Privacy Protection

Privacy protection recognizes text across the whole video, finds sensitive information and covers it for you, so you don't have to blur frame by frame. By default, a project isn't scanned until you start a scan. In the interface, it's the Privacy item in the inspector rail; findings also appear on the Privacy track in the timeline.

1. Scan the video

Open Privacy and click Start Scan. The scan runs in the background and you can keep editing. When it's done you'll see "Privacy scan finished · N protected".

2. Choose what to protect

• Preset rules: match common sensitive content automatically, including emails, phone numbers, cards, IP addresses, MAC addresses, private keys, JWTs, bearer tokens, and keys for services such as AWS, GitHub, OpenAI and Stripe.
• All text: protect every recognized text appearance.
• Custom text: search or pick text under Detected text and choose how to match it: Exact, Contains, Similar (tolerates OCR and small spelling variations) or Regular expression.
• Global regex rules: rules shared by every project, useful for your team's own key formats.

3. Review each finding

Each protected item shows how many times it appears. Expand it to see every appearance and jump to that time:

• Exclude this appearance: let just this one through.
• Exclude text or Stop protecting: stop protecting this text.
• Correct text: fix what OCR misread; the video is then rescanned.

You can also click recognized text on the canvas to choose how to protect it, or drag to adjust a protected region.

4. Check before exporting

Privacy applies to the full video and can't be trimmed or split on the timeline. To turn it off, disable the track or individual findings.

Related: Blur, Mask Basics.