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AI-Powered Face and License Plate Blurring for Body Cam, Dashcam, and CCTV Footage

 

   
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Auto Video Redaction Software uses AI to blur faces and license plates, saving you hours of manual work. Make your videos compliant with FOIA, DSAR, HIPAA, GDPR, and FERPA requests.

Video Redaction Software for Law Enforcement

The program removes personally identifiable information from police body-worn camera (BWC) footage, interview recordings, dashcams, CCTV, and surveillance clips. Its built-in AI object tracker follows moving subjects through brief detection gaps, keeping unblurred frames out of your export. Processed files are safe for public records responses, court evidence, and online publication.




   
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How to download and use the Auto Video Redaction Software

Add Your Video.
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Add Your Video

Drag and drop videos or use Add files. You can load MP4, MOV, AVI, MKV, WMV, FLV, MPG, TS, and more, with support for the H.264, H.265, VP9, and AV1 codecs used by body cameras and dashcams. Your redacted file is saved as a standard MP4 with H.264 video and AAC audio.

Choose What to Redact.
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Choose What to Redact

Choose faces, heads, license plates, or full bodies to blur. You can also draw permanent redaction boxes over screens, badges, and on-camera documents.

Choose a Blur Style.
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Choose a Blur Style

The program supports Gaussian blur, pixelation, or a solid black box.

Process & Save.
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Process & Save

Click Start to save the redacted video with blurred faces to the destination folder.

Benefits

Why law enforcement teams choose the program.

AI-Powered Detection of Faces, Heads, and License Plates

  • Detects faces in any pose - frontal, profile, tilted, or partially covered.
  • Detects heads at any orientation, including back-of-head, helmets, hoods, and hats.
  • Reads license plates on cars and motorcycles in dashcam, CCTV, and street-camera footage.
   
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100% Offline - Your Footage Never Leaves Your PC

Many law enforcement agencies interpret CJIS Security Policy conservatively and avoid uploading criminal justice information to third-party clouds, even CJIS-certified ones. We've kept the program local: evidence and patient recordings stay on your workstation, with no internet connection required. You can use it on air-gapped networks in evidence rooms and secure facilities.

   
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Compliance-Ready Output for FOIA, DSAR, HIPAA, GDPR, and FERPA

Manually redacting a 10-minute body-cam video can take 8 hours (48:1 ratio, Eureka PD). The program automates that job in minutes. It covers five frameworks: FOIA (US federal and state public-records laws with 10-30 day response windows; state specifics include CA AB 748, which requires critical-incident video within 45 days), DSAR (GDPR Article 15 and UK DPA; one-month deadline for data-subject access requests), HIPAA (protected health information in telemedicine, surgical recordings, and training video; penalties start at $45,000 per PHI disclosure), GDPR Article 17 (right to erasure, including video), and FERPA (student education records; redact all other students before disclosure to parents or agencies). Gaussian blur and black-box masks are burned into exported pixels and cannot be reversed. Redact audio tracks separately: a missed segment containing a patient name led to a $45,000 HIPAA fine plus $30,000 in legal fees. Step-by-step guides: how to blur faces in video and how to blur license plates in video.

   
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Who Uses This Video Redaction Software

Police and Law Enforcement - Body Cam, Dashcam, and Interview Rooms

Officers and records clerks can load body-cam, dashcam, and interview-room footage, enable AI detection, and export clips ready for public release. The program finds faces and tracks plates; you review the results.

Compliance and Legal Teams - DSAR and Public Records

Automate bulk FOIA video redactions and DSAR-compliant exports. Anonymize patients, witnesses, and employees in training videos, depositions, and incident clips before sharing them with insurers, courts, and external counsel.

CCTV Redaction Software for Security and Surveillance Operators

Surveillance teams anonymize footage from retail, parking, transit, and campus cameras before handing clips to insurers or law enforcement.

Fleet Managers and Dashcam Owners

Manage a fleet, make deliveries, or drive your own car? Every face and license plate is masked before you export incident clips to share with insurers or post online.

Journalists, Researchers, and Content Creators

Protect sources, witnesses, minors, and uninvolved bystanders in field footage and city-walk videos.

