

When working with multiply video tracks it can be difficult to tell which track is active in the Canvas window. Holding down the Shift key at the same time will constrain side to side movement of the clip.Ĥ.

Select the clip on V1, hold down the Option key and drag up to V2 to make a copy of the clip. Grayed out icon, audio and video tracks unlinked.ģ. Green Link icon, audio and video tracks linked. In the upper right hand corner of the timeline, click on the 'Link' icon to unlink the audio and video tracks of the clip on V1.
#How to blur a face in final cut pro 7 license
When the timeline is played back in FCP, the two clips on V1 and V2 will be composited together, with the unaffected video coming from V1 and the isolated section of the video, the area defined by the matte, which has been blurred, coming from the video on V2.įor this example I am going to blur out a license plate in some video shot in Bangkok by Steve Douglas of San Diego, California.Ģ. With the matte positioned and sized, a blur filter is applied to the matte on V2. The clip on V2 (a copy) will have a matte applied and adjusted so that the matte isolates just that part of the video that we want to obscure. To achieve this effect we will need to have two copies of the video clip, one above the other in the timeline. This is pretty easy to do in FCP.įor this article we will work with the 'blur' process. In addition, using this same basic technique, you can replace visual elements of your video, like changing the art on a billboard or sign. Of course you can use this process to obscure anything in your video, faces, license plates, signage, even words on a T-shirt.

So many people associate this technique with the TV show that the process is now called 'Cops'. There is a technique that enables us to obscure someone's face and is often used in the TV show, 'Cops'. He asked his companion, "How do we blur this guy's face out?" Two cavemen were working on a cave drawing depicting a great tribal hunt when one of the artist realized that they did not have a 'model release' for one of the hunters in the picture.
