@Esphaeras Praestans nah if they are on a schedule or there are no alternatives. I've seen twixtor get used 10 years ago for big commercials and you could see it a lot because twixtor back then wasn't using AI but some algorithms and it had a lot of artifacts. If people need something they will use the best way to get it and sometimes you need to accept sacrifices if it hits limitations.

[@Arthr0]

Fun fact:- This only works on slow animations. if you use this in fast animations and a lot of fast and precise movements (action) you will lose a frame and details. I had tried this with fast moving hairs and it messes up

[@binyaminbass]

makes sense

[@KaizenTutorials]

Yep, this works best for slow and medium movement/speed animations!

[@kasper7203]

Yes.. It messes up quite frequently so not really a dependable method

[@maciejzee474]

it's ain;t new, there was a plugin for AE called Twixtor

[@wolvenfx45]

@@maciejzee474 Or Kronos for Nuke :) But you can do this in a lot of softwares with various methods by using motion vectors (Generated or rendered in Cycles or any engine). AI is not mandatory to do it.

[@Polyfjord]

Awesome!!! Unironically really clever for slow paced shots like that! Gonna have to try this!!

[@KaizenTutorials]

Thanks! Yeah please do try it out. It can be a real timesaver for simpler shots (and even some with medium speed motion)!

[@Ab_obla]

Wish this came out before my exams started, due to which I had to submit my endless engines challenge too early which resulted in me needing to render in 12 hours which resulted in low render quality with my potato pc, Hard luck Ig lol

[@KaizenTutorials]

Damn, sorry to hear that! Could've saved a lot of time for sure.

[@azteczek]

Flowframes and other frame interpolation programs have been there for at least a few years

[@Ab_obla]

@@azteczek yes but I was too dumb to think of frame interpretation AI, i just searched for free upscaler AIs (for videos) and found no free ones lol.

[@wolvenfx45]

@@Ab_obla And AI is not even mandatory, usually this works by generating motion vectors (Or using a motion vector pass rendered with your sequence which work even better) and use them to interpolate new images. A lot of software have tech like this. OFlow, Kronos in Nuke, Twixtor in After Effects are a few examples.

[@casper42069]

That would have been so useful 2 months ago for my exam in 3D Animation. It took me roughly 30 hours of render time on my laptop. I'll definitely use it for the second semester though.

[@KaizenTutorials]

Awh yeah, always a shame when that happens haha. But the next semester you'll be done in no time!

[@casper42069]

@@KaizenTutorials Just finished my render for the exam. I didn't use the tools since the render was done in 30-45 minutes for 300 frames kzbin.info/www/bejne/bpy0XpWIfd9ggNk

[@yatima733]

Good trick. As long as the movement is not too abrupt, either camera or scene, flowframes can give very good results. By the way, I don't see the need to convert the image sequence to video, especially when your sequence is PNGs. Flowframes can work on them and in fact, afaik when you give it a video, what it does first is to convert it back to an image sequence. This saves you that step, some time and unnecessary compression. PS: In principle it supports EXR sequences, but it has given me errors if they are 32bpc (hence the comment about PNG).

[@KaizenTutorials]

Good to know! Especially that it even takes in EXR.

[@leucome]

Yes, it is a good idea to process the render images directly.

[@Mart-E12]

Talking about EXR is there a reason it looks much better than EXR even when both are at 16 bit which my monitor shouldn't even be able to show? I can get lots of banding in PNG while EXR is smooth, just curious

[@Liberosis3D]

I was using optical flow for smoothing frames but this is so much better, thanks Kaizen

[@KaizenTutorials]

No problem! Yeah this really beats optical flow, especially for more difficult and chaotic renders!

[@DerekElliott]

Really cool tool will definitely need to give this a shot on some projects!

[@KaizenTutorials]

Absolutely! Would work perfect for your smooth motion projects!

[@sherzoderkinov4498]

Love your In Detail videos. Thats what I call a quality content. Thank you for all the work you have done!

[@KaizenTutorials]

Thank you very much, love to hear it!

