[rurcliped]

Redaction can be needed for a document, but redaction can also be needed for a video (car's license plate, credit card number, etc.). As far as I know, there's no video editing software that recommends black bars and, for example, the official Adobe documentation at https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/masking-tracking.... seems to recommend their Masking and Mask Tracking features.

Black bars may look very ugly in a video. Still, are video editing products recommending a process that has a high risk of leaking sensitive data? There might be reasons that attacking redaction in a video is harder than attacking redaction in a PDF. However, maybe it's actually easier in some cases, e.g., with several similar frames, the attack could take advantage of averaging across frames.

Unfortunately I don't see anything at https://hackerone.com/adobe that could get someone a bug bounty for researching this.

[jiehong]

In a video, a bar with a color matching the rest of the object would be less noticeable; it would just appear as if it was blank.