Hi D5 Team and Community,
I would like to suggest an improvement to the AI workflow, specifically regarding post-render batch automation.
At the moment, we can render 20–30 images overnight using batch rendering. However, AI tools such as:
- Inpainting (People, Sky, Water, Vegetation)
- AI Style Transfer
still require manual interaction per image afterwards.
For professionals working with deadlines, this creates a workflow bottleneck. Even if the renders are finished in the morning, you still need to manually process each image one by one. In some cases, that means waking up during the night just to apply AI inpainting — which defeats the purpose of automated batch rendering.
Proposal: Batch AI Processing After Rendering
It would be extremely valuable to introduce a system where AI processing can be applied automatically to an entire render batch.
For example:
1. Batch Inpainting by Object Type
Allow users to predefine one object category before rendering, such as:
- People
- Sky
- Water
- Vegetation
(Not Smart Retouch or AI Enhancer, since those are more global/manual tools.)
Workflow example:
- Select: “Auto Inpaint → People”
- Start batch render
- After rendering, D5 automatically detects and processes all people in every image
This would be especially useful for people replacement, which (at least for me) is the most frequently used AI inpainting function.
2. Batch AI Style Transfer
Similarly, it would be helpful if AI Style Transfer could be applied automatically to the entire batch using:
- One predefined preset
- Fixed Style Transfer Weight
- Fixed Structure Matching Weight
- Either Stylized or Realistic mode
The logic would be:
Set the AI preset once → Apply to all rendered images automatically.
Since Style Transfer typically requires consistency across a project, a single global preset per batch makes perfect sense.
Core Idea
Rendering = Batch
AI Processing = Also Batch
The AI stage should not break the automation chain.
Ideal workflow:
- Configure render settings
- Configure AI preset (Inpainting or Style Transfer)
- Start batch
- Go to sleep
- Wake up with fully finished, AI-processed images