Rephrase - AI-powered Dubbing Tool for Videos to Animations

 Playing around with this article is extremely enjoyable. You won't need any digital sketching expertise or to spend hours stylizing your film frame by frame; instead, we'll combine two potent AI programs to transform real-world videos into anime or cartoon style. So let's get started.

1. Cartoonization Using the Cloud
2. Ebsynth video editing for style
3. Verdict
4. Image Styling Using a Prequel App
5. Ebsynth
6. Updated Animation
7. Keyframe of Reference
8. Leaving an Image Sequence
9. Frames with Style in a Video

An Introduction to Cartoonization Using the Cloud

That was created with a similar objective in mind and is designed to operate on both images and video files. There is now only one style available, and I still like the ones I can purchase on Prequel. When it comes to footage, you're constrained to 30 megabytes for the file size, and when I tried it with different clips, it didn't even work in many cases, scaling my image down to half its original size.

Therefore, if you are aware of any other tools that function well with movies, please let me know and I'll be happy to test them out.

Ebsynth video editing for style

Now let us start by launching Ebsynth. Click here to select our standard keyframe, then select "access next" to proceed with the video input. Let's select the very first frame by navigating to the folder containing our original frames.

As you can see, Ebsynth has noted the final frame to be stylized as well as the keyframe number. Because our keyframe and first frame are identical, this stop field is left empty. We no longer need to worry about it because Ebsynth has also prepared a new route where the new stylized frames will be saved.

Let's change the synthesis detail to high and switch to advanced. Observe that you can include extra portions here as well. If you begin the process and this error window displays, don't worry. All you have to do is open the customized keyframe in Adobe, select Image Size, and note that the image height is listed as 1079 even though the 1920 x 1080 resolution of our original frame is what we want. There is obviously a problem with prequel export here. Simply update this to your video's original height, and then click OK. Then, save the image with the highest quality options; everything should now go smoothly and without any issues.

Depending on your hardware and the video input, the process of stylizing each individual frame should take a few minutes.

Verdict

However, I genuinely believe that the outcome we receive from this method is pretty great and I can see it being used in many other inventive ways going forward, especially considering how much time and work this kind of information used to require before. 

To be clear, this approach struggles when there is a lot of movement or when there are new things added to the scene. The good news is that this technology is constantly evolving and will become faster and simpler over time, especially with subsequent updates and the creation of newer and more potent AI resources. In those situations, it might be helpful to use extra added keyframes and spend a little more time merging the outputs.

Image Styling Using a Prequel App

Although I've tried other computer-based solutions like Photoshop's neural filters, I couldn't find any styles that are as good as those that Prequel has, so I'm switching over to my smartphone to take advantage of a really cool photo editing app called Prequel that has a variety of filters and styles that can be used to transform images. 

Let's launch the app now. You can choose from all these other filters by tapping on the add button here at the bottom, but the only ones I'm interested in right now are the AI filters. There's a cartoon filter that I think looks good, but I actually prefer the one called Arcane because it has a more anime-like vibe. When I first saw it, I was quite excited and knew that this was the one I wanted to use in videos. Let's get rid of the dust particles because I don't really need them here.

I'll immediately quickly tweak the contrast, sharpness, and contrast. When finished, click next to save the picture. By doing so, the exported image will return to your computer. I'll make a new folder and put it next to the one with my initial frames. This one we'll name keyframes. Then insert the freshly stylized image. Rename it to the frame's actual title.

Ebsynth

Ebsynth is the program you'll need, and it's completely free. It was designed primarily to turn video footage into stylized popular paintings, however, it's also frequently used to transform real-world films into various genres. Even for digital de-aging, I've used it before, and I have a whole different film on that topic for reference.

To apply the required style, Ebsynth needs at least one stylized keyframe as a reference in addition to the individual frames of the original video in conventional picture file format. Usually, the style reference keyframe is digitally painted on top of the original keyframe, but this will change.

Updated Animation

Let's look at the picture. The results already appear to be really cool. This is entirely optional, but I'd like to run the animated film through footage to enhance AI to remove certain artifacts while also enhancing its quality with default parameters and up to 4K. I think that sounds really excellent.

Therefore, let's use that and let video enhancement work its magic. I think this step will make the animation look a lot smoother and cartoonier. Despite being little, it has a big impact on many people's perceptions.

Keyframe of Reference

The next step is to decide which frame or frames to stylize. As a general rule, choose a frame where the primary subjects are distinct and visible, and choose additional frames if the viewpoint clearly shifts or when new elements enter the frame. In my clip, there isn't much of it. Let's use the first one since it contains the majority of the elements in my scenario. You're going to copy the frames to your smartphone after you've chosen them. The file name should be written down because we'll need it later.

Leaving an Image Sequence

Using yet another AI tool, you may create some truly cool styles, such Let's first turn our video into an image sequence. For this, I'm going to use Adobe Media Encoder, but you could use just about any editing program. To maintain organization, switch the output format to jpeg and select an export destination. Let's construct another folder inside the new project folder that I'll create.

This one I'm going to title "initial frames." To begin exporting the individual frames, enter and push save. As you can see, each frame is identified by a number, in my case one that ranges from 1000 to 1236. This is crucial so that Ebsynth can eventually recognize the photos as a sequence.

Frames with Style in a Video

Finally, the procedure ought now to go off without a hitch. Depending on your hardware and the video input, the process of stylizing each individual frame should take a few minutes. Once the additional frames have been exported, we can go ahead and reassemble them to create a video.

For that, I'll be utilizing Adobe Premiere. Select Import with a right-click here. Locate the output folder, then pick the first file. Click the open button after selecting the image sequence checkbox. The next step is to alter the film by setting the frame rate to that of the original video by right-clicking the imported sequence and choosing Modify.

To build a new sequence, drag and drop the video here next. If you would like, you can also do an audio restoration at this point from your original clip. If not, select export, pick a file name, and, if necessary, modify your export options. And then click export to finish.

Therefore, if you are aware of any additional tools that function well with movies, please let me know and I'll be happy to test anything at all.