What SwitchX 2.0 Does
You shoot a video. The background is wrong. The lighting is flat. The location does not match the brief. SwitchX 2.0 takes that video, a mask telling it what to keep, and a reference image showing the target look, and it swaps the entire environment while locking your subject pixel-for-pixel to the original footage.
This is not a filter. This is not a background remover. This is video-to-video compositing where the AI regenerates everything outside the masked area and relights the inside to match, and the result aligns frame-for-frame with your source.
The Five Upgrades That Matter
4K native output. The previous version maxed out at 1080p. SwitchX 2.0 reads your full-resolution source and renders at 3840×2160. The detail comes from your footage, not from an upscaler. Under the loupe, skin texture, fabric weave, and edge sharpness survive the switch.
20-second clips. Duration doubles from 10 to 20 seconds at 24fps, up to 480 frames. For short-form content, that covers an entire Reel or TikTok in one render. For narrative work, it means fewer cuts between model passes.
10-bit color. Output bit depth goes from 8-bit (256 levels per channel) to 10-bit (1,024 levels). Gradients, sky tones, and skin shadows no longer band when you push exposure or contrast in the grade. Every render downloads in both 10-bit MOV for color work and 8-bit MP4 for compatibility.
Camera tracking. Handheld, truck, pan, push-in. The generated environment now moves exactly with your source camera. Previous versions drifted on camera motion. 2.0 locks to parallax, speed, and direction so the replaced background scrolls naturally.
Fast motion fidelity. Lip sync, dance, fast gestures. Video models smear these. SwitchX 2.0 holds the detail through fast movement so every syllable lands and every step hits.
How the Workflow Actually Works
Three inputs. No timeline editing. No node graphs.
1. Source video. The footage you already shot. The performance, framing, and timing stay untouched.
2. Mask. White means keep these pixels (only relight to match the new environment). Black means regenerate this area from scratch following the reference.
3. Reference image. A single still frame showing how you want the shot to look. Outside the white mask, the model brings in the reference environment. Inside, only the lighting adjusts.
The reference is the most important input. A well-designed reference with clear environmental cues, consistent lighting direction, and the right mood gives dramatically better results than a vague snapshot.
What You Can Actually Make With It
Beeble shows examples across VFX use cases that all run from the same three-input workflow:
- Background swap. Shoot on greenscreen, replace with any environment. Or shoot on location and swap the location entirely.
- Relighting. Keep the same background, change the light direction, colour temperature, and intensity. Flat fluorescents become amber street glow.
- Crowd removal. Mask the subject, reference an empty street. Gone.
- Crowd addition. Mask the empty area, reference a bustling scene. The model generates the crowd while keeping your subject locked.
- Set extension. Your set ends at frame edge. Reference a wider environment and SwitchX builds the extension.
- Object replacement. Mask the object you want gone, reference what you want instead. A street sign becomes a storefront. A blank wall becomes a mural.
- Aging and destruction effects. Mask the building or surface, reference the aged or destroyed version. Fire, decay, weather damage all render through the pipeline.
- Costume changes. Mask the clothing area, reference the new outfit. The model regenerates the wardrobe while holding body motion.
The Draft-to-Final Workflow
4K renders are expensive. SwitchX 2.0 builds around that reality. You iterate at 720p or 1080p, tweaking the mask and reference until the result looks right. When you are happy, you hit the 4K final pass, which goes back to your original source and recovers its real detail. Same quality as generating natively in 4K, without burning 4K credits on drafts.
What This Unlocks for Creators
If you are making product videos, you can now shoot everything on a single backdrop and swap environments in post. No location scout, no weather dependency, no lighting setup per location. One shoot, infinite locations.
If you are running social content for a brand, you can relight the same footage for different campaign moods. The morning shoot becomes golden hour. The office backdrop becomes a rooftop. The flat-lit product shot becomes moody and dramatic.
If you are a solo filmmaker, SwitchX 2.0 gives you VFX compositing that used to require After Effects, a roto artist, and a colourist. The mask replaces the roto. The reference replaces the matte painting. The model replaces the keyer and the relighting pass.
The gap between “I shot this in my apartment” and “this looks like a real location” has been shrinking for two years. SwitchX 2.0 just cut it in half again.
Availability
SwitchX 2.0 is live in the Beeble cloud app, both as a node in the canvas editor and on the standalone SwitchX page. Pricing follows Beeble’s credit system with 4K rendering consuming more credits than the draft resolutions.
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