diff --git a/finetune/datasets/__init__.py b/finetune/datasets/__init__.py
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+from .i2v_dataset import I2VDatasetWithResize, I2VDatasetWithBuckets
+from .t2v_dataset import T2VDatasetWithResize, T2VDatasetWithBuckets
+from .bucket_sampler import BucketSampler
+
+
+__all__ = [
+    "I2VDatasetWithResize",
+    "I2VDatasetWithBuckets",
+    "T2VDatasetWithResize",
+    "T2VDatasetWithBuckets",
+    "BucketSampler"
+]
diff --git a/finetune/datasets/bucket_sampler.py b/finetune/datasets/bucket_sampler.py
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+++ b/finetune/datasets/bucket_sampler.py
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+import random
+import logging
+
+from torch.utils.data import Sampler
+from torch.utils.data import Dataset
+
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+class BucketSampler(Sampler):
+    r"""
+    PyTorch Sampler that groups 3D data by height, width and frames.
+
+    Args:
+        data_source (`VideoDataset`):
+            A PyTorch dataset object that is an instance of `VideoDataset`.
+        batch_size (`int`, defaults to `8`):
+            The batch size to use for training.
+        shuffle (`bool`, defaults to `True`):
+            Whether or not to shuffle the data in each batch before dispatching to dataloader.
+        drop_last (`bool`, defaults to `False`):
+            Whether or not to drop incomplete buckets of data after completely iterating over all data
+            in the dataset. If set to True, only batches that have `batch_size` number of entries will
+            be yielded. If set to False, it is guaranteed that all data in the dataset will be processed
+            and batches that do not have `batch_size` number of entries will also be yielded.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(
+        self, data_source: Dataset, batch_size: int = 8, shuffle: bool = True, drop_last: bool = False
+    ) -> None:
+        self.data_source = data_source
+        self.batch_size = batch_size
+        self.shuffle = shuffle
+        self.drop_last = drop_last
+
+        self.buckets = {resolution: [] for resolution in data_source.video_resolution_buckets}
+
+        self._raised_warning_for_drop_last = False
+
+
+    def __len__(self):
+        if self.drop_last and not self._raised_warning_for_drop_last:
+            self._raised_warning_for_drop_last = True
+            logger.warning(
+                "Calculating the length for bucket sampler is not possible when `drop_last` is set to True. This may cause problems when setting the number of epochs used for training."
+            )
+        return (len(self.data_source) + self.batch_size - 1) // self.batch_size
+
+
+    def __iter__(self):
+        for index, data in enumerate(self.data_source):
+            video_metadata = data["video_metadata"]
+            f, h, w = video_metadata["num_frames"], video_metadata["height"], video_metadata["width"]
+
+            self.buckets[(f, h, w)].append(data)
+            if len(self.buckets[(f, h, w)]) == self.batch_size:
+                if self.shuffle:
+                    random.shuffle(self.buckets[(f, h, w)])
+                yield self.buckets[(f, h, w)]
+                del self.buckets[(f, h, w)]
+                self.buckets[(f, h, w)] = []
+
+        if self.drop_last:
+            return
+
+        for fhw, bucket in list(self.buckets.items()):
+            if len(bucket) == 0:
+                continue
+            if self.shuffle:
+                random.shuffle(bucket)
+                yield bucket
+                del self.buckets[fhw]
+                self.buckets[fhw] = []
diff --git a/finetune/datasets/i2v_dataset.py b/finetune/datasets/i2v_dataset.py
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+++ b/finetune/datasets/i2v_dataset.py
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+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Dict, List, Tuple
+from typing_extensions import override
+
+import torch
+from accelerate.logging import get_logger
+from torch.utils.data import Dataset
+from torchvision import transforms
+
+from .utils import (
+    load_prompts, load_videos, load_images,
+
+    preprocess_image_with_resize,
+    preprocess_video_with_resize,
+    preprocess_video_with_buckets
+)
+
+# Must import after torch because this can sometimes lead to a nasty segmentation fault, or stack smashing error
+# Very few bug reports but it happens. Look in decord Github issues for more relevant information.
