Extensions/Dailies Take Recorder
ComfyUI Extension

Dailies Take Recorder

Never lose which seed, model, LoRA and prompt made a clip. Writes a take.json beside every rendered video so any take can be found, reproduced or rerun later, and a night of renders can be ranked without reopening ComfyUI.

By zhang-liz·Created 3 days ago·Updated 3 days ago· 0
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comfyui-dailies

Tests License: MIT

Render 50 takes overnight and one is right. Which seed, model, LoRA and prompt made it? ComfyUI does not say. This node writes a take.json beside every video it renders, so any take can be found, reproduced or rerun later, and a night of renders can be ranked without reopening ComfyUI. Plain JSON, next to the file.

Format: take.json spec. Reader: the dailies triage CLI.

Why

Video generation is a numbers game: 20 to 50 takes per usable shot. The metadata that explains a take dies at save time.

| Pain | What this fixes | |---|---| | The good take is in the output folder, the recipe is gone. Seeds, LoRA strengths and prompt edits are scattered across nodes you have since changed. | Every take carries its own recipe. Reproduce or rerun any clip weeks later. | | The workflow is embedded in the MP4. Not greppable, not diffable, not readable by other tools. | Plain JSON beside the file. grep, jq, a spreadsheet, or the dailies CLI all read it. | | Ranking a night of renders means opening each one and guessing what made it. | dailies review ranks the folder, kills the dead takes with reasons, and writes its verdict into the same file. | | Reruns lose their history. Nobody knows take 31 came from take 12. | parent links a rerun to its source. Lineage is a chain of pointers, no database. | | Model updates every few weeks stale your results and nobody can say which model made what. | Model and LoRA filenames per take, content hashes on request. |

Install

ComfyUI Manager: search dailies, install, restart.

Manual:

cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes
git clone https://github.com/zhang-liz/comfyui-dailies
pip install -r comfyui-dailies/requirements.txt

Restart ComfyUI.

Use

  1. Add the node Dailies: Write take.json (category dailies).
  2. Give it the clip. Either:
    • connect filenames from Video Combine (VideoHelperSuite), or
    • type video_path, relative to the output folder (works with the core Save Video node).
  3. Queue the prompt. <clip>.take.json appears next to the video.

Then, from a terminal:

dailies review ComfyUI/output/ --shot shot-07

Optional inputs

| Input | Use | |---|---| | video_info | VHS_VIDEOINFO from a VHS loader. Fills fps, frames, width, height. Without it, ffprobe on PATH does the same. | | shot | Shot name. Groups takes for ranking. | | parent | take_id of the take this one reruns. | | hash_models | Content-hash the model and LoRA files. Slow on big weights. Off by default. |

Output: sidecar_path, the JSON path.

What it writes

{
  "take_id": "sha256:3f9c…",
  "shot": "shot-07",
  "parent": null,
  "created": "2026-08-26T07:14:00Z",
  "output": { "file": "take-031.mp4", "fps": 24, "frames": 121, "width": 1280, "height": 720 },
  "recipe": {
    "workflow": { "…": "resolved graph, verbatim" },
    "models": [ { "file": "wan2.2_t2v_14b_fp8.safetensors", "sha256": null, "loader": "UNETLoader" } ],
    "loras": [ { "file": "myrna_v3.safetensors", "sha256": null, "strength": 0.85 } ],
    "conditioning": [ { "role": "LoadImage", "file": "ref_myrna.png", "sha256": null } ],
    "seeds": { "6": 424242 },
    "prompt_text": "a woman lifts a cup, warm kitchen light",
    "env": { "comfyui": "0.8.32", "torch": "2.9.1", "gpu": "Apple MPS" }
  },
  "review": null
}

The node writes recipe and the identity fields only. review, gold, and blocks from other tools are kept as is.

Extraction does not depend on node names. Models are found by file extension, seeds by input name, the prompt by following positive links. New loaders and samplers work without a code change.

Roadmap

  • Gate node: pass and kill outputs after a judge, so post-processing runs on keepers only.
  • Regen driver: requeue kills with new seeds under a budget cap.

Develop

python3 -m unittest discover tests

No ComfyUI needed. See CONTRIBUTING.md.

Learn more

Guides from The Multimodal Society:

License

MIT.