Is SeedVR2 good for restoring old footage?

[OKBranflakes]

I'm questioning whether or not SeedVR2 is good for restoring footage. I was using SeedVR2 to restore some old basketball clips of Ben Wallace, and it did a pretty bad job. Am I doing something wrong? Or is SeedVR2 just not good for this. I usually use Topaz Starlight Mini for stuff like this, but I want to test SeedVR2 because sources told me it was better. Here the footage I used. One of the clips was put through SeedVR2 and one is the original. Is it really not that good for trying to restore old footage like this or am I doing something wrong?

copy_D107947B-0EF1-4A3F-9B98-657EC75DE8ED.mp4

ComfyUI_00003_.mp4

[naxci1]

Hi @OKBranflakes

3_yeni_00002-60fps.zip

[OKBranflakes]

The Ben Wallace clips were a test I used to do this, to see how it kinda does things. It looks like it did a pretty good job on ur end instead of mine, looking at the background, it made shaq look pretty good and whatnot. What r ur settings for the model, so I can try it myself and see if its js my settings?

[naxci1]

AI restore models actually struggle with extremely fast-paced scenes, and Topaz doesn't produce successful results either. I downscaled the video by 50% because I have 16 GB of VRAM, then upscaled it from 240p to 1080p. As a final step, I increased the frame rate to 60 fps, and it looked smoother.

This is the workflow I used:

[OKBranflakes]

I think this will work, I have 12gb of VRAM so idk but I'll give it a try

[OKBranflakes]

I made a workflow similar to this one and it worked, thanks for the help! Definitely looking better than before :)

AnimateDiff_00002.mp4

[naxci1]

Workflow templates (for SeedVR2.5):

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