Blur out someone's mouth

scottshackrock wrote on 5/30/2004, 5:41 PM

I want to blur out somebody's mouth, like the same way one would do to blur out profanity.

I can't figure out how to do this...any ideas? ha

Comments

jaegersing wrote on 5/30/2004, 5:54 PM

If you put copies of the video clip on tracks 1 and 2, so that they are synchronised, you can apply a blur to the top one, and then crop it so that the blur affects only the mouth area. With the bezier mask feature in Vegas 5, you can keyframe the cropped area and move it around to follow any movement of the subject' face. You can also apply a nice feathered edge if you want.

Richard Hunter

jetdv wrote on 5/30/2004, 8:31 PM

Look at the newsletter that discusses this topic at http://www.jetdv.com/tts

FuTz wrote on 5/31/2004, 8:11 AM

Tell the guy to speak very very very fast then slow down the picture...

Naaaah... I'd go with all the above and if you still got Vegas 4, you can use the cookie cutter to key the mouth instead of bezier mask.
It's not as complicated as it might seem when you get down to it... : )

TorS wrote on 5/31/2004, 11:38 PM

I'd like to blur out someone's mouth, too.

But tell me - what kind of a problem made you want to do that? Lost your sync? Trying to avoid lipreading? What was it?
Tor

GmElliott wrote on 6/1/2004, 7:59 AM

You can add feathering to a bezier mask?! Maybe I just missed it- where is that option?

FuTz wrote on 6/1/2004, 8:13 AM

... in the parameters box, just on your left ...

FuTz wrote on 6/1/2004, 8:15 AM

"I'd like to blur out someone's mouth, too."

TorS: you mean, in *real life* ? lol !!!!

scottshackrock wrote on 6/1/2004, 12:18 PM

we made a hilarious music video, and the dude said THREE where he should have said FOUR. haha. so to be even funnier, we just are going to blur it out.

it worked awesome, thanks.