[@vladbat4050]

I found that using Flowframes for other animations was really useful, such as importing in specific animations to then upscale the framerate to look proper along with keeping audio in sync. Makes things such as importing in TF2 taunts and dances to sync up and look smooth quite handy, :)

[@KaizenTutorials]

Nice! Yeah it’s a very multi-purpose functional tool imo

[@harshraisaxena6724]

i was about to animate a simple rotating scene but i didn't realise that my scene rotating too fast & i rendered whole 300 frames, so i was frustrated what to do bcuz i couldn't afford to re-render back then & someone suggested me this software & i used images to decrease speed by 2x & it was smooth

[@KaizenTutorials]

Awesome! Yeah it can do a lot of things. Super useful!

[@everillangel5037]

If you want to expand on this you can do another test adding in up scaling ai. Some really good results with half res rendering

[@KaizenTutorials]

Might do that at some point. Currently though Polyfjord has an amazing tutorial on using AI upscaling!

[@FluxStage]

Well as someone who has been thinking about buying the Topaz ai video kit this is amazing. Thank you ver much can't wait yo start playing with this!

[@KaizenTutorials]

Awesome, yeah it works just as well I think but 100% free!

[@WheelchairDrift]

sensei never disappoints with his video! always something new!😎

[@KaizenTutorials]

Thank you as always my friend! 😎🙏

[@FilmSpook]

Huge Thanks, my Brother!! Your tutorials are among the Best. Cheers

[@KaizenTutorials]

Thank you, appreciate it as always!

[@josemanella9350]

Hey thanks for the video and the 22 ads that I had to watch!

[@KaizenTutorials]

Thanks for supporting the channel. :-)

[@fractalcucumber]

I wonder how rendering out at a lower resolution then using AI to upscale before then putting it through Flowframe would turn out? Thanks for sharing this awesome piece of knowledge, I generally use a render farm so that my machine isn’t tied up but this may help change that ❤

[@baldpolnareff7224]

It wouldn't make a difference to the interpolation process itself, but upscaling beforehand might make you hit a point of diminishing returns. It really depends a lot on the model used to upscale your render and how good it is with your style of render. Most upscaling solutions are not that great in many scenarios, so I'm not sure it's worth doing it most of the times. Consider that if you render at higher resolution you can get away with denoising at lower samples as well

[@KaizenTutorials]

Upscaling is great, but it can take quite some time aswell if it's to be done in a high quality way. However, yeah seems like a viable solution to me!

[@leucome]

It works but... at equal render time using an higher resolution with a lower sample rate seem to give better result. Probably because the denoiser get textures information/details for free from the albedo pass. So it has all the texture details to work with even if it missing light sample information.

[@pstwr]

Thank you for this video. Tried it today and it had a great additional benefit. It introduced very nice anti-aliasing to a clip that had a lot of flicker prior to running through the algorithm.

[@KaizenTutorials]

Cool! Yeah in my case it got rid of some firefly artefacts aswell. Awesome side-benefit!

[@verxvikx]

OMG it really HELPED! Will use it for future projects!!!! This is the only way to speed up animations render for me!

[@TheDucky3D]

Dude this is amazing!!

[@KaizenTutorials]

Thanks man, appreciate it! I really hope this can collectively save us all days/weeks of rendering 💪

[@head2shoot863]

Sir how did you made those hyper realistic skies ?

[@KaizenTutorials]

That is actually just a photo on a plane lol

[@madtrix8631]

what is unbelievable is the fact that this is only the beginning and if the sources for NVIDIA's DLSS 3.0 get into this industry it's going to revolutionize rendering forever

[@KaizenTutorials]

True that! The future’s crazy!

[@wadeeliason969]

I liked that you explained how it worked and using AI as a utility in creation

[@KaizenTutorials]

Thanks, glad to hear you liked the video!

[@FBNgamesBR]

6:36 I can. Black levels are totally different. Maybe this is due to the .mp4 compressor, maybe not. The only way to find id out is by testing.

[@KaizenTutorials]

👍🏻💪🏻 testing is always best!

[@entumonitor]

If flowframes could use a second video with the number of final frames where objects are rendered in solid colors (like cryptomatte) and use the position info for interpolation the result could be much more accurate being able to skip even more full render frames . Yes, I would add having to make the second video, but a solid color video would be quite fast.

