Stable Video Diffusion

Stable Video Diffusion is a powerful image-to-video generation model that can generate high resolution (576x1024) 2-4 second videos conditioned on the input image.

This guide will show you how to use SVD to short generate videos from images.

Before you begin, make sure you have the following libraries installed:

!pip install -q -U diffusers transformers accelerate 

Image to Video Generation

The are two variants of SVD. SVD and SVD-XT. The svd checkpoint is trained to generate 14 frames and the svd-xt checkpoint is further finetuned to generate 25 frames.

We will use the svd-xt checkpoint for this guide.

import torch

from diffusers import StableVideoDiffusionPipeline
from diffusers.utils import load_image, export_to_video

pipe = StableVideoDiffusionPipeline.from_pretrained(
    "stabilityai/stable-video-diffusion-img2vid-xt", torch_dtype=torch.float16, variant="fp16"
)
pipe.enable_model_cpu_offload()

# Load the conditioning image
image = load_image("https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/diffusers/svd/rocket.png")
image = image.resize((1024, 576))

generator = torch.manual_seed(42)
frames = pipe(image, decode_chunk_size=8, generator=generator).frames[0]

export_to_video(frames, "generated.mp4", fps=7)

Source Image	Video

Torch.compile

You can achieve a 20-25% speed-up at the expense of slightly increased memory by compiling the UNet as follows:

- pipe.enable_model_cpu_offload()
+ pipe.to("cuda")
+ pipe.unet = torch.compile(pipe.unet, mode="reduce-overhead", fullgraph=True)

Low-memory

Video generation is very memory intensive as we have to essentially generate num_frames all at once. The mechanism is very comparable to text-to-image generation with a high batch size. To reduce the memory requirement you have multiple options. The following options trade inference speed against lower memory requirement:

• enable model offloading: Each component of the pipeline is offloaded to CPU once it’s not needed anymore.
• enable feed-forward chunking: The feed-forward layer runs in a loop instead of running with a single huge feed-forward batch size
• reduce decode_chunk_size: This means that the VAE decodes frames in chunks instead of decoding them all together. Note: In addition to leading to a small slowdown, this method also slightly leads to video quality deterioration

You can enable them as follows:

-pipe.enable_model_cpu_offload()
-frames = pipe(image, decode_chunk_size=8, generator=generator).frames[0]
+pipe.enable_model_cpu_offload()
+pipe.unet.enable_forward_chunking()
+frames = pipe(image, decode_chunk_size=2, generator=generator, num_frames=25).frames[0]

Including all these tricks should lower the memory requirement to less than 8GB VRAM.

Micro-conditioning

Along with conditioning image Stable Diffusion Video also allows providing micro-conditioning that allows more control over the generated video. It accepts the following arguments:

• fps: The frames per second of the generated video.
• motion_bucket_id: The motion bucket id to use for the generated video. This can be used to control the motion of the generated video. Increasing the motion bucket id will increase the motion of the generated video.
• noise_aug_strength: The amount of noise added to the conditioning image. The higher the values the less the video will resemble the conditioning image. Increasing this value will also increase the motion of the generated video.

Here is an example of using micro-conditioning to generate a video with more motion.

import torch

from diffusers import StableVideoDiffusionPipeline
from diffusers.utils import load_image, export_to_video

pipe = StableVideoDiffusionPipeline.from_pretrained(
  "stabilityai/stable-video-diffusion-img2vid-xt", torch_dtype=torch.float16, variant="fp16"
)
pipe.enable_model_cpu_offload()

# Load the conditioning image
image = load_image("https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/diffusers/svd/rocket.png")
image = image.resize((1024, 576))

generator = torch.manual_seed(42)
frames = pipe(image, decode_chunk_size=8, generator=generator, motion_bucket_id=180, noise_aug_strength=0.1).frames[0]
export_to_video(frames, "generated.mp4", fps=7)