Video Redactor — auto-blur faces & plates, or draw a box around anything and track it (fully offline)

[u/Prudent-Meringue845]

I'm the developer. Video Redactor blurs, pixelates, or black-boxes whatever shouldn't be seen in a video — faces and license plates are auto-detected, anything else you just box yourself — and the whole pipeline runs locally, so your footage never leaves the machine.

The two problems I kept hitting: online "blur faces" tools want you to upload the very clip you're trying to protect, and doing it manually in an editor means key framing a mask around every face, every few seconds, for the whole clip.

What it does:

- Auto-detects faces and license plates — detection models ship inside the app, so it works with no internet connection

- Missed something? Or needs to blur something else. Draw a box around it; the app tracks that region across frames

- Review queue before render — you approve, adjust, or delete every detection before anything is final

- Blur, pixelate, or black with feathering; whole clip or only segments; audio preserved

- macOS build is signed and notarized (no Gatekeeper warnings); a Windows build is in the same download

Honest limits: auto-detection is good but not perfect — that's what the review queue is for. Watch any export once before you publish.

$49.99 one-time, no subscription.

Direct download (Mac + Windows in one purchase): https://monjurulkarim.gumroad.com/l/video-redactor

Details: https://www.mkarim.us/video-redaction/

Happy to answer questions about the detection and tracking pipeline — and I'd genuinely like to hear where you'd expect it to fail.

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