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How do you block out or blur out someones eyes? To make them look “undercover”
I’d like to find out how to block out someone’s eyes (with a black rectangle) in order to make them unrecognizable as seen in witness protection video… or terrorist video. My second choice would be to blur the eyes out.
Does anyone know how to do this in a fairly simple way.
Oh yeah- one more thing… what about changing the voice? Making it lower or disguising it in some way.
Thank you,
Michael
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Ahhh, create a black rectangle and place it on a video layer above your footage,
and then pitch shift the voice down. -
You want to make a color matte (can be found in the menu that has the text generator), make it black in the controls, and then use motion control on it to shrink/move it.
To blur, copy the video and place a copy directly ABOVE the original on the timeline. Apply a blur filter to the top layer, and then drag a matte on top of it from the filters bin. Use the matte controls to crop that top layer video down so that the blurry part is just over the eyes or face. Then adjust the amount of blurriness and the opacity of the top layer until you get what you want.
OR, you could blur the face and THEN put a black box over it! That may be taking things a bit too far, though…
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I’d probably just use crop for stuff this simple. Mattes take longer to render and aren’t real time. Blur is rt and so is crop.
OT- am I the only person that feels compelled to crank the brightness on the TV when the interview someone in silouhette?
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[Bret Williams] “OT- am I the only person that feels compelled to crank the brightness on the TV when the interview someone in silouhette?”
The thought I always had was, what’s stopping the bad guys from pitch shifting the audio back up to find out who ratted them out?
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