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Creating censored video

Creating censored video

In this chapter we're going to look at the exciting world of video effects. In this movie, we're going to look at how to apply a few effects and some tricks as well. And specifically what we're going to try to be doing is trying to make this guy anonymous by blurring out his face. There is a few different ways to do that so this is just one way. The first thing we need to do is we need to isolate just his face. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to do a search for Matte in the Effects panel. What I'm looking for here is the Eight-Point Garbage Matte Effect. This will give us some points to create a mask. So I'm going to apply. I'm just going to drag-and-drop this little Plug icon where it says Eight-Point Garbage Matte, and drag- and-drop this onto our video clip, just like we do with audio effects. So if we click this here, go to the Effect Controls panel, and you could see that we have Eight-Point Garbage Matte here in the Effect Controls panel. Now, in the Effect Controls panel…

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