Upscale, interpolate, and generate depth maps directly inside After Effects — with auto-detected models, a public stats dashboard, and a beautifully animated panel.
⬇ Download Latest Release · 🪶 Lite for low-end PCs · 🌐 Website · 💬 Discord · ☕ Ko-fi
Made by Autumn
St6.Lapidary is a self-contained CEP extension for Adobe After Effects. It bundles a full AI pipeline — Real-CUGAN Pro upscaling for anime, Real-ESRGAN x4plus for live action, every RIFE interpolation variant, Depth Anything V3 depth-map generation, plus a suite of Twixtor / Time-Remap helpers — into one panel.
Everything runs locally on your GPU. No external Python install, no cloud, no accounts. The first time you launch the panel it auto-downloads the AI engine bundle (~2 GB, one-time) with live download logs streamed directly into a setup popup.
A public website at st6lapidary.pages.dev hosts the showcase, feature breakdown, live stats from real installs, project-files shop, and FAQ.
Sister panel built specifically for 4 GB VRAM / 8 GB RAM rigs that can't run the full pipeline:
- Pure ncnn-Vulkan — no Python, no CUDA, no PyTorch dependencies
- Works on NVIDIA / AMD / Intel including integrated GPUs
- ~420 MB total install vs main's ~2 GB
- Same panel design — Real-CUGAN-Pro upscale, RIFE 4.6 + a custom RIFE 4.25 NCNN port (didn't exist publicly before), 4 utility buttons, autumn theme
- Auto-detects your GPU vendor and routes RIFE 4.25 through TensorRT (NVIDIA) / DirectML (AMD) / OpenVINO (Intel) when main is also installed alongside Lite
Lite installs as a separate CEP extension (com.st6.lapidary.lite.cep) — you can run both panels side-by-side without conflict.
⬇ Download St6.Lapidary Lite v1.0.0
- 🔍 Auto-detect upscale model — magnifier button in the chain header samples 15 frames and picks Real-CUGAN-Pro for anime / Real-ESRGAN x4plus for live action
- 📺 Real-ESRGAN x4plus added for live-action upscaling
- 🌐 Public website at st6lapidary.pages.dev + globe button in the panel topbar
- 🎮 Discord Rich Presence buttons — Discord Server + Website on the activity card
- 📊 Live stats dashboard powered by anonymous opt-in telemetry
- 💻 PC specs viewer in Settings → System
- 🎨 Lapidary color boost is now toggleable
- 📁 Cleaner output folder —
[st6.outputs]consolidates renders next to your AE project - 🛡️ Privacy controls — Export / Delete / Wipe Local State in Settings → Privacy
- ☕ Ko-fi support button + a chunk of QoL polish
- Upscale — Real-CUGAN Pro NCNN (anime style) and Real-ESRGAN x4plus (live action). Auto-detect picks the right one.
- Interpolate — every RIFE variant (4.6 → 4.25 Heavy across CUDA / TensorRT / NCNN / DirectML / OpenVINO) plus DistilDRBA, GMFSS, RIFE Elexor
- Custom multipliers — pick presets (2× / 4× / 8× / 16× / 32× / 64×) or type your own (1.5×, 6.5×, 23.5×, 40×, …)
- Slow-motion mode — output at source fps for buttery slow-mo
- Sharpen — CAS (FFmpeg) with strength slider
- Lapidary color boost — toggleable +10% sat / 0.93 gamma post-pass for punchy anime colors
- Color-neutral pipeline — RGB-direct H.264 encode (no YUV round-trip = identity colors)
- Depth Anything V3 — Small, Base, Large (CUDA / TensorRT / DirectML / OpenVINO)
- Depth Anything V2 — full lineage including Distill variants for 3-4× faster inference
- 10 colormaps — inferno, turbo, magma, viridis, plasma, gray, spectral, coolwarm, redblue, bluered
- Edge sharpen — off / small / medium / large
- Invert toggle — flip near/far for compositing
- Regroup — collapses Time-Remap keyframes onto consecutive frames
- Dead Frame Remover — runs ffmpeg mpdecimate, then bakes Time-Remap keyframes for unique frames only
- Precompose — group selected layers into a precomp, preserving transforms
- Twixtor — pre-precomps time-remapped layers and applies CZ Twixtor Pro / Twixtor / Timewarp with proper settings
