VanityFilter is a Windows desktop app that smooths skin in recorded video. Adjust the treatment on your PC. Your footage stays offline.
Watch three real creator treatments in VanityFilter 3.0, with the exact settings shown beside moving before-and-after comparisons. See how Blemish Removal repairs spots before smoothing runs, and which supporting controls each face actually needs.
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Two same-frame comparisons, each with manually tuned treatments. Drag the divider and open the larger view.
Two faces in one studio frame, each masked on its own.
Restrained smoothing with detail preservation, small texture repair, shine and redness adjustments.
Strength .55 · Detail .65 · Repair .12 · Shine .15 · Redness .10 · Amount .80
One face, tight crop, where skin texture is easiest to judge.
A custom treatment. Drag the divider to inspect the change up close.
Compare frames from videos processed with VanityFilter 3.1.5.
The mask is the product. Per-person segmentation keeps the treatment on skin while eyes, brows, lips, hair, caps, collars, clothing, and the background remain outside it. Each detected face gets its own sampled skin color and protected feature zones.
An editor who has been burned by a beauty filter wants proof, not promises. Mask view renders the computed mask directly on the frame, so its boundary is right there on screen. Switch among Mask, Processed, Original, and Split on any sampled frame before you export. Tap any panel for the full-size view, or read the full interface tour.
Drop in one clip or a whole batch. MP4, MOV, AVI, and MKV.
Frames are sampled across the timeline, with a live face count on each.
Five presets and sixteen sliders, re-rendered live, with four saved user slots.
The preview pipeline is the export pipeline: what you saw is what you get.
What you get is footage where skin looks smoother and the person still looks like the person. VanityFilter corrects skin inside a per-person mask instead of blurring a face-shaped rectangle, so eyes, hair, clothing, and the set remain intact.
Smoothing stays on her skin: the microphone, the shelves, and the room behind her are left as shot.
Drop the finished export in, pick a preset, upload the result. The fastest path: no plugins or timeline surgery, with audio included in the export. Most videos need nothing more.
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.
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.
Five built-in presets cover most footage. Sixteen sliders handle the treatment and mask when a shot needs more, every change re-renders live, and four user slots keep repeatable looks ready for the next batch.
Save a session as a project file and pick it back up later. Adjust how much protection sits around lips, eyebrows and ears, and see which faces are selected for treatment before you export.
New in v3.0: more selective blemish repair, improved redness reduction and optional eyelid protection.
Watch the controls and the natural skin-smoothing result across matched original and processed frames.
Natural Skin Smoothing for News & Interview Videos 1:52Retouch the footage first, then edit clean plates. No masks to draw, no trackers to babysit, and zero beauty effect rendering on your timeline.
Card to drive as usual. Keep the untouched camera files as your originals.
One clip or a whole folder. It finds every face in frame (up to five, profiles included) and builds a per-person skin mask.
Set Strength, Texture repair, Detail restore, Shine removal and Redness on one clip, then reuse across the batch.
The retouch is baked into the source. ProRes for grading, H.264 for fast turnarounds.
Export the grayscale mask plus a settings sidecar and use it as a Track Matte in Premiere: VanityFilter does the per-person masking, you keep final say on the composite and grade.
Cut, grade and export normally. Playback stays snappy because there is no beauty effect on the timeline.
Free, but one mask and one track per shot... and trackers drift on profiles.
Automated, but a subscription... and it renders per clip on your timeline.
Auto, batchable, up to 5 faces, nothing rendering on the timeline.
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. Here’s the proof at point-blank range: an extreme close-up, one dialed-up pass. Watch what moves, and what doesn’t.
Custom : Strength 0.80 · Texture repair 0.30 · Brighten 0.15 · 38% of the frame masked as skin · 71% texture reduction
The segmentation mask found the skin; the exclusion zones carved out her eyes, brows and lips. These regions are excluded from treatment; video encoding can still change their pixels.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 (version 1809 or later) or Windows 11 machine and processes video locally. An NVIDIA GPU can accelerate H.264 encoding, 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.
No. Video processing runs entirely on your computer. The current download verifies licenses locally. The next release will require online activation and periodic license checks, but those checks will not upload your footage.
No. VanityFilter runs on any modern 64-bit PC. If you have an NVIDIA GPU, H.264 encoding can use it. Export time also depends on the footage and processing settings.
Up to five faces per frame, each with its own independent mask, including heads turned to profile, which most face tools lose.
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. See our DaVinci Resolve vs. VanityFilter guide for a full walkthrough.
If it's a 64-bit Windows 10 (version 1809 or later) or Windows 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.
No. Pick one of five presets and drag the Strength slider. The preview updates live. Sixteen sliders across the treatment and mask are there when you need them, not as homework before you start.
Yes. Save a look to User 1 through User 4, or export a shareable preset file. Saved looks survive restarts and load from the command line, so you can apply the same treatment across a whole batch of clips.
VanityFilter warns if it detects variable frame rate or cannot verify source timing. Export uses constant frame rate, so variable-rate footage can drift against its audio. Convert that source to constant frame rate first. Very small or heavily covered faces may be skipped; ear protection is limited on full profiles or when facial landmark tracking is lost.
A one-time license is $49, currently on sale for $29.95. There is no subscription and no per-export fee. One license covers one person on up to two computers. Existing buyers will not need to repurchase for the next-release activation change.
Import MP4, MOV, AVI, or MKV. Export H.264 MP4 (GPU-accelerated on NVIDIA) or ProRes 422 HQ MOV. Source audio is included and re-encoded for the output format.
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