01
Source minutes are not labour minutes
One minute of footage can contain many moving faces, cuts and occlusions. Manual work grows with visual complexity, not duration alone.
Measure the full active process: setup, keyframing, corrections, export checks and rework. Separate it from unattended render time.
02
Include the interruption cost
Urgent re-edits displace scheduled work and can delay campaigns, disclosures or claims handling. A pre-publish privacy pass has a different operational cost from a complaint-driven correction.
- Operator hourly cost.
- Active minutes per source minute.
- Average faces and shot complexity.
- Quality assurance and re-export time.
- Vendor minute or storage charges.
03
Use a representative pilot
Time the same difficult clip with the current manual method and an assisted workflow. Compare approved outputs, not first-pass results.
CensorFlow’s free calculator lets you model these inputs without uploading a file or creating an account.
Apply the workflow
Review real footage locally.
CensorFlow detects and tracks visible faces on your Windows PC, then lets a person correct and approve the result before export.