If you have something you want to blur out on your video, then stay tuned, watch this
video as I reveal YouTube's brand new Blur Tool update.
Hi there.
David Walsh, here once again, from DavidWalshOnline.com part of your 5-a-day for your YouTube goodness.
In this video I'm going to show you YouTube's brand new Blur Tool update that allows you
to blur objects in a video.
Not only static videos but, also, moving objects, as well.
Now, YouTube did have a Blur All Faces in a Video tool not many people knew about but
recently they have updated this tool to be able to block out any object you want even
if it's moving.
So, to show you what it can do and how you can use it, I'm going to head on over to the
old trusty computer right now.
Ok.
So, to add the blur to your video, go into your video section.
Go up to the top, click on Creators Studio and then Videos on the left hand side.
Now, there's two ways you can do this.
One is by clicking through on the thumbnail which goes through to the video.
The second is on the Edit dropdown, select Enhancements.
So, click on that.
Ok.
So, here we are, and this is under the Enhancements tab.
Now, if you go through to info and settings - all you have to do is go over to Enhancements-
click on this tab here.
So, to add the Blur Effects you go to Blurring Effects tab, here.
So, you have both the Blur Faces tool and the Custom Blurring tool, as well.
Now, the Blur Faces tool has been here for a while.
This will go into your video.
If you click on Apply it will recognise all the faces on your video and just blur them
out on your whole video.
You can see the effect there.
And of course, you can take that off, if you want.
So, to add the custom blurring to your videos, you click on Edit and you can add it to just
one area.
Say I just always wanted to blur this area here and you can see it working here, and
it can go the whole length of the video.
What it's doing is looking for that area throughout the whole of the video.
Now, you can customize the length of it.
So, if we can just customize the length of it, like so, so it will go the length of this
and then it will stop so it doesn't apply there.
And of course we can add another one here, if we want.
So, you can blur a number of different things that you want and of course, it's totally
adjustable.
I'll just adjust that there.
So, say we want to blur out the fire, etc., etc..
Now, let’s just delete these, and of course you can delete them if you want.
Click on it, click on the X and it will delete them.
Now, if you have a moving object that you want to blur out you can also do that, as
well.
So, further down the video, here - Christmas song- here we go.
Here, I have Santa and his reindeer and they are going to go across the sky.
What I wanted to do is blur these and for that blur to track Santa across the sky, so
I'm not adding multiple different blurs all the way along.
So, what I do is just blur this, here.
I'm not going to blur it all so you can, actually, see what happens.
So, you can see the software is thinking, so we don't want it the full length of the
video.
So, I'm just going to tie it back to here.
Make sure it’s the full length.
And if I click Play, now, you'll see that Santa goes, the blur follows Santa all the
way across the sky.
So, if we go back and I can adjust this, of course.
So let's pull that up a bit.
So, there is Santa so, I just want to cover him now, as well.
So, and again, it’s doing the rendering.
Click that and there we go, we've got Santa blurred out completely on my video.
So, once we've got that done, click on done.
And you can see that it's been applied and, of course, if you want to adjust it, just
click on Reconfigure.
You can, also, take that off.
Once you have the blurring that you want done, you can save this as a new video or just save
it on top of the current video.
And of course you can revert to original if you want to remove them all as well.
So, there you go, that's YouTube's brand new Blur tool update.
As you can see, this is only available on Desktop so you cannot do this on mobile at
all.
Whether they will update the app to have this functionality we will wait and see.
So, if you have something you want to blur out you now have the tool inside youtube.com
to be able to do that on your videos.
And as you can see, you can actually save it on the original video or create a brand
new video from it.
So, if you've been involved in a high speed car chase with your local police, now you
can blur out all your faces and your licence plate numbers so you won’t get caught.
Now, if you have any videos that you are going to blur using this brand new tool let me know
about them in the old comments area, down there.
I'd love to know what those videos they are and how you're using this tool.
As always if you have a question about this or anything else to do with YouTube make sure
to, also, stick that in the old questions area below and I'll do the best I can to help
you get that question answered.
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I want to thank you for watching this video all the way to the end.
It was my pleasure making it for you.
Once again, my name is David Walsh gluten and sugar free.