Schools and Universities - Student Privacy and FERPA

Blur students, staff, and bystanders in classroom recordings, campus and school-bus camera footage, and incident clips. Share the video with parents, the public, or another agency in compliance with FERPA.

Auto Video Redaction vs Enterprise Video Redaction Solutions

Enterprise (Veritone, CaseGuard, Axon, SecureRedact)Auto Video Redaction
Where footage is processedCloud (Azure, SaaS) - footage uploaded to vendor servers100% on your workstation - no upload, no third-party access to evidence
AI detection coverageFaces, plates, and screens; some add heads or full-body (CaseGuard)Faces, full heads (any orientation: back, helmet, hood), plates, and user-drawn custom regions
Object tracking across framesVeritone: user-defined zone tracking; others: per-frame detection onlyBuilt-in tracker keeps masking when AI detection drops frames - no unblurred gaps in the export
Mask stylesMost offer blur only; mask options vary and are rarely documentedGaussian blur, pixelation, and solid black box
Batch processingCloud queue limited by upload bandwidth; at least one vendor has documented batch failures at 90+ files (CaseGuard, SourceForge Dec 2025)Local queue with no file-count ceiling; processing speed scales with your hardware
Audio redactionVeritone: transcription-based keyword search; CaseGuard: mute/bleep/resample; Axon: yes; SecureRedact: NER-basedBeep or silence selected audio intervals; redaction is burned into the exported file
Deployment and CJISVeritone and Axon: CJIS-compliant cloud; CaseGuard: on-prem subscription; SecureRedact: SaaS with private-cloud optionStandard Windows installer; no vendor account to create, no data leaves your network
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Auto Video Redaction Software
Auto Video Redaction Software
Price
from $ 39.99 / month
Version
1.11
File Size
6.1 Mb
Last updated on
01/09/26
System Requirements
  • Windows 11/10/8.1/8/7 (32/64 bit)
  • Intel i3, AMD Ryzen 5 or above
  • 4 GB of RAM or above
  • NVIDIA® GeForce® series 8 and 8M, Intel® HD Graphics 2000, Quadro FX 4800, Quadro FX 5600, AMD Radeon™ R600, Mobility Radeon™ HD 4330, Mobility FirePro™ series, Radeon™ R5 M230 or higher graphics card with up-to-date drivers
  • 1280 × 768 screen resolution, 32-bit color
  • 1 GB of free hard disk space or above

Frequently Asked Questions

The program permanently removes faces, heads, license plates, and custom regions from video for disclosure under FOIA, DSAR, or court order. Choose from three mask styles: Gaussian blur, pixelation, and solid black box. You can beep or silence audio segments independently.

Yes. Beep, mute, or silence selected audio segments to hide spoken names, addresses, or other information.

No. The program is optimized for desktop CPUs, so your typical office PC or laptop is enough. You can leave a long batch running overnight.

Use Gaussian blur for a natural look that preserves movement and context. Choose pixelation or a solid black box for unambiguous redaction, such as court evidence or public disclosure where reviewers need to see that information was intentionally hidden.

In a general video editor, you mask each face by hand and keyframe its movement. On long footage, that's slow and easy to get wrong. The program finds and tracks faces, heads, and license plates automatically.

Yes. Masks are burned into the exported MP4 pixels. You get a self-contained video that any standard player or evidence-presentation system can open. The black-box style is preferred for legal proceedings because it makes the redaction visually unambiguous.

Yes. The installer runs on any Windows 10/11 workstation without an internet connection. Licenses activate offline. No browser logins, API keys, or vendor telemetry. You can use the program on air-gapped networks.

The ratio depends on footage complexity. With static CCTV and a single subject, the program often finishes faster than you can review the result. For dynamic body-cam footage with multiple moving people, AI detection and tracking cut days of work to hours. The batch queue uses all CPU cores and can process a full backlog overnight.

Spoken names, addresses, or medical conditions can still identify people. Compliance requires both visual masking and audio redaction. Select audio segments and apply beep or silence to each, independently of the visual masks.

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