[@KaizenTutorials]

That would be dope! I'm sure that's something that could be created in the near future.

[@jamesriley5057]

So you're saying my janky-ass animations are salvageable. Excellent show! thanks

[@KaizenTutorials]

Lol, yeah Flowframes to the rescue!

[@BMACMASTAMIND]

I think it’s something like what the MEMC on TVs do? I think this would be good for a slow moving visual I guess 🤔

[@KaizenTutorials]

Yep it's best for slow movement and medium speed movement.

[@BMACMASTAMIND]

@@KaizenTutorials Got you brother! Amazing thou!

[@pinpoint24]

Wow, this is so cool!! Thanks for making this video, super helpful. Can't wait to try it out myself.

[@KaizenTutorials]

Glad it was helpful! Have fun with it. It really blew my mind when I tried it! 💪

[@alexandrosdarky]

Kaizen strikes again! Love the memes btw lol 🙏🙃

[@KaizenTutorials]

Haha thanks, appreciate it!

[@mouthyferret]

I can see this becoming a big thing for gaming, imagine being able to "upscale" 30fps games to 60fps or higher.

[@KaizenTutorials]

Oh wow, I never even thought of that, but yeah being able to do this in realtime and maybe more accurately aswell would be a gamechanger!

[@IcyFireDeluxe]

thats what's happening already. AMD FSR and Nvidia DLSS. Nvidia even says it in the name: "Deep Learning Super Sampling" Also some TVs do that too, so the normal TV-Programm is more smooth. Mostly in 120Hz+ devices

[@DimiArt]

Weird, i've been doing this since flowframes was released. Glad to see someone made a video on it.

[@KaizenTutorials]

Nice! Yeah it's been out for quite a while now. But so many people don't know it. so I figured sharing would definitely be useful to some!

[@ritwiksondhi]

A couple of months back, after everything was locked and rendered a client suddenly demanded a 50fps version of the animation. So instead of wasting time in re-rendering, I used FlowFrames...the result was quite acceptable.

[@KaizenTutorials]

Awesome, that's a good usecase for sure.

[@aboutthenet5396]

Don't know who Smeaf is-LOTR?-, but I've subscribed=>your tutorials are crisp-clear and concise. Keep it up!

[@KaizenTutorials]

Thank you! Smeaf is indeed from LOTR hahaha. Appreciate the kind words!

[@msb8111]

Hello, I was wondering what software you use for Compositing and color grading. I use Davinci and It does not have an export option for '12 FPS' So I'm stuck on this. I have a bunch of EXR passes I wanted to use for Compositing.

[@msb8111]

Doing the Comp/color grade after the flowframes wont work either since i wont have enough information nor the exr passes to work with. I would love to know how u do urs? Idk how to use blender compositor and its way too slow for my system since this whole thing is about speeding up ur workflow and render time.

[@KaizenTutorials]

Hmm yeah that makes sense. I'm not sure if this is a suitable option for non blender-based workflows honestly. What you can do in davinci is to give your timeline a custom framerate (like 12) and render it out at 12fps. You should be able to do that and then use flowframes to interpolate to 24fps. However this way doesn't actually 'skip' frames, like I do in Blender so the result won't be the same. I'm not sure what the best fix is for this case...

[@msb8111]

@@KaizenTutorials found a fix for it. You can export from Davinci as PNG sequences in 24Fps(since its an image sequence fps wont matter anyways , except for a few nodes maybe I doubt Davinci's motion blur going to mess it up. For my case I used Vector pass for motion blur so it didnt matter at all). And finally put it back in blender and export as a video in 12 fps. The put it through Flowframes. A bit of a headache workflow. But hey, anything to get that render time in half.

[@riqbeq]

Something that I haven’t seen a lot of people talk about in this topic of rendering is stable diffusion upscaling or any other upscaler I hope that in the future thwre will be an upscaler that is trained on denoised or not denoised with the „noise pattern of a low sample render“ and then combine that with flow frame which would just decrease render times to a minimum and if dream 3D already works in blender now I think having a final upscale option after the frame is rendered isn’t to far fetched

[@KaizenTutorials]

Seems like it should be doable. I think in most regards the future of 3D is hard to imagine, because of how fast the world is moving!

