Beauty Box Video is a skin-retouching and digital makeup plug-in for video post-production from Digital Anarchy. It automatically identifies skin regions, creates masks, and tracks the subject to smooth wrinkles, reduce blemishes, and control unwanted skin shine while preserving important facial details.

Instead of manually masking and retouching individual frames, Beauty Box analyzes the footage and limits its processing to detected skin regions. Editors can then adjust the smoothing controls to produce anything from subtle, natural retouching to a more pronounced beauty treatment.

Beauty Box 6.5 expands the AI-assisted toolset with teeth and eye whitening, improved face detection, and a new GPU-powered inference engine for faster processing.

FEATURES

• Automatic skin detection
• Automatic skin masks
• Skin tracking through subject movement and facial expressions
• Video skin smoothing
• Wrinkle and blemish reduction
• Preservation of important facial details
• Adjustable smoothing intensity
• AI-based Shine Removal
• Integrated skin color correction
• Digital makeup workflow
• Pre-built Style presets
• GPU-accelerated processing
• Apple Metal, NVIDIA CUDA, and OpenCL support
• Real-time or near-real-time performance depending on hardware and footage
• HD and 4K workflows
• Support for multiple professional video applications

AUTOMATIC MASKING

Analyze Frame simplifies the process of identifying skin. Beauty Box analyzes the image, detects skin tones, and generates a mask that limits retouching to the appropriate regions.

The automated mask follows subject movement and facial expressions, significantly reducing the amount of manual masking or rotoscoping required.

SKIN SMOOTHING

Beauty Box's Skin Smoothing controls are designed to reduce:

• Wrinkles
• Skin blemishes
• Uneven skin texture
• Unwanted fine details
• Harsh skin detail emphasized by HD and 4K footage

Retouching intensity can range from very subtle correction to a more pronounced airbrushed appearance.

The processing is designed to smooth skin while retaining important facial details rather than simply blurring the entire face.

SHINE REMOVAL

Beauty Box 6 introduced AI-based Shine Removal for reducing unwanted highlights caused by oily skin, strong lighting, or challenging shooting conditions.

It can be particularly useful for:

• Interviews
• Commercials
• Beauty and fashion work
• Music videos
• Strongly lit faces
• Footage with distracting skin highlights

DIGITAL MAKEUP & COLOR CORRECTION

Beauty Box goes beyond smoothing by providing integrated color correction for skin tones.

This allows smoothing, shine reduction, and skin color refinement to be combined within the same post-production workflow.

PRESET STYLES

Beauty Box includes pre-built Styles combining visual treatments and color correction.

These presets provide quick starting points for retouching and creative treatments before further manual refinement.

AI WHITENING – VERSION 6.5

Beauty Box 6.5 introduces AI-powered teeth and eye whitening.

The system can automatically identify:

• Eyes
• Mouth
• Teeth

Editors retain control over masks, color, smoothing, and feathering to refine the result for individual shots.

IMPROVED FACE DETECTION

Version 6.5 improves facial detection and introduces a new GPU-powered inference engine designed to accelerate AI-based analysis.

FACIAL SPLINES – AFTER EFFECTS

Beauty Box 6.5 can also convert AI face-tracking information into editable native masks in Adobe After Effects.

Detected facial regions include:

• Left and right eyes
• Left and right eyebrows
• Nose
• Lips
• Mouth
• Face

These splines can be exported as editable After Effects masks and used beyond Beauty Box itself.

Possible applications include:

• Lip color adjustment
• Eye color changes
• Redness reduction
• Local exposure and color correction
• Selective sharpening of eyes and lips
• Creative effects applied to individual facial regions

This editable facial-spline workflow is specific to After Effects and should not be assumed to be available in every supported host application.

GPU ACCELERATION

Beauty Box is optimized for GPU processing technologies including:

• Apple Metal
• NVIDIA CUDA
• OpenCL
• Apple Silicon

GPU acceleration enables faster skin smoothing and retouching, with real-time or near-real-time playback possible on appropriate hardware.

COMPATIBILITY

Beauty Box Video supports:

• Adobe After Effects
• Adobe Premiere Pro
• Final Cut Pro
• Avid Media Composer
• DaVinci Resolve
• Supported OpenFX applications such as Nuke

Exact operating-system and version requirements vary by host application.

Beauty Box 6.5 installers are available for supported hosts, although Digital Anarchy's DaVinci Resolve/OpenFX download page was still listing Beauty Box Video 6.0 when checked. Use the installer that corresponds to your host application and license.

MAC & WINDOWS

• Windows 10 or later according to Digital Anarchy's general support specifications
• macOS
• Intel and Apple Silicon Mac support
• Exact requirements vary between Adobe, Final Cut Pro, Avid, and OpenFX builds

NOTE

Beauty Box Video is not limited to faces. It can also retouch other skin regions such as arms and legs, although these situations may require manual skin-tone selection rather than relying entirely on facial detection.

Beauty Box is designed to streamline natural-looking skin retouching and reduce manual masking work. More complex corrections or highly localized treatments may still benefit from the host application's masking, tracking, and compositing tools.