How to Blur Out Someone's Face using Sony Vegas Movie Studio

[@RamblinAround]

I still come back to your videos whenever I need a refresher course. You make the best tutorials on YT.

[@AimlessMoto]

This is definitely going to help with bluring out speedometers and faces :) Thanks!! You've single-handedly taught me how to use Sony Movie Studio 13 Platinum.

[@AquidneckRider]

I just ordered my copy of this program and this video is EXACTLY what I have been looking for! Your instructions are very easy to follow and I can't wait to put this to use. Thanks a lot Dex!!!

[@lyrichal0202]

this video is so nice! you got straight to the point and the content is very helpful! :D i've been looking for a good tutorial on this for ages, thank you!!

[@kohertion]

Very clearly spoken and explained. This one goes straight into my fav's So I'll never forget. Thanks heaps.

[@VIVACIOUSV]

This was sooo helpful thank you very much. I didn't watch the whole video..but as soon as you explained the cookie cutter part and copying the footage twice..I got it. Thanks so much again!

[@JorisScrolls]

Thank you once more Movie Studio Zen, I had to blur out the brand name of a bottle and this worked perfectly!

[@CaseyHardman]

Thank you for this. I've been working with Sony Vegas Pro for a few years now, but I always seem to learn something new all the time. Great tutorial. :)

[@JJBabbles]

I can't thank you enough for this tutorial! I'm using version 12 but was able to follow the tutorial with only a few differences (which I somehow figured out) I really needed to learn this technique tonight so thank-you again for making such easy to follow videos - I'll be returning here for sure :)

[@JJBabbles]

***** I suprised myself figuring that one out! :)

[@BananaDuck]

thanks for the quick guide buddy! *thumbs up*

[@dwightwitten179]

Thank you SO MUCH for ALL of your Videos !!!...Hands down the BEST on You Tube !!!!!

[@GooRooBeauty]

You're fantastic- you explain everything so well and at the right speed ; ) Thanks so much

[@IcyWisdxm]

Wow, Thanks For The Tutorial! Really Helped Me Alot As I Struggled How To Do It.

[@ElmaFudd2]

Thank you once again sooooo much! I wish Sony would hire you in making their excuse of a help section much better! Your videos are brilliant and explaining Vegas 11! Cheers

[@Xerr0X]

Never Mind ;) I don't know what it was but I restarted it and now it's okay again. And all your videos are very good, without you I couldn't be so far in so little time :D

[@prankofengland]

Very useful, learnt a new skill today thanks to you, ta!

[@LesTutosdeHuito]

cheers mate, really useful!

[@SpaceBound01]

Helped a lot bro, i wasnt using color blur at all but i could apply these rules to what i was doing, plus the keyframing thing was a bonus, good shit man.

[@MovieStudioZen]

Cool :)

[@TheCastillerian]

Best tutorial I've ever learned!

[@SkylarkTorch]

Using MSP 12 here, your tutorial works great! Thanks a bunch!

[@andrewnorris2]

Great vid, Dex, really helpful and explained in a way even I can understand. Thanks

[@ecorico22]

You've proven to be a huge help multiple times! Thanks a ton! Feel free to watch one of my vlogs and send a message with notes on where I can improve...if you wouldn't mind of course. Thanks either way!

[@salisburyplain998]

wow I did it!, your a star mate :)

[@BritishRail60062]

Thanks for this handy tutorial mate! I do a lot of transport videos where its in a public location. However I try not to get anyone's face in my videos as I respect privacy, but sometimes its hard to avoid this in busy places like terminal stations etc. But thanks to your tutorial, I can just blur them out off my footage and my videos should be better now in the future.

[@rosswyllie1472]

Did you manage to blur more than one persons face?

[@BritishRail60062]

Yes I did thanks :). Works a treat when you don't want someone in your video unintentionally.

[@NylariaArt]

Thank you so much for making this series of tutorials they are a Godsend :)

[@MovieStudioZen]

Cheers :)

[@stevenstrom458]

Thank you! This was extremely helpful. Needed to blur a face on my actor's reel.

[@family2guy2]

Great video man. I got it on the first try thanks to you!

[@Concorde007_]

This video helped this beginner a lot. Thanks!

[@bamccaig]

Thanks for the video! Looking into options to edit video as a motovlogger and this helps a lot.

[@futurez12]

Thanks for the tutorial, awesome job! Lucky 12.0 is almost identical, so this helped save me some time working it out for myself. Cheers mate.

[@geekinthehattech]

Another fantastic video! I would love it if you were to make a playlist with all Vegas 11 tutorials!

[@Xzen808]

I searched and searched for a way to do some masking/blur with Vegas Movie Studio HD 11 and couldn't find anything. Then I ran into your video... Thank you!

