Blurring

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It will save you lots of time if you will first use the Search Posts feature on the COW.
This question was just asked and answered (again) a day ago.

We don’t mind answering questions, that’s why several of us “lurk” here so much, but the “same-old, same-old” gets a bit repetitive (and you can “instantly” find your answer 9 out of 10 times).

So go ahead, try, the SEARCH POSTS for “blur” and enjoy the reading!

[Autorecall2003@yahoo.co.uk]

Well, I already did a search before writing the answer. I did not read anything about how it’s possible to move the garbage matte around to follow an object moving. Only way is to buy the 350usd roto plugin which is very expensive. And maybe it would be nice with a round blur, and garbage matte doesen’t do that. Also I asked a question about which grain plugin is good – maybe it’s a matter of taste, but I would still like if someone would answer this question and maybe do objects blurring in another way.

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[John Fishback]

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John

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[Travis Miller]

Use photoshop to create a blue (or green) shape that is the approx
the size that you need for the blur. Make sure to make the background
transparent. You can also blur the edges in photoshop to clean it up.

Now import that shape into fcp and place it on top of the clip that
you need blurred. Use key frames to move the shape around and keep
the area in question covered. When you are satisfied that everything
is covered up export your timeline as a self contained file.

Import that file and place it on top of the original clip.
Make sure they are still in sync (you can crop it in half to check).
Apply the blur filter to the clip on bottom.
Now, key out the blue shape to let the blur show through.

If you do it right it should look fine.
I had to do something like this yesterday and was pretty
impressed with the results.

[Jason Mccaffrey]

You can do this within FCP. Copy the clip you want to place the blur on and stack it on top of itself in the timeline. Apply an 8 point garbage matte to the top layer. Keyframe the points of the matte to follow your image. Apply a gausian blur and/or whatever other effects you want to to distort the image lying underneath the mask. Hope this helps.

Jason