EbSynth - Tutorial

[@RadenWA]

The entire artist cast of the Loving Vincent movie are pulling their hairs right now.

[@DelmarJones]

😆

[@Intho312]

Lol!

[@mostafaelgammal]

OMG i was thinking about the same 😂 but they made very nice work

[@MrMadalien]

Yep and they are also Polish just like these guys xD

[@samsonmcgloughlin]

Yeah they are most definitely tasting the metal of a gun barrel right about now

[@TESkyrimizer]

i canr believe this is free and no one has heard of it until Joel told us about it. this is INCREDIBLE

[@jacobkeeton2705]

Ben Marriot has a good video about in on his channel

[@aaronwoodsfilms]

@@liquidmind calm down

[@hmealm5516]

yea and theres a lot more about ai people arent freaking out about, which they should.. look into GPT-3

[@nemesis5481]

_Yep. I owe it to Joel._

[@abhinavkapruwan5797]

I heard it from chatGPT!

[@echdareez]

Besides this being a spectacular piece of software (currently playing with it), can we all also agree that "Sarda" is one hell of explainer? She is witty, to the point and clear. Loved this tutorial!

[@secretweapons1199]

Aww, thank you! Sarda ♥

[@echdareez]

@@secretweapons1199 Could it be that you speak French? If so : avec plaisir et merci a toi / vous ;-)

[@Native_Creation]

@@secretweapons1199 Yes, more videos please!

[@rayen966]

@@echdareez She is obviously russian

[@echdareez]

Rayen Thanks and my fault ☺️ It almost resembles a French accent (or so I thought back then) but now that you've mentioned it, there are "tones" which don't come back in a "French person trying to speak English" accent 😏 Eg when she says "green" or "objects"... Not that important anyway ☺️

[@tillholder2400]

And it's FREE? Crazy.

[@username4441]

nothing is free.

[@SoftBreadSoft]

It's public domain but includes an adobe patended algorithm unfortunately.

[@username4441]

@@SoftBreadSoft it also must run within the exe and probably is logging your use.

[@MenkoDany]

It's a university research project

[@ALZHEM]

@@username4441 actually.. this is. You can even use it commercially

[@GamingHelp]

I would like to say, I VERY much appreciate that you guys didn't make this into a "cloud" tool requiring people to whip up yet another account on yet another platform just to try it. Also, well done. This is what a good modern tool should be. :)

[@neveridle]

Just the fact that it is free is already superb. I wouldnt mind signing an acc for that free software.

[@GamingHelp]

@@neveridle: But I suspect you'd mind if you built an entire workflow based on that "free" software and then the vendor just yanked it one day and suddenly it no longer existed. Or they update it and remove the major feature *you* use. Choice actually matters in software and SaaS is the opposite of that. (Edited) Though I'd agree that it's pretty dang good software. :)

[@marybyrne6473]

@@GamingHelp I read on their main page they do plan to make a final version of software that is paid, but I don´t know if that means the free beta will be taken away or not.

[@GamingHelp]

That's why I was so happy to see it as a non cloud based tool. If you use it now, they can't really take it away. They can certainly move new versions to a different deployment method, etc, but the one you use locally, short of a hidden "If URL doesn't exist, exit()" (Programmer talk for a hidden kill switch), you just get to use that so long as you have a copy. :)

[@360.Tapestry]

free and beta to get you on board. paid and premium once you're hooked

[@Schyferyel]

Who else is here because Joel Haver revealed how he made his videos lol

[@katherinemerriweather3734]

yup

[@lennos81]

Animation adventure awaits! Huzzaaaahhh!!

[@vincentrowe4116]

Legit 🤙

[@HMATCK]

I've been trying to use his exact method to the t and when I press synth it always gives an error saying im missing files from the png sequence but they're all in the folder I chose. its infuriating

[@Jay-um6eq]

@@HMATCK are they all numbered correctly and have you got your key frame number going to the last frame number in the file you want it to process?

