Box blur/feathering

[Phil Peacock]

Oh, and one other thing. I think you are actually getting a bit too complicated with the effects ! I noticed you have rather a few (read several) vfx in the chain, many of which were not activated (I’d say you have tried a couple of strategies and when they didn’t work . . . . . . Not really an issue but I can see your line of thinking and methinks you are, as I said above, making it more complicated than it really is. The answer is there somewhere and it will be so simple when you find it. Bah!!!

[Fien Leysen]

I know you weren’t expecting this (I certainly wasn’t), and by now you might no longer be interested, but I finally figured it out!!
It was way simpler than I ever imagined and it probably comes close to several suggestions you made.

Apparently, I did the first project without overlaying solids.
All I had to do was resize each clip using the event pan/crop button (not the resize option for the entire track). Then add an effect to the entire track; brightness/contrast and guassian/blur. This ensures that the blurring takes place outside of the frame. Make both effects happen over the course of only 3 or 4 keyframes, after which the image disappears.

Yes. It was that simple. No feathering, no solids, no nothing complex. I can’t believe it. Hours, days, and months of work and crashing projects. Quite educational. I’m sorry for dragging you along 🙂 Thanks for all your help!

https://reels.creativecow.net/film/final-intro

[Phil Peacock]

Wow and wow. First wow because, after being away overseas for four months I return home, reinstate the computer back-up files on the computer that my wife has managed to crash in my absence and on the second day of it being on – I get your response!!!! I am delighted.

And the second wow covers everything else; that you persevered, that you found a very elegant solution, and that you thought to share that solution. Haha, I am even more delighted!

And well done. As I said, very elegant and if anyone else reads this, I think a solution that might become popular with a lot of ‘creators’ out there.

Thanks again Fien and good luck with your future video projects.