I am looking for freeware, open source, or commercial software (under $20 one-time license) for Windows XP or Windows 7. I want to edit videos by hiding personal information on the video before I submit it to a support web site. I know software such as Adobe Premiere has a feature such as blur. In SnagIt, they have a similar feature called pixelate for still images. I am looking for something similar. Ideally, the video editing software should be able to track subsequent frames and blur that area of the video.
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Please state your required (or preferred) operating system or don't you mind? – Angelo Fuchs Oct 7 '14 at 16:38
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Have you looked at other questions from the video-editing tag? (like this one: softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/7296/…) Some might be useful to you. – Angelo Fuchs Oct 7 '14 at 16:54
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I see. Could you edit this into your question? – Angelo Fuchs Oct 7 '14 at 20:38
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You could buy adobe premiere for one month through creative cloud to do this. – Aiden Grossman Mar 16 '16 at 18:24
On SuperUser, there is an answer using FFMPEG to blur a portion of the screen for a set time. FFMPEG is open source.
https://superuser.com/questions/901099/ffmpeg-apply-blur-over-face
YouTube now offers the ability to blur parts of the video and track movement of that object over time, so blurring is easily performed.
http://bgr.com/2016/03/15/youtube-custom-blurring-faces-moving-objects/
You could upload your video to YouTube privately, blur the video, then download the processed video using youtube-dl, then delete the video from YouTube.
