{"id":14413,"date":"2020-08-14T18:17:33","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T18:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/?p=14413"},"modified":"2020-08-14T18:17:33","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T18:17:33","slug":"release-ebsynth-moves-to-beta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/2020\/08\/14\/release-ebsynth-moves-to-beta\/","title":{"rendered":"Release: EBSynth moves to beta"},"content":{"rendered":"

EBSynth has moved into beta<\/a>. 10x faster, and batch auto re-naming of files when you drag-and-drop. Still free. <\/p>\n

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It’s style transfer for video frames. You first extract a still keyframe from a video, and give it a nice manual artistic paintover. Then you use the resulting painting as a style-source in EBSynth for processing all the other frames. Once done, the whole video clip should have taken on the same painterly style.<\/p>\n

Obviously you have to work ‘per sequence’ of the video. For instance, you can’t just take a frame out of an exploding tropical volcano scene, overpaint it, and then also expect the same painted frame to work on the next scene… which may show James Bond in a speedboat racing over the sea.<\/p>\n

Thus the way EBSynth works is a bit different than just running an entire video through an automated paint-emulation filter. One of the advantages may be, judging from the test footage, that the resulting ‘art emulated’ video is less flickery, depending on how wild your paintover was. <\/p>\n

With a bit of careful work it seems it can also be used to remove or add wrinkles, and thus change age. It’s still at the “interesting tech-demos” and “light-show hippies getting freaky with footage of Terence McKenna” stage, but it’s one of several free and relatively easy style-transfer options worth keeping an eye on. Though it looks like we’re still a long way from “grab a Jack Kirby comics frame, apply the style to my basic lineart”.<\/p>\n

There’s an official tutorial here<\/a> (starts at 4:54, once the introductory guff is out the way).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

EBSynth has moved into beta. 10x faster, and batch auto re-naming of files when you drag-and-drop. Still free. It’s style transfer for video frames. You first extract a still keyframe from a video, and give it a nice manual artistic paintover. Then you use the resulting painting as a style-source in EBSynth for processing all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,13,9,22,4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automation","category-companion-software","category-freebies","category-natural-media-emulation","category-spotted-in-the-news","category-the-animation-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}