- Okay, let's see if this gonna work.
(finger snap)
(humming)
That's pretty cool.
(finger snap)
Oh, come on, that's a bit harsh.
As always, let's make our way to be YouTube studio
by clicking on your profile icon
in the top right hand corner of most YouTube desktop screens
and going to the YouTube studio.
On the left hand side of this screen,
there is a video link and this will show you
all of the uploaded content on your channel.
Mouse over the video you want to edit
and then click the pencil icon to jump into that video.
Now, on the left hand side,
there should be a new option, which is the video editor.
On this screen in the video player timeline,
you'll see a blur parts of your video link,
click on it, and you'll have two options,
and we're going to start with a custom blur.
You have a couple of options here with the blur shape,
those being rectangle and circle.
You can also choose to track
the objects you've chosen to blur,
as we're going to show you in a second,
or fix the blur shape to the screen,
and you can also move around and resize the blur shape.
So, what we're going to do here is resize our blur shape
so that it fits the subscribe button,
and then we'll play the video to see what it looks like.
Okay, let's see if this is gonna work.
(finger snap)
(humming)
So, it seems to be tracking the objects fine,
let's next sort out timings.
I want the subscribe button to blur out when I snap my thumb
and I can use the audio levels and the video to line it up,
and then use the time indexes here
to say when I would like the blur to begin and finish.
It would be great if this could be done
through click and drag on the blur clip box.
So, YouTube, if you're watching,
that's your first bug fix.
(finger snap)
(humming)
All right then, I'm satisfied with the custom object blur,
let's move on to the face blur.
The first time you do this,
the editor will spend a bit of time
trying to detect all of the faces in the video.
Once it has, you can select all the faces
you want to blur throughout the video.
Okay, that looks to have done its job,
let's do another quick review of the work.
(finger snap)
Isn't it amazing, the technology behind this.
It's also a little scary as well,
that's Google for you.
As with the subscribed button blur,
I want the face blur to match the timings of the video.
This is likely to be a more advanced step
that most creators will never need,
but it's nice to know
that the editor is capable of actually doing this.
All right, that's all done,
let's review the final product.
(finger snap)
(humming)
That's pretty cool.
(finger snap)
Oh, come on, that's a bit harsh.
There's not that much you can do to a video
once you've uploaded it to YouTube,
other than trimming and clipping it,
we've already got a full tutorial over here on that,
adding music, and as you've just seen,
blurring out certain parts of the video,
which are all of course, very useful.
You'll have also noticed that the
tracking doesn't look perfect when you're editing it,
but it improves a lot
when you're actually watching the full video.
You just have to put trust in YouTube,
that once it is published,
it is gonna look good.
Also, be aware of that it can take a few hours
to apply any changes you make in the YouTube studio editor.
And in the meantime,
viewers will be able to see
the original unblured video if it's public.
Also, the blur tracking isn't always perfect,
as demonstrated here when I try to blur my face.
For a few seconds,
it looks like tracking doesn't know what it's doing.
If it leaves something unblured for a fraction of a second,
it's not really fit for purpose.
I also encountered this error a couple of times
when I tried to edit my timings.
That's all well and good YouTube,
but if you don't explain what an end point is,
I can't fix it.
When this happened, I just had to start again
until it didn't give me this error.
Ideally, for complete control of blurring
whatever you need to blur,
you would do this on your video editor on your computer.
The problem is,
not all video editors have this sort of technology,
and to be fair, YouTube does actually do a good job
of blurring and tracking objects.
The problem is, is at the end of the process.
So, if YouTube doesn't do a good job of blurring
what you need to be blurred,
then you have to go a few steps back
and try and unwrap your video a little bit,
and that can be frustrating.
But having said all of that,
you found that this guide really useful, didn't you.
And, we've got tons more on our channel,
make sure to check them out over here
in the YouTube studio creator beginners playlist,
and of course, enjoy the rest of your video making day.