[@veryupstandinguy]

Will definitely use this in my future workflow

[@KaizenTutorials]

Awesome!

[@Handleneeds3ormorecharacters04]

wow that's crazy! 7:25 I think that is still acceptable quality for Instagram or TikTok upload.

[@KaizenTutorials]

Yeah absolutely! So depending on your purpose you can switch up what you want to do with this and save a TON of time.

[@bloodywanker231]

Nice I tried this the other week with nice results! I'm glad others see it as a viable alternative.

[@KaizenTutorials]

Great to hear! Yeah it’s a great solution for faster renders 💪🏻

[@martinbenitez13]

Actually huge for me, now i can make better quality renders in lower time, thank you

[@theluc1f3r93]

A.I. = less sharp and less saturated, bit noisy, so maybe in editing soft boost these first 2 values and it will be around 95% same = good enough.

[@KaizenTutorials]

I agree!

[@APLyricalHub]

I just had a question. Can I use FFmpeg Video instead of PNG format for output properties?

[@KaizenTutorials]

You can't if you want to use it in FlowFrames. You can if you just want to export it. However it's riskier since if Blender crashes you've lost everything and have to start over. With PNG you can just continue after your last finished frame.

[@nswij123]

Love the sense of humor btw

[@KaizenTutorials]

Thanks!

[@AnatomyLab]

Off topic: do you actually use the blender video sequencer for your final Renders? I have never gotten a good result,.. whenever i import the image sequence it loses contrast and looks washed out/ overexposed, somewhat like a double filtering,.. pointers are greatly appreciated, thx awesome video as always,..

[@KaizenTutorials]

I've exclusively used Blender's video editor to export image sequences for years. Never noticed any weirdness with it. It might be that you've got some settings going on in your export options, maybe a base gamma change, exposure change, look etc. Anyways for me it has worked perfectly!

[@AnatomyLab]

@@KaizenTutorials thanks for your answer ,.. I just Switched to DaVinci resolve, since I ve never gotten an result i like, even after tweaking,.. probably one of those little clicks somewhere,,. I will sub you, so you win your race! Keep on keeping you re doing an awesome job!

[@KaizenTutorials]

Probably yeah! Thanks, appreciate it. Hope I win. But if I don’t then I’m super happy for smeaf!

[@robbie_]

I use flowframes a lot but it often struggles with occlusion, i.e. when something gets hidden behind something else for a few frames. It's still the best interpolator out there imho though and only costs a few beans at his Patreon.

[@KaizenTutorials]

Nice! Yeah there's several caviats. But it's free and works well enough! So you'll never hear me complaining

[@Myotiss22]

Man, this man is lifesaver

[@KaizenTutorials]

Happy to hear it!

[@Maarten-Nauta]

I did some testing, AE's timewarp effect works way better with more complex scenes where lots of foliage + shadows are moving (Probably because it just overlays two frames and calculates the distance a pixel traveled and then recreates one in the center). Flow frames works best with cleaner images and is able to interpolate more frames in between. But yeah for my complex forest scene with lots of movement (especially the shadows) Flowframes started getting warp wiggles in the whole image :/ I'll upload the video showing the scene that makes flowframes fall apart.

[@KaizenTutorials]

Yeah please do, would love to see the difference! You can't comment links cus YT will delete the comment, but if you just comment on here I can see it.

[@nickyreigns254]

Thanks for sharing. I'll try with AE and compare results.

[@abdalimharou]

Thank you for the advice. I liked the way I explained

[@KaizenTutorials]

Glad you liked it, thanks!

[@Bo0z_]

Why This video was recommended for me when i finished 8 hours of rendering a 10 seconds video?

[@KaizenTutorials]

Damn that’s rough! :-(

[@PrimeEcto]

I thought i was the only person who did this LMAO, i used to use flowframes just for turning anime to 60FPS cause why not LOL but last year i started using it for animations cause man my RTX 3060 just takes too long LMAO

[@KaizenTutorials]

Haha yeah it's amazing to save so much time! My 3070 is decent, but this helps a lot!

