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 FuchsOct 7, 2014 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 FuchsOct 7, 2014 at 16:54
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I see. Could you edit this into your question?– Angelo FuchsOct 7, 2014 at 20:38
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You could buy adobe premiere for one month through creative cloud to do this.– Aiden GrossmanMar 16, 2016 at 18:24
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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 the movement of that object, so blurring is easy.
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9057652
- upload your video to YouTube privately
- blur the video
- Download the processed video using youtube-dl
- Delete the video from YouTube.
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Youtube is good but the issue is that it takes forever to process a blurred video 2 weeks here support.google.com/youtube/thread/1391698/… and reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/ay4osn/face_blur_processing_time 1 day here. And youtube doesn't let you download the blurred video until it's processed.– MarkMar 1 at 20:38