Maybe it’s a feature request or maybe it is a bug fix request.
So the problem is that topaz video ai unpacks models to hdd before loading them into memory with each processing run, that is not good for hdd and also not good for speed.
Please make it unpack model into ram and load from there.
Maybe it’s even better not to store models packed because not much space is saved. But unpacking takes time.
And its not much a protection (if you think that packing model in zip archive with password and unpacking it locally is some sort of model protection).