[@arupdeb69]

Works well for slow animation, quick motion not so well. I tried it for jewelry animation, few frames got weird artifacts. Had to try it with other non jewelry animations

[@KaizenTutorials]

It doesn't work great for every type of animation no. It does a decent job at very fast speeds, it does well at medium speed and it does amazing at slower speeds. Funny enough you said it gave some artifacts, in my case it removed some firefly artifacts from the original Blender render haha!

[@arupdeb69]

@@KaizenTutorials the actifacts were like smudged for the very fast areas and sometimes on the stones

[@KaizenTutorials]

@@arupdeb69 hmm ok, that’s a shame! Maybe trying a different AI model can help!

[@arupdeb69]

@@KaizenTutorials it sometimes happens even for slower animation that have stones, not all 3-4 frames in between. I just render those specific frames

[@KaizenTutorials]

Hmm yeah also it really depends how many frames you interpolate. In my experience 1 is best!

[@N6_mity]

Someone give him time saver award pls

[@gaurisam]

You my friend, are a Messiah!

[@KaizenTutorials]

Haha thanks!

[@Grimstore]

Hi Kaizen, really cool video as usual ! is it possible to give a 2 line breakdown of how you made the animation ? did you use botaniq ? and ANTS for mountains ? thank you so much !

[@KaizenTutorials]

Sure can! I used the Graswald free addon after creating a basic landscape with a plane and a displacement modifier. I scattered the free Graswald assets using their addon GScatter, super easy to do and you can also animate them using the addon! The mountain is actually a model from Sketchfab. Then it was just a matter of setting up the scene, copying thr mountains around and messing with their scale. Adding a camera and voila!

[@FluffyPuppyKasey]

Your animation took roughly fifty seconds per frame, meanwhile me taking ten minutes per frame with roughly the same amount of geometry

[@KaizenTutorials]

Damn yeah the basics all depend on your hardware I guess. I do have semi-optimized settings for cycles rendering as well. You can watch the vid I link in the end to get those 🙏🏻

[@FluffyPuppyKasey]

@@KaizenTutorials I actually saw that! Took render times to about five minutes per frame!

[@leucome]

I used this on all my video for a wile to get 4k 60fps. Though I use RIFE directly without the Flowframe UI. In my case it also save a lot of simulation time. Cloth physics were pretty long to simulate at 60 fps.

[@KaizenTutorials]

Nice one!

[@DarkSwordsman]

Tested this and it worked excellently to bring something from 24 FPS to 120 FPS. I can imagine how nice this would be to bring video game footage or a twitch stream to a higher FPS. Though my 2080 Super was already on its way out so I am getting python errors towards the end unfortunately. But even then, still able to input at about 3-5 FPS, and was able to output at 20-25 FPS! Edit: Was able to override it and run it on a 1070 as well. Though apparently my error was due to some frames randomly having transparency by accident apparently. Running it through ffmpeg to set them to rgb24 PNGs fixed it.

[@KaizenTutorials]

Awesome! It's a really amazing piece of AI. Just need to find the best usecases for it!

[@emiliohontucan4877]

What is crazy is to use Flowframes to save space of your personal videos. You will have a smoother vid with smaller file sizes.

[@KaizenTutorials]

Nice! The smaller filesize is because of some compression. It’s nice for the filesize, but it makes the image slightly lower quality!

[@emiliohontucan4877]

Yes, most are saved phone vid captures. I really like that the camera shakes are softened and my shots look professional and stable.

[@KaizenTutorials]

Nice thats an added bonus yeah!

[@cr0uchingtiger]

any good for stills? maybe AI upscaling will be implemented some day.

[@KaizenTutorials]

Uhm this is more for animation, there's AI upscaling tools which work fine and are free already! I believe Polyfjord has a video on that.

[@ShebanFPV]

Wow! So cool! Thanks a lot! 🙌🏻

[@KaizenTutorials]

Glad you liked it!

[@BlazingStudios]

you can also just render at a lower resolution and use an ai upscaler for an even bigger boost.

[@KaizenTutorials]

Very true!

