Installing Smoothie
Dependencies
- Video files to use it with (1)
- This may sound obviously dumb, but you can't imagine the amount of kids asking on Discord "can it blur my desktop" thinking it was a real-time filter.
VapourSynth dependencies
Note: These are already provided with the .ZIP for Windows users, created in VSBundler
Plugins:
- ffms2: Source plugin
- lsmash: Another source plugin
- vs-akarin: Used for frame blending
- mvtools: Used for flowblur
- svpflow: Used for interpolation
- RIFE NCNN Vulkan: Used for pre-interp
- fmtc: Format converter
- timecube: LUT
Scripts:
Automatic Installer
Click here to download the latest version of the smoothie intaller
It does the following:
- Downloads Smoothie and FFmpeg to %APPDATA%\Smoothie
- Installs Visual C++ Redistributables
- Makes a shortcut in the Start Menu and Send To
Manual installation
This tutorial covers the manual installation instructions of Smoothie and the RIFE models (there are no automatic RIFE model installers currently)
Smoothie comes in a portable zip file(1), download the latest version here.
- A portable program means it doesn't come with an installer, you just unzip and run it. Upsides is it's easy to uninstall (just delete the folder lol) but downsides is you gotta make shortcuts to it yourself
Extract the smoothie-rs
folder somewhere, then in it you can use launch.cmd
to launch it in it's GUI mode.
Making a Send To shortcut
Navigate to ...\smoothie-rs\bin
and get smoothie-rs.exe
's PATH by SHIFT+Right clicking it and "Copy Path"
In %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo
make a shortcut to --tui -i
If Smoothie is crashing on you, add the -v
argument (that'd be -v --tui -i
) after the smoothie-rs executable's path to enable verbose logging to see what's wrong
Installing RIFE models
- RIFE models distributed as ZIPs containing folders named by model version,
- Extract the zip to a new folder named
rife models
in your smoothie-rs folder - Use one by setting in the recipe
[pre-interp] model:
to the folder name- You can also shift right click the desired model folder in the Explorer ->
Copy as path
on the desired model, and paste it as a full path.
- You can also shift right click the desired model folder in the Explorer ->
You can download a pack of them here (~400MB):
If you'd like a larger collection (folder url):
Hqzkii maintains smoothie-rs-linux-git
in the AUR
todo, cargo should be able to compile it
for arch nerds see the dependencies of https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/teres
- you'll also need https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/vapoursynth-plugin-vsakarin-git for frame blending
- and https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/vapoursynth-plugin-rife-ncnn-vulkan-git for pre-interp
For non developers: there's no user friendly package for it yet.
It is theoretically possible to install VapourSynth with Homebrew and compile every plugins (spritzer's done it before) but there's no one maintaining these packages yet.
There's a few of them already present for you to get an idea if you wanna get started