Auto Video Redaction Software

🎥 A records request comes in for a body cam clip, and every bystander, witness and parked car in it has to disappear before the file goes out. Auto Video Redaction Software finds heads and license plates on a Windows workstation, follows them from frame to frame and writes a new MP4 with the masks baked into the picture.

🎯 Why the mask stays on a turning head

A detector that judges each frame on its own can lose a person for a moment when the head turns or an arm crosses the face, and one such frame is enough to leak an identity. In Auto Video Redaction Software the detector runs at the interval chosen in Detection frequency, and a tracker carries each mask along with its person in between. The head model takes a profile, the back of a head, a hood or a helmet, not only a face looking at the lens. Blue boxes sit on the player while you scrub the timeline, so a gap shows up before anything is exported.

🚗 Dashcam plates and shapes you draw yourself

License plates are a separate class with a separate confidence slider, apart from Face confidence. Plate styles and camera angles differ a lot between a dashcam and a parking camera, so the slider may need lowering, and a plate the model passes over can be covered by a Custom area. That same drawn shape hides a badge number, a monitor or a printed page left on a desk, without any detection at all.

👍 What Auto Video Redaction Software does to the rest of the file

• 1️⃣ Smooth blur with its own strength slider, plus pixelation and a solid black fill.
• 2️⃣ Masks burned into the frames, with no overlay layer left to switch off.
• 3️⃣ Sound kept as recorded, except the intervals you mark for a beep or silence.
• 4️⃣ Input in MKV, MOV, MP4, TS, AVI or WMV, from H.264 up to AV1.
• 5️⃣ One H.264 and AAC MP4 per source, under the same name, while the original stays untouched.
• 6️⃣ A whole queue run on every CPU core, with no graphics card needed.
• 7️⃣ Blur full body for clips where clothing alone gives someone away.
• 8️⃣ Detection that stays on the workstation, fit for an air-gapped evidence room.

⚠️ The trial exports the first three minutes of a longer video and half of a shorter clip, without a watermark. A license for Auto Video Redaction Software removes the cut.

❓ Who holds footage that cannot go out as it is

• ✅ Records clerks answering FOIA requests for body-worn camera video.
• ✅ Privacy officers preparing a DSAR copy under GDPR Article 15.
• ✅ Schools releasing bus or classroom clips under FERPA.
• ✅ Fleet managers sending a dashcam incident to an insurer.
• ✅ Security teams handing parking or retail CCTV over to the police.

Teams that deploy from Microsoft can get the redaction tool as AI Video Redaction Software - Blur Faces on Windows Store.

❓ Things people check before the first clip goes in

❔ How do you redact a video without editing every frame?
💡 Tick Heads or License plates, pick a style and press Start. Auto Video Redaction Software finds and follows the targets, and your part is reviewing the result.

❔ Can a blurred face be recovered later?
💡 Not from the exported file. The mask replaces those pixels, so there is nothing underneath to bring back.

❔ Can I test it before paying?
💡 Yes. The trial handles real footage with the length cut described above.

❔ What should law enforcement look for in video redaction software?
💡 Work that stays on the agency network. With Auto Video Redaction Software evidence is never sent to a vendor cloud.