[@turreu]

didn't realize it was this easy. first i tried to save blurred image in .png as transparent and add to a video. so thanks.

[@1uniqueislander968]

Thanks for all the tutorials on sonyvegas! Great videos :D

[@MovieStudioZen]

Cheers :)

[@KatyLawson]

Thank you so much for this - was trying to remove some text from a video to put my own text on, and you helped me massively

[@MovieStudioZen]

:)

[@jenluv]

Thank you so much!

[@VeranosResources]

Hello, will you please let us know what microphone you use when recording your tutorials? It sounds great. Thanks!

[@salisburyplain998]

Thanks Derek that's gonna be a great help I also use the copy and overwrite function which works a treat as long as you cut at zero crossing points and find a bit of audio that matches roughly, I used to use Sound forge a lot as a amateur sound engineer so once your help got my gray matter working I was fine lol,Great Vids helping me a lot getting to grips with Movie Studio

[@theworstdrivers]

Brilliant stuff. Thanks for this tutorial , very helpful :)

[@parodian3]

Thanks a lot man. You really really helped me out with this tutorial!

[@TH3FR0ZENFALC0N]

Thanks for this tutorial, it helped me out perfectly

[@mykylc]

Thanks...straight to it and great job!!!

[@GrimTravels]

Thank you so much for the great video! Very easy and informative!

[@giid]

thanks for the quick reply! i couldnt find an answer on google or youtube but now everything works like it should.

[@holamovie9343]

Thanks for the help!

[@MovieStudioZen]

:)

[@deanrussin8466]

I'm just messing around. I meant in this, but that's obviously stupid. This was actually a lot of help. Thank you :)

[@BizAndProductReviews]

Oh, I just read the answer you gave to someone else and I think I see what to do now. Thankyou Movie Studio Zen.

[@MovieStudioZen]

In newer versions of Movie Studio you press the "little clocks" next to each setting. This will turn on the Animation "keyframe" timeline for each control.

[@laur423a]

Thank you sooooo much! I dont have any idea how to do it. I even dont know if you need SV Pro to do it. Thanks again.

[@wetalk9730]

THANK YOUUU sooo much. I was really struggling with this, yea I was, saw couple of other tutorials ,just didn't get it, u made it crystal clear...thanks a bunch keep it up :)

[@wetalk9730]

there seems to be a problem now, after I animate and create keyframes , it takes a long time.i close it like you did when I play the video ,bam its in dead centre of the screen, nothing happens,it dosent animate..it dosent move around, am I doing something wrong,plz help..

[@wetalk9730]

***** Thanks for the reply, alrite ill try for sure, and I use movie studio platinum 12..just wanna ask if this tutorial applies the same way to it.?

[@wetalk9730]

***** it worked! thank you soo much for your help..i pressed the little clocks for centre and size as well, while before I would only press the most bottom one that is stereoscopic 3d depth..

[@NickIslingtonBiker]

Excellently explained. Many thnx!

[@thedelawareagenda]

Great vid Dex! I always learn something new from your vids! I noticed in your effects box pan/crop is part of the chain. I am guessing you are using platinum 11 in this video. I use platinum 10. Sometimes I wonder if I could place an fx before or after the pan/crop in the chain. Is that possible in platinum 10? Particularly with some transitions this can be a problem because the transition goes across the whole screen not just the area that has been pan or crop.

[@SecurityKevStyle]

thanks for all your help mate . i can now put up lots of my videos

[@YourAverageNerd777]

Thanks, this helped a lot. Not as hard as I would of thought.

[@toob95]

Great tutorial, much appreciated!

[@MuttleeCrew]

Your videos are awesome! How did you ever figure all of this stuff out???

[@Weretooth]

Your videos are really helpful. Thank you

[@NoahSlate]

THANK YOU!!!!!!! THIS WAS VERY HELPFUL!!!!

[@lizard3347]

Thank you very much! I have just started making videos and this is very helpful :)

[@OldBittyGrandma]

to find the animate, go to the very bottom of the pop up screen. sometimes it's labeled animate. sometimes it's just a grey box. either way, click it and that opens up the animate feature.

[@HaodSunday]

Thanks man! I need to remember because i need to play with this cuz i dont like for my family to waste money.

[@HaodSunday]

Your amazing at editing btw.

[@doompatatoe]

thanks soooooooooo much. this tutorial rocks im subbed now

[@eardy11]

thank you so much, i really really needed help and i like your voice too

[@LovelyyyIDV]

Thanks! I am going to do a cosplay (when you dress to look like a certain character) video, but I couldn't show my face! This is going to help me while still allowing me to show a bit of the top of my cosplay, too! I'll be sure to watch your other videos!

