Due to a number of legislations currently in force in the United Kingdom and abroad, it is at times necessary to perform redactions within digital multimedia evidence before it can be brought into court. For example, a witness personal details must be edited out from audio recordings or body worn footage. The faces of children or undercover Police officers must be hidden from evidential video material.

At EPCFVA we offer a redaction service that is both effective and secure. First, we hide or redact sensitive or unwanted content from video material and audio recordings as instructed. We do this by applying redaction layers, such as blur, pixelation or simply black, and animating these layers dynamically to track persons or moving vehicles throughout the video content of interest.

For audio material, we replace sensitive or unwanted portions of sound with silence or "beeps". When too long to be replaced, we simply take these portions out of the recording and splice the remaining material together (with clear visual or aural redaction notifications).

We finally go through the redacted material a number of times to ensure there are no errors or sensitive material left un-redacted. A forensic report is also included with the redacted evidence, detailing all the processing performed on the evidence.

Please contact us to discuss your needs and for a quote.