The short answer is about a minute for a short clip. The longer answer is more useful, because a few things you control decide whether it is closer to thirty seconds or a couple of minutes.
A short clip — a few seconds to a scene of half a minute — is usually ready in about a minute. A single photo swap is faster still, often just a few seconds. Videos are capped at 60 seconds, so nothing ever runs for long.
Three things happen after you press go: your files upload, the faces are found, and the new face is painted onto the video one frame at a time. The swapping is the real work — a 60-second clip has well over a thousand frames, and each one is processed — so a longer clip simply means more frames to get through.
| Adds time | Why |
|---|---|
| A longer clip | More frames to process, in direct proportion |
| A slow connection | Uploading a large video takes a moment before work can even start |
| A busy moment | At peak times a job may wait briefly for a free slot |
Paid credits run on a faster GPU, so the same clip finishes sooner; free-credit videos also carry a small watermark, which paid ones do not. If speed matters — you are making several in a row — that is the difference you will feel.
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