How do youedit out faces on Premiere?

[SteveDVD]

I don't know if you got the topic or not but you know on TV shows and commercials how they either 'scramble' or 'black-out' faces... I was just wondering if there was an easy way to do this oln Premiere.

[buzzinhornets]

I asked this question once and got no reponse... I have Premeire and never found out how to do that... the only thing that came close was a program called ALAM DV, which allows you to put star wars-esque light saber lines over video... but its not free, and it meant working on each frame individually, which meant that for a 10sec clip, 1/2 hr work was necessary... if you ever find a way, let me know...

[SteveDVD]

Yea I got somewhere - you can export video to framestrips or somthing like that in Premiere which allows you to edit each frame. and I out something called filters in Premiere that can do lots of effects. I don't know how to get them yeat but i'm working on it

[tarrkid]

Easy? Well, maybe not, but it's not too bad. I use Premiere 6, so if you have an earlier version, the exact procedures might differ somewhat, but you'll get the general idea.

If you're not sure about anything I describe here (Like, how do I put something on Video 3? I only have Video 1A, 1B, and 2!), Premiere's help is pretty good.

Anyway, the thing you're wanting to do is a TRACK MATTE.

Put your video on the Video 1 (or 1A if you have A/B open) track.

Now either create a Premiere Title or a BMP or something that's black with a white circle in it. That goes in Video 3 (Video 2 stays blank for now). Ideally, you should use a Premiere Title, but it's not critical. The circle's duration in the timeline should cover the entire time you want the face obscured.

Use the motion settings for Video 3 to resize and reposition the circle to keep it aligned and sized with the face you are trying to obscure. This can be time consuming and tedious, but the more time you spend here, the better your end result. Be sure to set the Fill Color in the Motion Settings window to black, otherwise if the edges of your matte ever enter the frame, you'll get white, and then your distortion will show through.

Now to finish it off...

Put another instance of your video on the Video 2 track, synced perfectly with Video 1.

Apply the Mosaic filter (or whatever distortion suits you) to Video 2.

Set Video 2's transparency to TRACK MATTE.

That should do it!

By the way, if you use grays in your track matte, you'll get semi-transparency, so you could make a softer edge between the real and the distorted videos by fading from black to white over the course of 5 or 10 pixels.

[gNOMEintheRedHat]

:P
It can not be done "Automaticly" on the video itself, not at an afordable cost anyway.

Export the clip as a filmstrip, the open it in PhotoShop. Smear or paint over the faces in each frame, then open it up in Premiere and save it back into the video.

[dinesh]

The process mentioned by gNOMEintheRedHat is detailed on this link.
http://nickyguides.digital-digest.com/light-saber.htm

[leebo]

The procedure is also outlined at Adobes web site.
Go to the forums section, click on Premiere, and read the faq's.

There is no need to use any other program in addition to Premiere.