As of November 2024, Flowframes (abandoned project) has been replace with the much more powerful Topaz Video AI. You’ll need Xangle Camera Server version 24.11.20 (at minimum) to use this new module.

How to use?

  1. Download a trial from https://www.topazlabs.com/topaz-video-ai - We made all of our tests on version 5.3. Be careful if you’re using version 5.5 as users reported multiple issues with this one

  2. Install Topaz Video AI at the default location

  3. Take one reference shot (calibrated)

  4. Drop the reference dataset to Topaz Video AI using the default file names (0001.jpg, 0002.jpg, etc)

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  5. Feed the dataset to Topaz Video AI using the default file names (0001.jpg, 0002.jpg, etc)

  6. From the Adjustements panel, set your Frame Interpolation (4x for example)

  7. Set the Codec settings to

  8. Click on Process / show export command, and copy the command. It should look like this:

    ffmpeg "-hide_banner" "-i" "C:/files/251114-225703.mp4" "-sws_flags" "spline+accurate_rnd+full_chroma_int" "-filter_complex" "scale=w=1366:h=1822,setsar=1,tvai_fi=model=apo-8:slowmo=4:rdt=0.01:device=0:vram=1:instances=1" "-pix_fmt" "rgb24" "-q:v" "2" "-start_number" "0" "-movflags" "frag_keyframe+empty_moov+delay_moov+use_metadata_tags+write_colr" "-bf" "0" "-metadata" "videoai=Slowmo 400% using apo-8 replacing duplicate frames" "C:/files/251114-225703_apo8/%06d.jpg"

  9. Paste this string into Xangle under Dashboard / Output Settings / Topaz ffmpeg command

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  1. To make the interpolation go faster, select a subrange of cameras to interpolate

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