How to Blur Faces in Adobe Premier
Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe Premiere Elements are both video-editing software applications developed by Adobe Systems. Although Adobe Premiere Elements is a scaled-down version of the Pro software, both offer many of the same capabilities, including the ability to blur faces in videos by applying the Gaussian and Fast Blur filter effects. Adobe Premiere Pro also offers additional blur filter effects, such as the Camera, Channel and Compound Blur. Each blur effect allows you to determine how much a face is blurred.
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Instructions
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Launch Adobe Premiere Pro or Adobe Premiere Elements on your computer. The steps are the same in both applications.
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Click "File" at the top of the screen, then select "Import" from the drop-down menu to open the video that you want to edit.
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Select the video that you opened and drag it down to the Timeline box.
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Press the "Play" button in the Monitor panel to advance the video to the face that you want to blur.
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Click "Edit" at the top of the Tasks panel, then click the "Effects" button to open the Effects panel.
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Select "Video Effects" from the list of effects in the Effects panel.
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Select "Blur & Sharpen," then select one of the blur filter effects, such as Gaussian Blur or Fast Blur.
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Click the arrow next to the blur effect you chose to determine how much you want to blur the face. The face becomes more unrecognizable the higher you set the blur.
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Click the blur effect you set and drag it to the video in the Timeline box.
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Select "Video Effects" from the list of effects in the Effects panel.
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Select "Transform," then select "Crop" to apply the blur filter effect to the face portion of the video only. Adjust the crop size using the Left, Top, Right and Bottom options.
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Click "Sequence" at the top of the screen, then select "Render Effects in Work Area" from the drop-down menu to render the video with the blur effect.
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