[@henrysaizofficial]

I´ve done my first test and im completely amazed, this is a revolucionary tool and you guys deserve massive success, i just can say THANK YOU, for creating this and making it free. Much love from Spain.

[@tobycall]

this is the single greatest software program of all time i almost cried the first time i used it thank you so so so much

[@jojoviviator9258]

I found this after the two minute papers video, and I am very curious to the technique used. I will definitely experiment with this, as it seems very promising!

[@ducksmash8737]

The person explaining is a really fun personality which helps not slog the tutorial-ness of the video! Great explanations thanks so much

[@pxthucydidesx5600]

In case no one has laid it out- Ebsynth can be used with ffmpeg start to finish. No need for After Effects and Premiere for seeing how it works. Extract png sequence from video: ffmpeg -r 1 -i -r 1 output%03d.png < run EbSynth > And then generate video from png sequence: ffmpeg -framerate 24 -i %03d.png output.mp4 Terrific bit of software.

[@OlovMetal]

OH MY GOD, THANK YOU, Professional Animator and Compositor here, and this tool literally just liberated me to go full Spectrum Indie film. THANK YOU! LOVE YOU ALL! LEGENDS!

[@patxigarmendizabal6063]

Hey, I've tried again using FaceApp and EbSynth and the result is EXCELLENT. I love it, I'm sure it will keep getting better and better, and it's free, I thank you guys immensely. Keep up the good work.

[@josielewis3258]

This is probably the best Ebsynth tutorial I've seen here. It hits the high points and gives some really good pointers. I can't wait to try it out with some video I have.

[@Wheeelie402]

Not only tut incredibly helpful (and WOW!!!), it was so entertaining! I appreciate the pro's approach to teaching and her sense of humor.!

[@Ludifant]

Ok, as an animator and creative coder working with style transfers and natural media animation and cartoons, I can only say thank you. I will check this out TODAY. Look simple and very interesting. I´m looking forward to what the result will be with 3D-animation and 2d animation as input etc..

[@OlovMetal]

Son you are reading my mind exactly, the indie films will be LIT!

[@ethanwc]

@@OlovMetal And then immediately be "dated". I have a feeling the earlier the works made with EBSynth, the more dated they'll look. I look forward to them updating this software. I'm playing around with it today, and it seems like a very promising tech.

[@njones420]

so interesting...I rememeber thinking about this back in the early 2000s, when you used to get corrupted videos with missing keyframes, and it would just use the previous one creating some very weird effects on playback. Looking forward to playing with it.

[@haya3sa]

PLEASE DON'T DIE GUYS. WE LOVE YOU. THANK U SO MUCH.

[@jamielmp4]

This will be sooooo cool to be used in a music video + data moshing!! Omg the creativity is endless! 🔥🔥

[@AI-Consultant]

and how have you used it in the past 3 years buddy ??

[@prophetofthesingularity]

I have been experimenting with this and I think that even with this being a few years old it still has not yet been fully realized how powerful of a tool this can be.

[@NOTORIOUS404]

I remember seeing this at some Siggraph presentation but can't remember the year. I just love when tech makes it's way through from whitepaper to my computer.

[@bright-noise]

I’ve been experimenting with it and getting some fantastic results. Tks secret weapons. It would be really great if it could blend the frames at the adjacent ends of 2 intervals together, or if it used all of the stylized keyframes at once to synthesize a full scene, because otherwise there’s no way to seamlessly do a longer scene with multiple key frames unless the style you’re going for lends itself to a normal cross fade. That being said this is much less of an issue if the background is separated from the subject as was demonstrated. Excited to experiment w it more

[@MALLETTE2]

ok i used this and now i know French c'est la révolution

[@Sveta69420]

oh shit

[@JiDe64]

Oh ! Et bien c'est sympa de voir un commentaire en français, y'en a pas beaucoup. ça va c'est pas trop dur a apprendre le français ? ( it's a joke :) )

[@chokedbeats6786]

@@JiDe64 Les Français on est là!