[@marcus_ohreallyus]

I can see the potential for hand drawn animation.

[@KaizenTutorials]

Oh yeah that would be dope! Not sure how it holds up with this tool though.

[@Alasdare]

You should give a go at rendering at a lower res and upscaling it using AI. I've been using it a bunch for images and not sure whether there's an option for video, but probably worth a shot

[@KaizenTutorials]

I have done that actually! Works pretty well. Polyfjord has a video on how to do it using open source, free software. Works great!

[@Alasdare]

@@KaizenTutorials Sick! I'll have to check it out.

[@laudowitbooi205]

You have made life so much easier. Thank you. I appreciate your guidance.

[@KaizenTutorials]

Thanks for the kind words!

[@Maarten-Nauta]

Is it any different than After Effects time warp effect tho?

[@KaizenTutorials]

Yeah the results are a lot better than the AE frame interpolation!

[@Maarten-Nauta]

@@KaizenTutorials Awesome!

[@ChrisGeden]

Hard to get a good feel of what the interpolation is doing as your KZbin video is at 60fps playing back a 30fps video, so you're getting frame duplication. I wonder how this A.I. interpolation program compares to NLEs such as DaVinci Resolve's interpolation tools. I know I would have a broader range of codecs and containers such EXRs if I was using DVR. Any chance we could download your 15fps render to experiment with, please?

[@KaizenTutorials]

That's true! I never thought about that. But yeah they do actually look very similar if I play them side by side on my monitor here at their actual FPS. Check the comparison out here imgur.com/a/7Ffdxta Davinci and AE's interpolation tools function well and would probably give similar results in this scene. But in more intense scenes, especially with faster motion, Flowframes is king. It does take EXR input but doesn't export it. I think there might be workaround, but I don't know those.

[@ChrisGeden]

@@KaizenTutorials interesting. Thanks for the comparisons.

[@hazonku]

Flowframes?! That's a name I haven't heard in years! I used to use this to make my janky animation look better by doubling my frames & just speed ramping the video back down to the original time.

[@KaizenTutorials]

Awesome! Yeah no need to speedramp them down anymore these days. Even easier to use!

[@matts2080]

Will bear this in mind

[@KaizenTutorials]

👍👍

[@matts2080]

@@KaizenTutorials ❤️

[@neillholley5061]

At 4:33 the text on the screen says to scale up the sequence after setting the resolution in the Timeline section. Where in the Timeline section can you "scale up the sequence"?? I see no option from any of the dropdown menu options. UPDATED: In the video sequencer menu bar, i selected 'Set render size' in the 'strip' dropdown menu. And it seemed to adjust my video. Is that what i'm supposed to do????

[@KaizenTutorials]

if you import your files blender defaults to use 1920x1080. If your renders are the same size you don't need to do anything. If your renders are a different size youll have to scroll down and scale up the imported files in the timeline panel of the video editor and make sure the images fit your resolution again.

[@hungvominh2490]

Great tutorial, I'm gonna using it for my next animation. One more question tho, do you have any experience with Topaz AI which does basically the same thing, and if you do, how would you compare it to flowframe in terms of quality/ artifacts?

[@KaizenTutorials]

Thanks! I haven’t used topaz myself, but I know people who have and they say it’s very similar. It might be better at fast moving scenes though! But i’m not sure it’s worth the money without more comparison.

[@cunn_dn6299]

Can u make a video about compositing in cycles

[@KaizenTutorials]

It's absolutely on my list to do a video about it in the future! It might be a while, but I can guarantee I'll make it!

[@sanketvaria9734]

What if we can upscale the video as well? Similar to FSR and DLSS in video games?

[@KaizenTutorials]

You can! Polyfjord has a video on using open source softwares to do just that, upscaling his HD images to 4K!

[@JoaoSilva22222]

Oh now! Now i ll have to go to the gym, take a shower and have lunch in only 1 hour and a half! Lol - Thanks for the tip man! That´s worth gold!!!!

[@KaizenTutorials]

Hahaha, guess you'll have to become faster at everything now! No problem, glad you like the vid.

