Upscale and smooth anime in Resolve.
Anime holds each drawing for two or three frames, so it moves in steps, and most of it reaches you as compressed 1080p. Upflow2x draws the frames in between and redraws every frame at 2x, right inside DaVinci Resolve, so it plays smooth and stays sharp on a 4K timeline.
How it works
Open the panel from Workspace, Scripts and put the playhead on a clip. This is the path it takes, and the film shows all of it in 21 seconds.
- Input Your clip Anything on the timeline, on 2s or 3s
- Analyse Marks the real drawings Puts a marker on each one. Move or add markers to choose
- Render Draws every in-between, then 2x RIFE 4.25 and Real-ESRGAN on your own GPU. Resolve stays usable
- Output Lands on the track above Same frame and length. Show Original flips between them
Get Upflow2x
Free, and it updates itself. This is all you need:
- Studio 18+DaVinci Resolve Studio. The free edition blocks script panels.
- Windows and MacWindows 10 or 11, or macOS 12 or newer
- Python 3.10 to 3.14Older Macs need an older one, see the Mac guide
- Any DirectX 12 GPUDraws and upscales on the GPU on Windows. A Mac draws on the CPU and upscales with Super Scale
The in-between model, about 50 MB, downloads on the first render. Everything else is in the help.