Milimo Video

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Milimo Video is a state-of-the-art, open-source AI video production studio designed for filmmakers. It unifies the world's best foundation models into a cohesive, professional workflow — running entirely local-first on your own machine.

Unlike simple "prompt-to-video" interfaces, Milimo is a full Non-Linear Editor (NLE) that combines:

• LTX-2 19B — Dual-stream transformer for cinematic video generation (text-to-video, image-to-video, keyframe interpolation).
• Flux 2 Klein 9B — High-fidelity image synthesis with IP-Adapter reference conditioning and RePaint inpainting.
• SAM 3 — Text-prompted segmentation, click-to-segment, and video object tracking via standalone microservice.
• Gemma 3 — Intelligent prompt enhancement and narrative direction.

✨ Key Features

🎬 Visual Conditioning & Character Consistency

Achieve what standard models can't: persistent identities across shots.

• IP-Adapter Integration: Flux 2's IP-Adapter (CLIP ViT-L → 4-token projection) injects visual style and character identity directly into the generation latent space.
• Reference Conditioning: Native AE encodes reference images with temporal offsets, concatenating them to the denoising input for style-faithful generation.
• Story Elements: Define reusable Characters, Locations, and Objects with trigger words (e.g., @Hero). The system auto-detects triggers in prompts and injects the correct IP-Adapter images and enriched text.
• Projected Latents: Support for projecting reference images into LTX-2's latent space for seamless Image-to-Video transitions.

📝 Storyboard Engine

Transform screenplays into video productions instantly.

• Script-to-Video: Paste standard screenplay text — Milimo parses it into Scenes and Shots via regex-based ScriptParser.
• Auto-Injection: ElementManager scans for @Element references and injects visual/textual conditioning + narrative context (action, dialogue, character).
• Chained Generation: Shots exceeding 121 frames auto-trigger Quantum Alignment — autoregressive chunk-by-chunk generation with latent handoffs aligned to the 8-pixel VAE grid, ensuring seamless visual continuity.

🎞️ Professional Non-Linear Editor (NLE)

A fully functional timeline built for the AI workflow.

• Multi-Track Editing: 3 tracks — V1 (magnetic main), V2 (overlay, free placement), A1 (audio).
• Smart Continue: Autoregressive video chaining via StoryboardManager with last-frame extraction and overlap trimming.
• Precision Control: Frame-accurate seeking, scrubbing, trimming (trimIn/trimOut), and snapEngine snapping.
• CSS-Based Timeline: GPU-accelerated clip positioning (translateX), granular Zustand selectors, and useShallow for 60fps UI responsiveness.

✂️ In-Painting & Intelligent Editing

Professional-grade retouching powered by the SAM 3 → Flux 2 pipeline.

• Flux RePaint Inpainting: Select any frame, mask an area, and use natural language to add or remove elements. Uses iterative mask-blended denoising with real-time SSE progress. Inpaint jobs are persisted to the database for reliable status polling via /status/{job_id}.
• SAM 3 Text-Prompted Segmentation: Describe what to segment ("a person", "the sky") — SAM 3 finds all matching objects with bounding boxes and confidence scores.
• Click-to-Segment: Click on objects in the video frame for instant SAM 3-powered mask generation. No manual roto-scoping.
• Video Object Tracking: Select an object on one frame → SAM 3 tracks it across every frame of the video, bidirectionally. Full UI via TrackingPanel with session lifecycle management (start → prompt → propagate → navigate results).
• AE Hot-Swap: Toggle between native AutoEncoder (supports reference conditioning) and diffusers AE fallback via the enable_ae flag.
• True CFG Mode: Optional double-pass negative prompting for Flux 2 (2× inference time, disabled by default).

🧠 Advanced Generation

• Dual-Stage Pipeline: LTX-2 generates at half-res, then spatially upsamples 2× with distilled LoRA-384.
• 3 Pipeline Modes: ti2vid (text/image-to-video), ic_lora (IC-LoRA conditioning), keyframe (keyframe interpolation).
• Single-Frame Shortcut: When num_frames==1, video gen silently delegates to Flux 2 for instant image generation.
• Real-Time Progress: SSE (Server-Sent Events) stream denoising step progress, ETA, and enhanced prompts to the UI in real-time.

