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Installing Smoothie

Dependencies

  • FFmpeg, must be present in PATH, see how to install it here
    • Smoothie also makes use of ffprobe and ffplay, which should be included with your install
  • Video files to use it with (1)
  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

Plugins:

Scripts:

  • adjust: For color grading, I don't know who made it
  • filldrops: For frame deduplication, I don't know who made this one either
  • havsfunc: Used to change fps and interpolate, maintained here

This tutorial covers the rest of the installation instructions

Manual installation

Smoothie comes in a portable zip file(1), download the latest version here.

  1. 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 with add a space and --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

  1. RIFE models distributed as ZIPs containing folders named by model version,
  2. Extract the zip to a new folder named rife models in your smoothie-rs folder
  3. 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 download a pack of them here (~400MB):

If you'd like a larger collection (folder url):

todo, cargo should be able to compile it

for arch nerds see the dependencies of https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/teres