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4/26/2025 4:40:20 PM EDT
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Her bangs are playing havoc with my workflow.  The software I use can't deal with it, sadly.
4/26/2025 4:44:11 PM EDT
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All this activity is giving me FOMO. I probably won’t get my RMAd power supply for another 2 weeks. What are you guys using to convert .mp4 to .gif?
4/26/2025 5:48:17 PM EDT
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I’m just using gify app on my iPhone
4/26/2025 6:26:38 PM EDT
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https://www.freeconvert.com/convert/mp4-to-gif/download

......and then hosted here




4/26/2025 7:19:49 PM EDT
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Testing a less-compressed version-



28k go home

It cannot be overstated just how badly the conversion process to a board-friendly format (gif) degrades the quality.  Honestly looks 10x better in its original mp4 form, and the file size is just a fraction of a gif.
4/27/2025 2:29:42 AM EDT
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I keep getting this:  Warning: The number of running tasks is too large, the estimate waiting time is 638 s.
4/27/2025 7:13:59 PM EDT
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@eurotrash

I asked my son about video cards, and he replaced my GTX 970 with an RTX 2060 Super that he had, then did driver updates on it.

I downloaded Framepack and Python, and followed instructions the best I could, but I can't figure out how to open the program.
4/27/2025 7:19:04 PM EDT
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I asked my son about video cards, and he replaced my GTX 970 with an RTX 2060 Super that he had, then did driver updates on it.

I downloaded Framepack and Python, and followed instructions the best I could, but I can't figure out how to open the program.
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It says you need a Nvidia GPU in RTX 30XX, 40XX, 50XX series that supports fp16 and bf16.
4/27/2025 7:30:29 PM EDT
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I figured it would at least open, even if it can't create anything. It says to click run.bat to run, but that just gives me a black box.

I'm also getting flickering boxes now, when my cursor goes over a link. It looks like that same black box, but I can't be sure because it flickers so fast. I've restarted a couple times, but it keeps doing the same thing.
4/27/2025 7:35:28 PM EDT
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It says you need a Nvidia GPU in RTX 30XX, 40XX, 50XX series that supports fp16 and bf16.
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It says 20 series is untested. I don’t see any reason a 2060 Super wouldn’t work.

@67Firebird, did you extract the downloaded folder, run “update” followed by “run”?
4/27/2025 7:36:56 PM EDT
[#13]
I did update, and it said already updated. I did Run, and I get that black box.
4/27/2025 7:48:30 PM EDT
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Here's what my screen looks like now, especially when there's anything moving onscreen;


4/27/2025 8:08:01 PM EDT
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Would you take this pic of my late wife, and see if you can make her hair blow in the wind?

https://i.postimg.cc/mkqQGdwv/Linda-Pedro_AR15_001.jpg
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So wholesome.   God bless you.  Sorry for your loss
4/27/2025 9:31:47 PM EDT
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Would you take this pic of my late wife, and see if you can make her hair blow in the wind?

https://i.postimg.cc/mkqQGdwv/Linda-Pedro_AR15_001.jpg
So wholesome.   God bless you.  Sorry for your loss

Thank you.

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My son removed an adaptor, used a different HDMI cable, and changed the refresh rate on my monitor, and that stopped the flickering.

He went through a bunch of other stuff, and has the file extraction starting over to fix any possible glitches. Once that's done, I'll try again to see if it works.
4/27/2025 9:32:18 PM EDT
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4/27/2025 10:21:26 PM EDT
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Only so much you can do with a couple low-res sample pics, followed by a lossy gif conversion, but I think it otherwise is pretty good-



The original mp4 is much higher quality.  The jpeg below doesn't even do it justice.

4/27/2025 10:32:00 PM EDT
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Only so much you can do with a couple low-res sample pics, followed by a lossy gif conversion, but I think it otherwise is pretty good-

https://i.postimg.cc/PqMSzmV8/Reactor-26-APR25-00097.gif

The original mp4 much higher quality

https://i.postimg.cc/Y9sfb86j/vlcsnap-2025-04-27-22h23m12s833.jpg
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Is this on Framepack? What do you use to convert to gif?
4/27/2025 10:35:37 PM EDT
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Thank you.

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My son removed an adaptor, used a different HDMI cable, and changed the refresh rate on my monitor, and that stopped the flickering.

He went through a bunch of other stuff, and has the file extraction starting over to fix any possible glitches. Once that's done, I'll try again to see if it works.
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Would you take this pic of my late wife, and see if you can make her hair blow in the wind?

https://i.postimg.cc/mkqQGdwv/Linda-Pedro_AR15_001.jpg
So wholesome.   God bless you.  Sorry for your loss

Thank you.

