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How to edit Android screen recording to remove WiFi MAC address & SSID?



 
 
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Old October 10th 17, 04:59 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.mobile.android,alt.comp.freeware
harry newton
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Default How to edit Android screen recording to remove WiFi MAC address & SSID?

Add a black box over the desired redaction area:
View Filters Add a Filter Show Video Filters Text


When using Shotcut, watch out for this editing anomaly!
http://wetakepic.com/images/2017/10/09/shotcut1.jpg

The oddest anomaly happened while using Shotcut which is completly
unintuitive, but it threw me for a loop for a couple of days (elapsed time
as I was working on other projects), so I don't want others to get stuck
with this Shotcut-specific export problem.

I found the solution he

https://www.reddit.com/r/shotcut/comments/6tajpo/my_text_filters_dont_show_up_in_exported_video/

The problem was that the video was greatly edited such that it played
perfectly in shotcut, with all the sensitive information (which Android
reports a *lot* of) blanked out - but - when exported - there were no
errors - but - the areas were NOT blanked out!

Huh?

It turns out that the one character you can *not* use to blank out text
areas is the "space" character!

You can use *any* other character - e.g., underline, dash, x, whatever ...
as long as it's not the space character - then the areas you blanked out
inside the editor will *also* be blanked out in the final video output!

Who knew?
Not me.

I know now.
So do you.
http://wetakepic.com/images/2017/10/09/shotcut1.jpg

Now that this oddity is solved, my next hurdle will be to find a
no-registration web site that will upload a 5-minute 50 MB MP4 video.
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Old October 10th 17, 05:10 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.mobile.android,alt.comp.freeware
harry newton
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Default How to edit Android screen recording to remove WiFi MAC address & SSID?

Have you tried VideoPad Video Editor?

I'm always open to suggestions as to the best freeware extant.
So thanks for that idea. I'm testing it out now.
http://wetakepic.com/images/2017/10/10/videopad.jpg

Quick observations (which can change over time)...
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Here's the canonical site for others to benefit:
VideoPad Video Editor http://www.nchsoftware.com/videopad/

"VideoPad Video Editor is a video editing application developed by NCH
Software for the home and professional market. The software is complemented
by the VirtualDub plug-ins that work with the software. VideoPad is part of
a suite that integrates with other software created by NCH Software. This
other software includes WavePad, a sound-editing program; MixPad, a
sound-mixing program; and PhotoPad, an image editor"

"A free video editor version is available for non-commercial use only."
http://www.nchsoftware.com/videopad/vpsetup.exe
It appears to be available for Mac, Windows, & Android.
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The interface looks clean and simple and it seems to use VirtualDub
plugins, but bear in mind a lot of the options are turned off in the
freeware (so we have to see what works and what doesn't work).

As I always maintain an observation log when I install software three
oddities immediately struck me as quite different about VP.
a. The installer defaulted to accepting the EULA (no big deal)
b. The installer installed the program incredibly quickly (unusual)
c. The installer exhibited other badly written hallmarks (a warning sign)
d. The software phones home via the web with what appears to be an "id"
e. The software seems to have a 7 second start delay that kicks in later
f. The software phones home secretly to audiochannel.net (66.39.83.117
g. The GUI seems far more intuitive (with big buttons!) than Shotcut is

VP imported the video quickly when I ran the File Add Files command.
Like Shotcut (the only other video editor I can compare it to), it puts the
"video preview" in one corner and the audio & video timelines on the bottom
row. Like Shotcut, VideoPad Editor has a GUI for splitting the track into
shorter clips. VideoPad has a nice "zoom" button for zooming in on the clip
in a Preview Timeline of sorts.

I'll test it out further to see if it can do the minimum I need which is to
blur faces and redact privacy information in smartphone video clips.
http://wetakepic.com/images/2017/10/10/videopad.jpg
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