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An officer reviewing several CCTV camera feeds on monitors

Video Redaction Best Practices: Motion, Frame Rates, Tracking and Failing Safe

I led our video redaction project for a county public safety agency where two people handled every disclosure, and video was taking them an average ...

A body-worn camera clipped to a police vest

Redacting Dash Cam, Body Cam and Drone Footage From a Moving Camera

A fleet claims manager preparing crash footage for an insurer and defense counsel is doing a different job from a records clerk redacting a fixed ...

A traffic camera mounted above a busy street at night

Why Frame-Rate Headers Lie: Redacting Variable Frame Rate Video

A video file keeps time frame by frame, and the frames-per-second figure a player displays is a summary of that timing, stored apart from the frames ...

An operator facing a wall of camera feeds covering a city

Redacting 360-Degree Video and Images: Distortion, Seams and Playback

Open a 360-degree photo in an ordinary image viewer and it looks like a warped panorama, with the ceiling smeared along the top edge and the floor ...

A wall screen showing many video clips of crowds and traffic

Tracking Through Occlusion, Crowds and Scene Cuts in Video Redaction

Every tracked mask in a redacted video rests on a promise that the person under it on the ten-thousandth frame is the same person who was under it on ...

An analyst reviewing video footage on a monitor with a redaction panel open

Blur vs Pixelate vs Solid Fill, and Why Redacted Video Must Fail Safe

Choosing between blur and pixelation looks like a question of house style until someone asks whether the face under the mask could be recovered, and ...

A reviewer at a monitor marking an object in a video frame for redaction

Frame-by-Frame Redaction: Filling the Gaps Between Analyzed Frames

An analyst who has keyframed a face by hand through a two-minute clip knows that frame-by-frame redaction seldom means drawing a box on every frame. ...

Person using a laptop to review and redact a medical bill document.

How AI Auto-Tracking Redacts Scrolling Text in Screen Recordings

A trainer records a 30-minute walkthrough of an internal system. They scroll through a customer list, expand a record panel, page through transaction ...

a person redacting CCTV Footages

How to Clip and Redact CCTV Footage for SAR Disclosure

Most CCTV Subject Access Requests get handled the same way: open the file, start blurring faces, hope to finish before the deadline. That is how an ...

a team of medical professionals looking at the redacted PHI

PHI Redaction in Healthcare Training Videos

A healthcare training team records a 30-minute walkthrough of an EHR or claims system for new hires. Patient names, MRNs, and claim numbers appear on ...

a person redacting faces of children in school

How to Redact Student Faces in School CCTV Footage: FERPA Guide

School surveillance video shows up in legal and compliance work more often than the law has caught up with. A bus stop incident, a hallway ...

two persons walking through a corridor

How to Respond to a DSAR Involving CCTV Footage

Every UK organization operating CCTV is legally obligated to respond to Data Subject Access Requests that include video footage. That includes ...

a person redacting 911 submitted videos

How to Redact Caller-Submitted 911 Video for Public Records Requests

Caller-submitted 911 video is a relatively new category of footage, and most redaction guides have not caught up. Tools like Prepared 911 allow ...

an officer watching cctv recordings

CCTV Redaction for Government Buildings and Public Institutions

Government buildings run continuous multi-camera surveillance. City halls, public schools, DMV offices, and courthouses capture hundreds of hours of ...

a person using redactor to redact files

How to Redact PII from Usability Test and UX Research Recordings

Every usability test captures more than user behavior. When participants navigate live websites, fill out forms, or interact with dashboards, their ...

a person using a redactor to redact video

How Long Does Video Redaction Actually Take? Manual vs. AI Benchmarks

Video redaction is one of the most time-consuming tasks in evidence processing. Every body-worn camera recording, surveillance clip, and interview ...

Redacting sensitive text in screen recordings with scrolling documents

Batch Video Redaction for Teams: How to Standardize Redaction Across Multiple Recordings

Teams are creating more videos than ever. Support walkthroughs, training sessions, sales demos, customer escalations, compliance evidence, and ...

a police officer is using a on premises video redaction software for his duty work

Why On-Premises Video Redaction Software Is Essential

Video has become one of the most regulated forms of digital evidence today. A 2023 IDC report revealed that organizations now generate more video ...