VanityFilter smooths skin in recorded video on Windows and Apple Silicon Macs. You adjust the treatment. Your video stays on your computer.
VanityFilter 3.2 brings video skin retouching to Mac, adds Fine Line Eraser (prototype) with Preserve natural creases, and gets pickier about what counts as a face. One license covers two computers, in any mix of Mac and Windows.
Watch the 3.2 launch film
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. 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 nineteen sliders, re-rendered live, with four saved user slots.
The preview runs the same smoothing as the export, so check a few frames before a long render.
What you get is footage where skin looks smoother and the person still looks like the person. VanityFilter corrects skin inside a mask built for each detected face 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, and export the result. No plugins or timeline surgery, and the audio comes along 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 takes one or more video files and applies any preset, including the User slots you save in the app. It processes the files in order. A file that fails does not stop the rest of the batch, and the exit code is 0 only when every file succeeds.
Five built-in presets cover most footage. Nineteen sliders handle the treatment, the mask and face selection when a shot needs more, every change re-renders live, and four user slots keep repeatable looks ready for the next batch.
VanityFilter now runs on Apple Silicon Macs as well as Windows, and one license covers both. Fine Line Eraser (prototype) adds a separate control for fine lines, with an option to preserve natural creases, and small face-shaped objects in the background are no longer smoothed.
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 several video files. It finds up to five faces in each frame, including turned heads and some profiles, and builds a skin mask for each face.
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 editing, H.264 for delivery.
Export the grayscale mask plus a settings sidecar and use it as a Track Matte in Premiere: VanityFilter does the per-face masking, you keep final say on the composite and grade.
Cut, grade and export normally. There is no beauty effect on the timeline for Premiere to render.
Free, but you draw each mask and let the tracker follow it through each shot... then check every track for drift.
Automated, but 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, on your own computer. 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 the features of each detected face, up to five per frame. A second, independent detector catches some turned and profile heads that the mesh misses. If both detectors lose the face, the previous mask fades out.
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 mask stability smooths each mask across frames to reduce flicker.
The smoothing engine pairs edge-preserving filtering with frequency separation to clear blotches and compression noise at one frequency while Detail Restore re-adds fine skin texture at another. Brightening runs in LAB color, lifting only the lightness channel with a gamma curve, so skin gains a glow while its color channels stay as shot. That’s why skin stays skin instead of turning to wax.
The preview and the export use the same smoothing code, so a frame you check shows what the render does to it. H.264 can encode on your NVIDIA GPU when you have one; ProRes 422 HQ comes standard, and the source audio is re-encoded for the output format.
VanityFilter includes its models and codecs. Install it on 64-bit Windows 10 (version 1809 or later), Windows 11, or an Apple Silicon Mac running macOS 14 Sonoma or later. Skin processing runs on the CPU. H.264 encoding can use NVIDIA on Windows and Apple VideoToolbox on Mac. Activation uses your purchase email; no account is required.
No. Video processing runs entirely on your computer. VanityFilter 3.2 requires online activation with purchase-email verification and license checks at least once every 30 days. Those checks exchange license and device information, never your footage.
No. Skin processing runs on the CPU. On Windows, a supported NVIDIA GPU can accelerate H.264 encoding. On Apple Silicon Macs, H.264 export uses Apple VideoToolbox. Export time depends on the footage and settings.
Up to five faces per frame, each with its own mask. A second detector catches some turned and profile heads. Full profiles are the hardest case, so check the Mask view on head turns.
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.
VanityFilter supports 64-bit Windows 10 (version 1809 or later) and Windows 11, or Apple Silicon Macs running macOS 14 Sonoma or later. Intel Macs are not supported. Models and codecs are included in each installer.
No. Pick one of five presets and drag the Strength slider. The preview updates live. Separate treatment, mask and face-selection controls 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 two active computers shared across Windows and macOS. Existing buyers keep their license when upgrading to 3.2 and do not need to repurchase.
On Windows, import MP4, MOV, AVI, or MKV. On Mac, use MP4 or MOV. Export H.264 MP4 or ProRes 422 HQ MOV. H.264 encoding can use NVIDIA on Windows and Apple VideoToolbox on Mac. Source audio is included and re-encoded for the output format.
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