here is one way to blur out faces etc.

**mord** · January 31st, 2006

I had a couple vids I wanted to post that I needed to blur out a face. I did a lil looking on that thar interweb thingy and came up with this....

I knew Adobe Premier Pro could do it. Just didn't have the proggy or the knowledge of how to do it. Here is a link to Adobe's web page with a 30 day trial download of premier pro windows version.
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloa...atform=Windows
Regular premier should work also.

And here is a link for a video tutorial on how to do a face blur with motion tracking. Its for premier not premier pro but it was close enough I could figure out the few things that were slightly different.
http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorial...ving-Face/2682

While I am kinda computer savvy I have NEVER used premier pro before and I know pretty much NOTHING about video edditing. That tutorial was really all I needed. However there is one sticky part where premier pro differs. This may sound pretty technical for total novices, but trust me watch the vid once then walk through the steps playing the vid and pausing as you go and its easy.
The part that is dif with Premier Pro is when your setting the key points for the motion tracking. In premier pro select the video (video 3 if your following the tutorial) and select motion under the effects control window. select the little circle next to position to start making key points. Instead of manually making key points, you just move the mask. IE just move the little blurry spot where you want it. let the vid run a little and move the mask agian. each time you move it Premier pro auto generates a key point. so you just need to make a new one each time the object to be blurred changes directions or speed.

**samhain2** · May 28th, 2006

THANK YOU!!! I've been looking to do this as I have LOADs of stuff but haven't yet learned how to blur the face!! I use Studio Pro at thye moment, still trying to figure out how to do it on that. Many thanks again.