FrameLatheDocs

Getting started

Drop files in, answer three questions, start the batch. FrameLathe runs on the GPU in your Windows PC.

FrameLathe is a Windows desktop app for batch video enhancement. It denoises, remasters, and interpolates on the GPU already in the machine. Footage is not uploaded. There is no cloud processing path. Old home videos — VHS or MiniDV transfers, camcorder captures, phone clips — are the usual job: files already on disk, not a tape the app captures. Digitise analog tape first, then drop the folder.

Buy a licence on the pricing page. The licence email has your key and a download link for the signed Windows installer; paste the key in Settings → Updates & licence. Lost the link? Enter your email at framelathe.com/download.

The loop

  1. Drop videos or a folder onto the queue.
  2. Answer three questions about the footage: what is wrong with it, where it is going, and how far to take it — Quick (about 40 minutes), Full (about 4 hours), or Best possible. Each step shows what it produces and this machine’s estimate. The rail is one list: each problem sits on the switch for the step that fixes it, Made for sits above the size it caps, and the answers pick a preset. One line at the foot of the rail says what will come out.
  3. Start the batch from the toolbar. Review a wipe in the morning: Approve, Flag, or change the recipe and run again.

The GPU can work while you are away, and that overnight run is a first-class mode rather than a side effect. How long a batch may take is the third question you answer — see Quick / Full / Best possible.

What you need

  • A Windows PC. macOS is not produced or tested.
  • A GPU helps every preset. Remaster needs an NVIDIA CUDA card and enough VRAM — see Remaster and hardware.
  • Model weights and the optional GPU add-on pack download only when you ask.

The app opens in the dark Studio theme. Settings → Appearance has five more: Paper (light), Darkroom (warm), Broadcast (slate), High contrast (dark) and Ink (light high contrast). High contrast and Ink keep every piece of text at 7:1 contrast or better.

Settings, Appearance: six theme cards in two rows, Studio, Paper (selected), Darkroom, Broadcast, High contrast and Ink, each with a small picture of the theme and a black band for the video stage.
The six themes. The review stage stays black in every one.
The Videos queue in the Ink theme: white background, black text, dark grey borders around each row and a deep blue accent on the rendering clip and its progress line.
Ink, the light high-contrast theme.

Interface text size there has Default and Larger; Larger makes all the text in the app a step bigger without changing the spacing.

Settings has six everyday tabs (Files, Behaviour, AI apps, Appearance, Updates & licence, Help & about) and Advanced for the engine, hardware, models, storage and diagnostics. The search box at the top of Settings (press /) finds any setting and takes you to it.

Read install, then presets. If something fails before Start, expand the row and use Copy for support in the desktop app. Do not send footage to the website assistant.