Presumably many video creators will inevitably accidentally capture other passers-by in the picture when shooting Vlog and other life documentary videos. In order to ensure the privacy of others and allow the audience to focus more on the protagonist, during the video editing, Face coding is a very good method. However, for many editing beginners, it is much more difficult to code dynamic faces than static photos. This time I will share how to do it without using professional editing software. Directly use the YouTube Studio backend to quickly complete this work.
YouTube can also code faces in videos? Super simple portrait blur effect tutorial
YouTube Studio backend, in addition to rich sound effects Library can be used. In fact, the built-in blur effect editing function allows creators who need to blur faces to quickly complete face coding work. If there are other video editing tasks in the future, it is recommended to upload the video to YouTube first and select " Private" permission, then complete the face coding and then download the video to the computer to complete further video editing.
After uploading the video, click on the video from the YouTube studio backend to enter the video details page. Then select "Editor" on the left side of the screen:
After entering the editor page, in addition to a simple video editing tool displayed on the screen, you can click "Add Blur Effect" at the bottom of the screen. This is what this article is about. Introduced face blur function:
YouTube currently supports two blur functions: "face blur processing" and "custom blur processing". Face blur processing will first go through AI facial recognition. , detect the faces appearing in the video for recognition. The custom blur processing allows the user to select the area of the screen that they want to blur according to the video timeline. Since what I want to share this time is face coding, here We first select "Edit" for face blur processing:
At this time, the system will take some time to analyze the faces appearing in this video. The processing time is also directly related to the length of the video uploaded by the user:
After facial recognition is completed, all the faces that appear in this video will be sorted out. Placing the cursor over the face will display the seconds in which the face appeared. The user can also play the video on the right Preview video:
If you want to blur the face, just check it and press save:
At this time, the screen will return to the blur effect again. On the main page, the user can now play the preview screen to check whether there are any omissions in the current face blur processing. After all, the system will inevitably make mistakes:
For example, when the author was halfway through previewing the video, he found that a section needed to be hit. The coded face has not been processed. At this time, we can use "custom blur processing" for the second edit:
Custom blur processing is actually quite easy to operate. Users can use the video Preview playback with the timeline below, first freely select the area you want to code on the preview screen. Then adjust the time point when the blur processing effect starts below, you can also quickly complete the customized blur effect. Set the blurred area, even if the person If the face moves on the screen, the blur effect will also adjust its position according to the face.
After saving, return to the blur effect main page to preview the video for final confirmation. If there is no problem, press Save: Then you need to wait for a period of time for the system to process the video. After the processing is completed, the user can see that the video preview has been updated in the background to have coding status. At this time, just click "Download" to save the video to the computer. Hello!
Finally, let’s take a look at the author’s results using YouTube to blur faces!
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