blurring

flawlesspaul wrote on 7/9/2012, 5:42 PM

I 've been getting great help from this forum and would like to ask another question as I am learning how to use this software. (Vegas Movie Studio 10 HD Platinum)
How can you blur a persons' face in an event for a certain amount of time without blurring their whole body and enabling the visual censor to follow the affected area to maintain the blurred face?

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 7/9/2012, 7:34 PM

The most straight forward way is with the cookie cutter. Place two copies of the video clip on the timeline, one on a track above the other, lined up so that they're exactly in sync. Add a blur or pixelization or whatever effect you wish to the upper clip. Adjust the size, shape, and position of the cookie cutter effect so that it only covers the part of the image you want blurred. You can then use keyframes to move the position of the cookie cutter as the subject moves around.

You can also use the keyframes to turn the effect on and off.

musicvid10 wrote on 7/9/2012, 10:16 PM

I find the magnetic lasso tool in Photoshop a great aid in achieving just the right shape for the upper track mask.

flawlesspaul wrote on 7/10/2012, 2:25 PM

Thank so much.. I will be practicing this 2day.

flawlesspaul wrote on 7/10/2012, 2:26 PM

Thak you very much, I will also look into that software as well.

AlanADale wrote on 7/10/2012, 2:37 PM

Well, if what you intend looking into is Adobe Photoshop as earlier mentioned then be advised that unless you are seriously into digital imaging it will give you very little return for a whole lot of money. Much more cost effective is Photoshop Elements, an application more suited for the amateur image editor. Elements essentially comes with less bells and whistles than it's big brother which only the very serious image editor etc would use anyway.
There are of course several FREE image editors which a Google search will easily throw up.