Advice on free local B&W film colorization — DDColor + exemplar propagation vs altern

[KAKA_colorize]

Hi Dan,

Update: I now have all three on the SAME indoor scene, so the comparison is fair this time. Attached screenshot shows MagicHour vs vs-havc (your ch. 4.0.1 low-GPU settings) vs plain DDColor, 3 frames each.

Honest take: vs-havc and plain DDColor are basically tied — both get the gold picture frame, the maroon curtain and the blue suit wrong, while MagicHour nails all three. So vs-havc didn't move the needle for me vs DDColor.

The vs-havc clip (2 sec): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jSZdigH...p=drivesdk

MagicHour clip (3 sec, same scene):
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GdnoUCx...p=drivesdk

Is this the ceiling for free local tools on weak hardware, or is there another vs-havc setting/trick I'm missing? Any further advice appreciated.

Thanks!