When we record a video at a party or in a public space, the faces of people who have not authorized us to capture their image may appear by accident. In that situation, it is pertinent to blur the faces of strangers. Today in Look How It Is Done we will teach you some tips to do it.
Is erasing a person’s face the best way to get them out of the video?
If we choose to trim the video to remove a certain person, we can also cut very important elements of the recording. Therefore, the best way to get her out of the video is by blurring her face.
How to blur faces of videos that you already uploaded to YouTube?
If we already upload videos to YouTube where people who did not authorize it are seen, we should not worry too much, since it is really easy to solve it without having to delete the video from the platform.
Blur faces tool
To make use of this tool, we must first access YouTube Studio and then go to Content in the start menu. We must mark the video that we want to edit and select the “Editor” in the menu located on the left.
Going to the bottom of the screen, we can select the option to Blur parts of your video, followed by Blur face.
In a pop-up window we will see the faces that appear in the video and we will have to mark the one we want to delete and click Apply.
Then we adjust the blur box to the face and We keep. In this way, we can avoid problems, both for the person who appeared in the video by accident, and ourselves.
Custom blur
Another way to blur a face is by choosing, instead of the option to Blur face, the Custom blur. With this we can directly blur the part of the video where the face appears, which is very useful if the person only appears for a small fragment of time.
How to blur a face from your mobile device?
If the video is not published on the web and is on a mobile device, we can also blur faces, although following different steps and using different programs, depending on the type of cell phone we use.
On an Android
Among so many editing applications within all versions of Android, the best option is to use “ObscuraCam“, a completely free and exclusive program for this operating system that allows faces to be blurred or covered by means of its facial detection capacity.
What’s more, it is quite effective for data protection of the photographs, thus avoiding that when they are shared on the internet, they expose private information such as the location.
With an iPhone
In the case of using iPhone, we can use the application “MovStash“, designed to blur or censor parts of a video on mobile devices with the iOS operating system. You just have to install it from the web, open it and locate the video you want to edit.
What are the best programs to pixelate videos?
In addition to the ones we already mentioned, there are other programs that are very useful when it comes to blurring or pixelating videos. Among them, the best are the following:
Skitch
It is an application commonly used for image editing due to the wide options it offers, among them it offers to pixelate parts of videos and photographs. It’s free and compatible with iOS devices only.
Video Mosaic
Video Mosaic was designed primarily to blur videos. You have more than one option to apply the blur and it can be applied directly during video recording. It can also be installed for free and is compatible with iOS.
Video Toolbox Movie Maker
Although this app is the least rated of the three, it is also useful for blurring parts of a video, although with the downside of having limited facial blur. Available for iOS, it can also be installed for free.
What other way is there to cover a person’s face in a video?
Although we have selected the most used and valued tools to blur, pixelate or censor videos, there are other programs that allow us to hide a face in a recording, such as iMovie, Blur Photo and Point Blur, with which we will also enjoy highly professional results.