Blur with Shotcut

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Sometimes it is required to blur certain areas of the screen while recording whether to hide personal information or avoid copyright issues. What ever may be the case shotcut filters comes in handy to implement blur. Shotcut feature rich enviroment give us the liberty to blur the part of the screen with ease. Lets take a look.

Open shotcut and open video clip you want to edit for blur. Traverse to the location till where you want the blur effect to take place in the scene. Ideally it is the location where the object is visible in the screen. By selecting the video track. Right click and select option split at playhead or simply press S on keyboard. Now we have split the clip into two part one with the object to be blurred in one and rest of the clip in another. Select the clip with the object visible and copy by use control plus c. Create another video track and at the same location paste the copied clip. Now two clips of same time is visible in timeline. The topmost layer will be shown.Move the pointer to the start of the clip. Hide the bottom layer by clicking the eye icon. This will help in seeing the filters effect on top video layer. Select the upper video layer. Open filters and start applying following filters one by one. Crop filter adjust the values of top, bottom, left, right values to get the object only on the screen which you want to blur.
Again select blur filter to blur out the video we just cropped. Adjust the blur height and width values to your satisfaction. Add another filter called size and postion to adjust size and location of blur on the screen. Make sure to select fill checkbox to resize the blur according to original size of the object. Once done verify your settings by making bottom video layer visible.

Welldone. You have successfully blurred the required content.

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