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My son removed an adaptor, used a different HDMI cable, and changed the refresh rate on my monitor, and that stopped the flickering.

He went through a bunch of other stuff, and has the file extraction starting over to fix any possible glitches. Once that's done, I'll try again to see if it works.

Nice, I’m glad he is able to help you in-person. If you get the 2060 Super (8 GB) working, it should be a little faster than my 3060 (6 GB) laptop GPU.
4/27/2025 10:36:21 PM EDT
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I'm cheating.  Sry.

Wan2.1 i2v 14B using ComfyUI as the GUI.
4/27/2025 10:37:27 PM EDT
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I'm cheating.  Sry.

Wan2.1 i2v 14B using ComfyUI as the GUI.
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What do you use to convert to gif?
4/27/2025 10:39:56 PM EDT
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This thread is both wholesome and chilling.
4/27/2025 10:40:01 PM EDT
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this reminds me of the Harry Potter moving pictures
4/27/2025 10:40:03 PM EDT
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https://www.freeconvert.com/convert/mp4-to-gif

You can choose how much to resize the pic, how much compression, and also tweak the frame-rate to your liking.
4/28/2025 12:04:32 AM EDT
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Nice, I'm glad he is able to help you in-person. If you get the 2060 Super (8 GB) working, it should be a little faster than my 3060 (6 GB) laptop GPU.
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My son removed an adaptor, used a different HDMI cable, and changed the refresh rate on my monitor, and that stopped the flickering.

He went through a bunch of other stuff, and has the file extraction starting over to fix any possible glitches. Once that's done, I'll try again to see if it works.

Nice, I'm glad he is able to help you in-person. If you get the 2060 Super (8 GB) working, it should be a little faster than my 3060 (6 GB) laptop GPU.

Once it finished, a new tab popped up with Framepack. I tried a pic, and so far, it doesn't do anything at all.
4/28/2025 9:38:33 AM EDT
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Once it finished, a new tab popped up with Framepack. I tried a pic, and so far, it doesn't do anything at all.
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Does an error message display on the command prompt?
4/28/2025 10:38:32 AM EDT
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No, it just saves the jpg as a png. The thing that got us this far was my son did a clean install without the update.bat. If I run it now, it may fix it but it may break it again where it doesn't even open.
4/28/2025 10:49:13 AM EDT
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No, it just saves the jpg as a png. The thing that got us this far was my son did a clean install without the update.bat. If I run it now, it may fix it but it may break it again where it doesn't even open.
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You have to wait a while for it to load after clicking run.bat, even on a fast computer.
4/28/2025 11:04:18 AM EDT
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No, it just saves the jpg as a png. The thing that got us this far was my son did a clean install without the update.bat. If I run it now, it may fix it but it may break it again where it doesn't even open.
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Use Pinokio if you just want to play around without much headache.
4/28/2025 2:13:18 PM EDT
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You can download it?
4/28/2025 2:17:52 PM EDT
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I open run.bat, and after a bit it opens up in Firefox tab.



I select a pic, type in some prompts, and click Generate.



It goes for a minute or two, with the boxes on the right highlighted with orange edges, then that goes away and the Generate button is ready again. I go to check the folder, and it has saved the jpg as a png.
4/28/2025 3:59:42 PM EDT
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Downloaded this.  Giving it a try now.  I will not be able to visually share the results.  

Been chunking away for an hour, 3 or more 4 to go.
4/28/2025 5:11:43 PM EDT
[#34]
40 gig file downloaded.  Blank.  
4/28/2025 6:34:05 PM EDT
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I think I'm going to try the update.bat again, even though that's what broke it the first time.
4/28/2025 8:21:09 PM EDT
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trying to get it to work, not going well yet.  have used seaart.ai lately to create interesting stuff, would really like a local img2vid and vid2vid with a simple graphical interface... this stuff confuses me
4/28/2025 10:06:12 PM EDT
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My son made a copy, then I ran update.bat on that one. No change at all; it still just saves the JPG as a PNG.
4/28/2025 10:45:45 PM EDT
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trying to get it to work, not going well yet.  have used seaart.ai lately to create interesting stuff, would really like a local img2vid and vid2vid with a simple graphical interface... this stuff confuses me
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Two years ago, that simple graphical interface was Automatic1111, that was then succeeded (in a manner of speaking) with Forge, and others.

As the technology progressed, they just couldn't keep up.  

That leaves us with mainly ComfyUI as the current defacto standard for AI local generation.

Unfortunately,  it has an intimidating interface for new people.  But it works, and is continuously updated.

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Local generation of AI video and images can be very tedious and slow for those without a current computer.  I'm mainly going to consider that a computer with an Nvidia GPU of RTX 3090 or better.

