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Remove a person from a shot and keep your soundtrack: H3 Person Remover
(model card, workflow examples/Person-Remover-Window-Reroll-V1.json, H3 Relay)
model card ↗Latest briefing October 11, 2026 morning edition 11 min read
The weekend's open releases work on footage and frames you already have, removing a person, continuing a shot
Rendering faster, so the useful AI job this week is repair and continuity rather than generation from nothing.
Recipes pulled straight out of the briefings, each one with the place it falls over written down next to the reason to try it.
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The steps
Update ComfyUI until it has native MiniMax H3 and SAM 3.1 support. Put H3-Person-Remover-V1.safetensors in models/loras/. Conform your clip to 24 fps with width and height divisible by 32, ideally about five seconds and…
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How it works
The model never sees the person, only a green hole and your clean first frame. It fills the hole window by window, and each window inherits the last 18 frames of picture and sound from the one before, so the fill stays…
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The open tools that keep earning their place in the briefing. One appearance is noise; repeat appearances are the signal.
| Repo | What it is | Days | Last |
|---|---|---|---|
| comfyanonymous/ComfyUI | ](https://github.com/comfyanonymous/ComfyUI): 135k stars. | 9 | Sep 24 |
| Lightricks/LTX-2 | The license text that decides whether your LTX-2.5 renders are commercially usable, which… | 6 | Sep 4 |
| hao-ai-lab/FastVideo | The toolkit that runs FastH3 V2, now with a single-card consumer path. | 5 | Oct 6 |
| OpenVDN/vdn-minimax-h3 | Hybrid-attention H3 with all four training stages published, climbing steadily all week… | 5 | Sep 9 |
| storytold/artcraft | The same team's AI image and video studio; FilmCraft and PhotoCraft are standalone… | 4 | Oct 10 |
| storytold/photocraft | The Photoshop rebuild that started the storytold run, now 21k stars per shields.io, up… | 4 | Oct 8 |
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