+import decord  # isort:skip
+
+decord.bridge.set_bridge("torch")
+
+logger = get_logger(__name__)
+
+
+class BaseI2VDataset(Dataset):
+    """
+
+    """
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        data_root: str,
+        caption_column: str,
+        video_column: str,
+        image_column: str,
+        *args,
+        **kwargs
+    ) -> None:
+        super().__init__()
+
+        data_root = Path(data_root)
+        self.prompts = load_prompts(data_root / caption_column)
+        self.videos = load_videos(data_root / video_column)
+        self.images = load_images(data_root / image_column)
+
+        # Check if number of prompts matches number of videos and images
+        if not (len(self.videos) == len(self.prompts) == len(self.images)):
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"Expected length of prompts, videos and images to be the same but found {len(self.prompts)=}, {len(self.videos)=} and {len(self.images)=}. Please ensure that the number of caption prompts, videos and images match in your dataset."
+            )
+
+        # Check if all video files exist
+        if any(not path.is_file() for path in self.videos):
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"Some video files were not found. Please ensure that all video files exist in the dataset directory. Missing file: {next(path for path in self.videos if not path.is_file())}"
+            )
+
+        # Check if all image files exist
+        if any(not path.is_file() for path in self.images):
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"Some image files were not found. Please ensure that all image files exist in the dataset directory. Missing file: {next(path for path in self.images if not path.is_file())}"
+            )
+
+    def __len__(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.videos)
+
+    def __getitem__(self, index: int) -> Dict[str, Any]:
+        if isinstance(index, list):
+            # Here, index is actually a list of data objects that we need to return.
+            # The BucketSampler should ideally return indices. But, in the sampler, we'd like
+            # to have information about num_frames, height and width. Since this is not stored
+            # as metadata, we need to read the video to get this information. You could read this
+            # information without loading the full video in memory, but we do it anyway. In order
+            # to not load the video twice (once to get the metadata, and once to return the loaded video
+            # based on sampled indices), we cache it in the BucketSampler. When the sampler is
+            # to yield, we yield the cache data instead of indices. So, this special check ensures
+            # that data is not loaded a second time. PRs are welcome for improvements.
+            return index
+
+        prompt = self.prompts[index]
+
+        # shape of frames: [F, C, H, W]
+        # shape of image: [C, H, W]
+        frames, image = self.preprocess(self.videos[index], self.images[index])
+
+        frames = self.video_transform(frames)
+        image = self.image_transform(image)
+
+        return {
+            "prompt": prompt,
+            "video": frames,
+            "video_metadata": {
+                "num_frames": frames.shape[0],
+                "height": frames.shape[2],
+                "width": frames.shape[3],
+            },
+            "image": image
+        }
+
+    def preprocess(self, video_path: Path, image_path: Path) -> Tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
+        """
+        Loads and preprocesses a video and an image.
+
+        Args:
+            video_path: Path to the video file to load
+            image_path: Path to the image file to load
+
+        Returns:
+            A tuple containing:
+                - video(torch.Tensor) of shape [F, C, H, W] where F is number of frames,
+                  C is number of channels, H is height and W is width
+                - image(torch.Tensor) of shape [C, H, W]
+        """
+        raise NotImplementedError("Subclass must implement this method")
+    
+    def video_transform(self, frames: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        """
+        Applies transformations to a video.
+
+        Args:
+            frames (torch.Tensor): A 4D tensor representing a video
+                with shape [F, C, H, W] where:
+                - F is number of frames
+                - C is number of channels (3 for RGB)
+                - H is height 
+                - W is width
+
+        Returns:
+            torch.Tensor: The transformed video tensor
+        """
+        raise NotImplementedError("Subclass must implement this method")
+    
+    def image_transform(self, image: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        """
+        Applies transformations to an image.
