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Blur And Redact Hero Pn
Manual and automatic redaction is available on the Enterprise plan.

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Overview

Automatic and manual redaction help you protect sensitive information in videos, audio, and transcripts by blurring, muting, and redacting content where required. This also helps teams move through analysis faster by reducing review and clean-up time. Redactions and blurring will also be applied to relevant highlights in your project and their references within docs across your workspace. If a highlight has already been used elsewhere before redaction is applied, those existing references will need to be updated to display the redacted version. Learn more about updating references →
Dovetail will reprocess and replace the original video on your note with a redacted version when redactions are made. This can take 2-3 times the length of the original video to process.For example, redactions made on a 1-hour video can take 2-3 hours to be processed and become visible across your workspace.

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Who can redact and restore data

  • Manual redaction can be performed and restored by anyone with Full access or Can edit permissions in a project.
  • Automatic redaction settings can be configured only by workspace admins.

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Automatically redact sensitive data

Admins can enable automatic redaction to detect and apply redactions at scale across projects and channels.
Automatic redaction uses AI to identify and redact sensitive information. While it does most of the heavy lifting, results may not be 100% accurate. We recommend reviewing redactions, especially in Suggest mode, to ensure all sensitive content is handled correctly.
Configuring automatic redaction
  1. Go to Workspace settings.
  2. Open Automatic redaction.
  3. Choose an automation level:
    • Off: No automatic redaction or suggestions will be applied.
    • On: Applied automatically whenever eligible content is processed.
    • Suggest: In Projects, Dovetail suggests potential redactions directly in the transcript for review before applying, while Channels are always automatically redacted due to high data volume.
  4. Optionally edit the instruction prompt to guide how sensitive content is detected, such as specifying terms, identifiers, or data types that should always be masked.
  5. Click Save to apply changes.
Enabling automatic redaction (On or Suggest) does not apply redactions to existing content. Redaction will only be applied to videos and transcripts uploaded after the setting is enabled.
Workspace Auto Redaction 2

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Automatically redact Channels data

If redaction is enabled, all data points containing sensitive information within the Channel will be redacted, in accordance with the workspace level prompt. This is due to the high volume nature of data points within Channels. Redaction will not be applied to back-filled data, and if you change the redaction prompt after importing, it will not update the existing data points. If you wish to remove customers email addresses from the data point view, you can unselect email when configuring fields upon import. You can also re-configure your fields at any time by selecting:
  1. Sources
  2. More actions
  3. Configure
Automatic Redaction Channels

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Updating the redaction prompt for existing data

Updating the workspace-level prompt will only apply to new imports. Existing transcripts won’t automatically reprocess with the updated instructions. To apply the new prompt to already imported data:
  1. Save your updated prompt in Workspace settings
  2. Navigate to the previously imported transcripts
  3. Reject all existing suggested redactions
  4. Click Suggest to reprocess the transcript using the new prompt
This will generate a fresh set of redaction suggestions based on your updated instructions.

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Manually redact sections of your video and transcript

Users with Full or Can edit access to the project can redact individual sections from videos within notes. This includes the ability to blur, mute all audio, and hide the text shown in the transcript.
  • To redact a specific section of a video, highlight a section of text in the transcript and select Redact from the action menu.
  • From there, you can choose to redact video, audio, and transcript, or both, from the redaction modal and press Redact.

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Blur an entire video

  • To blur an entire video:
    1. Click ••• in the top right corner of the video
    2. Select Blur video.
  • If you wish to unblur an entire video, click ••• again and press Unblur video.

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Restore redacted data

You can restore video data that has been blurred or muted and redacted text from within a transcript. Any user with Full access or Can edit access to the project can restore redacted data. To restore redacted data:
  1. Navigate to the redacted section within the transcript and click on it
  2. From there, press Edit redaction from within the action menu
  3. From here, use the toggles to restore the redacted data.

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FAQ

Yes! Thumbnails to the video across your workspace will also be blurred, however, this does not happen immediately, so we recommend waiting until it has been applied to all references before sharing.
Yes, subtitles will also be redacted, but you’ll need to refresh your page for them to update.
Exporting redacted videos is disabled due to security reasons.
No. Redaction is only available for video files at this time and is not supported for audio-only files.