How to Blur Faces or Objects in Videos on CapCut

Need to blur out someone’s face, personal information, or something else in a video you’d like to post, but not sure how? Watch this video to learn how to blur faces and objects in videos using CapCut!

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To follow this tutorial, you’ll need the CapCut app. You can download it for free from the app store. To start, tap New Project. Now, import the video you want to use for your project. If the thing you want to blur is visible throughout the entire video, select your video and tap Copy. If you only need to blur something in part of your video, find the portion of the video where you need to blur something out, and split your video at the beginning and end of that clip. Then, copy just the clip that contains the thing you want to blur. Now that you’ve duplicated the video where you need to blur something out, tap the first one, then select Overlay. Now, tap Effects. Select Video Effects. Tap Basic. Now select Blur. Tap the check mark on the right. Line up the effect with the part of your video you want to blur. Tap Object, now select Overlay. This will apply the blur effect only to the overlay clip.

Of course we don’t want to blur the whole video, just a small piece of it. That’s where the masking tool comes in. Tap Overlay. Tap your overlay clip. Now, tap Mask. Select the shape you want to use for your mask. This will make it so the blur effect only appears in that shape. I’m choosing circle. Now, you can drag the mask to the part of the video you want to blur, and adjust the mask size by dragging the edges to make it larger or smaller. Tap the check mark in the bottom right corner when you’re done. If the object you’re blurring doesn’t move throughout the clip, and is blurred just by doing this, you’re all finished and can export your video.

If the object you’re blurring does move around, here’s how you can move your blurred selection along with it. For this we’re going to use Keyframes. Tap the overlay clip. Now tap the Keyframe icon. Move forward a bit in your video and add another keyframe. Tap Mask, then adjust the placement and/or size of your blur mask as necessary. Continue doing this and adding keyframes and adjusting the placement of your blur mask for each keyframe throughout your whole clip. Tap Play to check over what your video looks like to make sure the blurring is all properly done. When you’re happy with your video, tap the Export icon in the top right corner to save it to your device.

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:27 How to Blur Objects or Faces on CapCut
2:46 How to Blur Moving Objects or Faces on CapCut
3:35 Wrap Up

[kiralonsdale]

For everyone not seeing the "effects" tab: you're probably still clicking on your video while trying to get this effect. To click out of your video press the little < symbol on the far left (next to "split") of your video and a new bar will appear at the bottom. You'll then see the "effects" button on the bottom right corner - go from there!

[danielp.]

i dont know...i get what is said, but when i go to find "effects", nothing is there. it just overlays more and more videos. so is there another way?

[wraedeohed]

You're missing a couple of steps here...

After you create the overlay, you need to back out of those menus in order to get to the 'Effects' options.

Tapping the back arrows to leave these menus is needed in a couple of sections of this video, otherwise you'll never see the options you're talking about.

[thatguywithnationalities]

It doesn't really blur it just makes the surrounding darker

[OGCreete]

The basics tab is no longer on the capcut app as of Aug 11, 2023. Do you have another way to find this option? I've gone through all of the tabs to look for a "blur" feature but there are just motion blur, halo blur, etc. but nothing where it is just the blur feature like in your video

[am.mp]

It works for me but the edge of the shape has a black outline to it and I don’t want it there, how do I get rid of it?

[TheMoviesforall]

Every time I click object...all it gives me is an option for main video. Nothing else..what's going on?

[craigcolahan]

where is the 'overlay' in the PC version please?

[AlexAlex-xyrp]

Thank you for the video. Is there a way where you can blur 2 objects on the video on Capcut (for pc)? Would you be able to make a video on that for pc (if possible)? Thank you.

[secondaryfighter]

Thanks for the information, I was searching exactly a video like this.

[mishallcheema]

The blur circle for me has a darker border around it

[lifewithmaura]

Struggled with trying to blur using some other apps until I found this video. Thanks!

[MelodyJai]

I've tried this three times and can't seem to get it to work. I think there are some steps missing.

[Headshotnoscopeiscool]

Thanks this really worked for me but it took a really long time for a 20 second video

[hansantwi]

Nice one. I'll have to work on the moving face and perfect on that

[sieshalifejourney]

This video was very helpful. I was able to blur my address in my video. Thank you!

[Words_of_affection_o.o]

Uhm, I can't find the effect button to press.... I need help D:

[danielp.]

now why is it that when i want to blur something, it blurs all around the image and what i want blurred, is crystal clear?

[mayag]

Just what I was looking for thanks so much for making the tut

[banan]

Thanks, this really helped out a lot!