VanityFilter — Skin smoothing for video that knows where skin ends

See it work

Real footage. Real output. Drag the line.

A frame from our own shoot, straight through VanityFilter — two faces detected, both smoothed in one pass. The beanie, caps, sunglasses, hair, and shirt graphics? Untouched, exactly as the mask promised.

Original video frame: two people in hats and sunglasses, unretouched

The same frame after VanityFilter: skin smoothed, everything else untouched

Before After

Strength 0.80 · Texture repair 0.55 · Radius 13 px · Detail restore 0.40

52% of high-frequency skin texture removed inside the mask — measured on this exact frame. Two people, one pass, zero manual roto.

Before After

Preset · Standard — Strength 0.60 · Radius 9 px · Detail restore 0.50

15% texture reduction — the everyday default.

Precision masking

The mask stops where skin stops.

Person segmentation separates skin from everything touching it, per person, per frame. All of this stays exactly as you shot it:

EyesBrowsLipsHair Hats & beaniesSunglassesJewelry Shirt graphicsBackground

What it does

Beauty-artist results, batch-render effort.

Every face in the frame

Detects up to five people at once. A dedicated fallback detector catches turned and profile heads that face trackers normally lose.

Masks that know skin

Per-person segmentation keeps smoothing off hair, caps, glasses, and collars — no halos on wardrobe, no smeared logos.

Neck and forehead included

Coverage follows the jawline down and the hairline up, so faces never float on untouched necks. Both are sliders, not guesses.

Texture repair

Clears blotches, pores, and compression noise. Detail restore adds fine texture back so skin stays skin — never wax.

Add a healthy glow New

The Brighten control lifts skin lightness with a gamma curve — brighter midtones, no blown highlights, no orange cast. Independent of smoothing, so you can warm up a face without softening a single pore.

Inspect at 400%

Zoom, pan, mask overlays, and per-region outlines on any preview frame. See exactly what will change before you export.

Built for the edit

GPU H.264 or ProRes 422 HQ with original audio. Optional grayscale mask matte and a settings sidecar for your NLE.

Save your look New

Dial in a look once, then save it to User 1 or User 2. Your presets stick around after restarts and load straight from the command line — so a whole channel gets the same treatment with one flag.

Why creators run it

Look like yourself. On a good day.

Modern cameras are honest to a fault — 4K sensors and ring lights surface every pore, blotch, and rough night. Stills photographers solved this decades ago with frequency separation; video kept solving it with expensive plugins and hours of manual roto. VanityFilter automates the same retouching discipline on every frame: every face found, masked, and naturally smoothed in one pass. You still look like you. Your audience just meets you on a good day, every day.

Polish the final cut

Drop the finished export in, pick a preset, upload the result. The fastest path — no plugins, no timeline surgery, original audio untouched. Most videos need nothing more.

Prep clips for the edit

Smooth footage before it hits the timeline. Export ProRes 422 HQ for grading, or add the grayscale mask matte and keep full creative control inside Premiere Pro or Resolve.

Automate the backlog

The included command-line tool batches whole folders with the exact settings from your preview. Point it at a season of episodes before bed; wake up to a retouched catalog.

And the learning curve is a slider: five presets cover most footage, the preview re-renders live as you drag, and the ten fine-tuning controls are there when you care — not homework before you start.

How it works

Four steps from raw to retouched.

Open

Drop in one clip or a whole batch. MP4, MOV, AVI, and MKV.

Preview

Frames are sampled across the timeline, with a live face count on each.

Tune

Five presets and eleven sliders, re-rendered live — then save your own.

Export

The preview pipeline is the export pipeline — what you saw is what you get.

Under the hood

Three neural networks and a retoucher’s playbook.

VanityFilter isn’t a blur filter with good marketing. It runs a computer-vision pipeline on every frame — the kind of stack that used to need a cloud service — entirely on your machine.

It sees every face

A 478-point face mesh maps each person’s features, up to five per frame. A second, independent detector catches turned and profile heads that mesh trackers lose — so smoothing doesn’t pop in and out when someone looks at their co-host mid-sentence.

It knows what skin is

A person-segmentation network classifies every pixel — skin, hair, clothing, background — so each mask follows the real jawline, hairline, and neckline instead of guessing with boxes. Eyes, brows, and lips are carved out as protected zones, and masks are stabilized across frames so they never flicker.

It retouches like a pro

The smoothing engine pairs edge-preserving filtering with frequency separation — the technique behind magazine retouching — to clear blotches and compression noise at one frequency while Detail Restore re-adds genuine pore-level texture at another. Brightening runs in LAB color, lifting only the lightness channel with a gamma curve — so skin gains a glow while its hue stays exactly as shot. That’s why skin stays skin instead of turning to wax.

It renders what you previewed

The preview and the export run the identical pipeline — same masks, same math — so there are no surprises after a long render. H.264 encodes on your NVIDIA GPU when you have one; ProRes 422 HQ and untouched original audio come standard.

Specs

Runs on the machine you already have.

VanityFilter is a fully self-contained desktop app: every AI model, codec, and dependency ships inside the installer. No Python, no plugin frameworks, no codec packs, no account — it installs on a clean Windows 10 or 11 machine and just runs, completely offline. An NVIDIA GPU roughly doubles H.264 export speed, but AMD and Intel systems are fully supported on the CPU path. If your camera writes MP4, MOV, AVI, or MKV, it’s welcome here — phones, mirrorless, action cams, and screen recorders included.

OS: Windows 10 / 11 (64-bit)
GPU: Optional — NVIDIA roughly doubles H.264 export speed
Input: MP4 · MOV · AVI · MKV
Output: H.264 MP4 · ProRes 422 HQ MOV
Faces per frame: Up to 5, profiles included
Audio: Preserved from the source
Disk: ~800 MB, everything bundled
Dependencies: None — models and codecs included
Internet: Not required — fully offline
License: Offline key · 1 user · 2 machines

Get VanityFilter

One-time license. No subscription.

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VanityFilter for Windows

$49 $24^.50

One-time payment. Yours for good.

Desktop app + command-line tool
License for 1 user on 2 machines
License key delivered by email
Works fully offline
User manual included

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FAQ

Questions, answered plainly.

Is my footage uploaded anywhere?

No. Processing runs entirely on your machine, and the license check is offline too. Your video never leaves your computer.

Do I need an NVIDIA card?

No — VanityFilter runs on any modern 64-bit PC. If you have an NVIDIA GPU, H.264 exports encode on it automatically for roughly double the speed.

How many people can it handle?

Up to five faces per frame, each with its own independent mask — including heads turned to profile, which most face tools lose.

Can I use the mask in Premiere or Resolve?

Yes. Enable mask export and you get a grayscale matte video ready to use as a track matte, plus a JSON sidecar recording the exact settings of the render.

Will it run on my PC?

If it’s a 64-bit Windows 10 or 11 machine, yes. Everything ships in the installer — no Python, plugins, or codec packs — and an NVIDIA GPU is a speed boost, not a requirement.

Do I need to be a video pro?

No. Pick one of five presets and drag the Strength slider — the preview updates live. The eleven fine-tuning sliders are there when you want them, not homework before you start.

Can I save my own settings?

Yes. Once you dial in a look you like, save it to User 1 or User 2. Your presets survive restarts and load from the command line too, so you can apply the same treatment across a whole batch of clips.

What are the honest limits?

Variable-frame-rate phone footage exports as constant frame rate. Very small or heavily covered faces (hands over the face) are skipped for those frames, and the mask fades out smoothly rather than flickering.