Pixelate Text (multiple Regions)-Motion Tracking

Charles-Powell schrieb am 23.08.2022 um 19:15 Uhr

I currently own Vegas Pro 17 perpetual license. I am running a trial on Vegas Pro 20.

I am creating some tutorial videos with sensitive data that I have to blur or pixelate out. I have screen recordings made from OBS, with scrolling pages that contain that sensitive data.

I need to pixelate that data out. But just certain areas, like where an email address or phone number is showing. As the page scrolls, that pixelate effect needs to follow it.

I can easily to this for one field, like an email address for example. But three lines down there might be something else, like the name of a child, or a phone number, etc..

For the life of me, I cannot figure out how to get multiple regions of specific rectangle-shaped areas of pixilation to follow the scrolling of the screencapture.

One region is fine, I got that. Can I add more regions? If so, how in the world can I do this? This would be so beyond helpful if I could get this to work, you have no idea.

I have searched YouTube. Everything I find is about motion tracking a single region and applying Pixelate to that. But nothing I found helps with multiple regions on the same screen.

Please help! THANK YOU!

Kommentare

john_dennis schrieb am 23.08.2022 um 19:40 Uhr

@Charles-Powell

Perhaps you should rethink your workflow.

Consider redacting the text on those scrolling pages as image files in Photoshop or some other photo editor. If you're creating video of them in OBS you could do the redacting first or just do the scrolling of the redacted pages in Vegas Pro with Pan/Crop and/or Track Motion.

Charles-Powell schrieb am 23.08.2022 um 20:06 Uhr

Thank you for chiming in John. I will look into that.

Does that mean that Vegas Pro 20 is not capable of creating more than one region to apply a pixelate effect at a time? If that is the case, then your solution would be the only solution.

I would like to think though, that Vegas is capable of this.

Thank you, it has been a while since I have needed to use video editing. Coming back to it, I do feel most comfortable with Vegas.

john_dennis schrieb am 23.08.2022 um 20:13 Uhr

@Charles-Powell

"Does that mean that Vegas Pro 20 is not capable of creating more than one region to apply a pixelate effect at a time?"

Some of us are so old and set in our ways that have worked for so many years, we don't even try to find out. There is no virtue in using one and only one tool.

"A quick and dirty example." said the NSA operative.

Jack S schrieb am 24.08.2022 um 23:37 Uhr

@Charles-Powell Does that mean that Vegas Pro 20 is not capable of creating more than one region to apply a pixelate effect at a time?

No. Vegas Pro is capable of creating as many masks as you want. See the image below. This is one I created for one of my tutorials.

That's the easy bit. Animating the masks in the way that you want is definately do-able, but it would be painstaking and time consuming.

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Ehemaliger User schrieb am 25.08.2022 um 01:16 Uhr

Does VP20 still have motion tracking in Bezier mask ? - (mask FX)