Whomever Called it "Comfy"UI was High as a Kite

[Nyghtfall3D]

I'm trying to learn it for about the sixth time as I experiment with LTX 2.3, and it's still anything but comfy. My brain cannot process anything node-based. It's why I finally gave up on ever mastering Blender, despite repeated, pre-AI attempts to learn it as well.

Last night, I learned they've created "templates" for whatever model you want to work with. They're designed to let beginners like me start rendering anything instantly once you've downloaded the necessary bits and pieces (modes, text encoders, loras, etc.):

LTX 2.3 Template with one of my renders loaded



But, if you "pop the hood" to make any tweaks to the underlying nodes, the true nature of Comfy's overwhelmingly confusing workflows is revealed:

LTX 2.3 Node Graph



Incidentally, LTX has yet to come even remotely close to producing a video with the type of performance I want.

 

[MCDesigns]

Been there, done that, got the tshirt. LOL I have tried Comfy 4 times already and each time it just reaffirms by hatred for anything node based

 

[Nyghtfall3D]

Fun fact: Iray's underlying node structure is even more complex, but all Daz users ever have to see and use is the "template" Daz3D calls the Surface pane.

 

[MCDesigns]

Fun fact: Iray's underlying node structure is even more complex, but all Daz users ever have to see and use is the "template" Daz3D calls the Surface pane.

makes sense since it took me almost 10 times of trying DS for it to finally "click"

 

[TailsWin]

It's a programmer's idea of an artistic workflow. It's kinda neat to see how the different components work together, and if you're aligned to that kind of thinking, I'm sure it's super powerful, but otherwise super confusing. But you can mostly ignore everything and just type in your prompt and settings in that one window.

Or, koboldcpp supports video gen now, maybe try that first.

 

[Otto Von Herunterhängen]

You have become comfortably numb

 

[Nyghtfall3D]

But you can mostly ignore everything and just type in your prompt and settings in that one window.

That would be nice, but while experimenting, I also learned that one of the "under-the-hood" nodes is supposed to enhance whatever text prompt you type into the template. Unless you known to open the Node Grid and disable that particular node, LTX might completely mangle the intent behind your prompt while attempting to enhance it, as I discovered with one of my test renders.

Unfortunately, even after disabling that auto-enhance node, LTX still can't deliver for me... and I may have learned why, as experienced users agree Seedance is comparably better than LTX in some respects (link should start at timestamp I marked):

Here's a chart comparing LTX 2.3 with Seedance 2.

I unequivocally fit in the first bullet point about which one to choose, and best suits my needs:

 

[TailsWin]

That would be nice, but while experimenting, I also learned that one of the "under-the-hood" nodes is supposed to enhance whatever text prompt you type into the template. Unless you known to open the Node Grid and disable that particular node, LTX might completely mangle the intent behind your prompt while attempting to enhance it, as I discovered with one of my test renders.

That depends on the current configuration, which depends on the project you have loaded. With images, you can just drag and drop an image into the UI and it'll load up all the settings from the image. Not sure about videos, but you can also save and load presets as jsons. So you can find a simple workflow that doesn't even have that node, or you can delete that node and save the preset.

Where did you get that template from?

But yea like I said, try koboldcpp, that's one executable with pretty simple UI. I've not tried it on videos tho.

 

[Nyghtfall3D]

Where did you get that template from?

I didn't look to see where Comfy got it from, and have since removed Comfy, but it's one of the templates that appears when you click the Templates menu in Comfy.