[@JoaoSilva22222]

@@KaizenTutorials I was trying to buy a 120fps camera and you saved me from wasting money.

[@KaizenTutorials]

Happy to help!

[@fearlessgeek1288]

This is actually what AI should be doing instead of trying to make art for you . I have to try this thanks !!

[@KaizenTutorials]

Absolutely true!

[@wyesea3256]

I was wondering if there's an alternative version for mac users, I was excited to go check it but then realized it's ony for windows :((

[@KaizenTutorials]

Theres an addon for Blender which does this, and also works on Mac. But it’s not free! Not very expensive, but still… not free though. I forgot the name, but if you check Blendermarket you should be able to find it.

[@riotechmod]

It will be even more faster if you render those frames in half of the actual resolutions than upscale it using any AI upscaling tool.. Than use flow frames to make it more smother 🙂

[@KaizenTutorials]

Facts!

[@demp11]

They should implement those things right into blender at least the upscaling thing. It would also be much more accurate with all the layers blender renders.

[@riotechmod]

@@demp11 does blender support AI Upscaling? I don't think so.

[@demp11]

@@riotechmod can you read I don't think so.

[@casualcorner199secchio]

How about EEVEE + Cycles stepped + EBsynth + Flowframes?

[@KaizenTutorials]

That could give some pretty dope results. honestly!

[@savageopress1753]

Awesome! I have looked into ai frame interpolation before, but there are no options for Mac. I hope something will come to Mac soon! Super helpful tutorial!

[@KaizenTutorials]

Thanks yeah that’s always a downside for mac and linux. Hope this changes in the future!

[@savageopress1753]

@@KaizenTutorials Yes, me too. MacOS and Linux have less compatibility, and so I am thinking of switching to the windows operating system. Love your tutorials man! Have an awesome day!

[@KaizenTutorials]

Thanks for the kind words and thanks you too! 🤗

[@theryujinn1582]

emulate windows. Set it up on that, easy import

[@KaizenTutorials]

Thats actually a good idea!

[@roberthintz4017]

Can Flowflames be used for Maya and Houdini?

[@KaizenTutorials]

Yes, absolutely! It takes in videos and image sequences, no matter where they come from :-)

[@roberthintz4017]

@@KaizenTutorials That's great!

[@minechannel6096]

I was confused when you are talking about frames and fps at 4:48. Am I right that you still rendered a 8 second video after changing 30 fps to 15 fps so the AI can fill the gaps (missing frames)?

[@KaizenTutorials]

I rendered an 8 second video yes, but skipping a lot of the frames with the 'step' function in Blender. Meaning I'm rendering an 8 second video that's originally 30FPS, but now it's 15FPS with intervals going from 1,3,5,7,9 etc. Hope that makes sense haha!

[@deviantvision4995]

How about fast moving objects/characters? Does the tool hold up?

[@KaizenTutorials]

The faster the objects, the worse the result to be honest. This works best for slow and medium speed shots!

[@axeldrive300]

Thank you for this! 👍

[@KaizenTutorials]

My pleasure!

[@Nerd_Nonsense]

Reallt liked ur video just faced a slow rendring issue cause of volumetric atmosphere. 2X step with flowframes worked like a magic thanks!

[@KaizenTutorials]

Glad it helped!

[@SuperchargedW12]

Thanks for sharing this.

[@KaizenTutorials]

My pleasure!

[@donnydan1053]

What if you use 4 steps in blender but you re-interpolate with flowframes like 2 or 3 times. so the AI do not rendering all the missing frames in one go . maybe it will smooth out the result ?.. it will lose the quality tho, maybe you should use ProRes or other lossless format from flowframe.

[@KaizenTutorials]

That wouldn't really work, because the AI can only interpolate frames, so if it misses too many and you just let it re-interpolate 2-3 times, it will create frame jumps still!

[@wutais]

Will this work with complex motion scenes?

[@KaizenTutorials]

It will work with complex motion, but not very well with really fast motion!

[@vora300]

Impressive, I wonder how it works on scenes with a lot of action and motion blur.

[@KaizenTutorials]

Less good. The faster the motion and the lower the quality input (low FPS, low resolution etc) the worse it gets! It works best for slow and medium speed motion.

