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Blur Person Face In Background of Video
Hello all,
I need to blur the face of someone in the background . . . did a search and found the following info on the net . . “First, create an Adjustment Layer above the video layer in your AE timeline by selecting Layer>New>Adjustment Layer. Then, go to your Effects & Presets Panel and type “Gaussian Blur” in the Contains field, and drag the Gaussian Blur effect to the Adjustment Layer. Select the Adjustment Layer, go to the Effect Controls, and change Blurriness to 30.Then, go to the Toolbar and select the Elliptical Mask Tool by holding your mouse button down on the Rectangular Mask Tool and selecting the Elliptical Mask once the pop-up appears.” . . . this is where it gets crazy for me, First my adjustment layer is white, Second when I use the Elliptical Tool, my “Composition Layer” turn black as night . . I can not see the persons face to use the Elliptical Tool and it stays black for the duration of the tutorial I following . . .picture in the tutorial are transparent not black. Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong ? ? or is there another way to achive the same effect ? ? Usinging CS3
Thanks – Hap -
2 Replies
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hmmm, this is quite a strange situation. Are you sure it is an adjustment layer, like is the adjustment layer switch turned on in the switches/modes panel (a circle which is half black, half white) because when this is switched off the layer becomes white as you describe. As for the black layer problem, i am unsure, all i can think of is that you make sure caps lock is turned off but i dont think this sounds like the problem.
another way to do it would be to duplicate the footage layer and add the gaussian blur to the top layer in the same way (with the eliptical tool etc)
Hope i have helped,
Pat Jaeger -
Thanks for the insight, I use the duplicate layer and it worked just fine. Thanks again – Hap
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