+
+        Args:
+            image (torch.Tensor): A 3D tensor representing an image
+                with shape [C, H, W] where:
+                - C is number of channels (3 for RGB)
+                - H is height 
+                - W is width
+
+        Returns:
+            torch.Tensor: The transformed image tensor
+        """
+        raise NotImplementedError("Subclass must implement this method")
+
+
+class I2VDatasetWithResize(BaseI2VDataset):
+    """
+
+    """
+    def __init__(self, max_num_frames: int, height: int, width: int, *args, **kwargs) -> None:
+        super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
+
+        self.max_num_frames = max_num_frames
+        self.height = height
+        self.width = width
+
+        self.__frame_transforms = transforms.Compose(
+            [
+                transforms.Lambda(lambda x: x / 255.0 * 2.0 - 1.0)
+            ]
+        )
+    
+    @override
+    def preprocess(self, video_path: Path, image_path: Path) -> Tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
+        video = preprocess_video_with_resize(video_path, self.max_num_frames, self.height, self.width)
+        image = preprocess_image_with_resize(image_path, self.height, self.width)
+        return video, image
+    
+    @override
+    def video_transform(self, frames: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        return torch.stack([self.__frame_transforms(f) for f in frames], dim=0)
+
+
+class I2VDatasetWithBuckets(BaseI2VDataset):
+    """
+
+    """
+    def __init__(self, video_resolution_buckets: List[Tuple[int, int, int]], *args, **kwargs) -> None:
+        super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
+
+        self.video_resolution_buckets = video_resolution_buckets
+        self.__frame_transforms = transforms.Compose(
+            [
+                transforms.Lambda(lambda x: x / 255.0 * 2.0 - 1.0)
+            ]
+        )
+        self.__image_transforms = self.__frame_transforms
+    
+    @override
+    def preprocess(self, video_path: Path, image_path: Path) -> Tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
+        video = preprocess_video_with_buckets(video_path, self.video_resolution_buckets)
+        image = preprocess_image_with_resize(image_path, video.shape[2], video.shape[3])
+        return video, image
+
+    @override   
+    def video_transform(self, frames: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        return torch.stack([self.__frame_transforms(f) for f in frames], dim=0)
+    
+    @override
+    def image_transform(self, image: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        return self.__image_transforms(image)
diff --git a/finetune/datasets/t2v_dataset.py b/finetune/datasets/t2v_dataset.py
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+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Dict, List, Tuple
+from typing_extensions import override
+
+import torch
+from accelerate.logging import get_logger
+from torch.utils.data import Dataset
+from torchvision import transforms
+
+from .utils import (
+    load_prompts, load_videos,
+    preprocess_video_with_resize,
+    preprocess_video_with_buckets
+)
+
+# Must import after torch because this can sometimes lead to a nasty segmentation fault, or stack smashing error
+# Very few bug reports but it happens. Look in decord Github issues for more relevant information.
+import decord  # isort:skip
+
+decord.bridge.set_bridge("torch")
+
+logger = get_logger(__name__)
+
+
+class BaseT2VDataset(Dataset):
+    """
+
+    """
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        data_root: str,
+        caption_column: str,
+        video_column: str,
+        *args,
+        **kwargs
+    ) -> None:
+        super().__init__()
+
+        data_root = Path(data_root)
+        self.prompts = load_prompts(data_root / caption_column)
+        self.videos = load_videos(data_root / video_column)
+
+        # Check if all video files exist
+        if any(not path.is_file() for path in self.videos):
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"Some video files were not found. Please ensure that all video files exist in the dataset directory. Missing file: {next(path for path in self.videos if not path.is_file())}"
+            )
+
+        # Check if number of prompts matches number of videos
+        if len(self.videos) != len(self.prompts):
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"Expected length of prompts and videos to be the same but found {len(self.prompts)=} and {len(self.videos)=}. Please ensure that the number of caption prompts and videos match in your dataset."
+            )
+
+    def __len__(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.videos)
+
+    def __getitem__(self, index: int) -> Dict[str, Any]:
+        if isinstance(index, list):
+            # Here, index is actually a list of data objects that we need to return.
+            # The BucketSampler should ideally return indices. But, in the sampler, we'd like
+            # to have information about num_frames, height and width. Since this is not stored
+            # as metadata, we need to read the video to get this information. You could read this
+            # information without loading the full video in memory, but we do it anyway. In order
+            # to not load the video twice (once to get the metadata, and once to return the loaded video
+            # based on sampled indices), we cache it in the BucketSampler. When the sampler is
+            # to yield, we yield the cache data instead of indices. So, this special check ensures
+            # that data is not loaded a second time. PRs are welcome for improvements.
