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FaceTweak help / 09
Control index
Every control in FaceTweak, in the order the sections appear in Resolve. Click a name to jump to where it’s explained.
Some controls only appear when they’re needed. For example, the individual face regions appear when Mask is set to Custom Regions, and Shutter Angle appears when Motion Blur is on.
Top of the panel
| Control | What it does | Guide |
|---|---|---|
| Preview Policy | How FaceTweak balances speed and quality while you drag a slider. | Faces, presets and settings |
Rights Certification
| Control | What it does | Guide |
|---|---|---|
| Certification Status | Shows whether this footage has been approved for face changes. | Licensing and consent |
| Open legal notice | Opens the rights notice to approve footage or attach a release form. | Licensing and consent |
Mouth
| Control | What it does | Guide |
|---|---|---|
| AAA | Opens the mouth, as in “ah”. | Adjusting a face |
| EEE | Widens the mouth into an “ee” shape. | Adjusting a face |
| WOO | Rounds the lips into an “oo” shape. | Adjusting a face |
| Smile | Adds a smile, or turns the corners down a little. | Adjusting a face |
| Retargeting Mouth | A second way to set how far apart the lips are. | Adjusting a face |
Eyes
| Control | What it does | Guide |
|---|---|---|
| Pupil X | Moves where both eyes look, side to side. | Adjusting a face |
| Pupil Y | Moves where both eyes look, up and down. | Adjusting a face |
| Blink | Closes the eyes, or opens them a little wider. | Adjusting a face |
| Eyebrow | Raises or lowers both eyebrows. | Adjusting a face |
| Wink Screen Left | Closes the eye on the left of the screen. | Adjusting a face |
| Wink Screen Right | Closes the eye on the right of the screen. | Adjusting a face |
| Retargeting Eyes | A second way to set how open the eyes are. | Adjusting a face |
Pose
| Control | What it does | Guide |
|---|---|---|
| Rotate Pitch | Tips the head up or down. | Adjusting a face |
| Rotate Yaw | Turns the head left or right. | Adjusting a face |
| Rotate Roll | Tilts the head toward a shoulder. | Adjusting a face |
Expression
| Control | What it does | Guide |
|---|---|---|
| Source Expression Neutralize | Relaxes the actor's own expression before your changes are added. | Adjusting a face |
Fine-Tuning
| Control | What it does | Guide |
|---|---|---|
| Gaze Screen Left X | Aims just the eye on the left of the screen, side to side. | Adjusting a face |
| Gaze Screen Left Y | Aims just the eye on the left of the screen, up and down. | Adjusting a face |
| Gaze Screen Right X | Aims just the eye on the right of the screen, side to side. | Adjusting a face |
| Gaze Screen Right Y | Aims just the eye on the right of the screen, up and down. | Adjusting a face |
| Eyebrow Screen Left | Raises or lowers just the eyebrow on the left of the screen. | Adjusting a face |
| Eyebrow Screen Right | Raises or lowers just the eyebrow on the right of the screen. | Adjusting a face |
| Pose Mix | Strength of all Pose changes, from none to full. | Adjusting a face |
| Eyes Mix | Strength of all eye changes, from none to full. | Adjusting a face |
| Mouth Mix | Strength of all mouth changes, from none to full. | Adjusting a face |
Face Detection
| Control | What it does | Guide |
|---|---|---|
| Face to Adjust | Which face to change when there's more than one. | Faces, presets and settings |
| Detection Crop | Left, Right, Top and Bottom: parts of the frame to ignore when looking for faces. | Faces, presets and settings |
| Show Face Detectable Region | Shades the ignored parts of the frame red. | Faces, presets and settings |
Temporal
| Control | What it does | Guide |
|---|---|---|
| Detail Consistency | Keeps fine detail steady from frame to frame. | Smoothing over time |
| Temporal Consistency | Stops the redrawn face drifting or jittering against the real head. | Smoothing over time |
| Mouth Motion Smoothing | Calms wobble that the edit adds to the mouth. | Smoothing over time |
| Eye Motion Smoothing | Calms wobble that the edit adds to the eyes. | Smoothing over time |
| Motion Blur | Blurs what FaceTweak creates so it matches the camera's own blur. | Smoothing over time |
| Shutter Angle | How much motion blur: match your camera. | Smoothing over time |
| Keyframe Stabilizer | Mixes each in-between frame toward a steady version built from a few fully redrawn frames. | Keyframe Stabilizer |
