⚋ Frame Counter Info

The FRAME_COUNTER type in the Dream Project Animation Nodes pack is a bundle of information - current frame, total frames, fps - but a lot of ComfyUI nodes want plain numbers and booleans. Frame Counter Info [Dream] is the node that unpacks it. Feed it a frame counter and you get eight individual outputs you can wire into switches, math, or the logging system.

It's a utility from the 2023 Deforum-style animation pack by alt-key-project. Not actively maintained, but it's a getter - nothing to maintain.

What you get out

One input (frame_counter), eight outputs:

• frames_completed (INT) - current frame number
• total_frames (INT) - animation length
• first_frame (BOOLEAN) - true on frame 0
• last_frame (BOOLEAN) - true when this is the final frame
• elapsed_seconds (FLOAT), remaining_seconds (FLOAT), total_seconds (FLOAT) - time arithmetic from fps
• completion (FLOAT) - elapsed / total, i.e. 0.0 → 1.0 progress

The booleans come straight from the counter's definitions: first_frame is current == 0, last_frame is current + 1 == total. Nothing surprising, which is the point of a node like this.

The moves that matter

• Conditional one-time actions. "Only save the preview on the first frame" - that's first_frame into a switch. "Only run the post-processing on the last frame" - that's last_frame. These are the two outputs you'll use most, because frame-by-frame workflows are full of "do this once" moments.
• Progress feedback. completion into a log entry or a text node gives you a live 0.0–1.0 readout while a long render grinds. Combined with the pack's Log File node, you can see progress in the log instead of guessing.
• Time estimates. remaining_seconds is real data: wire it into the logging chain to see "estimated 14 minutes left" in your log file.

Installing

cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes
git clone https://github.com/alt-key-project/comfyui-dream-project.git

Or via ComfyUI Manager under "Dream Project Animation". No model downloads; the pack pulls imageio, scipy, torchvision, pilgram, and evalidate. Mind the numpy<2.0 pin. Find it under Dream → animation.