[@JiDe64]

@@chokedbeats6786 Rolalala

[@chokedbeats6786]

@@JiDe64 je test le truc ce soir malheureusement je suis un pietre peintre... Y'a l'astuce deep dream generator qui peux aider ;) j'ai 80 sequences à retoucher ça va etre l'enfer... xD

[@neverestarts1278]

I love your transparency

[@laszloszabo2157]

TOTAL COMMANDER AND IRFAN VIEW!! Now that's a PRO WORKFLOW! I thought I was alone in the universe, lol.

[@wakegary]

EB Synth respects your style Shots fired.

[@gvuprise1465]

THANK YOU SO MUCH I WATCHED THIS THE FIRST TIME AND FINALLY GOT IT RIGHT COMPARED TO WATCHING OTHER DO IT. THANK YOU SO MUCH !PLEASE KEEP ON WORKING ON IT AND HOPEFULLY THE PAID VERSION WILL BE EXTREMLY AWESOME AND EASY.

[@jimzandieh4761]

8:35 'and this is how you keep things OCD friendly.', hahaha amazing

[@CartooonTHAT]

i haven't tried it yet. not sure will i like it. but would love to give it a go.

[@adt4864]

This voiceover is such a mood

[@reverendrider]

thank you for the tutorial, love your teaching style...quick, witty and snarky. I literally blew my tea out of my nose on "...and you don't have that in your reference painting either smarty ass, now *what*?" Got a project I have to do, been a while, I used to use Flash to batch trace the frames in the past but trying EbSynth. Good info.

[@sirchced]

Amazing. I just forwarded this to my brother who has been in the animation industry for over 20 years and could probably use this to test styles for his works. Thank you so much.

[@BrianLife]

So funny, love it! Very informative and funny! WOW!! Im blown away also!!

[@CaptendoChannel]

Very cool thank you! this software definitely needs an option to change the brush stroke from one frame to another, in case we don't want it to be as smooth as that.

[@milanpisl]

I have been looking for something like this for a while and I'm glad that I just found this. I'm really looking forward to actually using it in my next project - plus the accent sounded very familiar so I checked and the studio may be Czech.. which is velice příjemné.

[@SSingh-nr8qz]

This is a great video. Love the comedy!

[@SlyFunkyMonk]

thank you for this video, and the software! Joel Haver introduced me to it via his tutorial video, and I'm very excited to give it a try as someone with absolutely no animation experience!

[@Loftikaz]

This is INSANE!! I was looking for exactly this for an art project, I just discovered it and it took me about an hour to figure out how it works, but it's actual quite easy, I am not a painter so I used Photoshop filter gallery to change one still into water colored effect, the result are out of this world and it's FREE!!! :D thank you, much love

[@pm1234]

Félicitations ! Pour Ebsynth et pour votre français :) Je vous encourage à continuer (les 2) hé hé.

[@china100]

A cool little tool I must say. Playing with it now.

[@RobertSimmonsAirship]

This is the kinda effect I was trying to achieve the Neural Style library and AE plugins attempting it and always felt short. This nails it and its much simpler and quicker to do.

[@CGMatter]

So if I have 2 keyframes (that I manipulated in photoshop let's say) and have both synthesize for the whole sequence, do I then transition between them in some editing software? Is there a way to output a single sequence that accounts for both keyframes or do I have to do some transitioning? Thank you for the AMAZING tool!!!!

[@Kousha]

That's exactly what I want to know as well

[@sebastienledivenah3067]

@@Kousha Same here

[@shaun8392]

@@sebastienledivenah3067 Transitioning.. you put keyframes in between and save in different folders lets say.. from there you pick best looking footage. Still impressive but better if they let A.I decide and output ONE final result.

[@saschagierling6009]

You even can see in the referenceprojects that a switch from one key to a different key can be visible if the keys are not accurate to each other. Especially if you are using a more realistic style than an art style. It could be an idea to make a morphing transition over a few frames. I didn't try it yet.

