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Project #11

Lifestyle Gem Authoring

Client Leading online gemstone retailer Year 2026

Every gemstone in the retailer's inventory already has a polished, color-accurate video — the one shown on its product page. Mobile clips of the same stone — handheld, ambient-lit, captured outside the studio — bring lifestyle context the polished video can't, but each one took an experienced editor hours to grade so the colors agreed. We built a desktop tool that brings that work down to minutes per clip, with better color fidelity than the manual process delivered.

The Challenge

The product-page video for each stone is a controlled, color-accurate ground truth. Mobile-shot video of the same stone drifts in color depending on the light and the phone, and bringing it into agreement was hours of manual work per clip — with results that depended on the editor. At inventory scale, that meant lifestyle and in-hand footage shipped slowly and inconsistently.

What We Built

A Windows desktop application that brings mobile gemstone footage into agreement with the product-page video automatically — while keeping the editor in control of the final look. Built on our in-house gemstone color-matching algorithm, the same engine behind the retailer's rendering pipeline.

  • Reference video and mobile clips reviewed side-by-side
  • Automatic, pixel-perfect gemstone and skin segmentation over the full video
  • Automatic color alignment to the reference
  • Automatic skin tone adjustment
  • Editor controls for final adjustments and approval
  • One-click export and upload into the existing media workflow

The reference is already correct. The mobile clip just needs to agree.

The Result

Editing time per clip dropped from hours to minutes, and color fidelity improved over the manual baseline — the in-house matching algorithm holds the reference more precisely than hand-grading did. Mobile and lifestyle gemstone footage now ships at the same cadence as the rest of the retailer's media, with one source of truth across every video.