+            return index
+
+        prompt = self.prompts[index]
+
+        # shape of frames: [F, C, H, W]
+        frames = self.preprocess(self.videos[index])
+        frames = self.video_transform(frames)
+
+        return {
+            "prompt": prompt,
+            "video": frames,
+            "video_metadata": {
+                "num_frames": frames.shape[0],
+                "height": frames.shape[2],
+                "width": frames.shape[3],
+            },
+        }
+
+    def preprocess(self, video_path: Path) -> torch.Tensor:
+        """
+        Loads and preprocesses a video.
+
+        Args:
+            video_path: Path to the video file to load.
+
+        Returns:
+            torch.Tensor: Video tensor of shape [F, C, H, W] where:
+                - F is number of frames
+                - C is number of channels (3 for RGB)
+                - H is height
+                - W is width
+        """
+        raise NotImplementedError("Subclass must implement this method")
+    
+    def video_transform(self, frames: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        """
+        Applies transformations to a video.
+
+        Args:
+            frames (torch.Tensor): A 4D tensor representing a video
+                with shape [F, C, H, W] where:
+                - F is number of frames
+                - C is number of channels (3 for RGB)
+                - H is height 
+                - W is width
+
+        Returns:
+            torch.Tensor: The transformed video tensor
+        """
+        raise NotImplementedError("Subclass must implement this method")
+
+
+class T2VDatasetWithResize(BaseT2VDataset):
+    """
+
+    """
+    def __init__(self, max_num_frames: int, height: int, width: int, *args, **kwargs) -> None:
+        super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
+
+        self.max_num_frames = max_num_frames
+        self.height = height
+        self.width = width
+
+        self.__frame_transform = transforms.Compose(
+            [
+                transforms.Lambda(lambda x: x / 255.0 * 2.0 - 1.0)
+            ]
+        )
+    
+    @override
+    def preprocess(self, video_path: Path) -> torch.Tensor:
+        return preprocess_video_with_resize(
+            video_path, self.max_num_frames, self.height, self.width,
+        )
+    
+    @override
+    def video_transform(self, frames: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        return torch.stack([self.__frame_transform(f) for f in frames], dim=0)
+
+
+class T2VDatasetWithBuckets(BaseT2VDataset):
+    """
+
+    """
+    def __init__(self, video_resolution_buckets: List[Tuple[int, int, int]], *args, **kwargs) -> None:
+        """
+        Args:
+            resolution_buckets: List of tuples representing the resolution buckets.
+                Each tuple contains three integers: (max_num_frames, height, width).
+        """
+        super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
+
+        self.video_resolution_buckets = video_resolution_buckets
+
+        self.__frame_transform = transforms.Compose(
+            [
+                transforms.Lambda(lambda x: x / 255.0 * 2.0 - 1.0)
+            ]
+        )
+    
+    @override
+    def preprocess(self, video_path: Path) -> torch.Tensor:
+        return preprocess_video_with_buckets(
+            video_path, self.video_resolution_buckets
+        )
+    
+    @override
+    def video_transform(self, frames: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        return torch.stack([self.__frame_transform(f) for f in frames], dim=0)
diff --git a/finetune/datasets/utils.py b/finetune/datasets/utils.py
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+++ b/finetune/datasets/utils.py
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+import torch
+import cv2
+
+from typing import List, Tuple
+from pathlib import Path
+from torchvision import transforms
+from torchvision.transforms.functional import resize
+
+# Must import after torch because this can sometimes lead to a nasty segmentation fault, or stack smashing error
+# Very few bug reports but it happens. Look in decord Github issues for more relevant information.
+import decord  # isort:skip
+
+decord.bridge.set_bridge("torch")
+
+
+##########  loaders  ##########
+
+def load_prompts(prompt_path: Path) -> List[str]:
+    with open(prompt_path, "r", encoding="utf-8") as file:
+        return [line.strip() for line in file.readlines() if len(line.strip()) > 0]
+
+
+def load_videos(video_path: Path) -> List[Path]:
+    with open(video_path, "r", encoding="utf-8") as file:
+        return [video_path.parent / line.strip() for line in file.readlines() if len(line.strip()) > 0]
+
+
+def load_images(image_path: Path) -> List[Path]:
+    with open(image_path, "r", encoding="utf-8") as file:
+        return [image_path.parent / line.strip() for line in file.readlines() if len(line.strip()) > 0]
+
+
+##########  preprocessors  ##########
+
+def preprocess_image_with_resize(
+    image_path: Path,
+    height: int,
+    width: int,
+) -> torch.Tensor:
+    """
+    Loads and resizes a single image.
