How to blur and follow faces in Premiere Pro

How can you blur a face in a video while also tracking the blurred area to that specific face?

First, go the “Effects” window, search for one of the blur effects like “Gaussian blur” for example. Drag and drop that onto your clip and then go to the “Effect Controls” window and under “Gaussian Blur”, click the pen tool and then go the “Program” window and click around the face to set anchor points around the area you want to blur out.

After you’re done, increase the “Blurriness” as much as you like, and increase the “Mask feather” if you want to smooth out the edge of your mask. Now, if you click the play-button next to “Mask path”, the mask will track your face throughout the clip, frame by frame.

If you want to adjust any of the keyframes afterwards, just use the navigation buttons next to “Mask path” and adjust the area inside the “Program” window.

If you want see more short tutorials about masking in Premiere Pro, I will link a playlist to that at the end of this video together with another playlist containing all my short Premiere Pro tutorials.

Keep learning and have a nice day!

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[geoffbirmingham]

Short, to the point, got my information quick. Thank you!

[chaiteacatte]

Thanks for this video! Super easy to follow and extremely helpful.

[rznnnm]

Can you make dashed circle graphic in premiere pro?

[barblesstv_shorts]

So this didn’t work. Dragged the blur, masked the object, clicked play on the blur mask, it said tracking progress, but then the mask stayed completely put in playback and did not track the object at all.

[GrantSmithMaui]

He forgot the last step before pressing play, you need to click the advance frame playhead next to play in the effects tab to start tracking a few frames. Then you can press play in the effects tab to track your clip. Otherwise when I tried, it said "Starting to track" and there was no progress made after several minutes.

[victorcardenas-bumd]

Absolutely bad tutorial. Doesn't tell you anything useful. Followed the instructions and nothing worked out. Had to check for more info to make it work out. How is this the first result in Google Search?