Blur multiple faces

david445

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Nov 15, 2013 10:31

Have a 1min30sec video in 5 segments, where in every segment want to blur 3-4 faces.

Don't want to do it by hand, there are any tool that automatically recognize and blur the faces, in Google map style?

Carl312

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Nov 15, 2013 14:43

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david445

Member Joined: Oct 30, 2012 05:28 Messages: 129 Offline

Nov 16, 2013 10:17

I've found a possible solution: YouTube now allow an automatic editing tool that recognize and blur faces.

I wanted better to have something locally with a better control but in the meantime...

Carl312

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Nov 16, 2013 10:26

Quote: I've found a possible solution: YouTube now allow an automatic editing tool that recognize and blur faces.

I wanted better to have something locally with a better control but in the meantime...

Good that Youtube has a tool.

You can do it locally, but Powerdirector does not have the software to do multiple faces in one go.

You can blur one face, produce that video, bring the edited video to the timeline then blur another face, repeat until all faces are blurred.

Oh, and you can download the Youtube video and store it on your computer.

"YoutubeDownloaderHD" works, Firefox has the download ability.
There is other downloader software that works.

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david445

Member Joined: Oct 30, 2012 05:28 Messages: 129 Offline

Nov 16, 2013 10:42

Quote:
Good that Youtube has a tool.

You can do it locally, but Powerdirector does not have the software to do multiple faces in one go.

You can blur one face, produce that video, bring the edited video to the timeline then blur another face, repeat until all faces are blurred.

Oh, and you can download the Youtube video and store it on your computer.

"YoutubeDownloaderHD" works, Firefox has the download ability.
There is other downloader software that works.

The problem with YouTube it's first and most the upload time. Using my ADSL can mean many hours.
Second one the blur it's done using big squares, so you blur a big area, not exactly a nice work.

There are any way in PD to trace a path for your blur shape so to follow faces during the video?

Carl312

Senior Contributor Location: Texas, USA Joined: Mar 16, 2010 20:11 Messages: 9090 Offline

Nov 16, 2013 12:35

Quote: There are any way in PD to trace a path for your blur shape so to follow faces during the video?

Yes, you can define the position using keyframes.

There is a tutorial on that:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CE_pbBhTl1I

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pixelan1

Newbie Location: Bellingham, WA Joined: Oct 24, 2013 21:27 Messages: 43 Offline

Nov 17, 2013 13:10

Another option is to apply our PowerDirector plug-in called "SpiceMaster" as an effect (not a transition) to your clip the same number of times as the number of faces you have, then position the movable mask each instance on a different face. If the faces are moving, you can keyframe the positions independently to follow them. For a tutorial on using SpiceMaster to dynamically mask over time ANY PowerDirector effect, see my post here:
http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/30591.page

Note however, you'd need to be using PowerDirector 12 or later. For more info about our PowerDirector plugins, see http://www.pixelan.com/cyberlink-plugins.htm

Sincerely,
Michael Feerer
Pixelan Software
http://www.pixelan.com