diff --git a/comfy/ldm/lightricks/vae/causal_video_autoencoder.py b/comfy/ldm/lightricks/vae/causal_video_autoencoder.py
index 035f1ff36..a2c59dc84 100644
--- a/comfy/ldm/lightricks/vae/causal_video_autoencoder.py
+++ b/comfy/ldm/lightricks/vae/causal_video_autoencoder.py
@@ -1265,9 +1265,7 @@ class VideoVAE(nn.Module):
         return config
 
     def encode(self, x):
-        frames_count = x.shape[2]
-        if ((frames_count - 1) % 8) != 0:
-            raise ValueError("Invalid number of frames: Encode input must have 1 + 8 * x frames (e.g., 1, 9, 17, ...). Please check your input.")
+        x = x[:, :, :max(1, 1 + ((x.shape[2] - 1) // 8) * 8), :, :]
         means, logvar = torch.chunk(self.encoder(x), 2, dim=1)
         return self.per_channel_statistics.normalize(means)