iMovie Blur Effect - How To Blur A Face in iMovie

Learn how to use iMovie Blur Effect to blur out faces. I'll guide you through my step by step process on how to blur a face in iMovie.

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You'll be surprised to learn there is no way to create the face blur in iMovie itself, rather we'll use a photo editing application called Canva to create the blur graphic, then import it back into iMovie to make the blurred face effect.

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[sarasayshi]

You weren’t joking when you said it wasn’t easy. Just about every video I have to blur out my uniform graphic because I don’t want people to know where I work. Thanks for this tutorial.

[JustFrugalMe]

thanks for sharing this information. Can't wait to see more hacks and tips on iMovie

[ms.brandi]

Thank you! This video helped me to show off one of my students to their parents while at the same time protecting another student's privacy! So Awesome!

[zaeskibucks]

You look like such a big YouTuber you deserve wayyyy more subs

[ryandsetfree]

Thank you! That was so quick and too the point! Also, that key-framing method is so much quicker than the editing I was doing before! You've got a new subscriber.

[BrianHHough]

This tutorial just saved me from 8+ hours of re-rendering a huge tutorial video I made 😅🙏 Thank you for making this!!!

[johnsangl]

Excellent video - solved my problem quickly! I really appreciate it.

[SoniaHerrejon]

Thank you so much!! Now I know how to do it!🙏

[nottaa]

This video was really really helpful, thorough, and easy to follow

[SteveToccoDrummer]

Thank you for posting this tutorial!!!!

[ElectronEngine]

Great, straightforward video. Thanks for taking the time to make this

[hannahfaith]

This helped immensely! Thank you so so much!!! xxxx

[VlogEpicness]

It was blurry before you even had to blur it.

[Mirel]

Hi. I believe a better solution for taking a screenshot is just saving a white/grey background picture with transparency of 10-20%. You can even save a rounded shape, not a square one. That way, it won't look so ugly at the end, where you can clearly see that the head is not in it's natural position. Great video, btw, helped me a lot with editing mine.

[Blankzclan]

Omg I never thought I was going to get a heart thanks

[stylishthriftye]

Thank you so much. This video was super helpful. I needed to cover a non moving part of my video and this worked well. I will save this video for future use when I have to blur out moving parts. All the best! :)

[gaurav-s]

Thanks a lot man! You saved me a lot of headache.

[HistorieLied]

So helpful I can blur out faces in my blogs like your videos

[giftedntwisted]

How has this man only got 4K subs he should have at least 100k

[MicahRion]

Thank you for this! I just started editing a video and realized I have personal info displayed on the wall behind me! *face palm*
This is a great solution so I don't have to re-record the video!