🔥 Stop Struggling With OVI Setup – This Guide Has Every Link, Model & Step You Need (Patreon)

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You're about to unlock OVI – a super cool AI video tool available right now. This guide will transform you from zero to hero in minutes.

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🛠️ THE MANUAL WAY (For the Brave)

Want full control? Let's build this thing from scratch.

📋 PHASE 1: Foundation Setup

Step 1: Core Software Stack

WhatWhy You Need ItLinkGitDownloads and manages code repositoriesDownload GitComfyUIYour AI workspace/command center

Get ComfyUI

Step 2: Install ComfyUI Manager

Your dashboard for managing all future extensions.

Bash

# Open CMD/Terminal in: ComfyUI\custom_nodes git clone https://github.com/Comfy-Org/ComfyUI-Manager.git

✅ Pro Tip: This is your new best friend. Most other nodes can be installed through this manager with one click.

🧩 PHASE 2: Essential Plugins

Install these custom nodes via ComfyUI Manager OR git clone:

🔸 WanVideo Wrapper – Core OVI functionality
https://github.com/kijai/ComfyUI-WanVideoWrapper

🔸 VideoHelper Suite – Video processing tools
https://github.com/Kosinkadink/ComfyUI-VideoHelperSuite

🔸 Essentials – Quality-of-life improvements
https://github.com/cubiq/ComfyUI_essentials

🔸 Use Everywhere – Workflow organization
https://github.com/chrisgoringe/cg-use-everywhere

🔸 KJNodes – Advanced node collection
https://github.com/kijai/ComfyUI-KJNodes

🔸 rgthree – Power user tools
https://github.com/rgthree/rgthree-comfy

🧠 PHASE 3: The Brain (AI Models)

Now for the good stuff – the actual AI models.

📊 CHOOSE YOUR PATH (Based on GPU VRAM)

🔥 12-16 GB VRAM (Most RTX 3080/3090/4070Ti/4080 users)

Use the FP8 scaled versions – optimized for speed & efficiency

📁 Place in: models\diffusion_models

Video Model:

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https://huggingface.co/Kijai/WanVideo_comfy_fp8_scaled/resolve/main/TI2V/Ovi/Wan2_2_Ovi_Video_fp8_e4m3fn_scaled_KJ.safetensors

Audio Model:

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https://huggingface.co/Kijai/WanVideo_comfy_fp8_scaled/resolve/main/TI2V/Ovi/Wan2_2_Ovi_Audio_fp8_e4m3fn_scaled_KJ.safetensors

💪 16+ GB VRAM (RTX 4090/5090/Professional Cards)

Use the BF16 versions – maximum quality, no compromises

📁 Place in: models\diffusion_models

Video Model:

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https://huggingface.co/Kijai/WanVideo_comfy/resolve/main/Ovi/Wan_2_2_Ovi_video_model_bf16.safetensors

Audio Model:

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https://huggingface.co/Kijai/WanVideo_comfy/resolve/main/Ovi/Wan_2_2_Ovi_audio_model_bf16.safetensors

📚 Full Model Library: Browse here

🎵 PHASE 4: Audio Processing (EVERYONE NEEDS BOTH)

📁 Place in: models\vae

Audio VAE:

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https://huggingface.co/Kijai/WanVideo_comfy/resolve/main/Ovi/mmaudio_vae_16k_fp32.safetensors

Audio BIG VAE:

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https://huggingface.co/Kijai/WanVideo_comfy/resolve/main/Ovi/mmaudio_vocoder_bigvgan_best_netG_fp32.safetensors

⚠️ Critical: You must download BOTH audio files or sound generation won't work!

🧬 PHASE 5: Text Encoder (The Prompt Interpreter)

This is what translates your creative descriptions into AI instructions.

📁 Place in: models\text_encoders

Download:

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https://huggingface.co/Kijai/WanVideo_comfy/resolve/main/umt5-xxl-enc-bf16.safetensors

🖼️ PHASE 6: VAE (Variational AutoEncoder)

The final piece – converts AI data into beautiful visuals.

📁 Place in: models\vae

Download:

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https://huggingface.co/Kijai/WanVideo_comfy/resolve/main/Wan2_2_VAE_bf16.safetensors

✅ FINAL CHECKLIST

Before you launch ComfyUI, verify:

• Git installed

• ⬇️Workflows downloaded⬇️

• ComfyUI downloaded & extracted

• ComfyUI Manager installed

• All 6 custom nodes installed

• Video + Audio models (matched to your VRAM)

• Both audio VAE files

• Text encoder

• Visual VAE

🎬 YOU'RE READY TO CREATE!

Everything is locked and loaded. Fire up ComfyUI and let's make some magic.