[@LovelyyyIDV]

***** =)

[@ipodbuff]

could you do an update in Vegas pro 12?

[@alexsmolik]

Hey there! This is a great tutorial and it works just fine... BUT problem when exporting! I use the same program as you (Sony Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum 11) and I followed your tutorial step by step, and I managed to do everything, and it works when I play the video on the interface = you see the blur. However, whenever I try to SAVE this as a video on my desktop (make a movie), the blur is barely noticeable, almost not there = therefore useless. Why is that?? Do you have a solution? :(

[@TheDutyPaid]

I am very new to this program coming from windows movie marker. lol do you have a video how to add a picture over someone's face?

[@blazblad]

thanks alot! its gonna help me blurring stuff out in my vids :D

[@NoShoesAllowed]

This helped out TREMENDOUSLY! I did this on my latest video, Thank you! :)

[@thehillza]

Thanks for the vid dude helped me out alot

[@halefalling]

last question, is it worth the money?

[@staytunedwithdorothy]

Movie Studio Zen thank u very much for sharing this info :D Question 1 : Do i have to copy the whole video or just the clip that i want to blur? Question 2 : can i make more than one blur? Its for the gameplays that have some nude in *cough* Outlast for example *cough*

[@MovieStudioZen]

1. You only need to copy the section that needs to be blurred. 2. Yes you can make more than 1x blur. Insert a 3rd Video Track and clone the video a 2nd time. Apply Cookie Cutter and Blur FX again to 3rd video. You can keep repeating the process for as many different "faces" as you need to blur.

[@staytunedwithdorothy]

Movie Studio Zen Thank u for the help :D

[@riteasrain]

Very helpful, thanks. It's been a while since I edited a vid and was staring at the screen wondering what to do after all this time lol. One question, you may have a vid on this you can point me to. How do I change the resolution (pixel dimensions) of the video after I've started editing? At the moment I have it at 950x540 which is great for my game vids but it seems to be the default. I would like to up it to 1280 or something, but I don't just want to zoom in. Thanks so much.

[@riteasrain]

***** Yep that 960x540 (sorry, I said 950) is the default for my game vids. That's the size recorded in Fraps (1/2 the size of my monitor) so I keep them at original res. This particular recording however (not a game one) didn't bring up any size options when I dragged it into the Vegas window, so I wasn't alerted to changing it. I realised a little way in that because the recording is very widescreen, it's smaller than should be. Thanks so much for your help and time, I'll nab these suggestions and go through it in the prog. Hope you don't mind if I pop back with more questions if I have trouble :)

[@MatthewND]

hi there I've been using Sony Vegas Movie Studio 11 for about 2 years your videos on your channel have helped me a lot on how to green screen and how to blur out someone's face your videos have really helped me learn how to use Sony Vegas thanks for that not too many videos go much into detail like your videos to learn how to use Sony Vegas there is one little concern though I wanted to ask you about I have been noticing that my Sony Vegas Movie Studio 11 has been acting up normally when I start a project I give it a file name and I save it throughout the project I am saving my video project at the same time while I'm editing it my problem is that Sony Vegas is not responding I've been noticing over the last 24 hours that my Sony Vegas has really been acting up every time I go to open Sony Vegas to open my project to start where I left off to load the project takes about 3 seconds and Sony Vegas crashes it says its not responding in this happened so many times in a row I ran my mail where bites cleaned up my computer a little bit and I uninstalled and reinstalled Sony Vegas twice and I still notice that its acting up I looked at some other KZbin videos on how to fix the not responding error message everytime I open Sony Vegas and load the project and there are a lot of people that are having this problem and really I have not found a good enough video to correct the problem I see you really know how to use Sony Vegas very well and that's why I decided to ask you this question I really would like to know if there is a way to fix this problem for me to get in contact with Sony well I think their life chat might be a bunch of ball what I mean is it might cost me money and I can afford it right now they mainly wanted to Sony Vegas because I like to work with green screen chroma key and I've never had a problem with Sony Vegas Movie Studio before once in awhile it would crash but normally I can get right back into my project and recover it so that's my concern right now if you have a video or make a video and how to fix the rendering error message please forward it to me I really would appreciate so thanks?

[@254Maddog]

Very helpful. Thanks.

[@halefalling]

in the intro, can you do a video that shows how you did that wave effect thanks, you have good videos and there all easy to follow, thanks

[@witherrss]

Thanks!

[@graduator08]

Thank you very much! Now I'll just need to find a good version of photoshop. ;)

[@angreeee]

best and easiest method out there

[@Xerr0X]

Really thanks mate!

[@PlasticBagFilms]

thank you very much! helped alot.

