Bluring/Pixelating

[Steve Rhoden]

Can be done by a time consuming process of using the Cookie Cutter and
Keyframes in vegas alone, But to make the process easier their
are two plugins available that can do this quite easily:
NewblueFX Video Essentials Pixelator and BorisFX Witness Protection.

Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Film Maker
Filmex Creative Media.
1-876-832-4956
https://filmex-creative-media.blogspot.com/

[Mike Kujbida]

Steve, he’s using Movie Studio consequently I don’t think those plugins are an option 🙁

[Steve Rhoden]

LOL…Oh my goodness, you may be right Mike. Andrew, you then will
have to go with Cookie cutter on a duplicated timeline of the
video and keyframe its movements as the video progresses.

Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Film Maker
Filmex Creative Media.
1-876-832-4956
https://filmex-creative-media.blogspot.com/

[Andrew Peters]

Thanks very much for the replies.

I have had a look at the cookie cutter…. in fact in the Help file it does refer to the effect as hiding a number plate… so it looks like this is what I am after..

I had a quick play but can you point me to a good tutorial to use this… there are various ones on You Tube but the ones I have seen dont seem to be very specific.

I do in fact have VisionLab Sutdio where I could probably do this but you lose the sound track and it isnt worth the hassle trying to put the sound track back on for the very short period that the effect is needed.

I am quite new to Vegas Studio.. more use to glueing super 8 together… (so many years ago!) And I am actually editing a friends holiday video and she caught the seven year old skinnny dipping and thought it funny to film him for a few seconds… But I pointed out to her that he probably would not appreciate her showing that video when he is older so I will try and protect his modesty and use a blur/pixelate to do this.

Thanks again

AndyP UK

[John Rofrano]

[Andrew Peters] “I had a quick play but can you point me to a good tutorial to use this… there are various ones on You Tube but the ones I have seen dont seem to be very specific.”

I explain how to do this in this thread:

blocking their face

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Andrew Peters]

Thanks very much…

[Andrew Peters]

Just seen a good turorial @
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FoZGtDUaDw

For specifically blurring out people faces… so I have now found this very easy to do… however….

…. Whilst it is easy to use the keyframes to add the cookie cutter/pixelate is there a way of removing the effect.. and then bringing it when needed ie. remove?

Im not sure how to explain this but if, for example, the cookie cutter/pixelate effect is being used to track a motion for a few seconds.. and then the effect is not needed for a few seconds.. can it be turned off… be made invisable.. and then brought back in again when required.

When I first did this I put the cookie cutter/pixelate effect right in the corner of the screen.. forgetting about the motion tracking side of it so it just tracked from the corner of the screen to where it was next needed.

The only way I have found is to split the video.. then add the effect where ever it was needed…

It would appear to me it would be far easier to have a effect on/off facility within the effect itself to make it availble whenever it was needed.

Thanks
AndyP UK
So I just wondering if the effect could basically be made invisable at will to save having to keep splitting the video.

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[Edward Troxel]

Mike, the NewBlue Pixelator effect certainly works just fine in the Movie Studio versions of Vegas as do all the other effects made by NewBlue.

Edward Troxel

[Mike Kujbida]

Thanks very much Edward.
I’ll file that in my aging memory banks in the hopes that I can remember it in future posts 🙂