Bluring/blocking out private parts

[Cruton502]

Hello everyone, I am converting old videos to DVD and I am using Premiere Elements 4 for the DVD authoring. Due to the lack of tutorials for PE 4 I am coming here for some help. Some of the home videos has my little brother in the bath and I would like to maintain his dignity by bluring out certain parts. Does anyone know of a way to blur out a small part of the video and have that blur move with the subject in PE 4 or with any other freeware?

Thanks guys!

[lordsmurf]

WrigleyVideo.com has some Premiere tutorials. This is very possible, with keyframing and an alpha layer (PSD image). I don't know how well it will work in Element (if even possible), nor do I know what sort of images beyond PSD are accepted (never needed to try anything else).

[Midzuki]

Some of the home videos has my little brother in the bath
and I would like to maintain his dignity by bluring out certain parts.

It looks like that even the most puritan puritans have stopped to believe in the
eternal childhood's innocence mythology.

[Seeker47]

The John Ashcroft filter, available at your better electronics retailers.

[jman98]

Some of the home videos has my little brother in the bath
and I would like to maintain his dignity by bluring out certain parts.

It looks like that even the most puritan puritans have stopped to believe in the
eternal childhood's innocence mythology.

Once again Midzuki opens his mouth and proves he's the biggest jerk on the forums.

[Seeker47]

(none)

[usually_quiet]

I would still keep an unedited copy containing all the original footage safely hidden away. (For archival purposes, not blackmail. :wink: ) If you want to alter your footage now, go ahead, but this way you have the option to undo it later.

As one grows older, sometimes one finds dignity is easier to maintain. There are a few pictures of me as a child that at one point would have caused me to die from embarassment had anyone seen them, but now it doesn't matter. My parents showed some of them to my nephews a few months ago, in my presence, and it didn't bother me. My folks love those pictures. Had I altered them to maintain my dignity, it would have broken their hearts.

[SCDVD]

The John Ashcroft filter, available at your better electronics retailers.

The John AssCraft filter is more application specific and does a better job of getting to the bottom of it.

[Richard_G]

But surely leaving them as they are to show to the first girlfriend he brings home is the whole point of having them? I've got 2 younger brothers and they were put on this earth to be ridiculed by their elders!

[Cruton502]

WrigleyVideo.com has some Premiere tutorials. This is very possible, with keyframing and an alpha layer (PSD image). I don't know how well it will work in Element (if even possible), nor do I know what sort of images beyond PSD are accepted (never needed to try anything else).

Thanks Smurf! Those video tutorials were perfect! At the end of the list they show how to do exactly what I need. I haven't tried it in PE 4 yet but I think I'll figure out a way.

The main reason why I would like to do this is that I post clips on youtube for my family to see (PE 4 has a slick interdace to upload straight to youtube) and I personally wouldn't want my whole self out on the net.

[usually_quiet]

The main reason why I would like to do this is that I post clips on youtube for my family to see (PE 4 has a slick interdace to upload straight to youtube) and I personally wouldn't want my whole self out on the net.

I'm still living in the 20th century. I never thought about youtube being the reason. :D

Under those circumstances, even if maintaining dignity was of no longer of any importance, I wouldn't want to post innocent family videos of nekked babies in the bathtub on the Internet either.

[thecoalman]

I wouldn't even post them modified, too many perverts on the internet. BTW there is good chance law enforcement would be knocking on your door if you posted them as is. Don't laugh as its the truth. Parents have been dragged off to jail for the types of pictures being discussed here.

[Nelson37]

I would not post them publicly, modified or not.

One of my favorite pictures of my son has him in full roller-skating gear, kneepads, elbowpads, yellow plastic construction helmet, and nothing else.

When I need him to mind, I just threaten to show this picture to his friends.

I'm sure he'd be embarrassed to show this to his (future) girlfriends, but when he finds the one that it's OK...