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Blurring out names/logos in SD project – what tool to use?
Hi, guys!
So, when nearly finishing updating an old SD project, the client throws in that they wish to blur out company names/logos and name bagdes on people wearing suits in the film.
I have never done this before, just blurring out objects when the camera is still.
If anyone has suggestions for tools solving this, I’d be very glad! The logos might appear on several places in the sequences (for example two persons wearing a suit where either/or both name badge and company logo is visible).
I guess the easiest (but most time-consuming) way is to duplicate the clip, place it on top of the original one and then somehow add a mask with blur. Then keyframe movement of the mask? Not sure how that’s done, though…
I do have Motion, but after some reading I figure it might take longer to understand how to work with Motion? Or perhaps I can make the blurring much quicker and better in Motion, once I get the hang of it?
So, I’d be very happy for inputs on this one!
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I’m with Dave on this: Use the motion tracker in Apple Motion, then parent it to the blurs you set up.
A more tedious way to go would be to rotoscope the tags, by exporting a frame movie or sequential stills, into photoshop, then fixing them there, using healing and cloning brushes on each individual frame. While you can reduce the time spent on that by quite a bit if you know how to apply batch actions, it still will be a very tedious job. But I think it tends to look better than just adding a blur. Blurs tend to attract the eye and brain in an attempt to decode what the blur is hiding and so, blurs call attention to just the very thing your client didn’t want people to look at.
you can grab a very adjacent area of the shirt or jacket and move it over the tag with feathered edges; it may work better than just a blur alone.
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I just take a look into Motion, then. I have never used the software, but I guess I will have to work with (final) ref movies (they are four in total) and then apply the motion blur with tracking on the actual parts?
To make things a bit more complicated, there’s both movement of camera and actors, as well as multiple logos that needs to be blurred.
I have watched a few tutorials on Motion and blur/tracking, and I think I will get the blur part just fine. But how’s the tracking done? In one of the turorials, it looked like you were working with keyframes after all…
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