A blast from the past, FCP7 plug in needed..Circle Blur

[Emmet Reddy]

I have not used good old FCP7 in a long time, but what you could do is duplicate your video layers use the mask shape on the top layer select oval as your shape move this over the face you want to blur add a blur filter gaussian will do. Try this

[Justine-paula Robilliard]

Hi Emmet,

The problem is that the oval shape+gaussian blur is very limited, to only 1 object, and to blur out 2 or more is a huge issue.

On the work mac we have “circle blur” I think it is a plug in, and I cannot find the download for this plug in, what I do on the work mac is duplicated the “circle blur”, use the + center and relocate the 2nd instance of the circle blur..

[Andy Mees]

https://www.dropbox.com/s/pmg3km9czuizu42/andysplugins.zip?dl=0https://www.dropbox.com/s/pmg3km9czuizu42/andysplugins.zip?dl=0

[Justine-paula Robilliard]

Wow Thanks Andy, do I just unzip and copy them to a certain folder in FCP7? Been a long time since I did anything like this, a bit rusty on the process…

[Justine-paula Robilliard]

Hi Andy,

I just unzipped and placed the whole collection in the plug in folder, and wow, yes just perfect, and with the tint, I can do a lot of faces, with the tint see who is who, and then take off the tint, this is perfect, OMG, thank you so much, you have no idea how happy I am…thank you!!!

[Eric f. Scholl]

In an effort to do what you’re needing, I double-layered the video, opened “Effects”, opened “Matte” then added the “Mask Shape” unto the V1 video. From the “Filters” tab, I selected “Oval” shape and adjusted with the horizontal & vertical scale sliders until a circle was created ad clicked on “Invert”. Then on the V2 video layer, I clicked on the “Motion” tab and adjusted the Opacity level to blot out the face. It works but only in a static image as it won’t follow action…that is another task for another time!

[Nicholas Bierzonski]

Hi Justine,

It’s been a while since I used Final Cut Pro 7 but…you should be able to:

1. Duplicate your clip and place it directly above it on the next video track with the frames matching.

(I hope this is clear…but I mean you will have two duplicate clips in the timeline stacked on video track 1 and track 2)

2. On the top (Duplicated clip: Track 2) put a Circle mask on top of the persons face.

3. Invert the circle.

4. Place a blur on the (Duplicated clip: Track 2) top clip with your circle mask.

5. Keyframe your (Duplicated clip: Track 2) top clip which will only be a blurred face in a circle as the face moves around in the frame.

I hope this helps.Hi Justine,

It’s been a while since I used Final Cut Pro 7 but…you should be able to:

1. Duplicate your clip and place it directly above it on the next video track with the frames matching.

(I hope this is clear…but I mean you will have two duplicate clips in the timeline stacked on video track 1 and track 2)

2. On the top (Duplicated clip: Track 2) put a Circle mask on top of the persons face.

3. Invert the circle.

4. Place a blur on the (Duplicated clip: Track 2) top clip with your circle mask.

5. Keyframe your (Duplicated clip: Track 2) top clip which will only be a blurred face in a circle as the face moves around in the frame.

I hope this helps.

[Justine-paula Robilliard]

Hi Nicholas,

Yes I used that method if there was 1 object to blur, however it tends to not work on 2 or more objects, the solution is the Andy’s blur, it is perfect, as I can keyframe the blur I need, set the tint to a color, keyframe multiple instances of this plugin, on the same clip of video, then reduce the tint to 0, and render, it worked perfectly, so happy….

yeah folks still use FCP7, as it is a great tool for tv news video editing, actually in many ways superior to FCP X, very happy to not be using X, there are aspects of 7 that suck, but on the whole, 7 is a bit better… It is the audio that is the problem, being able to have the window of 7 showing the audio with keyframes is so much better than X…