| Stabilize Region | Which features the Keyframe Stabilizer covers. | Keyframe Stabilizer |
| Region Expand (%) | Grows the stabilized area beyond the features. | Keyframe Stabilizer |
| Region Softness (%) | Fades the stabilizer out toward the edge of its area. | Keyframe Stabilizer |
| Keyframe Placement | Every N Frames, or frames you mark yourself. | Keyframe Stabilizer |
| Keyframe Interval | How many frames apart the stabilizer keyframes are. | Keyframe Stabilizer |
| Keyframe Offset | Shifts where the regular keyframes start. | Keyframe Stabilizer |
| Manual Keyframes | Where you mark your own stabilizer keyframes. | Keyframe Stabilizer |
| Keyframes | Lists your manual keyframes and any gaps too long to steady. | Keyframe Stabilizer |
UHD Detail
| Control | What it does | Guide |
|---|---|---|
| UHD Detail Reprojection | When to keep real skin texture on big faces: Off, Auto or Always. | Close-ups and 4K |
| UHD Detail Reprojection Blend | How much of the real fine skin texture to keep. | Close-ups and 4K |
| UHD Detail Temporal Denoise | Calms grain and noise in the kept skin texture. | Close-ups and 4K |
| Generated Feature Detail | Sharpens newly drawn parts of the eyes and mouth. | Close-ups and 4K |
| Mouth Pixels | Mix real and drawn pixels, or only reshape the real mouth. | Close-ups and 4K |
| Eye Pixels | Mix real and drawn pixels, or only reshape the real eyes. | Close-ups and 4K |
| Detail Status | Whether the detail-sharpening models are installed and working. | Close-ups and 4K |
Performance
| Control | What it does | Guide |
|---|---|---|
| Decoded Pixel Cache (MB) | Memory set aside to remember recent work. | Faces, presets and settings |
| Manual Preview Tier | The preview quality used when Preview Policy is Manual. | Faces, presets and settings |
| Reset Performance Profile | Makes Adaptive previews relearn your computer's speed. | Faces, presets and settings |
Presets
| Control | What it does | Guide |
|---|---|---|
| Preset | Choose a saved setup. | Faces, presets and settings |
| Preset Name | Name for a setup you're about to save. | Faces, presets and settings |
| Save Preset | Saves the current setup under that name. | Faces, presets and settings |
| Recall Preset | Applies the chosen setup. | Faces, presets and settings |
| Delete Preset | Removes one of your saved setups. | Faces, presets and settings |
| Refresh Presets | Reloads the list of saved setups. | Faces, presets and settings |
Advanced › Masking
| Control | What it does | Guide |
|---|---|---|
| Mask | Off, Whole Face, or Custom Regions. | Masking |
| Mask Output | The whole picture, or only the masked area on a transparent background. | Masking |
| Expand / Contract (%) | Grows or shrinks the mask. | Masking |
| Feather (%) | Softens the mask's edge. | Masking |
| Face regions | Eyes, Eyebrows, Nose, Mouth, Cheeks, Jaw / Chin, Forehead: Off, Edit or Protect. | Masking |
| Show Mask Overlay | Tints the area FaceTweak may change green. | Masking |
Output
| Control | What it does | Guide |
|---|---|---|
| Input Encoding | The kind of colour your picture is in where FaceTweak sits. | Faces, presets and settings |
| Inference Backend | Which processor does the work. Leave it on Auto. | Faces, presets and settings |
| GPU Device | Which graphics card to use, if you have more than one. | Faces, presets and settings |
| CUDA Failure Policy | What happens if the NVIDIA graphics card runs into a problem. | Faces, presets and settings |
| Mix | Overall strength of the whole effect. | Adjusting a face |
| No Face | What happens on frames where no face is found. | Faces, presets and settings |
License
| Control | What it does | Guide |
|---|---|---|
| License Status | Whether this computer is licensed or in trial. | Licensing and consent |
| License Key | Paste your license key here. | Licensing and consent |
| Device Name | A friendly name for this computer in your account. | Licensing and consent |
| License Details | Activation and offline-use details. | Licensing and consent |
| Activate License | Licenses this computer and removes the trial stripes. | Licensing and consent |
| Refresh License | Checks the license with the server now. | Licensing and consent |
| Deactivate This Machine | Frees this computer's activation for another one. | Licensing and consent |
| Manage License | Opens your account page in a browser. | Licensing and consent |