[@leucome]

It is surprisingly good. But it can indeed make a couple of broken frames. There is a trick. Like render at 15fps then double to 30 with AI. Then look and delete all the bad frames after that re-render on top at 30fps with overwrite disabled. This way Blender is going to fill the missing frame with their actual render. This can still save a lot of render time because there will be really few frames that need to be replaced.

[@vora300]

@@leucome oh nice tip!

[@محمدرضایی-ر1د]

Thank you for this amazing AI tool. Do you think a Dell Precision Core i 7 Laptop can render animations in cycles? (With CPU)

[@KaizenTutorials]

It can, but it’s not going to be very fast!

[@anterprites]

5:50 you should use browse folder option and frames instead of making video

[@KaizenTutorials]

Yeah good one! I've done that since, it works nicely and stil leaves everything as frames.

[@JipCustoms]

a bit off topic but how do you scatter so much grass without nuking the scene? i've tried to do it with gscatter and camera culling enabled but if i want to have it like yours it doesn't seem to work. (gpu memory full) i have a rtx 3080 and the i5 12600k so it is basically the same specs as yours.

[@JipCustoms]

Btw, thanks for the amazing tutorial as always, greetings from a fellow dutch guy

[@KaizenTutorials]

Uhm so you never want to start a render after being in rendered view. Cus it preloads your GpU with the viewport render and takes up all your vram. So open Blender, stay in solid view, render your scene with camera culling and it always works for me tbh…

[@ryotaakabane8495]

Thanks for the share,that's how AI should be used.

[@KaizenTutorials]

Agreed and no problem!

[@man_art_man]

Mega interesting! Looks like power of A1 )))

[@KaizenTutorials]

You are right! Might have to change that 🙌🏻

[@K_w08]

Bro what is your PC and laptop configuration plz reply

[@KaizenTutorials]

I showed it in the video! But it's a Ryzen 3700X, NVIDIA RTX 3070Ti, 32GB RAM and AORUS Elite X570.

[@amjadmosawi2923]

isnt this the same as blending frames in AE or adobe premiere ?

[@KaizenTutorials]

It is similar yes, but the AI from Flowframes (RIFE) works better in my opinion.

[@oceaco]

Does't work for my videos. Artifacts appear even with doubling frames. I will stick with good old render each frame at a time.

[@KaizenTutorials]

Really? oh damn! Maybe you have too much movement in your frames...

[@oceaco]

@@KaizenTutorials my animation is mooving retro perspective grid in 80s style. And if look closely to thin lines far from camera near horizon, they have artifacts. They shake and glitch. Maybe in some near future this will be solved. But thaks for video and channel as a whole! Best regards from Belarus🙂

[@bkentffichter]

I wonder if nvidia's new DLSS 3 can help

[@KaizenTutorials]

It probably could!

[@kruz3d573]

This is a huge help. But, if you want to become an environment artist or, say, show an environment like this, then you have Blender + World Machine + Unreal Engine... make stuff in real-time. and save a ton of time. even with 4090, this will struggle for hours... unless you're on that DUAL 4090, by the way, good luck with your power bills.

[@KaizenTutorials]

Thanks, haha! Yeah environments are notoriously hard on your PC, that's why I used it as an example.

[@yourweso]

omg brooo you helped me soo much thank youoouououuo

[@buzzdx]

thanks, i almost forgot about flowframes ^^ off topic question: how did you animate the foliage? looks great

[@KaizenTutorials]

No problem! The foliage was scattered AND animated using Graswalds free GScatter addon. It’s super cool and easy to use!

[@buzzdx]

@@KaizenTutorials i downloaded the free gscatter addon but it does not have the wind modifier, at least it's not where i saw it in a video. ended up adding wind with a noise texture manually which worked nicely.

[@KaizenTutorials]

It’s one of those layer settings you can add. Like random rotation and scale. Ypu can add more layers! But manually doing it works just fine aswell :-)

[@malikgarcia699]

Does anyone know alternative or an Os version for Flow frames just can’t seem to find anything 😢😢😢

[@KaizenTutorials]

Not that I know of, sorry! :-(