How to Blur Face in Video

When posting a video online, you may don't want to show your face (or someone else's face), or want to blur out that of others while retaining your smiling visage, or you want to blur out the background or a specific part of the video to hide confidential information. To help you achieve that, Wondershare Filmora is a good choice.

It features a face-off function that automatically tracks the position and rotation of the face in your picture or video, which lets you blur out faces with minimal effort. You can also use it to automatically add a funny grimace to the detect looks in the video clip. It means that you can replace people's faces with hilarious masks instead of monotonous ones. It will be so much fun to blur video. Now follow the steps below to see how to blur the face in your video.

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How to Blur Faces in Video with Wondershare Filmora

You can blur faces in the video with some professional video editing software like Adobe Premiere Pro, but to master these professional tools is time-consuming. So, in this article, I will show you how to blur faces in Wondershare Filmora with Mosaic Effect and Face-off Effect. Let's check the video tutorial below to check how to blur out faces in the video.

Blurring faces in video with Filmora is easy. Now, let me show you the detailed information of blur faces and objects in a video step by step.

Note: Apart from blurring faces in video clips, sometimes you may want to hide personal info like contact info or telephone number when recording a video tutorial. Click here to check how I hid the personal information in the recorded video tutorial.

1 Import your video to the program

After running Wondershare Filmora and entering the main editing interface by clicking "New Project", click the Import button to browse the file folder on your computer and load to the program or directly drag and drop your video to the media library. Filmora supports almost all video and audio formats. After finishing file loading, drag and drop the file to Video Timeline. Then you can start to blur your face in the video.

2 Blur face in the video in a click with Face-off

Then go "Effects" panel, and choose "Utility" under the "Filters" menu, find the "Face-off" filter and drag it to video track over the main video. Then, you will find that the face is automatically blurred with a mosaic effect.

If you want to add more fun to the video, double click the Face-off filter in the timeline, and you can also pick up other funny marks to hide the face in the video as you like. When the above operations are completed, you can preview the video by hitting the Play button, clicking OK to save the editing, and returning to the main interface.

Adding the Face-off effect to video adds motion blur, which means the face will be blurred even when people are moving. Besides the Face-off blurring effect, you can also add the Mosaic effect to blur a still face.

3 Blur face in the video in a click with Mosaic [Optional]

Blurring faces with the Mosaic effect is the perfect solution when people in the video are not moving. To apply the Mosaic effect to blur the face or an object in the video, switch to the Mosaic tab in the Utility window and drag the Mosaic filter to the timeline (above the main video track). You will see a yellow box in the viewer.

Drag the yellow box to the target face and adjust its size to hide the face completely. You can also change the percentage slider of the Mosaic effect to get the proper blurring result. You can add many Mosaic products to the video as you like by clicking the Add button.

4 Preview and save the video

You've successfully blurred out part of a picture or the target face. Now click Export to export your finished video. You can select a video format to save to desktop or publish it directly on YouTube or Vimeo in the output window. Also, you can burn a DVD from your video in minutes with excellent quality. By far, you are done with blurring video. If you want to make your video funnier except face blurring, Filmora also lets you use PIP effects.

Conclusion

Besides blur face in the video, you can also add other special effects like Tilt Shift and Jump Cut at Beat to your video. And Wondershare Filmora can also meet your basic editing requirements, including trim, crop, split videos, and add text, effects, transition, intro/credit, sound, etc. Check the tutorial below to see how to use the power tools to achieve these Effects quickly.