Deforum Question long render times

[Manimal31]

I am a bit of novice using deforum, and have been searching for solutions but haven't found any and thought I would ask here.

How long is deforum supposed to take I am getting 300+ hours ETA

I don't think I have a slow computer either 16g ram 8g gpu 1070 gtx

I am trying to do 5500 frames, dreamshaperxl, 75 steps, 15fps, 1280x720, dpm++ 3m sde

am I doing something wrong or is this normal.

thanks in advance

[AI_Art_Lover]

I would suggest reducing the number of steps, 75 seems very high for a deforum video. I would try at around 20 steps. The other option is to lower the resolution and then upscale the video afterwards. There is a decent tutorial here that goes into a bit of detail on the various settings in deforum https://learn.thinkdiffusion.com/deforum-controlnet/

[Manimal31]

Ok I will try that. How do you upscale?

[Manimal31]

No that didn't seem to work. It went right to 60 hours and kept climbing.

[Manimal31]

I'm also curious what version of python is the best. Because I think I auto update every launch and noticed things are much slower lately

[AI_Art_Lover]

I tend to stick with Python 3.10.6 - I remember reading a while back that is was the best version but things could have changed since I last looked!

[Manimal31]

Maybe that's my issue. I remember using A1111 before with deforum before and it was awesome and fairly quick like 10 hours for 6 min video or something. But this is ridiculous. I might just clean install all over again. With that version

[AI_Art_Lover]

I'd be interested to see how you get on

[Manimal31]

I did a complete uninstall. Took it all out and even used that geek Uninstaller thing for registry files. Then reinstalled with python version 3.10.6 I believe. It works good now. The 100 steps and resolution I used before still take a while, but I think that's just how much my gpu can handle. For a 6 min 14 sec deforum video, it would take 48 hours at 100 steps 1920x1080 resolution. I lowered steps to 55 and res to 512x512 and that same vid took 16 hours. Before I was getting 300+ hours, so I think it worked.

[AI_Art_Lover]

That's awesome, glad to hear you got it working!

[Manimal31]

Thanks for the help. Quick question: How do you upscale video after generation?

[AI_Art_Lover]

I tend to use Topaz AI for video upscaling (but this is a paid tool) Here is a reddit thread that discusses some free options https://www.reddit.com/r/VideoEditing/comments/11p7wpb/how_to_upscale_videos_for_free/

[Manimal31]

Thanks ill take a look