Blurring a video

Spies12345

Newbie Joined: Dec 16, 2015 19:00 Messages: 34 Offline

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Jan 28, 2017 20:51

Hi,

I have taken some footage at a school concert. The footage has up to 50 kids dancing. In Australia, you are not able to publish videos of children unless the faces are masked. There are so many faces in the video, that I need to blur the entire image.

I have tried using the "Blur" effect in PD14, but it is a bit extreme.

I'd appreciate any other suggestions you have,

Thanks, Andrew Sony AX53 camera / 4 Panasonic HC-V270 cameras / PD14 / I7-6700 /
GTX 1060 TURBO / 16G RAM

JL_JL

Senior Contributor Location: Arizona, USA Joined: Oct 01, 2006 20:01 Messages: 6091 Offline

Jan 28, 2017 21:22

You can click the "Effect" button just above the timeline and change the "Degree" of the blur from the default of 5 to 2. You could also use the "Gaussan Blur" effect which has the same controls but at the 2 level appears to be a little lighter.

Jeff

Spies12345

Newbie Joined: Dec 16, 2015 19:00 Messages: 34 Offline

Jan 28, 2017 21:55

Quote You can click the "Effect" button just above the timeline and change the "Degree" of the blur from the default of 5 to 2. You could also use the "Gaussan Blur" effect which has the same controls but at the 2 level appears to be a little lighter.

Jeff

Thanks Geoff, works great.

Is there someway I can drop the same effect over every snippet in the timeline without doing each individually?

Also, is there a way to change the default to 2

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Sony AX53 camera / 4 Panasonic HC-V270 cameras / PD14 / I7-6700 /
GTX 1060 TURBO / 16G RAM

JL_JL

Senior Contributor Location: Arizona, USA Joined: Oct 01, 2006 20:01 Messages: 6091 Offline

Jan 28, 2017 22:09

Instead of placing the effect on the clip, place it on the Fx track right below track 1. You can then stretch the right end of the effect to encompass all your clips.

Default value is fixed.

Jeff

glowx231

Newbie Joined: Jan 19, 2015 12:06 Messages: 32 Offline

Mar 09, 2017 11:26

"Also, is there a way to change the default to 2"

On both BLURS you can reduce this value to 1 or 0 (no effect).

You might also try NewBlue Soft Focus effect for more subtlety.