Case Study AI • Media & Entertainment Test

From Manual Metadata to Intelligent Video Search asd

Turning 2.5 million videos into searchable, time-addressable assets with a cost-efficient hybrid AI pipeline.

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client: Kurator • Nimia Jan 2026
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Kurator • Nimia
Video licensing & discovery

A video discovery platform with millions of high-value assets

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2.5M+
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2.5M+
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Search and tagging had become a serious bottleneck

With millions of videos, search and tagging had become a serious bottleneck.

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Manual tagging didn't scale

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A hybrid AI video intelligence pipeline built for scale

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Intelligent video processing platform

A hybrid architecture balancing performance, security, and cost.

~1000× cost reduction
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Video library
Millions of videos · Legacy to 8K
On-premises · GPU machines
Heavy Inference
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~$2.5K–$3K per GPU unit
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Cloud · AWS
Orchestration & delivery
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Selective API usage only
Rekognition only when faces detected
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Millions of videos processed · Scalable · Secure
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7-step AI pipeline

Each component is modular and optimized for cost and reliability.

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Real outcomes, measurable impact

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Open-source intelligence, cloud applied selectively

The pipeline combines open-source models with selective cloud services, running primarily on on-prem GPU infrastructure to deliver production-grade accuracy while avoiding cost, lock-in, and unpredictability.

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This hybrid approach delivers production-grade accuracy while avoiding the cost, lock-in, and unpredictability of cloud-only architectures — making large-scale video intelligence economically sustainable at 2.5M+ video scale.

AI-powered video intelligence at massive scale

A searchable, time-addressable catalogue spanning millions of hours

What was previously locked behind sparse tagging and manual review is now discoverable at scale — while balancing cost efficiency with production-grade reliability.

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Hours per batch of manual tagging

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Minutes of spot-check per batch

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The catalogue is now discoverable by:

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