how do you blur something in one of your own YouTube videos
after that video has been published to YouTube?
I’m going to show you exactly how to do this because I need to do this right now
let's have a look at my YouTube studio and I’ll show you the problem
if you go to the video that you want to blur, so that's this video here for me...
on the left hand side there are some tabs and we want to go down
to editor and that brings up the video editor and you can see we've got these options here
we've got trim, blur, audio and end screen and info cards
obviously the section that we want is blur so if I click on the plus sign here: “add blur”
it gives you two options: face blur and a custom blur
I’ll show you the problem I’ve got on this shot here the camera moves to the
desk and you can see all my papers on the right hand side on that paper is some sensitive details
it's some sensitive content that I don't really want to be out here on a public video on YouTube
what I’m going to do is add a custom blur to those papers
at full screen you can see all the lettering on that letter there
what I’m going to do is I’m going to go roughly to the place in the video where
I want the blur to happen and next I’m going to use the comma button to back up one frame
if I wanted to move forward one frame you can use the full stop button or
the period button to move forward frame by frame and to go back I’m going to hit the comma button
and I’ll just do that as many times so that I can find exactly the very frame
I want the blur to start I think I’ll start the blur
just as soon as the letter becomes legible which I think is about there
next I’ll go up to the blur section and click “add blur” and then I will choose
custom blur and it gives me some options here there's the blur shape which is a rectangle
or an oval and you can see when you select either of those options on the right hand window - let's
move it over so you can see it more clearly I’m going to hover the cursor over the blur and
then I’m going to click and drag it to take it to a section where you can see it there
I think I’ll go for “Oval”, it's slightly friendlier
and you can click on the edges to shrink or expand these axes here
I’m going to place the oval over the letter and then the second option you have is either “track
object” or “fix the blur position” I’m going to click the cursor back
onto the window and then use the full stop and comma button to move forward
oh look! it tracks it in real time! so I’m going backwards and YouTube is
automatically keeping that oval over the letter isn't that clever?
and you can set the in point for this - ah that's amazing isn't it - and you can set the
in point on the blue bar here so you can see above the time of the video your video
is shown as a... as a timeline I want the blur to start here
which is where this line is here so I’m going to grab this blue
section - that's the start of the blur - and I’m going to click on it and hold down my mouse
button and drag up to that frame there up to where the cursor point is there
that line so if I click outside of the blue area
here and press play, you'll see the blur will start when that timeline hits the blue section
and you can adjust when the blur comes in by dragging that blue section there so
just wait for it to get a bit closer here let's drag it out a bit more -
there we go - and then I’ll move the timeline along one frame at a time
hitting the period button or the full stop button and that is exactly what I wanted to be hidden
so that's great - I’ll just keep inching forward by pressing the full stop key
now it stops there because the picture jumps, so if I go forward one frame,
I want the blur to end there - which is where the long thin line is on the timeline here
you can make this more accurate by going up to this zoom section here
you can either zoom in or zoom out now I’m zoomed out all the way
this is a zoom in of the timeline of the video not of the video
so if I click zoom in you can see this timeline expands,
and I can scroll across to move along the timeline here with the scroll bar at the bottom
so I want to grab the end of the blue section here if you hover the cursor over the end of the blue
bar you see it changes to two arrows and then I’m going to click and hold
on my mouse key and drag this blue bar all the way back to where the cursor is
and that is where my blur will end there it snaps to that frame
actually I think I want to take it back another frame
so I hit the comma button, I want it to end there so if I zoom in some more
and then go back to the blue bar and drag this blue bar back to here - now unhelpfully it
either goes before or after - and you can see in the window whether the blur is on
so I’m going to drag it to the right one frame and you can see that the blur has appeared
so I know that frame is covered and now I hit the full stop button
to go forward one frame and the blur disappears that's exactly where I want the blur
to end - there that's perfect
click before the blue blur section and we'll play it through and we'll see how it looks
what I did, I pressed “F” on my keyboard to make the whole thing full frame and I’ll
press the spacebar to play the video [AUDIO FROM CLIP:] the standing desk
it’s adjustable look you can get the handle out and raise it I think I’ve raised it...
that's exactly where I want the blur to happen what I need to do now is to save this blur so I’ll
go up to the right hand side and hit save here now it gives you a warning and the warning
says this: it might take a few hours for your changes to apply
that’s if you have something really sensitive that you need to be blurred right now,
it's probably best to hit save but go and unlist the video
make the video private so no one can see it, and then when you know that the blur has gone through
and has been processed and is definitely on the video, then you can make the video live again
so I’m going to hit save and you get the this message at the bottom:
“video is being processed please check back later” leave a comment and say hi if this has helped you
and I have other YouTube tips and tricks for my YouTube studio,
that's in that playlist down here and up here is what YouTube thinks you should be watching next!
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alright this is going to be the proper one right