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How to Redact PII From Digital Evidences

This is a how-to article for VIDIZMO's redaction feature. Redaction is important to protect PII (Personally Identifiable Information) and it is often needed to maintain privacy of individuals appearing in a video, image or recorded audio.

Before you start​

Ensure you belong to group with Redaction feature enabled, or have a CAL that grants this feature's permission

Steps to enable VIDIZMO Indexer​

  1. Click on Portal Settings from navigation pane
  2. Click on Apps
  3. Click on Content Processing
  4. Enable VIDIZMO Indexer App

Steps to Automatically redact sensitive information from digital evidences​

I. Login to your portal

  1. Click on the evidence library from left navigation pane
  2. Click on the overflow menu of the media
  3. Select Studio Space from the list

II. From the Studio Space, select Redaction

  1. Click on Redaction from the list on the left
  2. Click on Start Scan
  3. Choose the desired segment (time duration)
  4. Select Detection Type from the provided list
  5. Start Scan

III. The scan will detect selected objects

  1. Draw the scanning box by clicking on the icon of the desired type
  2. 'Object 1' is detected
  3. Select the detected entries under relevant type

IV. After clicking the checkbox

  1. Click on the Redact icon

  2. The selection of the detected person is redacted

V. Select the duration of audio that you want to redact

  1. The sound wave is the audio in the evidence, select the segment you want to redact

  2. As we did for the person, check the audio to use the redact option

Steps to Manually redact sensitive information from digital evidences​

I. Login to your portal

  1. Click on the evidence library from left navigation pane
  2. Click on the overflow menu of the media
  3. Select Studio Space from the list

  1. From the Studio Space, select Redaction

  2. Click on Redaction from the list on the left

  3. Click on drawing Icon

  4. Draw the bounding boxes on the object that you want to redact

  5. Track your object in the video

  6. Stop tracking when your object is no longer visible

  7. Select the bounding boxes that you want to redact

  8. Click on Redact Icon

  9. Review your selected objects

  10. Click on Publish or Publish as new

  11. Workflow will be initiated

  12. Once workflow is completed, go to the newly published evidence 

  13. Your objects will be redacted

How to Control Your Bounding Box & Video Movements using Keyboard​

3. From the Studio Space,

  1. Select a bounding box

  2. press CTRL + Arrow Keys to move Bounding Box when you're tracking an object in video or image

  3. To move the video forward or backward, press Arrow Keys

  4. You can  increase and decrease Bounding box Speed by short key:

  5. default speed by Ctrl + 0

  6. speed increase Ctrl +

  7. speed decrease Ctrl -

  8. You can press space bar to play and pause the video.

  9. Once the object is no longer visible in video, stop the Tracking by pressing shortcut key - Ctrl + S.

Understanding Redaction Using Studio Space

Understanding Video Interactivity Using Studio Space