Missing Alignment Merge Job

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Missing Alignment Merge Job

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There is no longer an option to merge alignments. This is a fresh install. Am I missing something? Is this no longer necessary, is there a different way to do this? Thanks

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Re: Missing Alignment Merge Job

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See here:

https://github.com/deepfakes/faceswap/pull/1123

No longer required for training going forward.

If you are working from an older extracted faceset, then you will need to make sure the training alignments file is available for the faces you are training on so that the faceset gets auto-updated. If this is not possible, then you can use the alignments tool to re-extract the faces into the new format.

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Re: Missing Alignment Merge Job

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so how do you input different sets of faces and alignments for training?

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Re: Missing Alignment Merge Job

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Not sure I really understand the question.

Alignments files are no longer required for training. Once your faceset is updated, the alignment data is loaded from the png headers

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Re: Missing Alignment Merge Job

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sorry for the strangely worded question - i think i understand. Thanks for taking the time to reply!

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alignments merge function

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Hi ... where did the alignments merge function within the tools/alignments tab go?
Is there any replacement function?

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Re: alignments merge function

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katjagr wrote: Thu Mar 04, 2021 11:59 am

Hi ... where did the alignments merge function within the tools/alignments tab go?
Is there any replacement function?

Please search first. This is already answered (in this thread).

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Re: Missing Alignment Merge Job

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sorry - misread this - thanks a lot

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Re: Missing Alignment Merge Job

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torzdf wrote: Sat Feb 27, 2021 11:20 am

Not sure I really understand the question.

Alignments files are no longer required for training. Once your faceset is updated, the alignment data is loaded from the png headers

Hello, I got to your answer while trying to solve this problem.

I understand that the alignment info now is stored inside the pictures.

The problem is, the software still asks for an alignment file to train.

You can't leave "Alignments A" or "Alignments B" blank.

So, even though I have a folder with 2 different facesets, each with it's alignment info into the pics, I have to point to the alignment file of one of them (since now the .fsa's can't be merged), so I guess it will be only training with the faceset indicated in that alignment file.

Or the software uses the whole folder, no matter what the alignment file says?

Thanks.

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Re: Missing Alignment Merge Job

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Except, it doesn't force you to provide an alignments file. If it is, I would need to see the message.

The only times it will ask for/use an alignments file for training at the moment is to update an old face set, to put the alignments data into the headers.

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Re: Missing Alignment Merge Job

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Hmm... you are right.

The thing is, I generated 2 different sets for A and 1 set for B.

When I configured training, I merged the 2 A sets in one folder, pointed the software to folder A and folder B, selected the model folder, but left "alignments" blank.

Started training and it threw an error.

I then just added the alignment files and it worked. That's why I assumed you couln't train without those files.

When you answered I left the alignments sections blank again and this time it worked.

Not sure what was the problem the first time, since adding the alignments seemed to solve it. :shock:

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Re: Missing Alignment Merge Job

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Merge Alignment File?

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Hi,

If I had a lot of different videos of the same individual to extract, the Faceswap program creates a lot of alignment files per source. When cleaning it there will be an issue where the Faceswap program will crash due to the reasoning that not all the images are found

Is there any way to merge to alignment file? So I can just put all the extract into one folder and one alignment file?

Thanks

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Re: Merge Alignment File?

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Upon further search of the forums it turns out that alignment files are no longer needed but if alignment files are no longer needed, how are we to use the Multi-Faces, Frames without faces function a.k.a manual tool

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Re: Missing Alignment Merge Job

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They are still needed. They still hold all of the information re: faces for a given source video.

The file is just not needed for training any more.

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was the merge option removed?

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I don't see it under tools/alignment anymore

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Re: was the merge option removed?

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14XXX88 wrote: Thu Mar 25, 2021 12:47 pm

I don't see it under tools/alignment anymore

Answered in this thread

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Re: Missing Alignment Merge Job

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then explain this

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No alignments file found. Please provide an alignments file for your destination video (recommended) or enable on-the-fly conversion (not recommended).
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Re: Missing Alignment Merge Job

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That has nothing to do with merging alignments.

Merging alignments file was an old training process. You're trying to convert.

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Re: Missing Alignment Merge Job

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Are the changes reflected in the guide? viewtopic.php?t=27. This is confusing.

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