Blur Sensitive Data

Tip

Blur is available on the Growth, Team, and Enterprise plans.

Screen recordings often capture things viewers shouldn’t see: customer data, passwords, internal URLs. A blur hides part of the picture without changing your original recording. You don’t draw the box or set the timing yourself. Click the element on the video, and Tutorial AI fits the box to it and finds the frames where it’s on screen.

Adding a blur

1. Open Clips and move the playhead to a moment where the sensitive information is on screen.

2. Click Blur in the toolbar. Playback pauses, and the step bar reads Blur · Click any element to hide it.

3. Move the pointer over the video. A box outlines the element under it: a field, a line of text, a button, a whole panel.

   If the box is too small or too large, press Tab or turn the mouse wheel to step through smaller and larger matches. A tip shows which match you’re on, for example 2 / 3.

   

4. Click to hide it. Finding the start & end frames… appears while Tutorial AI looks through the recording for how long that element stays on screen. The blur’s bar on the timeline then stretches to cover exactly that stretch.

5. Click Done to return to the rest of Clips.

You can also right-click the video preview and choose Add blur.

Choosing how it’s hidden

Use Hide with on the step bar to choose how the area is covered:

• White or Black: a solid block
• Blur: a soft blur
• Pixelate: large pixels

Blurring several areas

While you’re in Blur, click another element on the video to hide it too. Each blur gets its own box on the video and its own bar on the timeline, timed to when its own element is on screen, so one field can be hidden for a few seconds and another for the rest of the video.

Adjusting or removing a blur

When a blur is selected, the step bar reads Drag to adjust · Del to remove.

• Move or resize the box by dragging it or its corners on the video.
• Change the timing by dragging the ends of its bar on the timeline, if you want it to start earlier or end later than the frames Tutorial AI found.
• Remove it by pressing Backspace or Delete.

Checking the result

Move the playhead a moment before the blur starts and press Space. The area should be covered for the whole time it’s visible, including while the page scrolls or changes. Use the zoom slider or pinch on your trackpad for a closer look at the start and end.

What to blur

• Customer data: names, emails, phone numbers, addresses
• Credentials: passwords, API keys, tokens
• Financial data: account numbers, balances, transactions
• Internal URLs: staging environments, admin panels
• Personal information: colleagues’ names, chat messages, email content

Note

On the Enterprise plan, PII Auto-Redact™ finds personal data in the whole recording and hides it in the Enterprise Desktop App, before the video is uploaded. Want to remove the moment entirely instead? Cut it out. Want to draw attention to an area instead of hiding it? Use a highlight.

Next steps

PII Auto-Redact™ Find and hide personal data before upload (Enterprise)

Clips Overview Every tool in Clips

Cut & Trim Remove entire sections instead of blurring

Highlights Draw attention to specific areas