ComfyUI Video Helper Suite Documentation

Overview

The ComfyUI Video Helper Suite is a collection of custom nodes for ComfyUI focused on enhancing video workflows. The suite provides a comprehensive set of tools for handling video, audio, and image sequences within ComfyUI, enabling advanced processing and manipulation techniques.

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Purpose
• Node Offerings
• Special Features
• Benefits in ComfyUI Workflows

Installation

To integrate ComfyUI Video Helper Suite into your ComfyUI environment, follow these steps:

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/Kosinkadink/ComfyUI-VideoHelperSuite.git
   

2. Follow any additional installation instructions provided in the repository's README file.

Purpose

The primary purpose of this repository is to provide a suite of custom nodes for video processing within ComfyUI. These nodes facilitate tasks like loading and combining video files, handling image sequences, managing audio, and more. The suite aims to streamline video operations and enhance the functionality of ComfyUI, especially for workflows involving complex video manipulations and animated content.

Node Offerings

The Video Helper Suite consists of various nodes, including but not limited to:

I/O Nodes

• Load Video
• Load Image Sequence
• Video Combine
• Load Audio

Latent/Image Nodes

• Split Batch (Latents and Images)
• Merge Batch (Latents and Images)
• Select Every Nth (Latents and Images)
• Get Count (Latents and Images)
• Duplicate Batch (Latents and Images)

Special Features

• Advanced Previews: Nodes like Load Video and Load Image Sequence offer advanced animated previews when the feature is enabled. These previews reflect current node settings and can significantly aid in identifying the exact segment of interest.
• Customizable Video Formats: Users familiar with ffmpeg can add new output types by creating JSON files. Advanced settings allow for specifying codecs, pixel formats, and quality parameters.
• Batch Management: Offers tools for splitting, merging, duplicating, and selecting from batches, enhancing the control over video frames and latent spaces within workflows.
• Audio Handling: Direct support for loading standalone audio files and optionally combining them with video outputs.

Benefits in ComfyUI Workflows

ComfyUI Video Helper Suite significantly enriches the capabilities of ComfyUI environments, especially for workflows requiring sophisticated video editing and manipulation. Its nodes streamline processes like converting videos to image sequences, managing and editing those sequences, and recombining them into finished video products. By providing fine control over frame rates, image selection, and batch handling, users can achieve precise adjustments and customizations. This suite is particularly beneficial for projects involving animated content, allowing for smooth integration with tools like AnimateDiff and optimizing media outputs for both quality and compatibility.