JoyLTX Image Folder (one image per shot)

The Multishot sampler can take one image per shot - as a first frame, an end keyframe, or an identity reference - but feeding it a stack of images through individual Load Image nodes gets silly fast. JoyLTX Image Folder loads a whole folder of pictures as a single batch, sorted by filename, so shot 1 gets image 01, shot 2 gets 02, and so on. If you're storyboarding a take in another tool and dropping the frames into ComfyUI/input, this is the node that picks them up without any per-image wiring.

Setup is short. Make a folder under ComfyUI/input, name the images in shot order (01.png, 02.png ...), pick it in the folder dropdown, and flip enabled on. Name the files so a plain alphabetic sort gives you the right order - zero-padded numbers work, "frame10.png" before "frame9.png" does not. The dropdown only lists folders that actually contain images, and the tooltip's reminder to press R to refresh applies: ComfyUI caches the folder list at startup, so a folder you just dropped in won't show up until you refresh the node list or restart.

Under the hood it reads every image, transposes EXIF, and resizes everything to match the first image's dimensions, then stacks them into one IMAGE tensor. That resize matters more than it sounds: the sampler expects a consistent batch, and a mix of sizes would quietly break downstream. It also keys its "did I change?" check on file mtimes, so swapping a picture in the folder on disk makes the node re-run on the next queue - no manual bypass. If the folder is empty or enabled is off, it emits (None, 0), which downstream slots read as "nothing connected" rather than an error.

The two outputs are images (the batch) and count (how many pictures were loaded). Wire images into the sampler's shot_images or end_images slot; count is there for logging or for anything that wants to know how many shots you actually staged. One tip from the pack's own design: the folder is the poor man's storyboard - if you want character-consistent reference photos instead of per-shot frames, that's JoyLTX Refs by Name, and this node is the wrong tool. It's strictly "one specific picture per shot."

It comes with the ComfyUI-JoyLTX25 pack, needs nothing extra, and on a 14-shot project it replaces fourteen Load Image nodes with one dropdown. That alone is worth the install.