Usages

General overview

The main features offered by the plugin are as follows:

• Automatic detection and blur of faces and license plates

• Select/unselect faces

• Select/unselect license plates

• Manual selection adding of an extra-area to blur (missed face/plates, logo,…)

• Customizable detection thresholds

• Direct control of the composition.

• Adjustable blur quality

The main steps of a project are as follows:

1. Applying BlurIt solution to your video

2. Adjustment and possible post-processing on your part

3. Exporting your project

Applying BlurIt solution on your video

As a reminder, to access the blur effect in Adobe Premiere Pro, you can follow these steps:

1. Open your composition in Premiere Pro.

2. In the menu bar at the top of the screen, click on "Effect."

3. From the dropdown menu that appears, select "BlurIt."

4. Among the options that appear, choose "BlurIt" and drag and drop it on your sequence.

If your license is valid, the blur effect will be automatically applied to your video.

BlurIt interface

When the plugin is working, the following interface will be displayed. This interface allows you to visualize:

• The main parameters for applying your blur. If it's not visible go to the menu at the top left and click on effect options.

• The detections of faces and license plates made on your media (green boxes)

BlurIt plugin interface

You can have the following actions:

• Navigate through the frames of your media to display - for each frame - the automatic detections

• Enable or disable automatic detections

• Add new detections of your choice

• Change the settings

Once you have completed working on the media and proceed with its rendering, all detections appearing in green on it will be blurred.

Detections & tracks

Once BlurIt has detected an object in a frame (either a face or a license plate), the plugin will track its movement throughout the video as long as it can be detected continuously. Are the similar detections along different frames are called a track.

This helps you save time in the post-analysis editing work because by selecting/deselecting a detection associated with a track, your modification will be applied to the entire track.

However, the same object will sometimes appear as two or more tracks. This is generally caused by three reasons:

• Although this should happen very rarely, the tracking algorithm may have “missed” the object in a frame.

• There was a cut in the video. In that case, the tracking algorithm may not be able to know if an object is the same after the cut (if the camera angle changed, for instance).

• You moved at a different point in the timeline. In that case, BlurIt may not have been already able to process the frames between the current frame and the starting frame (that’s a limitation of After Effects, not the plugin itself). However, once BlurIt has been able to process all those frames, the object will be considered as a single track again.

Select/unselect a detection/track

You can easily enable or disable detections associated with a track by selecting or deselecting them.

• If the detection appears green, its track is active and will be blurred during rendering.

• If the detection appears orange, its track is disabled and will not be blurred during rendering.

By selecting/deselecting a detection associated with a track, your modification will be applied to the entire track.

Select/unselect detections

Manual blur of a specific area

It’s possible to manually blur specific zones within a frame. Just draw a rectangle with your mouse to create a zone that will be blurred.

Please keep in mind that manually created blur zones will not be tracked in the following frames. If you want to blur the same zone on other frames, you’ll have to repeat the process below for all frames.

Add a detectection/blurring area

Rendering

Once your modifications are applied, the rendering of your video is carried out using the same process as for your other projects.