How to blur a video

Edited

With wave.video editor you can easily blur or pixelate any object or text in the video.

First, open the editor and select “Overlays & Stickers”, then select one of the shapes that fits your task:

In this example, we're going to hide the car's plate. Rectangle shape will work fine here. Blur and pixelate modes can be found on the edit tab:

You can select from various modes:

  • Blur or pixelate image under the shape (Blur in)

  • Blur or pixelate everything outside the shape (Blur out)

Here, we need to blur everything in:

How to blur a background

It's easy. Take a rectangular shape and extend it to the size of the canvas. Enable Blur in. You might need to change Z-order (layering) to blur background only.

How to blur a moving object?

Unfortunately, we do not support automatic tracking. But you can copy the shape and change its position during the video. This will work great for slow videos.
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To utilize this approach:

  1. Disable entrance and exit effects for the shape

  2. Copy-paste the shape and change its position to hide the object

  3. Repeat 😉

These articles might help as well:

  1. How to use stickers

  2. How to zoom timeline in and out