- Concurrent jobs — queue multiple renders, each with its own log pane
- Live progress — fps, ETA, frame counter, phase indicator
- Auto-import — finished render drops back into the comp at the original layer's position
- Cleaner outputs — everything lands in
[st6.outputs], organized by date + job - Copy Logs — per-job log copy for sharing/debugging
- Delete Layer + File — remove rendered output layers from the comp AND unlink the file
- Presets — save your favourite chain configurations
- GPU detection — auto-detects NVIDIA / AMD / Intel, shows full system specs in Settings → System
- Rich Presence — burnt-amber leaf icon, live phase + percent, plus Discord Server / Website buttons under the activity card
- Public website — showcase, live stats, project files at st6lapidary.pages.dev
- Stats dashboard — opt-in anonymous telemetry powers the public stats page
- Telemetry is opt-in — never sends until you turn it on, never collects file paths or clip names
- Export My Data / Delete My Data / Wipe Local State — full control in Settings → Privacy
St6.Lapidary checks GitHub for new releases on startup. When a new version is available:
- An animated "Update available" pill appears next to the version badge in the panel header
- Click the pill → opens the release page in your default browser
- Download the new
.zxpand re-install via ZXP Installer
The check runs once per session and caches for 30 minutes to stay under GitHub's rate limit.
- Download the latest
St6.Lapidary-vX.Y.Z.zxpfrom the Releases page - Install ZXP Installer (free) if you don't already have it
- Drag the
.zxponto ZXP Installer - Restart After Effects → Window ▸ Extensions ▸ St6.Lapidary
- First launch: a setup popup downloads the ~2 GB AI engine with live progress logs. One-time only.
- Download
St6.Lapidary.Lite-v1.0.0.zxpfrom the Lite release - Drag onto ZXP Installer (same as above)
- Restart After Effects → Window ▸ Extensions ▸ St6.Lapidary Lite
- First launch: ~420 MB setup wizard runs once
You can install both panels at the same time — they live as separate extensions and don't interfere.
| Component | Purpose |
|---|---|
| CEP 6.0 | Adobe panel framework |
| Real-CUGAN-NCNN-Vulkan | anime upscaler |
| Real-ESRGAN x4plus | Live-action upscaler |
| Depth Anything V3 | Monocular depth estimation |
| RIFE | Real-time interpolation |
| FFmpeg | Frame extract / encode / colormap |
| Cloudflare Pages + Workers | Public website + telemetry backend |
| Vanilla HTML / CSS / JS | Panel UI |
| ExtendScript | AE host integration |
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Frontend (panel UI) | 4,700+ lines |
| Backend (driver) | 1,000+ lines |
| Host (ExtendScript) | 1,200+ lines |
| AI models supported | 60+ |
| Interpolation variants | 30+ |
| Depth models | 30+ |
| Colormaps | 10 |
| Action buttons | 4 |
Live install + render stats: st6lapidary.pages.dev/#stats
© 2025-2026 Autumn. All rights reserved.
This software is proprietary. You may not copy, modify, distribute, or reverse-engineer any part of this application without explicit written permission from the author.
St6.Lapidary is built on top of incredible open-source projects:
- Real-CUGAN-NCNN-Vulkan — the anime upscaler binary used for the uwu2x-style upscale stage. By nihui.
- Real-ESRGAN — the live-action upscaler. By xinntao.
- Depth Anything V3 — state-of-the-art monocular depth estimation. By Bytedance.
- RIFE — the frame interpolation network. By Megvii Research.
- FFmpeg — the Swiss army knife of video processing. Used for frame extraction, encoding, and colormap rendering.
- Adobe CEP — the panel framework that lets a CEP extension live inside After Effects.
These projects are maintained by their respective communities and are not affiliated with St6.Lapidary.
⬇ Download Latest Release · 🪶 St6.Lapidary Lite · 🌐 Website · 💬 Discord · ☕ Ko-fi
St6.Lapidary — by Autumn 🍂