[@digitalmagnates]

oooh! someone's been a bit naughty lol thanks for your tutorial :)

[@danielboujee]

Thank you!!! I'm using this on my video called: "Morning Routine Expectations vs. Reality!" :D

[@bf314159]

you have some very helpful videos

[@NasiaD.]

Hi, Is it possible to blur out the background or do I need a more advance camera to do this?

[@13RuffRyder]

@TemporalParadox1 hello. will your tutorials for platinum 11 work for platinum 11 production suite because i think thats the one im getting. i guess what im asking is, is platinum 11 and platinum 11 production suite vary different?.

[@SailorRocket]

That linear blur, is that not pixelated, but a regular blur that looks like the Blur tool on Photoshop? I'm looking for something like that. :)

[@nureddynursal]

Thanks mate. its realy work. but i've problem in animate. izit work on pro 11 ?

[@BizAndProductReviews]

My Sony Movie Studio Platinum 12 does not have this ANIMATE button available. At least I can't find it. Is there a way to still do what you taught in this video?

[@MicroplaysMC]

+BizAndProductReviews Click the little clock across from the "Center" option.

[@blutey]

Hi, Thanks for this tutorial. I tried this Cookie Cutter method on a clip in Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 9 to blur out two street sign names. It worked but left pixellation artifacts in any subsequent transition on the timeline between two clips ie the pixellation effect suddenly reappeared again in a 2 second 'fly-out' transition. Hope that makes sense. Do you know what's causing this and how to fix it? Thanks in advance.

[@MovieStudioZen]

Pixelation should *only* be applied to top duplicate video track and *not* bottom original track. Never add more videos and/or create transitions to the top 2nd video track - this must be left alone and only used for pixelation effect. Press green FX button inside video you used for transition and then delete Pixelation FX.

[@AsFewFalseThingsAsPossible]

Hi the cookie cutter effect is being applied to both video lines, I am using version 12. "Media offline: is appearing in the timeline, any ideas ? Thanks for this great video.

[@AsFewFalseThingsAsPossible]

***** Thanks I fixed it. One other question, say I have a file with these characteristics below. When I save it after doing something really simple just like the pixellation, what is the best way to just keep exactly the same characteristics ? I see all the options for savng to my computer in various filetypes, but if I go for 1080p for instance, I can get a huge 35gig file. I just want it to be as good as possible for the smallest size. Thanks again for great channel. General Name: filename.MOV Type: Sony AVC Size: 966.65 MB (989,848,172 bytes) Created: Tuesday, 7 October 2014, 11:06:21 p.m. Modified: Tuesday, 7 October 2014, 2:29:52 p.m. Accessed: Tuesday, 7 October 2014, 11:06:21 p.m. Attributes: Archive Streams Video: 00:05:59.734, 23.976 fps progressive, 1920x1080x12, AVC Audio: 00:05:59.734, 48,000 Hz, Stereo, PCM ACID information ACID chunk: no Stretch chunk: no Stretch list: no Stretch info2: no Beat markers: no Detected beats: no Other metadata Regions/markers: no Command markers: no Media manager Media tags: no Plug-In Name: compoundplug.dll Folder: C:\Program Files\Sony\Movie Studio Platinum 12.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\compoundplug Format: Sony AVC Version: Version 12.0 (Build 1184) 64-bit Company: Sony Creative Software Inc.

[@AsFewFalseThingsAsPossible]

***** OK thanks will look at this. Mainconcept and Sony AVC will just make files of the original size ? I will check it out. Thanks again

[@lowell3339]

hey! thanks for making the video found it very useful. Quick question, what was your reasoning for copying and making a separate video track?

[@MovieStudioZen]

The 2nd track is the section that gets blurred abd is cut out with the Cookie Cutter. I did make an updated version of this tutorial here: www.moviestudiozen.com/free-tutorials/sony-vegas-pro/557-sony-vegas-zen-tips-7-pixelate-conceal

[@comixcre8or]

What would you do if you wanted to mask something out completely? For example, if I wanted to mask out someone's head, and I notepad

[@TheCrazymook]

Is it possible to blur multiple faces or objects using this method?

[@rosswyllie1472]

Great video

[@RustyGoldProductions]

Your awesome!! thanks for the help, im gonna subbscribe!!

[@MovieStudioZen]

You need a DSLR Camera with good lens to shoot shallow depth of field.

[@eduardoaguilar1864]

Gracias compadre!!!

[@giid]

i have a problem and looking at the comments i believe i'm not the only one with this. i got movie studio platinum 12 suite after seeing it on your channel and i really like it. but when i go to the cookie cutter there is no animate button. is there a way to blur out moving faces in platinum 12 or is it simply not possible? please help me/us, if its more complex with this version maybe you could do another tutorial?

[@nureddynursal]

Thanks for the very good respond. God bless u mate