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lllyasviel/framepack

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TLDR

Desktop software that turns a still image and a text prompt into a video by generating frames one chunk at a time, using a fixed-memory technique that lets a 6 GB laptop GPU produce 60-second clips at 30 fps.

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    What it does
      Image to video
      Frame-by-frame generation
      Fixed memory usage
    Models
      FramePack base
      FramePack-F1
      FramePack-P1
    Tech stack
      Python PyTorch
      CUDA GPU
      Gradio web GUI
    Use cases
      Video from photo
      AI art creation
      Research experiments
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Things people build with this

USE CASE 1

Generate a short video from a still photo and a text description using a home RTX laptop GPU

USE CASE 2

Experiment with long video generation without running out of GPU memory thanks to fixed-size context compression

USE CASE 3

Use the Gradio web GUI to create and preview videos without writing any Python code

USE CASE 4

Research next-frame video diffusion with FramePack-F1 and FramePack-P1 model variants included in the repo

Tech stack

PythonPyTorchCUDAGradio

Getting it running

Difficulty · hard Time to first run · 1h+

Requires an Nvidia RTX 30/40/50 series GPU with at least 6 GB VRAM, CUDA-only with no CPU fallback.

In plain English

FramePack is the official implementation of a research project on video generation by neural networks, specifically, a technique called "Frame Context Packing and Drift Prevention in Next-Frame-Prediction Video Diffusion Models." In plain terms, it is software that turns a still image and a text prompt into a video, generating the video one chunk of frames at a time. The headline promise on the README is "video diffusion, but feels like image diffusion." The technical idea is that FramePack compresses the past frames it has already generated into a fixed-size context, so the work needed to predict the next frame stays the same no matter how long the video gets. That means a single GPU can keep generating frames for a minute-long clip without running out of memory, and the project ships as functional desktop software with its own sampling system and memory management. The repository also documents follow-up versions FramePack-F1 and the upcoming FramePack-P1, which adds "Planned Anti-Drifting" and "History Discretization" to keep long generations from drifting away from the prompt. Anyone curious about generating short videos from a still image and prompt is the audience, particularly people who do not have access to a data-center GPU, the README states a 6 GB Nvidia laptop GPU is enough to generate a 60-second video at 30 frames per second using a 13-billion-parameter model. The software runs on Linux or Windows with an RTX 30, 40, or 50 series card, offers a one-click Windows package, and on Linux installs through pip on Python 3.10 with PyTorch. It exposes a Gradio web GUI. The full README is longer than what was provided.

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Prompt 1
I have FramePack on a Windows PC with an RTX 4060. Walk me through generating a 30-second video from a portrait photo, including the best prompt format and sampler settings to avoid drift.
Prompt 2
Using FramePack on Linux with Python 3.10 and PyTorch, write a Python script that takes an image path and a text prompt as arguments and saves the generated video without using the Gradio UI.
Prompt 3
Explain the difference between the FramePack base model, FramePack-F1, and FramePack-P1. Which should I use for a 60-second clip with consistent character movement?
Prompt 4
My FramePack video drifts away from the original image after about 10 seconds. What model variant or setting should I try to keep the output closer to the source image?
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