+
+    Args:
+        image_path: Path to the image file.
+        height: Target height for resizing.
+        width: Target width for resizing.
+
+    Returns:
+        torch.Tensor: Image tensor with shape [C, H, W] where:
+            C = number of channels (3 for RGB)
+            H = height
+            W = width
+    """
+    image = cv2.imread(image_path.as_posix())
+    image = cv2.cvtColor(image, cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGB)
+    image = cv2.resize(image, (width, height))
+    image = torch.from_numpy(image).float()
+    image = image.permute(2, 0, 1).contiguous()
+    return image
+
+
+def preprocess_video_with_resize(
+    video_path: Path,
+    max_num_frames: int,
+    height: int,
+    width: int,
+) -> torch.Tensor:
+    """
+    Loads and resizes a single video.
+
+    The function processes the video through these steps:
+      1. If video frame count > max_num_frames, downsample frames evenly
+      2. If video dimensions don't match (height, width), resize frames
+
+    Args:
+        video_path: Path to the video file.
+        max_num_frames: Maximum number of frames to keep.
+        height: Target height for resizing.
+        width: Target width for resizing.
+
+    Returns:
+        A torch.Tensor with shape [F, C, H, W] where:
+          F = number of frames
+          C = number of channels (3 for RGB)
+          H = height
+          W = width
+    """
+    video_reader = decord.VideoReader(uri=video_path.as_posix(), width=width, height=height)
+    video_num_frames = len(video_reader)
+
+    indices = list(range(0, video_num_frames, video_num_frames // max_num_frames))
+    frames = video_reader.get_batch(indices)
+    frames = frames[: max_num_frames].float()
+    frames = frames.permute(0, 3, 1, 2).contiguous()
+    return frames
+
+
+def preprocess_video_with_buckets(
+    video_path: Path,
+    resolution_buckets: List[Tuple[int, int, int]],
+) -> torch.Tensor:
+    """
+    Args:
+        video_path: Path to the video file.
+        resolution_buckets: List of tuples (num_frames, height, width) representing
+            available resolution buckets.
+
+    Returns:
+        torch.Tensor: Video tensor with shape [F, C, H, W] where:
+            F = number of frames
+            C = number of channels (3 for RGB)
+            H = height
+            W = width
+
+    The function processes the video through these steps:
+        1. Finds nearest frame bucket <= video frame count
+        2. Downsamples frames evenly to match bucket size
+        3. Finds nearest resolution bucket based on dimensions
+        4. Resizes frames to match bucket resolution
+    """
+    video_reader = decord.VideoReader(uri=video_path.as_posix())
+    video_num_frames = len(video_reader)
+    resolution_buckets = [bucket for bucket in resolution_buckets if bucket[0] <= video_num_frames]
+    if len(resolution_buckets) == 0:
+        raise ValueError(f"video frame count in {video_path} is less than all frame buckets {resolution_buckets}")
+
+    nearest_frame_bucket = min(
+        resolution_buckets,
+        key=lambda bucket: video_num_frames - bucket[0],
+        default=1,
+    )[0]
+    frame_indices = list(range(0, video_num_frames, video_num_frames // nearest_frame_bucket))
+    frames = video_reader.get_batch(frame_indices)
+    frames = frames[:nearest_frame_bucket].float()
+    frames = frames.permute(0, 3, 1, 2).contiguous()
+
+    nearest_res = min(resolution_buckets, key=lambda x: abs(x[1] - frames.shape[2]) + abs(x[2] - frames.shape[3]))
+    nearest_res = (nearest_res[1], nearest_res[2])
+    frames = torch.stack([resize(f, nearest_res) for f in frames], dim=0)
+
+    return frames
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