Prophetero Take Compare GLOBAL — Compare. Choose. Create.
Several promising video takes. One has the best picture, another has the better sound. Which moments are worth keeping?
Take Compare brings up to four local videos into one review workspace, with shared playback, linked zoom and notes that stay with your review. It opens in a separate browser tab, giving you room to inspect your work without constantly switching players.
It is not limited to H3 or any other generation model. Use supported SDR clips from LTX, H3, other generators, cameras or editing applications. No generation model or cloud AI account is required.
## Compare the details
- View 2–4 takes side by side; a single clip can also be inspected.
- Play and pause together, align source start points, and step by one timing-reference frame.
- Zoom and pan across all views together. While paused, inspect frames decoded from the original source at its original resolution.
- Listen to one chosen audio source while comparing the pictures.
- Mark good moments or problems and add notes. Choose your preferred picture and motion separately; the motion choice is a review label, not motion transfer.
- Keep your review through browser autosave, or download a review-project JSON containing notes and source references. Video files are not embedded in that project. Missing sources can be relinked.
## From comparison to the next step
Take Compare → Take Mixer: choose the picture take, an audio take and the useful section. Download a prepared Take Mixer workflow with those sources and start points already filled in. Import it into ComfyUI and export with Take Mixer.
Take Compare → Loop Lab: select the picture take and section, then download a prepared Loop Lab workflow to continue building a loop. This route uses the picture video's own sound. To use sound from another take, run Take Mixer first and pass its output to Loop Lab.
These handoffs download workflow JSONs; they do not overwrite the ComfyUI graph you have open. Take Mixer and Loop Lab are optional, separate installations and are not bundled.
## Install and start
1. Download and extract the complete ZIP.
2. Stop the ComfyUI backend you actually use. If SwarmUI starts it, stop SwarmUI.
3. Run START_HERE.cmd and select that backend. The installer supports direct ComfyUI, supported portable layouts and SwarmUI backend discovery. Missing dependencies require your approval before installation.
4. Restart the backend, refresh its browser page, and load Prophetero_Take_Compare_GLOBAL.json.
5. Click Open Take Compare, then add your clips.
Importing the JSON alone does not install the custom node. Queue/Run on the review node does not generate or export a movie; use its workspace button.
English is the default. Controls and the shipped workflow notes support English, Hungarian, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Polish. Version 0.1.1 fixes workflow-note language switching and preserves user-edited notes.
## Practical limits
This preview edition accepts supported upright, square-pixel SDR clips of 0.5–120 seconds, 1–60 FPS and up to 8 MP, with mono/stereo audio. Browser playback corrects timing drift but is not guaranteed frame-locked; differing or variable frame rates use average-FPS mapping. Loop Lab handoff needs a 0.5–60 second section with at least four frames.
Dropped files create local copies and playback proxies use additional disk space. Originals are never modified or deleted by comparison/removal. Removing a take from the review does not delete those copies. Downloaded handoff workflows contain local file paths: check before public sharing.
## Included, requirements and credits
The ZIP includes Prophetero's custom node, review interface, workflow, Windows installer, English/Hungarian guides, changelog and licence. Requires an existing working ComfyUI/Python environment with aiohttp, PyAV, Pillow and imageio-ffmpeg. No model weights, FFmpeg binary, Python environment or complete ComfyUI installation is bundled.
Prophetero's contribution: review controls, workflow integration, interface and installer. Media processing is provided by [FFmpeg](https://ffmpeg.org/) through [imageio-ffmpeg](https://github.com/imageio/imageio-ffmpeg); source decoding uses [PyAV](https://github.com/PyAV-Org/PyAV) and [Pillow](https://python-pillow.github.io/); local web integration uses [aiohttp](https://github.com/aio-libs/aiohttp), hosted by [ComfyUI](https://github.com/Comfy-Org/ComfyUI). Thanks to their original contributors. Their licences remain separate; no endorsement is implied.
Free personal and commercial creative use under the included licence. You may sell your resulting media subject to its source rights; resale or paid distribution of the Prophetero software itself requires separate permission. See LICENSE.txt and THIRD_PARTY.md.
Preview release: try it with your own material and tell me what helped—or what needs improving. A short comment about your setup and experience is always welcome!