Load Video (Yogurt Nodes)

If you're doing video in ComfyUI - LTX, Wan, Hunyuan, whatever the current thing is - the graph starts with a video sitting on disk and ends with one on disk, and in between you need something to bring that clip in. YogurtLoadVideo is that something: pick a file from your input folder, optionally trim the front and back, get a VIDEO output.

It's part of ComfyUI-YogurtNodes, yogurt7771's 150+ node all-in-one pack - obscure, MIT-licensed, auto-generated README, no community footprint - and it's one of those IO nodes that's unremarkable until you realize how often video workflows need exactly a "load with a start/end trim" and how rarely stock ComfyUI ships one with trim built in.

How it works

The video input is a dropdown populated at runtime from your ComfyUI input directory - drop clip.mp4 into ComfyUI/input and it appears. Then two trimming fields, both in seconds: start_time (0 = from the beginning) and end_time.

The usual gotcha applies: end_time of 0 means "no end limit", not "zero seconds". Leave it at 0 to load the whole clip; set 15.0 to keep only the first fifteen seconds. Both step at 0.01s, so you can cut fairly precisely.

The output is a single VIDEO in the standard ComfyUI video format, which wires into whatever video pipeline you're running - video-to-frames, interpolation, VACE-style editing, or a combine node at the end of the line.

Where you'll use it

• Loading a source clip for img2vid, video editing, or extension workflows.
• Trimming out a section you want to work on, so downstream frame extraction doesn't chew through the whole file.
• Feeding a reference clip into a pipeline without preprocessing it elsewhere.

The folder rule is the one habit to keep: it has to live in ComfyUI/input to appear in the dropdown. If your clip lives elsewhere on disk, the pack also ships Load Video Path, which takes an absolute path string instead - same idea, no file-copying.

Install

ComfyUI Manager, search ComfyUI-YogurtNodes, install, restart. Or:

cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes
git clone https://github.com/yogurt7771/ComfyUI-YogurtNodes
cd ComfyUI-YogurtNodes
pip install -r requirements.txt

Restart, look under "Yogurt Nodes". Light dependencies (numpy, pillow, requests, opencv-python), no model downloads - the heavy AI-client libraries in the pack only load when you touch the LLM nodes, so installing for a loader gets you nothing extra to babysit.