I agree 100%! While I haven’t tried running anything from the command line, last night I loaded a video into Video AI, adjusted my settings, and selected preview. It goes back and forth between downloading model and loading model, but if the app had an indicator bar showing that it was actually downloading a model and when the indicator bar is full, the model has been fully downloaded, it would be extremely helpful. It would also be helpful for troubleshooting purposes. As I mentioned, I tried to upscale a video last night, but it was taking so long to download, I just left it as is and went to bed. This morning it was still saying the same thing, so I’m not sure if it’s having difficulties downloading the models, loading the models, or something else.
You mentioned looking into the models folder in the Topaz Labs LLC/Topaz Video AI folder for a models folder, but after upgrading to v3.2.3 I’ve been unable to upscale any videos and a models folder doesn’t exist within the Topaz Video AI folder.
I’ve been using Topaz products for many years and never had any problems with anything, but starting a couple versions ago I couldn’t render videos using my Nvidia 3080 Ti and now I can’t render videos at all. I was trying to upscale a movie, but just to test it out I loaded a 1MB 320x240 avi video to upscale and the software gets stuck saying downloading model/loading model again. Not sure what’s been going on at Topaz, but the last 3 releases, including v3.2.3, don’t work at all. Prior to this, I’ve never had any issues going all the way back to Topaz Video Enhance AI
