How do I blur sensitive content on a video?

Note: this feature is currently available as a limited beta. Contact us for access.

When recording your screen, you may need to share context without exposing sensitive information. Zight for Chrome includes a Blur Page Elements feature that lets you manually blur content or automatically detect and blur personally identifiable information (PII) before and during recording.

This ensures sensitive information stays hidden even as you navigate between pages while recording.

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How to blur content during a video recording (Chrome)

Before recording

1. Open the Zight recording toolbar
   Start a recording and locate the Blur page elements toggle.
2. Enable Blur Page Elements
   Turn on the toggle to open the blur panel.
3. Position the blur panel
   Drag the panel anywhere on your screen for easy access.
4. Choose what to blur
   • Click directly on any page element to blur it manually
   • (Scale) Enable auto-detection toggles for specific PII types
5. Adjust blur strength
   Use the slider (5px–30px) to control how strong the blur appears.
6. Click “Exit & Record”
   Recording begins with blur effects applied and the blur panel closed.
7. Tip: Press ESC at any time to exit blur mode.

During recording

• Blurring continues automatically
  If auto-PII detection is enabled, newly detected sensitive information will be blurred automatically as you navigate to new pages.
• Pause to adjust blurs
  Clicking the blur option during recording pauses the recording so you can add, remove, or adjust blur areas before resuming.

What can be blurred automatically? (Scale only)

Zight can automatically detect and blur the following types of sensitive content:

• Email addresses (text and input fields)
• Phone numbers (text and tel inputs)
• Credit card numbers (full numbers, masked formats, or “ending in” patterns)
• Social Security Numbers (SSNs)
• Names (detected via input field attributes)
• Images (photos, avatars, and profile pictures)

You can also manually select any page element to blur, giving you full control over what is hidden.

Scale note: Your auto-detection preferences are saved and automatically applied to future recordings. In some cases, blur effects may appear immediately when you start a new recording.

Blur Other Pages

When recording your entire screen (not just a single browser tab), you may switch between multiple tabs or windows. Blur Other Pages lets you activate blur mode across all open browser tabs at once.

How it works

1. Open the blur panel on your current tab
2. Configure your blur settings (manual selections and/or auto-detection toggles)
3. Click Blur Other Pages
4. Zight injects blur mode into all accessible browser tabs
5. Any tab you switch to during recording will have blur mode ready

Note: Blur Other Pages works on standard web pages. It cannot activate on browser internal pages such as chrome://settingsor browser extension pages.

Recording behavior

Limitations

• Available in Zight for Chrome only
• Applies to video recordings. For screenshots or GIFs, please look at image annotation.
• Post-recording blur editing is not yet supported.
• Blur Other Pages cannot activate on browser internal pages (chrome://, extension pages, etc.)

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