About This Site and the Video Redaction App It Covers

This site is about one job: hiding people and private details in recorded video before it leaves your hands. Records officers answering a public records request, schools and charities handling a subject access request for camera footage, police departments releasing body camera clips and small firms preparing evidence all face the same problem. A recording shows far more than the request asks for, and every bystander's face, every licence plate and every spoken name has to be dealt with before release.

The guides here walk through those situations one at a time: blurring faces in a single clip, keeping the person who made the request visible while everyone else is hidden, redacting CCTV footage, and handling body worn camera recordings. They also name the limits honestly. Automatic detection saves hours, but a person still has to watch the result before it goes out.

Who makes the app

AI Video Redaction Software is built by a small team that makes utilities for Windows. The same team tunes the open-source detection models the app runs on, builds the video pipeline and the installer, and answers support mail directly. There is no sales department between you and the people who write the code.

How the app works

You add video files, choose what to hide (heads, full bodies, licence plates or an area you draw yourself) and pick a style: smooth blur, pixelation or a solid mask. The app finds people and plates in every frame, lists the people it found so you can keep chosen ones visible, and writes a new file where only the hidden areas change. Spoken details can be covered with a beep or silence over the time ranges you mark. Each export can come with a redaction log that records what was hidden, when, and with which settings.

All of this runs on your computer. Video frames, audio and the detection results are not uploaded anywhere, which is the main reason organisations that handle sensitive footage choose a desktop tool over an online service.

Where to get it

The app is distributed through the Microsoft Store, which handles the download, updates and payment. A trial lets you test it on your own footage before buying.

Contact

Questions, bug reports and feature requests go to [email protected]. More on what to include in a message is on the contact page.