MatteDesk 0.40

⬇ Download: MatteDesk-0.40-setup.exe (Windows 10/11, NVIDIA GPU)

Faster viewport, new look of the controls, and a plate fix.

• New: mask overlays, outlines, Alpha view and comp drawn on the GPU – smoother scrubbing on 4K
• New: app-styled sliders, checkboxes, selects and scrollbars
• Fixed: Open project no longer carries backlit / clear plate paths over from the previous shot
• Fixed: a backlit / clear plate of another resolution than the beauty is refused when opening a project
• Faster band point edits; a warning when an object in front has no core yet; "Report a problem" no longer freezes

Source code: this tag (GPL-3.0). Third-party models have their own licences – some are non-commercial, see THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.md.
Support (voluntary): https://ko-fi.com/fishfinger

MatteDesk 0.39

Two small fixes.

• Fixed: "Report a problem" → "Send" did nothing visible before the preview / consent – now it asks for a description, builds the preview by itself and outlines the consent box in red
• Final Touch: with the hard "mask 1+2" base (0 and 1 only) the palette explains that black / white / gamma change only semi-transparency and dims those sliders; erode, blur and motion blur act on the whole alpha

Source code: this tag (GPL-3.0).
Third-party models have their own licences – some are non-commercial, see THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.md.
Support (voluntary): https://ko-fi.com/fishfinger

MatteDesk 0.38

Fix for "No key in the work area".

• Fixed: "Compute all" of an object whose keys lie outside the work area (the work area is shared by all objects, e.g. set while working on a second object) was refused without saying why
• The dialog now lists the object's key frames and offers "Extend the range to F…–…" (to the nearest key), which recomputes right away
• An object without any key gets the hint "place SAM 3.1 points"

Source code: this tag (GPL-3.0).
Third-party models have their own licences – some are non-commercial, see THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.md.
Support (voluntary): https://ko-fi.com/fishfinger

MatteDesk 0.37

Fix for "Reload ComfyUI".

• Fixed: "Reload ComfyUI" on the lost-connection banner closes a hung ComfyUI again – in 0.36 it failed with "No module named 'psutil'"
• psutil is now bundled with the installer; a git / ZIP copy with an older environment uses the Windows taskkill instead
• A process that is not ComfyUI is still never closed
  Source code: this tag (GPL-3.0).
  Third-party models have their own licences – some are non-commercial, see THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.md.
  Support (voluntary): https://ko-fi.com/fishfinger

MatteDesk 0.36

Sapiens2 band proposal, a smarter and faster Doctor, delete model weights.

• New: "Propose band (Sapiens2)" – body parts set the object band (wide on hair, narrow on clothes, thin on skin); always shown under "👁 band preview", greyed out until the model is installed
• Doctor: ComfyUI Desktop folder, models folder and port can be changed (empty = detected automatically)
• Doctor: warns when a different ComfyUI (Desktop / portable / git) answers on the port
• Doctor opens in under a second (its slow checks run side by side and are prepared at start-up)
• Doctor: 🗑 deletes the weights of LTX-2.5, VideoMaMa, MatAnyone2, ViTMatte, Sapiens2, MiniMax-Remover, LaMa after listing the files and sizes; the stage that needs the model is locked
• BiRefNet_HR-matting / Lucida is now the required stage-5 edge engine; ViTMatte is optional
• ComfyUI lost connection: a banner with "Reload ComfyUI", live ComfyUI status in the footer
• Report a problem: a confirmation window after sending
• Update window: a source-ZIP copy gets a link to the new ZIP and the installer instead of "git pull"
  Source code: this tag (GPL-3.0).
  Third-party models have their own licences – some are non-commercial, see THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.md.
  Support (voluntary): https://ko-fi.com/fishfinger

MatteDesk 0.35

Final Touch, one edge band for every stage, faster previews.

• New stage 8 Final Touch: paint corrections over any computed alpha (add / remove / eraser, pen pressure), black / white / gamma / erode / blur and motion blur measured on the plate, export source "Final Touch"
• One edge band system in stages 3 MatAnyone2, 4 VideoMaMa, 5 ViTMatte / BiRefNet and 7 LTX-2.5: sliders size the band, band points (tracked by CoTracker3) shape it, inner / outer feathers, dashed preview lines
• Shared object band: one set of band points per object read by every stage with its own sliders; "detach" gives a stage its own band
• Stage 5 engine choice: ViTMatte or BiRefNet (commercial-friendly), preview of a few frames kept per engine
• Deflicker: one button with automatic settings from a measurement, 1024 px preview, no ghosts of moving objects, choose the EXR output folder
• Report a problem: anonymised report you see in full before sending
• Faster: stage 3 band lines 1.3 s -> 0.2 s per frame, stage 5 frame steps no longer unload ComfyUI models; the mask 1+2 is saved after stage 1
• Fixed: the object's eye in the Objects palette hides every mask overlay (stage previews too); arrow keys step frames even when a slider has focus; Alpha view is black / white
  Source code: this tag (GPL-3.0).
  Third-party models have their own licences – some are non-commercial, see THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.md.
  Support (voluntary): https://ko-fi.com/fishfinger

MatteDesk 0.32

⬇ Download: MatteDesk-0.32-setup.exe (Windows 10/11, NVIDIA GPU)

Video plates work.

• Fixed: an .mp4 / .mov plate no longer fails at "Proxy" (it is decoded once to a PNG sequence in the shot folder)
• New: file button next to every plate in the project wizard – pick a video or one frame of a sequence
• Clear plate, backlit and depth can be videos too
• The update window shows the release notes as plain text and scrolls

Source code: this tag (GPL-3.0).
Third-party models have their own licences – some are non-commercial, see THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.md.
Support (voluntary): https://ko-fi.com/fishfinger

MatteDesk 0.31

⬇ Download: MatteDesk-0.31-setup.exe (Windows 10/11, NVIDIA GPU)

Windows installer + the same edge sliders in every stage.

• New: Windows installer – own Python, shortcut, uninstall, no admin rights
• New: ComfyUI found automatically or ComfyUI portable downloaded for you
• New: update check at start and in About
• New: "Preview frames" in MatAnyone, VideoMaMa and ViTMatte
• New: the same edge sliders everywhere (band, inset, feather), instant band preview
• Fixed: "Cancel" stops MatAnyone at once (Doctor → update our nodes)
• Fixed: a plate from another shot no longer breaks the stages; more fixes in the CHANGELOG

Source code: this tag (GPL-3.0).
Third-party models have their own licences – some are non-commercial, see THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.md.
Support (voluntary): https://ko-fi.com/fishfinger