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🛠️ Architecture

Milimo Video is built on a modern, robust stack:

MPS-First Optimization

Designed for Apple Silicon with CUDA as primary target:

• FP8 on CUDA, float32 fallback on MPS
• VAE decode CPU-offloaded on MPS (prevents black output)
• Transformer forced to float32 dtype on MPS
• Memory managed via gc.collect() + torch.mps.empty_cache()
• SAM 3 Video Predictor: device auto-detection (CUDA → MPS → CPU), guarded torch.cuda.* calls
• PYTORCH_ENABLE_MPS_FALLBACK=1 for SAM 3 ops not yet on MPS

Documentation

See the docs/ directory for comprehensive technical documentation:

• System Architecture — Component diagrams and subsystem interactions
• Data Models — ER diagrams, Pydantic schemas, TypeScript types
• AI Pipelines — LTX-2, Flux 2, SAM 3 pipeline analysis with flow diagrams
• Frontend State — Zustand store architecture and optimization strategies
• Execution Flow — Sequence diagrams for all generation workflows
• File Dependencies — Import graphs and module analysis
• Flux 2 Bible — Deep-dive into Flux 2 integration
• LTX-2 Bible — Deep-dive into LTX-2 integration
• SAM 3 Bible — Deep-dive into SAM 3 microservice

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🚀 Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Python 3.10+
• Node.js 18+
• FFmpeg
• High-End GPU:
  • NVIDIA: 16GB+ VRAM recommended.
  • Apple Silicon: M1/M2/M3/M4 Max or Ultra recommended (32GB+ RAM).

1. Installation

Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/mainza-ai/milimovideo.git
cd milimovideo

2. Backend Setup

Milimo uses a specialized environment for LTX-2 and Flux.

1. Create Environment:

   python3 -m venv milimov
   ./milimov/bin/pip install -e ./LTX-2/packages/ltx-core
   ./milimov/bin/pip install -e ./LTX-2/packages/ltx-pipelines
   ./milimov/bin/pip install -e ./flux2
   ./milimov/bin/pip install -r backend/requirements.txt
   

2. Download LTX-2 Models: Place the following into LTX-2/models/checkpoints/:

   • LTX-2 19B Distilled
   • LTX-2 Distilled LoRA-384 → checkpoints/
   • LTX-2 Spatial Upscaler → upscalers/
   • Gemma 3 Text Encoder → text_encoders/gemma3/

3. Download Flux 2 Models: Place files in backend/models/flux2/:

   backend/models/flux2/
   ├── flux-2-klein-9b.safetensors    # Flow model (9B params)
   ├── ae.safetensors                 # Native AutoEncoder (preferred)
   ├── vae/                           # Diffusers AE fallback (config.json + diffusion_pytorch_model.safetensors)
   ├── text_encoder/                  # Qwen 3 (8B) text encoder
   ├── tokenizer/                     # Qwen tokenizer files
   └── ip-adapter.safetensors         # IP-Adapter weights (CLIP ViT-L projection)
   

4. SAM 3 Setup (Segmentation & Tracking): The SAM 3 service runs in a separate environment (sam3_env).

   1. Create environment:

      conda create -n sam3_env python=3.12
      conda activate sam3_env
      pip install -e sam3
      pip install fastapi uvicorn python-multipart psutil pycocotools huggingface_hub
      

   2. Download Model: Download the SAM 3 checkpoint from HuggingFace (auto-downloads on first start if missing).
   3. Place it in: backend/models/sam3/sam3.pt

3. Running the Studio

1. Start the Backend API (port 8000):

./run_backend.sh

2. Start the SAM 3 Service (port 8001, optional — for segmentation, masking & tracking):

./run_sam.sh

3. Start the Web Interface (port 5173):

./run_frontend.sh

Visit http://localhost:5173 to enter the studio.

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🎮 Controls

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🤝 Community & Collaboration

Milimo Video is an open-source project, and we welcome contributions! Whether you're a developer, filmmaker, or AI enthusiast, there are many ways to get involved:

• Code: Submit Pull Requests for new features, bug fixes, or performance improvements.
• Models: Share custom LoRAs or fine-tunes that work well with the LTX-2/Flux pipeline.
• Feedback: Open Issues for bugs or feature requests on our GitHub repository.

Let's build the future of AI cinema together.

✍️ Author

Mainza Kangombe

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📜 License

This project is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License.