Redaction, removal from video of client personal information.

If it's burned in, there's nothing anyone can do to get what was underneath without also having access to the originals.  The video "restoration" capabilities you see on crime shows these days is pure fiction.

There are ways of encoding timecode and subtitles that can be turned on or off.  "Burned in" means it's there permanently, you can't turn it off.

How you do it is really of little consequence.  Any method is as good as any other.

When you have masked (hidden) the areas with a replacement object...the old pixels are "replaced" by the new pixels.  That is what Jim means by "burned in"

BTW - do a test.

Like I said, what you see on TV about video restoration is largely fiction.  No one can "restore" image information that simply isn't there.

What I meant is that how you cover it won't matter.  Whether it's a title, a JPEG, a Photoshop file, etc.  Covered is covered.  The end results will be identical.

The text you are trying to redact is a arrangement of video pixels and is not text.  If you lay a opague overlay ontop and render the file, the original video is no longer there.  While a PrPro sequence might show multiple overlaid tracks, the exported video file is only one track deep.  There is no way to separate that track into the tracks that appeared in the PrPro sequence.  That track arrangement is stored in thePrPro project file, not the exported video.

What happens with a non-destructive NLE (Non Linear Editor), such as PrPro, is that what you see in the Timeline is but a proxy. The original material is not actually there, but is linked to the Project, which is just an XML database, with those links and instructions. Also, that Timeline does not yet exist, as an AV file. That comes upon Export. Then, PrPro will look at the instructions written into the PRPROJ file, via XML. It goes to the linked Source Files, and gathers the necessary data from them, then performs the instructions on that data, creating the new AV output file. There are no Layers, or Tracks in that output file, but just the pixels created via those instructions. If those pixels show a black rectangle, that is all there is. any "underlying" Video does not exist in that output file - only black pixels. It would be the same, if one had Clips on a Video Track, but turned that off and Exporoted. Though those Clips exist in the Timeline/Sequence, they do not exist in the output file.

Good luck,

Hunt