Who Works with Colibri

From newsrooms to family archives, from documentary sets to research labs - Colibri adapts to how you work. Explore the features →

Made for Media Professionals & Enthusiasts

Colibri serves anyone managing large collections of photos, videos and audio - from freelancers to teams to families.

Documentary
Filmmakers

Terabytes of interview footage, B-roll and field recordings per project. AI transcription, automatic scene descriptions and natural language search turn chaos into a navigable archive - without uploading a single frame.

“Show me all material referencing the environment protection at the beach”

Journalists &
Reporters

Confidential sources deserve confidential tools. Colibri keeps every recording, transcript and photo on your own hardware. Search years of research material instantly without sending a single file to the cloud.

“All clips where topic X is mentioned”

Freelance
Photographers

Years of shoots across hundreds of folders. Colibri auto-tags every image, recognizes faces and lets you search by description. One-time purchase, no recurring cloud fees.

“All portraits from the 2024 wedding season”

VFX &
Post-Production

On-set footage, 360 plates, backdrops, VFX elements - studios deal with massive media libraries across projects. Colibri makes everything searchable with AI while keeping proprietary material securely on-premises. No cloud exposure for sensitive pre-release content.

“All 360 HDRIs from the desert shoot in March”

Communication
Departments

Press photos, event videos, campaign assets - scattered across drives and team members. Colibri gives your department a searchable, collaborative media hub that stays in-house.

“All press photos from the annual conference”

Research &
Education

Field recordings, study interviews, image archives - analyze and evaluate in full GDPR compliance without any data leaving the institution.

“Show all recordings from field study B”

Schools &
Universities

Film schools, media programs, digital humanities departments - students and faculty produce and work with large volumes of media. Colibri provides a GDPR-compliant, on-premises solution for managing, searching and sharing educational media assets without cloud subscriptions.

“All student films from the 2025 summer semester”

Archives &
Collections

Historical footage, institutional media collections, cultural heritage material - decades of content finally made searchable and accessible. Colibri keeps originals safely archived while lightweight previews enable browsing and discovery across the entire collection.

“All footage from the 1990s featuring the old town hall”

Families & Media
Enthusiasts

Decades of family photos and home videos, scattered across old hard drives and phones. Colibri makes them searchable by faces, places and moments - without uploading private memories anywhere.

“All photos where grandma appears”

Film & Creative Production

Developed in cooperation with the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, Colibri also serves larger creative productions.

Footage Logging

AI automatically describes every shot - scene content, time of day, people present. No more manual logging spreadsheets.

Transcription & Translation

Automatic speech-to-text in 100+ languages with speaker separation and translation - searchable transcripts from every interview, in any language.

Media Asset Search

Search your entire library of photos, videos, 360 plates, backdrops and audio by describing what you need - results in seconds instead of hours of browsing.

Archive & Backup

Decades of production material, finally searchable. Node-based storage workflows handle backup and distribution.

Colibri Project — Local AI Media Management In cooperation with
Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg

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