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Video Redaction Cost Calculator
Compare manual redaction, local assisted review and a per-minute cloud workflow using numbers from your own team. See labour hours, cost per job and annual-licence break-even instantly.
Your current workflow
Use your real working figures where possible.
Methodology
What the calculator includes.
Manual labour is source duration multiplied by the hands-on minutes you normally spend per source minute, then multiplied by your operator rate.
Local assisted cost combines human review time with a proportional share of the selected annual CensorFlow licence. The share is the annual licence divided by your expected number of similar jobs.
Cloud assisted cost combines the same human review time with the per-source-minute vendor charge you enter. This makes the comparison adjustable instead of pretending every provider has the same pricing.
Deliberately not estimated
Processing speed and legal outcomes
Codec, resolution, hardware and the number of visible faces can change unattended processing time significantly. The calculator therefore compares hands-on effort and vendor fees only. It also does not claim that automation removes the need for a final human privacy review or legal assessment.
Better inputs, better decisions
How to measure your real redaction effort.
Time one representative job from import to approved export, then separate unattended computer time from operator time.
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Sample the hard footage
Use a clip with motion, partial faces and crowd density similar to your normal work—not a clean talking-head example.
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Count hands-on minutes
Include mask placement, corrections and final review. Exclude time when the computer is processing without supervision.
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Repeat after assistance
Measure the same clip with automatic detection and review. Enter both observed rates above to get a defensible comparison.