LTX Desktop Beta has been released. It’s a free video generator and non-linear video editor, with a slick but simple GUI. Under the hood it’s powered by the new LTX 2.3 model. It’s the official LTX desktop software, open-source (Apache2.0) and fully local. No proprietary layers, full access to the models and their weights.
A simple interface, but with a powerful and cutting-edge AI video generation model underneath it. Can do ‘image to video’ as well as ‘prompt to video’, so the AI-haters don’t have to freak out about copyright. Just drop in your 3D render and watch it being restyled and/or animated. If you have the required VRAM of course. 32Gb is apparently optimum.
Expect long one-time downloads of the required multi-Gb models, once you have the LTX Desktop software installed.
It will need a powerful graphics-card to run it, of course, as well as masses of hard-drive space. 24Gb of VRAM on the graphics-card is usually thought of as needed for worth-having video generation, and 32Gb(!) is recommended here. Though note there’s also a mention of the option in LTX Desktop to use “an API key”, which suggests the software can also hook into a paid LTX cloud service. In that respect, those familiar with the ComfyUI node-based interface should also look at Comfy Cloud — which does not lock you into the LTX model only.