I can't say I have a lot of experience here. I'll just suggest some issue that I'd think may help.
Besides the material forming properties being poor there are some changes I would consider.
Polishing the dies to get good material flow and using drawing paste/grease are very important. The dies should be steel or other material harder than the material being formed. There is also no lead in radius to the bottom edge of your female die. This will not allow the material to pull into the die as it needs it. Sure as the evidence of tearing in the sample pic's. It is unlikely the blanks trim edge can be formed without a secondary trimming step.
Metal spinning is one option, but slow for mass production. Another option would be with a solid rubber block captured in a steel cylinder for the upper die as a cheap alternative to hydroforming.
DC
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