It can be done with less, but slowwww.  (There *are* exceptions and caveats)

There might be work-arounds for AMD gpus, but I'm not familiar with them.

My current workflow uses 23GB of vram, with maximum usage of my available 64gb of "regular" ram.  About 31 minutes to generate a 4 or 5 second video.

It can be done with lesser equipment,  but time to generate and/or quality is going to suffer.

........

Hours of troubleshooting before, during and after installation or re-installation is pretty typical.

4/29/2025 4:11:11 AM EDT
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Folks, this isn't easy-mode, one click stuff. You're going to invest time and effort to achieve the results you want.

Go to Github and read the open-issues and discussions tabs. The questions you are asking, have all been answered there. After you get it up and running, read the documentation and learn how the code works.

Garbage in, garbage out... OR, you can do it right.
4/29/2025 4:35:32 AM EDT
[#40]
Well damn, I have something new to play with now.
4/29/2025 4:38:21 AM EDT
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I started using Comfy earlier this year from A1111. It took a few days to recreate my workflow and learn it all but now I’m very confident with it and experimenting with all the video models. Even got sageattention installed on windows 10. It’s worth taking the time.

There’s a framepack wrapper by Kijai that I was using yesterday.
4/29/2025 8:14:59 AM EDT
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Folks, this isn't easy-mode, one click stuff. You're going to invest time and effort to achieve the results you want.

Go to Github and read the open-issues and discussions tabs. The questions you are asking, have all been answered there. After you get it up and running, read the documentation and learn how the code works.

Garbage in, garbage out... OR, you can do it right.
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On my 3060 laptop and 3090 desktop, the installer worked as intended. I extracted the files, then clicked update.bat and run.bat and it worked. It’s when you use incompatible or untested hardware that the open issues tab becomes handy. In my case, I needed to add a line to run.bat to get the 5090 working.
4/30/2025 8:48:37 PM EDT
[#43]
I worked on this quite a bit today, but still failed. I tried with the original, plus a copy of the original, with zero improvements, then deleted all of it.

Next I downloaded one that's supposed to be made for my series of graphics card.

https://github.com/ilolio/FramePack-for-RTX20XX?tab=readme-ov-file

Then I downloaded 7-zip and Python again, which did nothing.

I downloaded Pinokio, then the Framepack from that site, and none of it works. I don't even have the update.bat or run.bat options anymore.

The next step will likely be to delete all of it again, and start looking for something that's more plug-n-play from the suggestions above.
4/30/2025 8:59:52 PM EDT
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It can be aggravating.

I would suggest watching a YouTube video discussing how to install the various programs, but they tend to be obsolete very quickly.  Sometimes within hours.

I would be very leery of using a "one-click install" from most any source.
4/30/2025 9:17:17 PM EDT
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I tried that, even trying to get past the heavy accents I don't know enough to follow much of what's said. Are any of the other programs more intuitive?
4/30/2025 10:13:03 PM EDT
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I tried that, even trying to get past the heavy accents I don't know enough to follow much of what's said. Are any of the other programs more intuitive?
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I was able to get the 1-click install to work on both my 3060 laptop and 3090 desktop. The 5090 needed a line added to the run.bat file. My advice, and its not great advice, is to go with a newer card and one with at least 12 GB vram.
4/30/2025 10:22:27 PM EDT
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The 5090 needed a line added to the run.bat file. My advice, and its not great advice, is to go with a newer card and one with at least 12 GB vram.
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I can't even figure out how to get a run.bat file to show again, so adding to one like you had to is way too far out of my realm of possibilities. Even if I bought a new card, I'm probably looking at not getting any closer to making it work.
4/30/2025 10:30:51 PM EDT
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Is this on Framepack? What do you use to convert to gif?
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Only so much you can do with a couple low-res sample pics, followed by a lossy gif conversion, but I think it otherwise is pretty good-

https://i.postimg.cc/PqMSzmV8/Reactor-26-APR25-00097.gif

The original mp4 much higher quality

https://i.postimg.cc/Y9sfb86j/vlcsnap-2025-04-27-22h23m12s833.jpg

Is this on Framepack? What do you use to convert to gif?

make an acct on giphy
5/2/2025 1:08:41 PM EDT
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Thanks to this thread I installed framepack and made my first 5 second vid. It was all pretty easy but it took a while because I am using an i7-12700h with 64GB RAM and RTX 3060 with 6GB VRAM. I was surprised at the quality of the output.
5/2/2025 1:35:17 PM EDT
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Thanks to this thread I installed framepack and made my first 5 second vid. It was all pretty easy but it took a while because I am using an i7-12700h with 64GB RAM and RTX 3060 with 6GB VRAM. I was surprised at the quality of the output.
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@CapedCrusader

Approximately how long was “a while”? I’ve got a similar setup.

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