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Need help adding blur at a specific point
I’m trying to add blur to a specific point on my clips, the clip is of a computer screen with information being typed in. I need to blur out the text as it’s being typed, how do I do this?
Many thanks.
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Roli-
Viewer>lower right (A)>shapes>choose the shape you need>motion tab>distort>scale>opacity.
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There are lots of ways to do this. The good old fashioned way would be to duplicate your video clip to a layer directly above, go to Effects / Video Filters / Matte and apply a Mask Shape or a garbage matte, add Mask Feather if needed, and add a blur filter to the top layer. Keyframe the matte filter to follow the text.
You could also send the clip to Color. Check out the video tutorial by Richard Harrington. Gave me lots of ideas.
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/harrington_richard/final_cut_tracking_vignettes.php
good luck,
Victor
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for this exact thing in my project I’ve been doing the 4-point garbage matte on a copy of the clip layered right over the original, then tossing a blur filter on the matte. haven’t tried the shape idea, seems like it may cut a considerable amount of steps out of the process.
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