[@username4441]

i just tried this finally, and it really isnt what i was expecting. looks more like motion transfer of a style keyframe than actual style transfer. and no, it does not do any estimation of two different styles or transitioning sadly.

[@manecourquhart3242]

i don't have enough words to thank you for this amazing out of this world software and your generosity. You rule !

[@derekcarney]

DID U POST ANYTHING U MADE WITH IT? ANYONE? OR ALL THESE AMAZED COMMENTS ALL BOTS?

[@puppergump4117]

@@derekcarney Idk what stick found its way up your ass but I came here because of this video kzbin.info/www/bejne/j2KreJp_eNaNacU

[@puppergump4117]

@@derekcarney And btw people don't always just post things they make with this for your convenience, some people have jobs to do

[@derekcarney]

@@puppergump4117 there are just so many bots online anymore...it is hard to figure out what the hype is from the authentic. i managed to get it to work and am very impressed!

[@puppergump4117]

@@derekcarney Well bots make up less than 1% of comments. Bots are also usually present with a large audience. So it's very unlikely that the majority of comments will be bots. Even if that were the case, you can just look at the amount of dislikes. If it's more than 1/4 the total likes, that's a red flag.

[@Bentamitouhaminourine]

hello , Secret Weapons Awesome programme i tried it with some photo shop plugins cartoony effect it really wowed me up thanks really match.

[@rawtale97]

I love this video and software its incredible, even life-changing for me.

[@GurkenMenschMax]

super cool! does not really look all that well in my test but ive got to look deeper into it and try a bit more.

[@Kyncaid84]

Great tool! I’m having a lot of fun. Can you give more info about the weight options! Thanks and congrats!

[@neogiu000]

I wish that the explanation on multiple-keyframes workflow was easier to understand.

[@username4441]

yea, instead of the backstory on johnny and random nonsense.

[@Armuotas]

To my understanding you "assign" each keyframe a range of video frames. I made 1st frame to, say 35th frame, to be handled by "Key 35", and so on. If the assigned frame range overlap then it might get messy, that's why she said to set up different folders for different keyframes. I'd say just be careful with the frame numbers and you'll be fine. I'm not sure how does the placement of the keyframe in the chunk affect the quality of the result, or how good is the blend between the chunks. Someone with a fast machine can test it. TL;DR : imgur.com/a/YNEXxvt

[@saschagierling6009]

You can set as many keyframes as you want. It works the same way as with a single key. You can set for each key a different out folder so you get seperated results from each key. Basically you can render the full scene with every key and you can copy all "good" frames to a final out folder (by hand) and you will have the best result for the complete scene with the number of keys you have used. At the beginning you may not know how many keys you will need, but you will learn that quickly by looking at the result. Whenever the scene gets corupted or to washed awy you will need a new key arround there somewhere.

[@hahasaha8171]

@@Armuotas Hey I'm getting this error when I'm trying to run the synth, 'stop frame is smaller than start' what's the error exactly and what should I try to fix

[@Armuotas]

@@hahasaha8171 Hey, to be honest I already forgot what I was writing about. I don't have the software anymore. It was just a passing comment. From the top of my head: make the stop frame higher number than the start. You are putting finishing line before the start line, so to speak.

[@jonsk1402]

Why are there two "stops"? Is one supposed to be start? Also it seems EBsynth can't interpolate between keyframes, so really it's just running it twice, and then you cross dissolve or something between the two different sets of renders? Thanks!

[@drudigger]

Any chance for more info on using multiple keyframes. I feel like rendering the whole thing over and over again based on how many keys you have is pretty tedious and could be combined better in software?

[@tommyleekane]

Try this: If you have all your keyframes in one folder, it's important that there is no more than 24 keyframes in there... you can then select the first one on ebsynth and they will all load up. Then select synth all. They will all be in new different folders and you will have some of the same frames in different folders because it overlaps. But you just go through and put the best ones into a new final frame folder. If you have more that 24 keyframes then just put the rest in a different folder and do the same like a "part B" folder. Hope that helped!

