Training a model
This part of the process requires the least amount of manual intervention but will take the longest in terms of compute time. Depending on the model chosen and the hardware in use, this can take anywhere from 12 hours to several weeks to complete.
It is advised to use a relatively lightweight model when creating a deepfake for the first time. Creating swaps is fairly nuanced, and understanding what works and what doesn’t comes with experience. Whilst Faceswap offers several models, starting with the Original or Lightweight model will allow you to gauge the performance of the swap relatively quickly, while not necessarily giving you the best possible final result.
Faceswap comes with numerous configurable settings for models and training. These are available within the Settings menu of the application. To cover all of these settings is well outside of the scope of this walk-through, so default settings will be used unless otherwise stated.
