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Rife-App 3.35

Sucessor of Dain-App. Interpolate videos using AI · By GRisk

RIFE-App or Flowframes?

A topic by hced created Dec 11, 2021 Views: 2,479 Replies: 8
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Before spending money on any of these, I’d like some advice. I have a hard time spotting the differences between RIFE-App and Flowframes. Which one to use? Of course, this might be a delicate question for any of the developers to answer as there’s an inherent aspect of being partial (devs: by all means, feel free to share some honest, partial thoughts here, I don’t mind). If anything, perhaps at least users who tried both could chime in with their thoughts and experiences?

For all I know, the comment section on Flowframes seems to include some complaints about dodgy functionality. I don’t know if those are related to presumably older, delayed versions released on Itch in contrast to newer versions you’d get if supporting their Patreon, which seems to be their choice of revenue stream. How is stableness and functionality in RIFE-App in comparison?

Personally, I chose RIFE-App because:

  • When I used Flowframes a few months ago to interpolate high resolution video (4k to 8k, especially VR), it required a MASSIVE amount of disk space (not RAM or VRAM, hard disk). Like hundreds of gigabytes. RIFE-App doesn't have this problem.
  • RIFE-App's profits are shared with the creator of the RIFE algorithm.
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I really can't give my opinion since it would be biased, plus I really don't use other software for interpolation so I can't compare, but feel free to discuss it.

I can just say that right now Rife-APP don't use any more of Rife code. It use a algorithm made by myself, trained from scratch, so it should generate interpolations different from any other software.

Any idea if flowframes works on 5.7k files?  My rtx3090 couldn't handle it on rife-app 2.8.  I was able to use cain instead, not sure if flowframes or Topaz would be better.  

Did you try the 3.1 model in Rife-App v2.7?

I think that did actually did work, but I deleted it thinking 2.8 would work better.  Guess I shoulda saved it.  

You can still download previous versions from the download page.

they're both good pieces of software. from my experience I prefer rife app as its better at deduping and filling frames with interpolated ones, which is useful for animations. on the other hand this can cause a lot of artifacts so you might not like the result. otherwise they're both similar in features. flowframes' dev seems to be more aggressive at adding new features like models or other experimental algorithms. just depends on what you're looking for.

Interesting - so they are pretty divergent at this point.  I didn't renew the rife-app patreon last month so I don't have access to older versions, maybe I'll try flowframes as I'm doing real-life not animations.