I think I'm about 2 months into using this program now, with zero successful faceswaps to show for it - I'm really hoping a little advice can help solve my major problem, which seems to be what I lovingly refer to as 'complete potato faces' during training eg:
Initially I thought the issue was the extraction / mask capture so I kept trying different settings and variations, then it was clear that the automatic capturing of the facial area was radically off quite often, so there's weeks wasted training there with bad masks. So I spent weeks after that editing mask captures, thinking that would fix it... which is when it became clear, maybe the videos I was trying to use were the issue - too dark, frequent movement, poor angles...
So for the last few weeks I have instead been editing all the source videos to only include frames that faceswap can easily automatically create a mask for, if faceswap struggles to get any part of the video, I edit it down, and re-enter the source - so rather than edit via faceswap, I'm editing the source to make faceswaps job, theoretically, easy.
Still, in training I seem to be getting a good chunk of potato faces - even though every mask / face captured during the extraction process was made perfectly by faceswap with zero need for manual mask editing on my part.
I thought maybe the issue was the Dfaker trainer. I went through the forums and Realface seemed to be getting a good review so I tried that, but my system can't apparently handle realface and anything else, not even a web browser, being open at the same time. when I try realface won't start at all or crashes part way through training when I try and do work on anything else. So now I'm trying Unbalanced as my trainer, but still the potatoes persist - for instance look at this preview frame, why is this trying to paste a profile shot, over the top of a frontal video:
Any advice on settings /trainer type etc that I should be using I would be incredibly grateful for. I am using videos that are high quality and both the source and the swap video are almost exclusively edited down to only full frontal faces.