[@MrZoulouBoyProd]

From France I can tell you that you have a pretty good french accent by the way let see what we can do with this software !! Merci beaucoup

[@thomast1257]

This is going to change filmmaking and animation forever

[@Intho312]

Having some technical difficulties, but looking forward to the end result thanks for the tutorial!

[@crispyrobot77]

Now THIS is very cool. Looking forward to exploring this..between French lessons of course.

[@koningsbruggen]

I love this tool, are there newer more powerful versions coming that understand more context and have more control?

[@MindChamber]

amazing work, looking forward to really putting this through its paces

[@tommyleekane]

Hi 🙂 I had this problem, try making sure your keyframe matches the name of the png file from the video exactly.

[@dejiko]

You are so funny, definitely made this tutorial more enjoyable.

[@midhunjose]

Amazing tool :) Will checkout for sure!~

[@astridpinel2789]

amazing tutorial. Thank you so much!!!

[@jamesstatfnord1413]

IM in Love with this programm!

[@lafiki999]

Awesome programme, awesome tutorial video. Thank you so much

[@katlegotladi2116]

You are so cool Eb synth lady. So cool

[@macabey0nce]

DOPE!!!! Currently doing one right now!

[@joemalmberg6802]

my Korean friend is already making cool dance stuff, I need to try hard...looks so cool

[@zerbgames1478]

"I'd probably try to kill myself if I had to do that" lmao

[@Enchantaire]

Great tutorial, and love the random French at the end

[@Falco001]

Hi, I have a problem! After the software has finished rendering, I cannot find any images in the folders. I followed all the steps of the tutorial. I turned the CPU on and off, I lowered the quality, but nothing, I still don't see any images. When I try to "export AE" the video is all black.

[@MikeScottAnimation]

Great explainer video, thanks. Even a bit of humour! Nice

[@MartinTurner1]

Superb! Magnifique, même!

[@Fozanat0r]

Any official tutorial video that says "You don't have that in your reference painting either, smartass, so *what*??" is 10/10 in my book.

[@toma4474]

I just tested it for like 30 mins. One thing it is phenomenal at is to easily remove photobombs from videos. Want to remove objects from a video? Just remove it couple of frames process it with ebsynth and BAM! You have clean video. I know you can do it with AE but it’s cheaper and easier.

[@picoscar]

Great tool, now testing. But also I love the way she talks.

[@stylezmorales]

What an awesome video, I'm just now learning about Ai prompt engineering and first heard about EB Synth from the guess at corridor digital. I can't wait to start playing with this, I have some pretty cool ideas for it!

[@KenDoStudios]

i don't have adobe after effects, i do have davinchi pro

[@bearpuns5910]

"Tony Lazuto?! You're telling me- WHAT WAS THAT?!"

[@HizkiaSubiyantoro]

my dream come true! Thank you for share this...

[@jo69123]

an error keeps popping up, of missing file" when trying to find the keyframe.. I don't know why if I have it selected

[@proXcore]

Same here

[@tommyleekane]

I had this problem - I think i double checked to make sure the name of the keyframe matched the name of the frame from the png sequence and the keyframe has to be saved as png. I dunno if that helped at all?

[@tief1975]

One question, what would happen if you use the second keyframe? Will you end up with 2 output folders? and if so, how you combine the png's to create the whole video?

[@SzymonAdamus]

Awesome tutorial. Not only very informative but also hilarious. I love your sence of humor. Cheers!

[@HerraHazar]

Weirdly , my animation does not really move , I just get something that looks like tiny variation to the keyframe ? I using an 3d sequence of an ocean , painted one frame as a keyframe , all frames of the "moving" ocean are just still, and all look like the keyframe ...with tiny variations ?

[@StevieTV253]

Im using davinci resolve and movie studio 17 platinum. i cant seem to figure out how to render to png sequences. anyone know if its possible?

