diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 99739046ab..3b69872523 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2996,6 +2996,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde_json",
  "sha2",
  "sqlx",
+ "subprocess",
  "tempdir",
  "time 0.2.26",
  "tokio 0.2.25",
@@ -3012,6 +3013,16 @@ dependencies = [
  "unicode-normalization",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "subprocess"
+version = "0.2.7"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "334b801f9ca2529ba9605109f1d2835f15aff94cd6cfe5afe6ce8cf71e5fd3c4"
+dependencies = [
+ "libc",
+ "winapi 0.3.9",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "subtle"
 version = "2.4.0"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 0897048b18..b303005d4f 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ ring = "0.17.0-alpha.10"
 #rust-s3 = { version = "0.27.0-rc4", features = ["with-async-std"], default-features = false }
 rust-s3 = { version = "0.26" }
 
+subprocess = "0.2.6"
 tempdir = "0.3.7"
 
 # Web
diff --git a/src/script_execution/mod.rs b/src/script_execution/mod.rs
index 49f2e9d2cf..41465de59d 100644
--- a/src/script_execution/mod.rs
+++ b/src/script_execution/mod.rs
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 pub mod google_drive_download_command;
+pub mod wav2lip_preprocess_command;
diff --git a/src/script_execution/wav2lip_preprocess_command.rs b/src/script_execution/wav2lip_preprocess_command.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1ab44b1d9c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/script_execution/wav2lip_preprocess_command.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,154 @@
+use crate::AnyhowResult;
+use log::{info,warn};
+use std::process::{Command, Stdio};
+use subprocess::{Popen, PopenConfig, Redirection};
+use std::fs::OpenOptions;
+
+/// This command is used to preprocess the face detection frames from user-submitted video.
+/// This should only ever need to run once. The frames can then be uploaded to Buckets and saved.
+#[derive(Clone)]
+pub struct Wav2LipPreprocessClient {
+  w2l_directory: String,
+  script_name: String,
+  checkpoint_path: String,
+  temp_directory: String,
+  audio_start_pad_millis: Option<u32>,
+  audio_end_pad_millis: Option<u32>,
+  end_bump_filename: Option<String>,
+}
+
+impl Wav2LipPreprocessClient {
+  pub fn new(
+    w2l_directory: &str,
+    script_name: &str,
+    checkpoint_path: &str,
+    temp_directory: &str,
+    audio_start_pad_millis: Option<u32>,
+    audio_end_pad_millis: Option<u32>,
+    end_bump_filename: Option<String>,
+  ) -> Self {
+    Self {
+      w2l_directory: w2l_directory.to_string(),
+      script_name: script_name.to_string(),
+      checkpoint_path: checkpoint_path.to_string(),
+      temp_directory: temp_directory.to_string(),
+      audio_start_pad_millis,
+      audio_end_pad_millis,
+      end_bump_filename,
+    }
+  }
+
+  pub fn execute(&self,
+                 audio_filename: &str,
+                 image_or_video_filename: &str,
+                 output_video_filename: &str,
+                 is_image: bool,
+                 disable_end_bump: bool,
+                 spawn_process: bool) -> AnyhowResult<()>
+  {
+    let mut command = String::new();
+
+    command.push_str("echo 'test'");
+    command.push_str(" && ");
+    command.push_str(&format!("cd {}", self.w2l_directory));
+    command.push_str(" && ");
+    command.push_str("source python/bin/activate");
+    command.push_str(" && ");
+    command.push_str("python ");
+    command.push_str(&self.script_name);
+    command.push_str(" --checkpoint_path ");
+    command.push_str(&self.checkpoint_path);
+    command.push_str(" --face ");
+    command.push_str(image_or_video_filename);
+    command.push_str(" --audio ");
+    command.push_str(audio_filename);
+    command.push_str(" --outfile ");
+    command.push_str(output_video_filename);
+
+    if let Some(millis) = self.audio_start_pad_millis {
+      command.push_str(" --audio_start_pad_millis ");
+      command.push_str(&millis.to_string());
+    }
+
+    if let Some(millis) = self.audio_end_pad_millis {
+      command.push_str(" --audio_end_pad_millis ");
+      command.push_str(&millis.to_string());
+    }
+
+    if !disable_end_bump {
+      if let Some(end_bump_filename) = self.end_bump_filename.as_ref() {
+        command.push_str(" --end_bump_file ");
+        command.push_str(end_bump_filename);
+      }
+    }
+
+    if is_image {
+      command.push_str(" --is_image ");
+    }
+
+    info!("Command: {:?}", command);
+
+    let command_parts = [
+      "bash",
+      "-c",
+      &command
+    ];
+
+    if spawn_process {
+      // NB: This forks and returns immediately.
+      //let _child_pid = command_builder.spawn()?;
+
+      let stdout_file = OpenOptions::new()
+        .read(true)
+        .write(true)
+        .create(true)
+        .truncate(true)
+        .open("/tmp/stdout.txt")?;
+
+      let stderr_file = OpenOptions::new()
+        .read(true)
+        .write(true)
+        .create(true)
+        .truncate(true)
+        .open("/tmp/stderr.txt")?;
+
+      let mut p = Popen::create(&command_parts, PopenConfig {
+        //stdout: Redirection::Pipe,
+        //stderr: Redirection::Pipe,
+        stdout: Redirection::File(stdout_file),
+        stderr: Redirection::File(stderr_file),
+        ..Default::default()
+      })?;
+
+      info!("Pid : {:?}", p.pid());
+
+      p.detach();
+
+    } else {
+      // NB: This is a blocking call.
+      /*let output = command_builder.output()?;
+
+      info!("Output status: {}", output.status);
+      info!("Stdout: {:?}", String::from_utf8(output.stdout));
+      error!("Stderr: {:?}", String::from_utf8(output.stderr));
+
+      if !output.status.success() {
+        bail!("Bad error code: {:?}", output.status);
+      }*/
+
+      let mut p = Popen::create(&command_parts, PopenConfig {
+        //stdout: Redirection::Pipe,
+        //stderr: Redirection::Pipe,
+        ..Default::default()
+      })?;
+
+      info!("Pid : {:?}", p.pid());
+
+      let exit_status = p.wait()?;
+
+      info!("Exit status: {:?}", exit_status);
+    }
+
+    Ok(())
+  }
+}