[@gwarner5551]

Just got the software and excited to use it! Couldn't you, theoretically, run the program with a few keyframes, then copy the output folder to the video folder and repaint over some of the generated images and run it again to get an even more refined final video?

[@fydstar]

Does this have problems with cloud based files as i get an "error- missing file....." for the .mov file

[@marcusrudd6675]

Love this software. I am confused about one thing though. In the example we had an image sequence of 148 frames. Then two job orders were placed with different painted keyframes, but both were told to work on the whole sequence. Would this give us two directories of rendered 148 frames, or combine into one. See what I have been doing when I have enough frames to warrant multiple keyframes is ending the job list of a keyframe before the next. Example: Keyframe 30 deals with 00 to 60 ,and keyframe 90 deals with 61 to 120. As a result I always get a little jump in the middle. So is what you're saying that multiple keyframes, told to analyse the same frames, can collaborate to create one directory which minimises the temporal incoherence in that jump between reference frames? Or are you creating two directories of output frames, and if so how do you reconcile them to avoid temporal incoherence. I absolutely love this software, thank you so much for making it accessible for free.

[@wisteria6656]

Im trying some shading tests and color tests, thanks

[@banzai316]

Well done, so far so good!

[@adamscenna]

Would love to get this program to work but all I get are Missing File Errors. Does anyone have a solution? working on a Mac.

[@paulpajot7693]

Love it ! Is it more of a very cool video filter though? Because your drawing is limited (in its shape and motion) by your previously shot film...

[@Alpha17x]

Kind of frustrating to use right now, BUT, it is amazing and I hope it grows.

[@ow_]

How does it barely take up any RAM? I'm absolutely amazed that my very old laptop can still render everything incredibly quickly.

[@bigbalticbox]

Because is volatile *MEMORY* This program likely doesn't store any data temporarily, and if it does, probably gets rid of it instantly. Most of the calculations to make this work are handled by the mathematics hub of the PC, the central processing unit, the thing that calculates everything on the fly. So if you're interested, I'd check the CPU load using Task Manager instead of RAM load. Although I haven't used this program, so I could be wrong.

[@CorpseCircus]

welp have tried this 3 different times. it fails to0 find the key frames despite doing exactly what you show here

[@CorpseCircus]

yup it fails to locate things despite being label correct. it says "236.png" can not be found. i look in the folder, its there, all paths are right. is this software broken now?

[@YungVern]

Wait I can use this to automatically color my animations

[@ccuny1]

That is fantastic. I'll try to find out from your web site what your plans are (commercial dev?). Et merci pour la phrase en français.

[@steem_punk]

What if I don’t have after effects

[@Your_Degenerate]

So the initial video you claim we must have is just reference for what frame your keyframes should be painted on. We could do without it and simply make the key frames and give them plenty of space for timing that can be tweaked in a video editor. This does seem to be a noticeable step up from the tweening in MXFlash back in the day.

[@done.8373]

Dear Zeus....amazing.

[@producedproductions]

Amazing software. Thank you for this!

[@5tone_10]

clear tutorial, thank you. very clear.

[@gentrydavidson]

Does EbSynth process pixels outside of the mask area? Let's say I wanted to paint a patch but on a 4K plate.

[@jelenapjevic531]

I had an error repeating at the end (my files were png), because After Effect was exporting sequences named 1_0001 and as soon as I deleted the prefix "1_" and named it 0001 (in Ebsynth app, not in a folder) it worked fine for me, maybe this will help someone

[@MangaGamified]

Hi! I followed the tutorial with the sample project that comes with the software, after a while, both synth made 2 folders with the same number of images, but the synth folder results look a bit different, so I was wondering what to do next or how to combine them?

[@Native_Creation]

@@MangaGamified blend in a video editor, DaVinci is a free NLE

[@koibito77]

holy. Thank you for saying something!! I've been screwing around with it for 2 days trying to figure out the problem!